Old Photograph Ferry Tarbert Isle Of Harris Scotland

Old photograph of a ferry at the pier in Tarbert on Island Of Harris, Scotland. The name Tarbert means " isthmus ", " crossing point " or " portage ", in Gaelic. Tarbert now has a car ferry terminal, which operates to Uig on the Isle of Skye.





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Old Photograph East End Tarbert Isle Of Harris Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses at the East end of Tarbert on Island Of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Tarbert is the main port and main settlement of Harris, with a population of about 550. The name Tarbert comes from the Norse tairbeart meaning " portage " or " isthmus ". It is located on an isthmus between Loch Tarbert and West Loch Tarbert. The village has a ferry terminal, local tourist information and some small shops, including a Harris Tweed shop overlooking the main access road to the CalMac ferry terminal and a general grocery store.





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Old Photograph Paper Mill Inverkeithing Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a fire at the Paper Mill in Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland. The building burnt down in 1914. Inverkeithing is a town and a royal burgh, and parish, in Fife, located on the Firth of Forth. The Battle of Inverkeithing on 20 July 1651 was fought on two sites in the area, one north of the town close to Pitreavie Castle, the other to the south on and around the peninsula of North Queensferry and the isthmus connecting it to Inverkeithing. The battle took place during Oliver Cromwell's invasion of the Kingdom of Scotland following the Third English Civil War. It was an attempt by the English Parliamentarian forces to outflank the army of Scottish Covenanters loyal to Charles II at Stirling and get access to the north of Scotland. This was the last major engagement of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and led to Scotland passing into Cromwell's control. Cromwell's troops crushed the Scots, forcing them to abandon Stirling and march south to support King Charles II. Of the estimated 800 Maclean clansmen who fought in the battle, only 35 were said to have survived. The Pinkerton Burn was said to have run red with blood for days afterwards. This was a significant episode in the history of Clan MacLean, and the 20th century poet Sorley MacLean mentions Inverkeithing in one of his poems. The port town was given burgh status by King David I of Scotland in the 12th century and is situated about 9 miles north from Edinburgh Airport and about 4 miles from the centre of Dunfermline. Inverkeithing is famous for its shipbreaking yard. The second RMS Mauretania and the hull of the RMS Olympic were dismantled here. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Castle Street Tayport Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses, shops and children on Castle Street in Tayport, Fife, across from Dundee, Scotland. The settlement was originally called Partan Craig, Gaelic for " Crab Rock ". Over the following two hundred years English usage eroded many Gaelic place names in eastern Scotland and Partan Craig had become known as Portincragge by 1415 and as Port-in-Craige by the end of the 15th century. In 1598 the settlement received its burgh charter in the name of Ferry-Port on Craig. In the 1850s, the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway Company established a railway service running from Edinburgh to Aberdeen that passed through Ferry-Port on Craig. They used the simpler name of " Tayport " for the town. This less cumbersome name soon caught on and over time, Tayport replaced Ferry-Port on Craig as the more common name.



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Old Photograph Bogside Golf Course Irvine Scotland

Old photograph of Bogside Golf Course, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland. Irvine Bogside was founded in 1887 and the layout was updated in 1920 by the one of the most famous and talented Scottish golf course architects of all time, James Braid, who was born in Earlsferry in the East Neuk of Fife.



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Old Photograph Youth Hostel Fortingall Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the Youth Hostel in Fortingall near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Thornwood Avenue Partick Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Thornwood Avenue in Partick, Glasgow, Scotland. Partick is located on the north bank of the River Clyde, just across from Govan. Partick is the area of the city most connected with the Highlands, and several Gaelic agencies, such as the Gaelic Books Council are based in the area. Some ATMs in the area display Gaelic. It is historically divided into three social areas; south of Dumbarton Road, north of Dumbarton Road and the Partick Hill grand villas. Being within the sphere of influence of the University of Glasgow and neighbouring Glasgow's salubrious " West End " it has a high student population. Traditional industries for the area were shipbuilding and the huge Meadowside Granary, demolished to make way for the new Glasgow Harbour residential development, employed many residents also.



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Old Photograph Eoligarry Airport Island Of Barra Scotland

Old photograph of a plane landing at Eoligarry Airport on the Island of Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The airport is unique, being the only one in the world where scheduled flights use a beach as the runway. The short runway airport is situated in the wide shallow bay of Traigh Mhòr at the north tip of the island.



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Old Photograph Old Mill Port Bannatyne Scotland

Old photograph of the old mill in Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute, Scotland. This mill was originally a flax mill propelled by a water wheel and the man who ran it was a Mr Carswell. The mill then became a Sawmill run by Habby Halliday. When he died that was the end of the mill. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.





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Old Photograph Railway Line Ivybank Port Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train on the railway line at Ivybank, Port Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. Greenock and Ayrshire Railway Company opened a line from Glasgow St Enoch to Princes Pier in Greenock in 1869. Unlike the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway line which approached the town along the Clyde coast, this line ran inland, passing through Paisley, Johnstone, Bridge of Weir and Kilmacolm before dropping down the hill through Port Glasgow on the way to Princes Pier in the west end of Greenock. The company was absorbed by Glasgow and South Western Railway in 1872.



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Old Photograph Stanley Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Stanley Castle located 14 miles from Port Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. This partially submerged Scottish castle in the Stanley Reservoir, was built in the early 15th century and is now an inaccessible ruin. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph St Bride's Kirk Douglas South Lanarkshire Scotland

Old photograph of St Bride's Kirk in Douglas, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish church originated in the 14th century. It became the mausoleum of the Lords of Douglas. The church clock installed sometime in the 16th century, is rumoured to have been given as a gift to the village by Mary, Queen of Scots, after spending time in the area. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Douglas South Lanarkshire Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Douglas, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish villages is located on the south bank of the Douglas Water and on the A70 road that links Ayr, on the West coast of Scotland, to Edinburgh on the East, around 12 miles south west of Lanark. The Douglas family took this name when their ancestors settled here in the 12th century. Within the village stands a statue to one of the Covenanters, James Gavin who was persecuted for his religious faith and had his ears cut off with his own tailoring scissors for refusing to renounce it. After suffering this humiliation he was transported to a life of slavery in the cotton fields of the West Indies. The village was shaped later by the Industrial Revolution, which brought woolen mills and coal mining. The village was also one of several locations near which a large camp of the Polish Army was set up in 1940. Units of the 10th Polish Cavalry, including the Podhalanski, Highland Battalion, 10th Mounted Rifles Regiment, the 24th Lancers as well as brigade support and service units were stationed here for a brief period in a temporary tented camp before moving north to Fife and Angus where they were deployed to defend the east coast of Scotland against invasion.



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Old Photographs Drummond Street Comrie Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a motorcycle with a sidecar, cottages, houses and hotel on Drummond Street in Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Sanatorium Shotts Scotland

Old photograph of cars outside the Sanatorium in Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Shotts had its own Infectious Diseases Hospital in the Shotts Sanatorium, mainly for tuberculosis, the scourge of the early nineteen hundreds. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Goodalls Motor And Cycle Works Echt Scotland

Old photograph of cars outside Goodalls Motor And Cycle Works in Echt village located twelve miles from Aberdeen, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Playground Tayport Scotland

Old photograph of children in the playground in Tayport, Fife, across from Dundee, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Loanhead Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses. horse and cart and children in Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland. This Scottish town was granted a charter allowing a weekly market and annual fair in 1669. Coal was mined profitably in the area for Sir John Clerk of Penicuik by 1685. The Springfield paper mill, in the valley of the River North Esk to the south of the town, commenced in 1742, while Polton mill followed in 1750. By 1754 Loanhead was a medium sized village. The limestone industry was a source of employment by the late eighteenth century. The coal industry continued to expand and by 1874 the town was linked to the railway. Shale was mined between Loanhead and Burdiehouse in the late nineteenth century, from 1880 under the Clippens Oil Company of Paisley, by Glasgow.



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Old Photograph King Edward VII Blairgowrrie Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the visit of King Edward VII to Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. King Edward VII was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In 1863 he married Alexandra of Denmark. When he finally became King Edward VII on the death of his mother in 1901 he frequently made trips to Balmoral Castle. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Tour Scotland Video 2015 Loony Dook New Year’s Day South Queensferry Near Edinburgh



Tour Scotland video of the 2015 Loony Dook in the Firth of Forth in the shadow of the world famous Forth Railway Bridge on visit to South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland. On New Year’s Day, Thursday 1 January 2015. On a windy, rainy afternoon more than 1,000 brave souls from all over the world plunged into the icy waters as part of their Hogmanay celebrations. Swimmers took part in an array of costumes.

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Tour Scotland Video RNLI Queensferry Lifeboat Loony Dook South Queensferry



Tour Scotland video of the RNLI Queensferry inshore lifeboat and crew in the River Forth in the shadow of the world famous Forth Railway Bridge before the Loony Dook on visit to South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Hogmanay New Years Eve Ceilidh Dance Scone Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Hogmanay New Years Eve Ceilidh Dance on visit to the Wheel Inn in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Can You Reel It were the band The dance is the Gay Gordons.

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Tour Scotland Video Hogmanay New Years Eve Bagpiper Newburgh Fife



Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve video of a Scottish Bagpiper on ancestry visit to Newburgh Fife, Scotland. This Scottish piper was playing at the Newburgh Caledonian Lodge of Oddfellows’ annual torchlit procession.

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Tour Scotland Video Hogmanay New Years Eve Torchlit Procession Newburgh Fife



Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve video of the Oddfellows torchlit procession on visit to Newburgh Fife, Scotland. The Caledonian Lodge of Oddfellows based in Newburgh is the only Lodge of Oddfellows left in Scotland

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Old Photograph Pier Rousay Orkney Islands Scotland

Old photograph of cottages by the pier on Rousay, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Most people on this small, hilly island about one mile North of mainland Orkney have always earned their living from farming and fishing. In the 19th century, records show there were also tradespeople supplying the needs of a rural community: blacksmiths and joiners, shoemakers and shopkeepers, with women doing dressmaking and straw plaiting. Throughout the century, Rousay's landlords demanded high rents from crofters, many of whom were made homeless in a series of clearances along the western coast, ordered by landowner George William Traill in the 1820s and 1830s. Rousay's population in the mid 19th century was over 900, but emigration following land clearances reduced that to 627 by 1900, and half a century later it had fallen to 342. Depopulation accelerated, and in the next twenty years the number fell to 181, its lowest ever. From the 1970s onward new families started to settle on Rousay: most came from the south, especially from England.



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Old Photograph Post Office Maryburgh Scotland

Old photograph of people outside the Post Office in Maryburgh located two miles South of Dingwall, Scotland. Maryburgh, Scottish Gaelic: Baile Màiri, is a village in the Highlands. located 2 miles South of Dingwall. It is situated on the northern bank of the River Conon. The village of Conon Bridge is on the other side of the river.



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Old Photograph Crichton Royal Hospital Dumfries Scotland

Old photograph of Crichton Royal Hospital in Dumfries, Scotland. This hospital was established in 1839 at the direction of Elizabeth Crichton, widow of Dr James Crichton, with money which had been made mainly by trading in India and China.



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Old Photograph Steam Train Derailment Greenock Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train derailment in Greenock by Glasgow, Scotland. The fishing village of Greenock developed along this bay, and around 1635 Sir John Schaw had a jetty built into the bay which became known as Sir John's Bay. In that year he obtained a Charter raising Greenock to a Burgh of Barony with rights to a weekly market. In 1714 Greenock became a custom house port as a branch of Port Glasgow, and for a period this operated from rooms leased in Greenock. Receipts rose rapidly from the 1770s, and in 1778 the custom house moved to new built premises at the West Quay of the harbour. Greenock suffered badly during the Second World War and its anchorage at the Tail of the Bank became the base for the Home Fleet as well as the main assembly point for Atlantic convoys. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Wallace and Fraser's Shop Tain Scotland

Old photograph of the Wallace and Fraser's shop in Tain, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. This shop on the High Street was engulfed in flames in 1957. Tain was granted its first royal charter in 1066, making it Scotland's oldest Royal Burgh. The charter, granted by King Malcolm III, confirmed Tain as a sanctuary, where people could claim the protection of the church, and an immunity, in which resident merchants and traders were exempt from certain taxes. These led to the development of the town. The early Duthac Chapel was the center of a sanctuary. Fugitives were by tradition given sanctuary in several square miles marked by boundary stones. During the First War of Scottish Independence, Robert the Bruce sent his wife and daughter to the sanctuary for safety. The sanctuary was violated and they were captured by forces loyal to John Balliol. The women were taken to England and kept prisoner for several years. John Ross, born 29 January 1726, Tain, died March 1800, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a merchant during the American Revolution. He early relocated to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, and entered into mercantile pursuits, but in 1763 he went to Philadelphia, where he became a shipping merchant. He was on familiar terms with George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Robert Morris, and several entries in General Washington's diary, during the sittings of the convention to frame the United States Constitution, tell of engagements to dine with Mr. Ross at his country place, Grange Farm or the Grange, named after the home of Lafayette. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Hotel Gigha Scotland

Old photograph of the hotel on the Isle of Gigha, a small island off the West coast of Kintyre, in Argyll, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Caldwell Golf Course Scotland

Old photograph of golfers on Caldwell Golf Course on the outskirts of the quiet village of Uplawmoor, fifteen miles to the south west of Glasgow, Scotland. This course was originally laid out by former Open Champion Willie Fernie and later improved by the legendary James Braid who was born in Earlsferry, East Neuk of Fife.



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Old Photograph Forfar Road Coupar Angus Scotland

Old photograph of houses and a car outside the Railway Hotel on Forfar Road in Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs War Memorial Annan Scotland

Old photograph of the War Memorial in Annan, near Dumfries, Scotland.


World War I Roll Of Honour

AIRLIE , J , Royal Scots Fusiliers
AITCHISON , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
ALLAN , J , Royal Navy
ALLARDICE , E S , Black Watch
ANDERSON , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
ANDERSON , R , King's Own Scottish Borderers
ANDERSON , S J , Border Regiment
ARMSTRONG , D , Royal Artillery
ARMSTRONG , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
ATKINS , A B , King's Own Scottish Borderers
ATKINS , T , King's Own Scottish Borderers
ATKINSON , R , Black Watch
BEATTIE , F W , King's Own Scottish Borderers
BELL , J , Scots Guards
BELL , J M , Royal Scots
BELL , J S C , King's Own Scottish Borderers
BLACK , J A H , King's Own Scottish Borderers
BLAND , J , Black Watch
BOWMAN , J W , Highland Light Infantry
BURTON , J , Royal West kents
CALDWELL , L , King's Own Scottish Borderers
CALDWELL , J Y , Machine Gune Corps
CALVERT , H W , Canadian Expeditionary Force
CAMBELL , D W , Gordon Highlanders
CARRUTHERS , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
CARRUTHERS , R E S , King's Own Scottish Borderers
CARRUTHERS , C C , Canadian Expeditionary Force
CAVINEY , M , Royal Navy
CLARK , R , King's Own Scottish Borderers
COLLINS , J , Royal Navy
CONNOR , T , Border Regiment
CORMIE , M , King's Own Scottish Borderers
CRONE , P , Black Watch
CROPP , T B , Yorks & Lancs
DALGLIESH , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
DAVIDSON , R , King's Own Scottish Borderers
DAVIDSON , J , Border Regiment
DIXON , P F , Cameron Highlanders
DOUGLAS , R , Royal Scots Fusiliers
DOUGLAS , J , Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
DOUGLAS , W , Labour Corps
DOUGLAS , A , Royal Army Medical Corps
DOUGLAS , W J , Royal Scots Fusiliers
DUNCAN , J H , Cameron Highlanders
DUNCAN , R , Cameron Highlanders
EDGAR , G , Canadian Expeditionary Force
FARISH , R , Royal Navy
GILBERTSON , J A , King's Own Scottish Borderers
GILBERTSON , W , King's Own Scottish Borderers
GILBERTSON , Ralph , King's Own Scottish Borderers
GILBERTSON , Robt , King's Own Scottish Borderers
GRAHAM , B , Royal Artillery
GRAHAM , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
GRAHAM , C , Royal Army Medical Corps
GRAHAM , H G , Royal Army Veterinary Corps
GRAHAM , W , Black Watch
GREEN , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
HALLIDAY , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
HALLIDAY , B McN , Royal Army Medical Corps
HANCOCK , J R S , Cameron Highlanders
HENDERSON , R , King's Own Scottish Borderers
HENDERSON , W , King's Own Scottish Borderers
HENRY , D , King's Own Scottish Borderers
HENRY , W , Scottish Rifles
HINSELWOOD , W B , Royal Scots
HOOD , R , Black Watch
HOPPER , D , Scottish Rifles
HOUGHTON , S , Royal Navy
HOWAT , W , Gordon Highlanders
HUGHES , W S , King's Own Scottish Borderers
HUNTINGDON , C , Royal Artillery
HYSLOP , J P , Scottish Rifles
IRVING , W A , Cameron Highlanders
IRVING , W , Canadian Expeditionary Force
IRVING , W , Gordon Highlanders
JAMIESON , J , Lancashire Fusiliers
JARDINE , D J , Gordon Highlanders
JARDINE , R J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
JOHNSTONE , A , King's Own Scottish Borderers
JOHNSTONE , W , King's Own Scottish Borderers
JOHNSTONE , J , Border Regiment
KEILLER , P J B , Royal Army Medical Corps
KERR , J , King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
LAIDLAW , W , Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
LAMBLEY , J , Royal Army Medical Corps
LATIMER , A D , Lanarkshire Yeomanry
LAURIE , R , Cameron Highlanders
LEES , A , King's Own Scottish Borderers
LEITCH , J A , Royal Scots Fusiliers
LINTON , M C , Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
LINTON , E S , Royal Air Force
LISTER , A H , Royal Artillery
LITTLE , J , Royal Scots
LITTLE , F , King's Own Scottish Borderers
LOCKART , G , Australian Imperial Force
LOUDON , D L , Canadian Expeditionary Force
LUPTON , R , Royal Navy
LUPTON , J , South African Infantry
LUPTON , R , South African Infantry
LYNN , C , Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
MACDOUGAL , D C , King's African Rifles
MACKENZIE , R , King's Own Scottish Borderers
MARTIN , T , King's Own Scottish Borderers
MATTHEWS , J , Durham Light Infantry
MAXWELL , L , Royal Air Force
McANDREW , A C , Mer Marine
McCULLOCH , R S , Royal Scots
McCULLOCH , G , King's Own Scottish Borderers
McDONALD , D , Scottish Rifles
McEWAN , J , Seaforth Highlanders
McGAUGHIE , W , Gordon Highlanders
McGINLEY , J , Border Regiment
McKEGHAN , A , Royal Engineers
McLAUGHLAN , R , Scottish Rifles
McLAUGHLAN , J , Highland Light Infantry
McLEAN , R , South African Infantry
McMURDO , A , King's Own Scottish Borderers
McQUADE , W , King's Own Scottish Borderers
McQUADE , A , Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
McQUADE , J , Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
McVITTIE , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
McVITTIE , G , Canadian Expeditionary Force
McWHIRTER , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
McWHIRTER , R , Cameron Highlanders
MELVIN , E , King's Own Scottish Borderers
MOSS , T A , King's Own Scottish Borderers
MUIR , J C , Cameron Highlanders
MUNDELL , C H , King's Own Scottish Borderers
MURRAY , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
MURRAY , A , Canadian Expeditionary Force
MYALLS , F , King's Own Scottish Borderers
NELSON , J M , Canadian Expeditionary Force
NICHOLSON , D , King's Own Scottish Borderers
NICHOLSON , J , Cameron Highlanders
NICHOLSON , G , Royal Scots Fusiliers
NICHOLSON , J K , Highland Light Infantry
NOBLE , J MM , Highland Light Infantry
PAGAN , I , Border Regiment
PALMER , C , Scottish Horse
PALMER , J J , Machine Gune Corps
PEARCE , A O , King's Own Scottish Borderers
PEATTIE , A P , Canadian Expeditionary Force
PEATTIE , C , Canadian Expeditionary Force
PERCY , W L , Royal Scots Fusiliers
POTTS , W , Border Regiment
RAE , D L , Liverpool Regiment
RAE , D W , King's Own Scottish Borderers
RAE , J , Cameron Highlanders
RAE , R , Canadian Expeditionary Force
RAE , J A , Scottish Rifles
REID , O D , King Edward's Horse
RICHARSON , C , King's Own Scottish Borderers
RICHMOND , A E , Border Regiment
ROBERTSON , W , Cameron Highlanders
ROBINSON , J H , Seaforth Highlanders
ROBSON , R , Liverpool Regiment
RODGERS , T H , King's Own Scottish Borderers
ROSS , J , Black Watch
ROSS , W , Highland Light Infantry
ROXBURGH , M , New Zealand Expeditionary Force
RUTHERFORD , W Y , Scots Guards
SCAIFE , R C , Gordon Highlanders
SCOTT , G , King's Own Scottish Borderers
SCOTT , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
SCOTT , W , King's Own Scottish Borderers
SCOTT , H J , Cameron Highlanders
SCOTT , E W , Highland Light Infantry
SCOTT , W , Highland Light Infantry
SHARKEY , W , Royal Navy
SIMPSON , P , Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
SINCLAIR , D W , Royal Army Medical Corps
SKILLING , R , Scots Guards
SMITH , A , Royal Engineers
SMITH , C S , Royal Scots
SMITH , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
SMITH , A , King's Own Scottish Borderers
SMITH , R , King's Own Scottish Borderers
THOMPSON , W , King's Own Scottish Borderers
THOMPSON , H , King's Own Scottish Borderers
THOMSON , J , Royal Artillery
THOMSON , W W , Royal Scots
THOMSON , A , Northumberland Fusiliers
THOMSON , J , London Regiment
THOMSON , R , Highland Light Infantry
THOMSON , R H , Highland Light Infantry
THORBURN , J , Scottish Rifles
TRODDEN , C , King's Own Scottish Borderers
TRODDEN , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
TRODDEN , R , King's Own Scottish Borderers
TWEEDIE , C , Lancers
TWEEDIE , J W , Royal Scots
TWEEDIE , A , King's Own Scottish Borderers
TWEEDIE , C B , King's Own Scottish Borderers
WALKER , W J , Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
WALKER , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
WALKER , T , King's Own Scottish Borderers
WALKER , J , Scottish Rifles
WALKER , J J , Scottish Rifles
WARWICK , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
WATSON , W G D , King's Own Scottish Borderers
WATSON , P B , Canadian Expeditionary Force
WATSON , K C , Loyal North Lancashire Regt.
WHITE , A B , King's Own Scottish Borderers
WHITE , W B , Gordon Highlanders
WHITTAKER , B , Grenadier Guards
WIGHTMAN , B A , New Zealand Expeditionary Force
WILSON , A G , King's Own Scottish Borderers
WILSON , J , Canadian Expeditionary Force
WOODHOUSE , J , Royal Navy
WOODHOUSE , E , Royal Defence Corps
WOODHOUSE , T , Canadian Expeditionary Force
WOODWARD , I , Canadian Expeditionary Force

World War 2 Roll Of Honour

ADAMSON , J J , Royal Corps of Signals
ANDERSON , D , Royal Army Ordnance Corps
BEATTIE , J T , King's Own Scottish Borderers
BELL , J , Royal Navy
BELL , R G , Merchant Navy
BROWN , W S , Merchant Navy
BRYDSON , W , Royal Army Service Corps
BUTLER , G E , Royal Air Force
CAMPBELL , W , Royal Artillery
CARROLL , J J , Royal Artillery
CROMBIE , J , Cameron Highlanders
CROMPTON , C H , Merchant Navy
CURRIE , H , Royal Marines
CUTHBERTSON , W C , Royal Navy
DALGLIESH , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
DAVIE , R , Royal Artillery
ELDER , A D H , Royal Navy
ELLIOTT , W S , Royal Artillery
FAIRBAIRN , B R , Seaforth Highlanders
FLEMING , W , Royal Air Force
FLOCKHART , J S C , Royal Air Force
FOX , R , Royal Artillery
GILLIES , A , Royal Artillery
GRIERSON , A S , King's Own Scottish Borderers
GRIERSON , R J , Royal Inn Fus
GRIERSON , W J , Royal Artillery
HALBERT , T R , King's Own Scottish Borderers
HOLLIDAY , W T , Royal Air Force
IRVING , W J T , Royal Artillery
IRVING , J , Royal Scots
JOHNTONE , S A , Seaforth Highlanders
KERR , J T , Royal Navy
LAWSON , T , Royal Navy
LEITCH , J J , Royal Air Force
LINN , W , Scots Guards
LITTLE , T G , Royal Artillery
LUPTON , W S , Royal Tank Corps
NOTMAN , J , King's Own Scottish Borderers
POOL , W , Royal Armoured Corps
ROBERTSON , W , Royal Scots
ROBINSON , C R , Royal Air Force
SCAIFE , J , Royal Air Force
SCHOOLAR , A , King's Own Scottish Borderers
SCOTT , R T , King's Own Scottish Borderers
SCOTT , A , Gordon Highlanders
SEMPLE , A T , Green Howards
SEMPLE , J G , King's Own Scottish Borderers
SMITH J , J , Royal Artillery
TAYLOR , H , Royal Air Force
THOMSON , J , Royal Navy
TINNING , O , Royal Engineers
TYSON , J B , Royal Engineers
WILKIN , R , Royal Air Force
WILLACY , D L , Royal Air Force
WILLIAMSON , M A , Royal Artillery
WOODMAN , J S C , Royal Navy

The distance from Glasgow and Paisley to Annan is 85 miles



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Old Photograph George Street Coupar Angus Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of hotel, cyclists, shops, buildings and people on George Street in Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph West Calder Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses and people in West Calder in West Lothian, Scotland. This Scottish town located 4 miles west of Livingston, was an important centre for the oil shale economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries. A memorial in the centre of the town remembers the fifteen men killed on 10 January 1947 as a result of an explosion at the Burngrange oil shale mine southwest of the town. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Francis Street Wick Scotland

Old photograph of houses and people on Francis Street in Wick, Scotland. located the on the North coast of Highlands. The name Wick comes from the Norse word, Vik meaning bay. Wick was granted the title of Royal Burgh in 1589. However, it was in the 1800s that Wick enjoyed its greatest prosperity as a thriving herring port, in time becoming the busiest in Europe. Work to enable the development of the huge seasonal herring fishing first began in 1803 under the auspices of the British Fisheries Society. By the time trade at Wick peaked around 1900 there was a fleet 1120 strong. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Banchory Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses, cars and buildings on the High Street in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The name Banchory is thought to be derived from an early Christian settlement founded by St Ternan. It is claimed that Ternan was a follower of St Ninian. Tradition has it that he established his settlement on the banks of the River Dee on what was later to become the kirkyard of the medieval parish of Banchory Ternan. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photographs Tomintoul Scotland

Old photograph of buildings, bus and people in Tomintoul in Moray, Scotland. This Scottish village was laid out on a grid pattern by the 4th Duke of Gordon in 1775. It followed the construction, twenty years previously, of a military road by William Caulfeild. The 2004 film One Last Chance starring Kevin McKidd and Dougray Scott was filmed in the village and the areas around it. Despite its small size, it is on the famed Whisky Trail, which also includes Dufftown, Keith, Tomnavoulin, and Marypark. The surrounding countryside forms the Glenlivet Estate. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph White Horse Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a farmer with his white horse by Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs West Linton Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses, cottages and children in West Linton, Scotland. This Scottish village was formerly in the county of Peeblesshire, but is now part of the Tweeddale committee area of the Scottish Borders. Linton was raised to a Burgh of Regality in 1631, with the right to hold fairs and markets. The importance of droving and the markets reached their zenith in the early years of the nineteenth century, when upwards of 30,000 sheep would be sold annually, including the famous Linton breed. The markets at Linton were considered the largest in Scotland and were widely referred to as an expression for any gathering of a large size: " big as a Linton Market. " West Linton had two therapeutic wells, the waters of which were sold on market days for either a penny or a half penny, depending on the well. There wase a tannery and brewery situated on the Upper Green and a gas works on the Lower Green, all now gone. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photographs Glencairn Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and church in Glencairn, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Kirkland Village Glencairn Parish Church was built in 1836 to a design by architect William MacCandlish of Dalry.




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Old Photograph Mote Hill Street Glenluce Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Mote Hill Street in Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland. Robert the Bruce stopped for a rest at Glenluce. The original Mote Hill here was a natural hill with earthwork ramparts and a ditch of medieval rather than prehistoric origin. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photographs Mid Street Keith Scotland

Old photograph of shops, buildings and people on Mid Street in Keith, Moray, Scotland. During the Jacobite rising of 1745, the Jacobite army won a skirmish at Keith on 21 March 1746. A Jacobite party under Major Nicholas Glasgow and Captain Robert Stewart surprised and defeated a Government force, killing over 20 of them. This victory at Keith is an interesting reminder that the Jacobites were continuing to take the initiative in many parts of northern Scotland right up until the disaster at the Battle of Culloden.




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Old Photographs High Street Forres Scotland

Old photograph of shops, buildings, cars and people on the High Street in Forres, Moray, Scotland. On 23 June 1496 King James IV of Scotland issued a Royal Charter laying down the rights and privileges that the town's people are believed to have held by an earlier charter since the reign of King David I some 300 years earlier. Shakespeare's play Macbeth locates Duncan's castle in Forres, and the Three Witches meet on a heath near the town in the third scene of the drama. Macbeth's castle was located at Inverness. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photographs High Street Cowdenbeath Fife Scotland

Old photograph of shops, Trams, buildings and people on the High Street in Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland. Before 1850, Cowdenbeath was just a collection of farms within the parish of Beath. By 1850, the flourishing coal pits of Kelty, Lochgelly, Donibristle, Fordell and Hill of Beath surrounded the hamlet of Cowdenbeath. Within the greater area, which later became the Burgh of Cowdenbeath, there was little mining activity. Gibson, of Hill of Beath and the Symes, of Cartmore, had opened small pits in the vicinity of Jubilee Park at the southern border of the Burgh, and other small pits appear to have been worked in the vicinity of Union Street.



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Old Photograph Bank Street Galashiels Scotland

Old photograph of shops, buildings and people on Bank Street in Galashiels, Scottish Borders of Scotland. Robert Burns wrote two poems about Galashiels, " Sae Fair Her Hair " and " Braw Lads ". The latter is sung by the some of the townsfolk each year at the Braw Lads Gathering. Sir Walter Scott built his home, Abbotsford, just across the River Tweed from Galashiels. The Sir Walter Scott Way, a long distance walking path from Moffat to Cockburnspath passes through Galashiels.



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Old Photographs Kirkcowan Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Kirkcowan located six miles from Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. William Gordon, had charters of parts of the barony of Craichlaw, in the parish of Kirkcowan and county of Wigtown. He married Janet Baillie, and was ancestor of the Gordons of Craighlaw. The principal industry has always been agriculture, although in the 19th century two woollen mills were erected on the River Tarf nearby. Thomas Hugh was born in Kirkcowan in 1869, the eldest son of John Milroy.. He was a Scottish physiologist and organic chemist. He died in North Berwick on 20 March 1950. He did not marry and had no children. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.




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Old Photograph High Street Annan Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people, vehicles and buildings on the High Street in Annan, near Dumfries, Scotland. Annan stands on the River Annan from which it is named. It was at Annan in December 1332 that supporters of Robert The Bruce overwhelmed Balliol's forces to bring about the end of the first invasion of Scotland in the Second War of Scottish Independence. The Balliols and the Douglases were also more or less closely associated with Annan. During his retreat from Derby, Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed at an Inn on the High Street. Annan served as a maritime town whose shipyards built many clippers and other boats. Lieutenant-Colonel George Johnston, born in Annan on 19 March 1764, died 5 January 1823, was briefly Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, Australia after leading the rebellion later known as the Rum Rebellion. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Gates Rosyth Dockyard Fife Scotland

Old photograph of workers cycling out of the gates of the dockyard in Rosyth, Fife, Scotland. Rosyth Dockyard is a large naval dockyard on the Firth of Forth owned by Babcock Marine, which formerly undertook refitting of Royal Navy surface vessels and submarines. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.





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Tour Scotland Video December Morning Drive To St Fillans Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of a December morning drive West on the A95 road from Comrie on ancestry visit to St Fillans in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video December Morning Drive To Comrie Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of a December morning drive West on the A95 road from Crieff on ancestry visit to Comrie in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Hospital Bellahouston Park Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the Hospital in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, Scotland. During the First World War, Bellahouston Park became the location for a military hospital. The hospital stood on the grounds where the Leisure centre is today. The soldiers were eventually moved to Erskine Hospital. Bill Struth, born 1920, died 1954, of Glasgow Rangers Football Club served as a physiotherapist at the hospital.



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Old Photograph Golf Course Inverness Scotland

Old photograph of golfers on the golf course in Inverness, Scotland.



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