Old Photograph Mother And Daughter Beach Lower Largo Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a mother and daughter by a small fishing boat on the beach at Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Of Children By Sand Dunes On The West Sands In St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of children by sand dunes on the West Sands beach by St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Chlidren Gathering Seaweed Island Of Harris Scotland

Old photograph of children gathering seaweed on the Island Of Harris, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Children Outside A Cottage Near Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of children outside a cottage near Edinburgh, Scotland.



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Old Photograph National Monument Calton Hill Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the National monument on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland. This monument was intended to be another Parthenon and to commemorate Scottish Soldiers killed in the Napoleonic wars. Construction started in 1826 but work was stopped in 1829 when the building was only partially built due to lack of money. It has never been completed.



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Old Photograph James Hogg Monument St Mary's Loch Scotland

Old photograph of the James Hogg monument by St Mary's Loch located between Selkirk and Moffat in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. James Hogg, born 1770, died 21 November 1835, was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self educated through reading. He was a friend of many of the great writers of his day, including Sir Walter Scott, of whom he later wrote an unauthorized biography.



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Old Photograph Military Ceremony Killeyan Islay Scotland

Old photograph of a military ceremony at Killeyan, Islay, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Military Cemetery Kilchoman Islay Scotland

Old photograph of a military cemetery at Kilchoman, Island Of Islay, Scotland. This is the final resting place of British crew members who died when H.M.S. Otranto sank in Machir Bay. HMS Otranto was a armed merchant cruiser requisitioned by the Royal Navy when World War I began in 1914. Serving as the convoy flagship for Convoy HX-50, Otranto departed New York on 28 September. On 6 October she collided with HMS Kashmir, another liner turned troopship, in poor visibility in the rough seas between the North East coast of Ireland and the Western Isles of Scotland. She was holed on the port side forward and, in the heavy swell, began to list. The stricken ship then hit rocks and became grounded. With the heavy seas pounding her continually against the rocks the ship eventually broke up and sank with the loss of 431 lives, 351 American troops and 80 British crew members. A number of Americans and crew were saved by a convoy escort, HMS Mounsey, and were taken to Belfast, Ireland. Many of the survivors were hospitalized there until eventual transfer to England. Probably none of the survivors saw action in the Great War as it ended soon afterwards on 11 November 1918. Many of the dead were buried in the Belfast City Cemetery, although a number of the British crew are buried on Islay (Inner Hebrides). The American servicemen were exhumed and repatriated to the United States in 1920.

Otranto, armed merchant cruiser, damaged in collision on 5th, driven ashore on coast of SW Scotland on 6th, over 400 lives lost, including members of the US Navy and Army
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WOOD, James B, Ty/Engineer Lieutenant, RNR

Islay is 145 miles from Glasgow and Paisley.



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Old Photograph Military Cemetery Kilnaughton Islay Scotland

Old photograph of a military cemetery at Kilnaughton located two miles West of Port Ellen, Island of Islay, Scotland. This cemetery was made in 1918 to bury the dead of the S.S. Tuscania, and 4 Commonwealth crewmen from that vessel are now buried here and 1 American soldier. 84 American graves, mainly of the 20th Engineers, who were passengers on the S.S. Tuscania, were removed. There is 1 unidentified burial, lost in the S.S. Tuscania, here. There are a further 5 Commonwealth burials of the 1939 to 1945 war here. The SS Tuscania was a luxury liner of the Cunard subsidiary Anchor Line, named after a town in Italy. She was torpedoed in 1918 by the German U-boat UB-77 while transporting American troops to Europe and sank, sending 210 people to their death. The Tuscania carried passengers between New York City and Glasgow while in service with the Anchor Line, on a route that had previously been assigned to her sistership Transylvania. She continued to run this route even as World War I broke out in Europe and Germany initiated. On the morning of February 5, 1918, carrying over 2,000 American troops, the HMS Tuscania turned south for the North Channel en route to Liverpool. After an arduous voyage across the North Atlantic, most of those aboard, in sight of the Irish coast to starboard and the Scottish coast to port, surely believed the worst part of their journey was behind them. Spotted by German submarine UB-77 earlier in the day, however, their convoy was stalked until early evening and the cover of darkness. Then, at about 6:40 pm, submarine captain Lt. Comander Wilhelm Meyer ordered two torpedoes fired at the Tuscania. The second of these struck home, sending her, within about four hours, to the bottom of the Channel. Today she lies between Scotland's Islay Isle and Ireland's Rathlin Island, about 7 miles north of Rathlin lighthouse, under 100 meters of sea.



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Old Photograph Funeral Procession Port Charlotte Islay Scotland

Old photograph of a funeral procession in Port Charlotte, Islay, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Autumn Morning Video Drive From Perth To Visit Beech Hedge Meikleour Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn morning travel video of a road trip drive on the A93 route from Perth to the Beech Hedge on ancestry history visit to Meikleour, Perthshire. This Scottish hedge was planted in the autumn of 1745 by Jean Mercer and her husband, Robert Murray Nairne on the Marquess of Lansdowne's Meikleour estate. It is said the hedge grows towards the heavens because the men who planted it were killed at the Battle of Culloden. The hedge is noted in the Guinness World Records as the tallest and longest hedge on earth, reaching 100 ft in height and 1/3 mile in length. The hedge is trimmed once every ten years, and can be viewed by visitors all year round.

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Old Photograph Warden Road Knightswood Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Warden road in Knightswood, Glasgow, Scotland. Knightswood is a suburban district in Glasgow, containing 4 areas: Knightswood North or High Knightswood, Knightswood South or Low Knightswood, Knightswood Park and Blairdardie. It has a golf course and park, and good transport links with the rest of the city. Garscadden and Scotstounhill railway stations serve Low Knightswood while Westerton station serves High Knightswood. Knightswood is directly adjoined by the Anniesland, Drumchapel, Jordanhill, Netherton, Scotstoun and Yoker areas of Glasgow and by Bearsden in the North. Knightswood was a rural area of Dunbartonshire in the parish of New Kilpatrick with small scale mining until the land was purchased for housing by the city of Glasgow and was annexed by the city in 1926. In subsequent years, housing developments have been built on most of the remaining free plots, but the area remains largely green.



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Old Photograph West High Street Methil Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, children and people on West High Street in Methil, Fife, Scotland. The High Street was once traversed by several railway lines linking local collieries to the docks.


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Old Photograph Harbour Charlestown Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the harbour in Charlestown on the coast of Fife, Scotland. Charlestown was established as a harbour town for the shipment of coal mined on Lord Elgin's Fife estates, and for the production of lime. The harbour's outer basin was built around 1840. In 1887, on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, the Queen's Hall was built at the village centre, to designs by Robert Rowand Anderson. Shipbuilding was carried on at Charlestown in the 19th century, as well as ship breaking. Some of the Warships of the German Imperial Fleet were brought here from Scapa Flow after World War I to be broken up.



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Old Photograph Crofter Baking Scones Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter baking scones in a cottage on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Apsley Street Partick Scotland

Old photograph of shops, buildings, and people on Apsley Street in Partick, Glasgow, Scotland. Partick is located on the north bank of the River Clyde, just across from Govan. To the west lies Whiteinch and to the east, Hillhead and other areas which make up the west end of Glasgow. Partick was a Police burgh from 1852 until 1912 when it was incorporated into the city. Although Partick remained a village until the middle of the 18th century, it is an ancient place. The Kings of Strathclyde had a residence there, and in 1136 David I, born 1124, died 1153, granted the lands of Perdyc to the see of Glasgow. The Bishops of Glasgow had a country seat in Partick. It was later the site of Partick Castle, a country home of George Hutcheson which was demolished in 1836.



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Old Photograph Golfers Braid Hills Golf Course Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of golfers on Braid Hills golf course on the south western edge of Edinburgh, Scotland. The Braid Hills Park was inaugurated on 30 May 1889, and the golf course followed on 5 September 1889.


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Old Photograph Station Hotel Achnasheen Scotland

Old photograph of the Station Hotel in Achnasheen in Wester Ross, Highlands, Scotland. This Scottish village was an important stop on the Kyle of Lochalsh railway line, serving a large area of Wester Ross. The railway still operates but all freight and mail, and most passengers, now travel by road.





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Old Photographs High Street Gullane Scotland

Old photograph of shops, children, cyclist and houses on the High Street in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland.


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Tour Scotland Video Interior Canongate Kirk Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the interior of Canongate Kirk on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to and trip to Edinburgh. The Kirk of the Canongate, or Canongate Kirk, serves the Parish of Canongate in Edinburgh's Old Town, in Scotland. It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The parish includes the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the Scottish Parliament. It is also the parish church of Edinburgh Castle, even though the castle is detached from the rest of the parish. The wedding of Zara Phillips, the Queen's granddaughter, and Mike Tindall, took place at the church on 30 July 2011

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Tour Scotland Video Memorial Chapel Canongate Kirk Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the Memorial Chapel in Canongate Kirk on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. The Kirk was previously the regimental chapel of The Royal Scots Regiment of the British Army and is now the regimental chapel of The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Unicorn Frigate Ship Victoria Dock Dundee Tayside

Tour Scotland video of a Unicorn on a frigate ship in Victoria Dock on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Victoria Dock Dundee Tayside

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of Victoria Dock on ancestry visit and trip to Dundee, Tayside. Berthed at at City Quay is HM Frigate Unicorn, a 46 gun Royal Navy ship which is now the world’s last intact warship from the days of sail and the oldest British built ship still afloat

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Old Photograph Heave Awa Lads' Memorial Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the Heave Awa Lads' memorial above Paisley Close in Edinburgh, Scotland. On 24 November, 1861, the 250 year-old houses at 99 and 103 High Street, on the Royal Mile, collapsed. 35 of the occupants were killed but as the debris was being cleared away, a young Scot was heard to shout out from within the collapsed building " Heave awa' lads, I'm no deid yet ".



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Old Photograph Railway Station Hamilton Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This is the fifth largest Scottish town, excluding cities, after Paisley, East Kilbride, Livingston and Cumbernauld. Hamilton has three railway stations, Hamilton Central, Hamilton West and Chatelherault on the Argyle Line's Hamilton Circle. Hamilton Central is 22 minutes from Glasgow on the limited stop Larkhall Dalmuir service. It was once served by the North British Railway, which had three stations in the area. Hamilton, Peacock Cross railway station and Burnbank. Beside Hamilton Central lies Hamilton bus station, providing links to surrounding towns and cities, also offering an express bus to Glasgow and also some parts of England. Cycling paths run from Strathclyde Park to Chatelherault Country Park following the banks of the Clyde and Avon. These are being expanded at part of the Sustrans Connect2 project and will make up part of the National Cycle Route 74 which will run from Uddingston to Carlisle, Cumbria.





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Old Photograph Underground Station Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of an underground subway station in Glasgow, Scotland. The Glasgow Subway is an underground metro line. Opened on 14 December 1896, it is the third oldest underground metro system in the world after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro. It is the only heavy rail underground metro system in the British Isles outside London, England, and also the only one outside London which operates completely underground. The line was originally known as the Glasgow District Subway, but was later renamed Glasgow Subway Railway. It was so called when taken over by the Glasgow Corporation who renamed it the Glasgow Underground in 1936. Despite this rebranding, many Glaswegians continued to refer to the network as " the Subway ". In 2003 the name " Subway " was officially readopted by its operator, the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.



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Old Photograph Rosemount Golf Course Blairgowrie Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of golfers on Rosemount Golf Course in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Blairgowrie Golf Club was founded as a private members club in 1889. In 1930 the club decided to expand the facilities yet again and engaged James Braid, who was born in Earlsferry, Fife, to re-design the course to devise a new 18 hole layout with provision for a new nine hole course. For what then became the 18 hole Rosemount course.





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Old Photographs Golf Course Blair Atholl Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of golfers on the golf course in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland. The Blair Atholl Golf Club is a nine-hole course founded in 1896. The original course was extended to 18 holes for a period before returning to nine, and it has hosted notable golfers like Tom Morris and James Braid.

Old Photograph Blackhill Golf Course Scotland

Old photograph of Blackhill Golf Course near Glasgow, Scotland. Scottish golf club history on the west coast of Scotland began with the Glasgow Golf Club, which was founded in May 1787 by wealthy Glaswegian merchants and serving army officers. They played initially on Glasgow Green. In 1870 the club moved to Queens Park. As congestion developed on Queens Park, the club moved to Alexandra Park in 1874 and Blackhill in 1895, before finally settling at its present location at Killermont in Bearsden in 1904.



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Old Photograph Corn Mill Rosneath Scotland

Old photograph of the Corn Mill in Rosneath in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. John Anderson was born on 26 September 1726 at the manse at Rosneath, Dunbartonshire, the son of Margaret Turner and Reverend James Anderson. His father and grandfather were prominent ministers of the church. After his father's death he was raised by his aunt in Stirling, where he attended grammar school. He graduated with an MA from the University of Glasgow in 1745. From 1755 to 1757 he was Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Glasgow, and from 1757 to 1796 Professor of Natural Philosophy. He is the longest-serving natural philosophy lecturer during the 18th century. In 1760, Anderson was appointed to the more congenial post of professor of natural philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He began to concentrate on physics. He had a love of experiments, practical mechanics and inventions. He encouraged James Watt in his development of steam power. He was acquainted with Benjamin Franklin, and in 1772 he installed the first lightning conductor in Glasgow. John Anderson died in Glasgow on 13 January 1796 at the age of 69. He is buried with his grandfather in Ramshorn Cemetery on Ingram Street in Glasgow. On 13 January 1996 representatives from the University of Glasgow laid a wreath to mark the bicentennial of Anderson's death.

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Old Photograph Mother And Children Island Of Arran Scotland

Old photograph of a mother walking with her children outside her cottage on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. In the early 19th century Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton, born 1767, died 1852, embarked on a programme of clearances that had a devastating effect on the island's population. These " improvements " typically led to land that had been rented out to as many as 27 families being converted into a single farm. In some cases, land was promised in Canada for each adult emigrant male. In April 1829, for example, 86 islanders boarded the brig Caledonia for the two month journey, half their fares being paid for by the Duke. However, on arrival in Quebec only 100 acres was made available to the heads of extended families. Whole villages were removed and the Gaelic culture of the island devastated.



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Old Photograph Mother And Children Outside A Tenement In Aberdeeen Scotland

Old photograph of mother and children outside a tenement in Aberdeen, Scotland. A tenement was a substandard multi family dwelling occupied by the poor. Tenements make up a large percentage of the housing stock of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Glasgow tenements were built to provide high-density housing for the large number of people immigrating to the city in the 19th and early 20th century as a result of the Industrial Revolution, when the city's population boomed to more than 1 million people. Edinburgh's tenements are much older, dating from the 17th century onwards, and some were up to 15 stories high when first built, which made them the tallest houses in the world at that time.



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Old Photograph Tin Can Factory Aberdeeen Scotland

Old photograph of Scottish women working in a Tin Can factory in Aberdeen, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Vintage Cars Aberdeeen Scotland

Old photograph of vintage cars in Aberdeen, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Clyde Puffer Harbour Brodick Island Of Arran Scotland

Old photograph of a Clyde puffer in the harbour at Brodick on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. The Clyde puffer is essentially a type of small steamboat which provided a vital supply link around the west coast and Hebrides islands of Scotland, stumpy little cargo ships that have achieved almost mythical status thanks largely to the short stories Neil Munro wrote about the Vital Spark and her captain Para Handy.



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Old Photograph Guild Street Aberdeeen Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and cart, shops, houses and people on Guild Street in Aberdeen, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Queen Victoria Statue St Nicholas Lane Aberdeen Scotland

Old photograph of the Queen Victoria statue on St Nicholas Lane in Aberdeen, Scotland. This statue of Queen Victoria was sculpted by Alexander Brodie. The statue was inaugurated in 1866. The marble began to show weathering damage and was moved to the vestibule of the Town House in 1888. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. Both the Duke of Kent and King George III died in 1820, and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her German born mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld. She inherited the throne at the age of 18, after her father's three elder brothers had all died, leaving no surviving legitimate children.



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Old Photograph Palace Hotel Aberdeeen Scotland

Old photograph of the Palace Hotel in Aberdeen, Scotland. This Scottish hotel was built in 1874 for Messrs Pratt and Keith, milliners, who occupied the street level area. It operated as one of a chain of LNER hotels. Its upper storeys were destroyed by fire on 31st October 1941, with loss of life, and the building was entirely demolished after the war.



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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Scarlet Gowns University Students Long Pier St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of St Andrews University students in their scarlet gowns taking a traditional walk along the long pier on ancestry visit and trip to the old harbour in St Andrews, Fife.
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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Long Pier Harbour St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland Autumn video of the long pier at the harbour on ancestry visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Castle And Coast St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of the castle and coast on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish castle sits on a rocky promontory overlooking a small beach called Castle Sands and the adjoining North Sea. There has been a castle standing at the site since the times of Bishop Roger (1189-1202), son of the Earl of Leicester. It housed the burgh’s wealthy and powerful bishops while St Andrews served as the ecclesiastical centre of Scotland during the years before the Protestant Reformation. In their Latin charters, the Archbishops of St Andrews wrote of the castle as their Palace.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Autumn Harbour St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland early Autumn travel video of the harbour, with the wildlife sound of seagulls, on ancestry history visit and trip to St Andrews, Fife. Britain, United Kingdom. St Andrews harbour is an estuary haven formed in the tidal mouth of the Kinness Burn. A fishing harbour is mentioned as early as 1222, and another medieval record dates from 1363. The long pier was rebuilt in 1656 with stone largely taken from the Castle. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome
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Old Photograph Golfers On Strathtay Golf Course Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of golfers on the golf course in Strathtay near in Aberfeldy, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish course was laid out in 1909 by Captain Steuart of Ballechin and saw only minor alterations for almost one hundred years.



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Old Photograph Church Birnam Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and cart and church in Birnam, Perthshire, Scotland. The main church and clock tower was built to a design by William Slater 1858, with north aisle by Norman & Beddoe 1883. Three bell chime, clock by James Ramsay of Dundee 1882.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Cameron Bridge Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Cameron Bridge by Windygates, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Vintage Ambulance Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a vintage ambulance at a garage in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Building Contractor Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a building contractor outside a cottage in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Post Office Isle Of Rhum Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office on the Isle of Rhum, Lochaber, Scotland. Rhum a a name often anglicised to Rum, is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, in the district of Lochaber. For much of the 20th century the name became Rhum, a spelling invented by the former owner, Sir George Bullough, because he did not relish the idea of having the title Laird of Rum. It is the largest of the Small Isles, and the fifteenth largest Scottish island, but is inhabited by only about thirty or so people, all of whom live in the village of Kinloch on the east coast. The island has been inhabited since the 8th millennium BC and provides some of the earliest known evidence of human occupation in Scotland. The early Celtic and Norse settlers left only a few written accounts and artefacts. From the 12th to 13th centuries on, the island was held by various clans including the MacLeans of Coll. The population grew to over 400 by the late 18th century but was cleared of its indigenous population between 1826 and 1828. The island then became a sporting estate, the exotic Kinloch Castle being constructed by the Bulloughs in 1900. Rùm was purchased by the Nature Conservancy Council in 1957.

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Old Photograph Barra Head Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Barra Head lighthouse on Berneray located between Isle of Harris and North Uist in the Sound of Harris in the Outer Hebrides,Scotland. The Barra Head Lighthouse, built by Robert Stevenson, has operated since 1833. From 1931 to 1980 Barra Head was inhabited only by the lighthouse keepers and their wives but the lighthouse is now automated and the island completely uninhabited.



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Old Photograph The Covin Trysting Tree Bemersyde Melrose Scotland

Old photograph of the Covin Trysting tree at Bemersyde near Melrose, Borders, Scotland. A tryst is a time and a place for a meeting, especially of lovers. This trysting tree here is a Sweet Chestnut tree which has long been a feature of Bemersyde, appearing in many paintings of the house including a sketch by Turner, located in the British Museum, in London, England. The tree is thought to have been planted in the 12th century by Petrus de Haga, making it 800 years old. Although the original trunk has now died, layers were taken by Earl Haig in the 1950s resulting in several new healthy stems rising from the base. One of the layers, planted about 30 meters from the original, is growing into a fine looking individual. The old rings that can be seen in the branches of the original Covin Tree were once attached to concrete weights which aimed to balance the trunk in its younger days the tree was twice as high as it is now. Dating back to 1535 as a peel tower, Bemersyde house was bought by the British Government in 1921 and presented to Field-Marshal The 1st Earl Haig, the British Commander in World War I. The House is the seat of Clan Haig.



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