Old Photograph Harvesting Kelp Isle Of Harris Outer Hebrides

Old photograph of harvesting kelp on Island Of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Seaweed was gathered and laid out to dry before being burned in a kelp kiln. Kelp making was the changing or conversion of seaweed into ash, which was used in many things, particularly the production of soda and iodine.



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Old Photograph Scottish Steam Train Hyndland Glasgow

Old photograph of Steam train at Hyndland, Glasgow, Scotland. Prior to development, Hyndland was an area of farmland called 'Hind Land' and belonged to the Bishops of Glasgow. The first tenements were built in 1885. On 13th March 1941, a parachute mine was dropped on Hyndland by the Luftwaffe, destroying three tenement buildings on Dudley Drive. Also, during the war a number of refugee children from Germany and Poland were educated at Hyndland School, many of whom achieved a higher in English. Hyndland railway station is on the North Clyde and Argyle lines, offering a direct link to central Glasgow in under ten minutes, and by a number of bus routes. The nearest Subway stations are Hillhead, Partick and Kelvinhall.



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Old Photograph Scottish Soldier Birnam Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish Soldier at a Military Camp outside Birnam, Perthshire, Scotland.

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The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War. On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In addition, Scots were a hugely important source of manpower for the colonies. Yet after the war, Scotland became an industrial and financial backwater. Emigration increased as morale slumped in the face of economic stagnation and decline. The country had paid a disproportionately high price in casualties, a result of huge numbers of volunteers and the use of Scottish battalions as shock troops in the fighting on the Western Front and Gallipoli - young men whom the novelist Ian Hay called 'the vanished generation'.In this book, Trevor Royle provides the first full account of how the war changed Scotland irrevocably by exploring a wide range of themes, the overwhelming response to the call for volunteers; the performance of Scottish military formations in 1915 and 1916; the militarization of the Scottish homeland; the resistance to war in Glasgow and the west of Scotland; and the boom in the heavy industries and the strengthening of women's role in society following on from wartime employment. The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War.

Old Photograph Scottish Soldier St Andrews Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish Soldier from St Andrews, Scotland.

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The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War. On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In addition, Scots were a hugely important source of manpower for the colonies. Yet after the war, Scotland became an industrial and financial backwater. Emigration increased as morale slumped in the face of economic stagnation and decline. The country had paid a disproportionately high price in casualties, a result of huge numbers of volunteers and the use of Scottish battalions as shock troops in the fighting on the Western Front and Gallipoli - young men whom the novelist Ian Hay called 'the vanished generation'.In this book, Trevor Royle provides the first full account of how the war changed Scotland irrevocably by exploring a wide range of themes, the overwhelming response to the call for volunteers; the performance of Scottish military formations in 1915 and 1916; the militarization of the Scottish homeland; the resistance to war in Glasgow and the west of Scotland; and the boom in the heavy industries and the strengthening of women's role in society following on from wartime employment. The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War.

Old Photographs Bagpipers Paisley Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of a Bagpiper in Paisley, Scotland.

Old photograph of a Bagpiper in Paisley, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Horse Drawn Tram Aberdeen

Old photograph of a Horse Drawn Tram in Aberdeen, Scotland. From the 1860s, the City of Aberdeen and its immediate suburbs were served by horse bus services including Market Street to Bieldside, the Mill Inn and Murtle, to Woodside, Bucksburn and Stoneywood, and from Queen's Cross to Old Aberdeen via Union Street and King Street. One of the best known of the horse bus operators was William Bain who operated for a time from the Old Waterhouse on Union Place. His buses served a number of districts including Gallowgate, Old Aberdeen, King Street, Rosemount, Skene Square, Carden Place, College Street and Marywell Street.



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Old Photograph Scottish Soldiers Dunkeld Scotland

Old photograph of Scottish Soldiers in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland.



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