Old Photograph Dower House Corstorphine Scotland

Old photograph of Dower House in Corstorphine, Edinburgh, Scotland. This Scottish house dates back to 1587 when it was in the ownership of James Ingles. It is also called Gibsone’s Lodge from its late 18th century occupants, the Gibsons of Pentland.





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Old Photograph Railway Disaster Carrbridge Scotland

Old photograph of the 1914 railway disaster at Carrbridge, Badenoch and Strathspey, Scotland. On the afternoon of 18th of June 1914 a tremendous thunderstorm struck the mountains to the north of the Highland Main Line. The road bridge carrying the road from Carrbridge to Inverness across the Baddengorm Burn was swept away, while further down the valley the burn entered a narrow gorge, crossed by the railway by means of a narrow arch span of only 15 feet. The water was at rail level when the six carriage 11.50 Perth to Inverness train, 9 minutes late leaving Carrbridge Station at 15:24 crossed the bridge. The first two carriages made it across but the bridge finally gave way; its foundations having been undermined by a vortex of water. The third carriage was left on the north bank of the burn but the next one was plunged into the torrent which soon demolished the carriage, drowning five passengers; remarkably four survived.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Fort Augustus Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Fort Augustus, Highland, Scotland. The station was opened in 1903 as the north terminus of the line, situated outside of Fort Augustus, located near Loch Ness. The station was closed on 30 September 1906 due to poor traffic, and the station was dismantled when the track was lifted. Nothing of the station survives today.

Old photograph of the railway station in Fort Augustus, Highland, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Railway Station Strathyre Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Strathyre near Balquhidder, Scotland. This Scottish station opened on the 1st of June 1870 along with the first section of the Callander and Oban Railway, between Callander and Glenoglehead, originally named Killin. The station was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There were sidings on the east side of the station. Final closure came on 27 September 1965 following a landslide in Glen Ogle.

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Old Photograph Road To Glen Shiel Highlands of Scotland

Old photograph of the single track road to Glen Shiel in the Highlands of Scotland. The military road connecting Fort Augustus to the Bernera barracks in Glenelg was built between 1750 and 1784 by William Caulfeild, the successor to General Wade. The Battle of Glen Shiel took place on 10th June 1719 midway up the glen. It was fought between the British government and an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards, and resulted in a victory for the British forces. It was the last close engagement of British and foreign troops on mainland British soil. The natural strength of the Jacobite position, which was positioned on easily defendable crags in the glen, had been increased by hasty fortifications. A barricade had been constructed across the road, and along the face of the hill on the north side of the river entrenchments had been thrown up. Here the main body was posted, consisting of a Spanish regiment, Clan Cameron of Lochiel with about 150 men, about 150 of Lidcoat’s and others, Rob Roy MacGregor with 40 men, 50 men of Clan Mackinnon and 200 from the Clan MacKenzie. British forces included 150 grenadiers under Major Milburn, Montagu’s Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence, a detachment of 50 men under Colonel Harrison, Huffel's Dutch Regiment, four companies of Amerongen's regiment from the Clan Fraser, Clan Ross and the Clan Sutherland, 80 men of Clan MacKay, Clayton’s Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Reading and about 100 men of the Clan Munro under George Munro of Culcairn.



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Old Photograph Bow Bridge ElginScotland

Old photograph of the Bow Bridge near Elgin, Moray, Scotland. This bridge carries Old Mills Road across the River Lossie to the North West of Elgin. The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Elgin to the South and Spynie to the North.

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Tour Scotland Video West Fife Schools Pipe Band Highland Games Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland video of the West Fife Schools Pipe Band at the Highland Games on ancestry visit to Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. West Fife Schools Pipe Band, formerly Inverkeithing High School Pipe Band, consists of pipers and drummers from a number of schools in the West Fife area.

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Tour Scotland Video Methil and District Pipe Band Highland Games Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Methil and District Pipe Band at the Highland Games on ancestry visit to Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. The objectives of the Band are to advance education of the public in the art of music and in particular pipe band music by the presentation of concerts and other related activities.

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Old Photograph James Watt Dock Scotland

Old photograph of the James Watt Dock in Greenock by Glasgow, Scotland. The James Watt Dock was Greenock's answer to Queen's Dock in Glasgow. It was intended accommodate the largest vessels using the River Clyde. It was also to be the only true wet dock on the river. The scheme was approved by the Greenock Harbour Trust in June 1878; the foundation stone was laid in August 1881 and the dock was opened in August 1886. Its cost had risen from an estimated £208,000 to over £850,000 on completion. Trade to did not readily move to the dock, which remained consistently underused. It caused considerable embarrassment to the Greenock Harbour Trust, and was to be the last new work at Greenock for nearly 80 years.



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Old Photograph Roman Bridge Bothwell Haugh Scotland

Old photograph of the Roman Bridge which spans the South Calder river near Bothwell Haugh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is likely that this bridge was restored by James Hamilton in the late 17th century. While it may have originated as a medieval pack-horse bridge, a Roman bridge must have existed here or near here next to the Roman bathhouse, fort and road.



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Old Photograph Viaduct Glenluce Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train crossing the viaduct in Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland. This bridge no longer used by trains spans the Water of Luce, while the main road passes below in a sweeping curve between its arches. This viaduct was built for the Portpatrick Railway and opened on 12th March 1861. It was built by James Falshaw and Company.



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Old Photograph Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1878 Miss Kate Cranston opened her first tearoom, the Crown Luncheon Room, on Argyle Street, Glasgow. She set high standards of service, food quality and cleanliness, and her innovation lay in seeing the social need for something more than a restaurant or a simple " tea shop ", and in putting equal attention into providing amenities designed in the latest style. Her first tearoom was decorated in a contemporary baronial style. On 16th September 1886 she opened her Ingram Street tearoom and in 1888 commissioned George Walton to decorate a new smoking room in the Arts and Crafts style in one of her tea rooms. In 1892 she became happily married to John Cochrane, but continued to trade under the name of Miss Cranston's Tearooms. She opened new tearooms in Buchanan Street in 1897, designed by George Washington Browne, expanded to take over the whole building in Argyle Street by 1898, then completed her chain of four establishments with the Willow Tearooms by Charles Rennie MacKintosh in Sauchiehall Street, opening in 1903. While other cities offered very expensive and very basic tea rooms by 1901, Kate Cranston set the standard in Glasgow for more welcoming establishments. Rooms were provided for ladies only and for gentlemen only, as well as luncheon rooms where they could dine together and smoking rooms and billiards rooms for the gentlemen. Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms became social centres for all, for business men and apprentices, for ladies and ladies' maids. The Ladies Rooms were a particular success, newly allowing respectable women to get out and meet together without male company. Unlike cafes or tearooms in other cities, there was no intrusive supervision and those having tea had an assortment of Scones and cakes to hand, with a discreet notice reminding newcomers to remember the amount consumed.



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Old Photograph Darnaway Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Darnaway Castle, also known as Tarnaway Castle located three miles from Forres, Moray, Scotland. This was Comyn land, given to Thomas Randolph along with the Earldom of Moray by King Robert I. The castle has remained the seat of the Earls of Moray ever since. Rebuilt in 1810, it retains the old banqueting hall, capable of accommodating 1,000 men.



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Old Photograph Glencoe House Scotland

Old photograph of Glencoe House in the Highlands of Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was designed by Rowand Anderson, it was built in 1895 by Lord Strathcona for his wife, Isabella. Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal was a Scottish born Canadian who became one of the British Empire's foremost builders and philanthropists. He became commissioner, governor and principal shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company. He was president of the Bank of Montreal and with his first cousin, Lord Mount Stephen, co-founded the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was born 6 August 1820, on Forres High Street, in Moray. He was the second son of Alexander Smith and his wife Barbara Stuart, daughter of Donald Stuart of Leanchoil, Upper Strathspey, descended from Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany.His father, whose family had lived at Archiestown Cottage as crofters at Knockando, became a saddler at Forres after trying his hand at farming and soldiering. He emigrated to Lower Canada in 1838 to work for the Hudson's Bay Company, becoming a clerk for the organization in 1842.



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Old Photograph Public Library Fraserburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the Public Library in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Fraserburgh Library was built in 1904 with funding from Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848. Carnegie started work as a telegrapher, and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges, and oil derricks. He accumulated further wealth as a bond salesman, raising money for American enterprise in Europe. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J. P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million. It became the U.S. Steel Corporation. After selling Carnegie Steel, he surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American for the next couple of years.



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Old Photographs Forest Of Birse Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Forest of Birse Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built about 1600 for the Gordons of Cluny who owned the surrounding Forest of Birse. The Bishops of Aberdeen, who had a grant of the forest as early as 1242, also had a hunting seat in the forest, believed to be on the site of this castle. The Forest of Birse consisted of twenty-four towns, or farms, eighteen of which between 1574 and 1636 came into the hands of Gordon of Cluny. About 1610 this family, by building a castle, encroached upon the forest. The inhabitants of the other six farms claimed rights over the whole forest about 1640 they vindicated their rights by burning the castle and turning the tilled land into commonage and so held it for eighty years.

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Old Photographs Colzium House Scotland

Old photograph of Colzium House near Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The present house dates from 1783 and was extended and modernised in 1861. The first building here was a large L plan tower house built by the Livingstons of Callendar in the mid 15th century to replace the ancient motte. The Civil War Battle of Kilsyth was fought just a mile to the east. A substantial hall house was added in 1575. The nearby castle was demolished by the third Viscount of Kilsyth in 1703, immediately prior to his accession to the title. The family lost the estate due to their Jacobite sympathies, and it then became the property of the Edmonstone family.

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Tour Scotland Video Kirkcaldy and District Pipe Band Highland Games Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Kirkcaldy and District Pipe Band at the Highland Games on ancestry visit to Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. Kirkcaldy and District Pipeband has existed for 30 Years, with various name changes, and is an active Grade 3 Band.

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Tour Scotland Video City Of St Andrews Pipe Band Highland Games Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland video of the City of St Andrew Pipe Band at the Highland Games on ancestry visit to Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. The Band was formed in 1972 and is based in St Andrews in the North East of Fife. It first competed in 1974 and since those early days has competed at all levels and won many contests and major championships.

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Tour Scotland Video Kinross and District Pipe Band Highland Games Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Kinross and District Pipe Band from Perthshire at the Highland Games on ancestry visit to Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. The Kinross Pipe Band was formed in the summer of 1946 to play at local galas, festival events and pipe band competitions.

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Tour Scotland Video Kelty And Blairadam Pipe Band Highland Games Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Kelty and Blairadam Pipe Band at the Highland Games on ancestry visit to Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. The popular Markinch Highland Games are held in John Dixon park.

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