Old Photographs Arrochar Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Arrochar, Scotland. A Scottish village situated near the head of Loch Long in Argyll and Bute. It is overlooked by a group of mountains called the Arrochar Alps, and in particular by the distinctive rocky summit of The Cobbler. For over five centuries this area, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the chiefs of Clan MacFarlane.



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Old Photograph Interior Crofters Cottage Isle Of Lewis Scotland

Old photograph of the interior of a Crofters cottage on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Scottish Soldier Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish soldier and his wife from Edinburgh, Scotland. John Brown and his wife, Moira, both from Edinburgh.

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Old Photograph Burrafirth Unst Scotland

Old photograph of Burrafirth, island of Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland. A small settlement northwest of Haroldswick between Loch of Cliff and the southern end of Burra Firth. Burrafirth is where the shore station for the Muckle Flugga Lighthouse was located.





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Old Photograph King Edward VII Braemar Highland Gathering Scotland

Old photograph of King Edward VII at the Braemar Highland Gathering, Scotland. Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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Old Photograph Church Kilmore Scotland

Old photograph of Kilmore Parish Church on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. A former Minister Rev. John Forbes born 1811, died 1863, was a noted Gaelic scholar who wrote a Gaelic grammar and investigated the deaths of three girls from the parish who were taken to the cotton mills of Manchester as forced-labour and published his findings in a book Weeping in the Isles, published in 1853.



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Old Photograph King Edward VIII Edinburgh Scotland

Tour Scotland photograph of King Edward VIII on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. Edward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, and Emperor of India, from 20 January to 11 December 1936. Before his accession to the throne, Edward was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay. Edward became king when his father died in early 1936. Only months into his reign, he caused a constitutional crisis by proposing marriage to the American socialite Wallis Simpson, who had divorced her first husband and was seeking a divorce from her second. The prime ministers of the United Kingdom and the Dominions opposed the marriage, arguing that the people would never accept a divorced woman with two living ex-husbands as queen. Additionally, such a marriage would have conflicted with Edward's status as head of the Church of England, which opposed the remarriage of divorced people if their former spouses were still alive. Edward knew that the government led by British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin would resign if the marriage went ahead, which could have dragged the king into a general election and would ruin his status as a politically neutral constitutional monarch. Choosing not to end his relationship with Simpson, Edward abdicated. He was succeeded by his younger brother Albert, who chose the regnal name George VI. With a reign of 326 days, Edward was one of the shortest-reigning monarchs in British and Commonwealth history. He was never crowned.



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