Old Photograph Railway Crossing Coupar Angus Scotland

Old photograph of people by the railway crossing on Queen Street in Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Football Team Creetown Scotland

Old photograph of a Football Team in Creetown near the head of Wigtown Bay, 18 miles Weest of Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Glamis Road Kirriemuir Scotland

Old photograph of houses, cottages and people on Glamis Road in Kirriemuir, Scotland. Kirriemuir has a history of accused witches back in the 16th century. Many of the older buildings have a witches stone built in to ward off evil. it was an important centre of the jute trade. The playwright J.M. Barrie was born and buried here. Bon Scott of AC/DC was born in nearby Forfar and lived in Kirriemuir for a short time from 1947 until 1950 when his family emigrated to Australia. Actor David Niven claimed Kirriemuir as his birthplace. Three former residents of the town have won the Victoria cross, Captain Charles Lyell, Corporal Richard Burton and Private Charles Melvin, all during the first world war.



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Old Photograph Stepping Stones Creetown Scotland

Old photograph of boy on the stepping stones in Creetown near the head of Wigtown Bay, 18 miles Weest of Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village was formerly served by the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Railway. The granite quarries in the vicinity constitute the leading industry, the stone for the Liverpool docks and other public works having been obtained from them. The village dates from 1785, and became a burgh of barony in 1792. Sir Walter Scott laid part of the scene of Guy Mannering in this neighborhood. Dr Thomas Brown, the metaphysician, born 1778, died 1820, was a native of the parish in which Creetown lies.



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Old Photograph Rerrick Church Dundrennan Scotland

Old photograph of Rerrick Church by Dundrennan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Rerwick is a parish, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, six miles from Kirkcudbright containing the villages of Auchincairn and Dundrennan. The church is an ancient structure, successively enlarged in the years 1743, 1790, and 1828.



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Old Photograph Auchenskeoch Lodge Scotland

Old photograph of Auchenskeoch Lodge by Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Flower Garden Rossie Priory Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the flower garden at Rossie Priory by Baledgarno, Perthshire, Scotland. This garden is located in the Braes of the Carse, on the Rossie Priory Estate of Lord Kinnaird, one mile to the north of Inchture and 8 miles West of Dundee.



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Old Photograph Francis Street Stornoway Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people, horse and cart and buildings on Francis Street in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. This Scottish town was founded by Vikings in the early 9th century, under the name Stjórnavágr. This town, and what eventually became its present day version, grew up around a sheltered natural harbour well placed at a central point on the island, for the convenience of people from all over the island, to arrive at the port of Stornoway, either by family boat or horse drawn coach for ongoing travel and trade with the mainland of Scotland and to all points south.





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Old Photograph War Memorial Lochgilphead Scotland

Old photograph of the War Memorial in Lochgilphead, Scotland.

World War I Roll Of Honour

Bain John Royal Naval Reserve A.B.
Cameron John H. Gordon Highlanders Cameron Highlanders Second Lieutenant
Cameron Percy Royal Garrison Artillery Captain
Campbell Archibald Royal Naval Reserve 2nd Officer
Campbell Colin M. New Zealanders Private
Campbell Gillespie Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Private
Campbell James Gordon Highlanders Cameron Highlanders Private
Campbell Mal. Mcl. Gordon Highlanders Cameron Highlanders Lance Corporal
Carmichael James Highland Light Infantry C.Q.M.S.
Carswell Archibald R.S.G. R.S.C. Trooper
Carswell John D. R.H. Captain
Carswell William A. R.H. Captain
Clerk Robert Highland Light Infantry Private
Crawford Donald R.H. Private
Crawford Donald Royal Scots Fusiliers Private
Cummings John Gordon Highlanders Cameron Highlanders Sergeant
Dewar Neil Royal Scots Fusiliers Private
Dewar Robert Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Private
Ferguson Donald A. Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Private
Ferguson Duncan Scots Guards Private
Frame Robert Seaforth Highlanders Private
Gillies Alexander H. Scottish Horse ? Trooper
Gillies Arthur J. Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Lance Corporal
Grant William Scots Guards Private
Johnstone Campbell Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Private
Lambert Arthur W. R.M.A. Arm.
Leitch Archibald N. Highland Light Infantry Corporal
Leitch Duncan Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Private
Leitch Neil Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Corporal
MacArthur Duncan Royal Scots Private
MacArthur John Canadians Private
MacCallum Alexander R.C.H.A. Gunner
MacCallum Neil Highland Light Infantry Private
MacCorquodale Donald Royal Engineers Sapper
MacDonald Duncan L.C. Life Guards ? Private
MacDonald John A.S.C. Private
MacDonald Malcolm Canadians Corporal
MacEwan Dan A.I.F. Corporal
MacEwan Donald R.H. Private
MacEwan Malcolm R.G.H. R.C.H. Gunner
MacFarlane Parlane A.O.C. Private
MacKay Donald G. Scots Guards Private
MacKechnie Angus Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Private
MacKinnon Neil Scottish Horse Trooper
MacLellan Hugh Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Lance Corporal
MacLellan Peter Scots Guards Private
MacNair Archibald Scots Guards Private
MacNaught Dugald Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Private
MacTavish Archibald M. Gordon Highlanders Cameron Highlanders Private
MacTavish Donald Gordon Highlanders Cameron Highlanders Lance Corporal
MacTavish John Lan. Fusiliers Private
MacTavish John R.H. Sergeant
MacVicar Niven Royal Naval Reserve 1st Officer
Maxwell Arthur R.H. Private
Mitchell John Royal Naval Reserve Captain
Murray James Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Private
Orde V. Campbell Gordon Highlanders Cameron Highlanders Second Lieutenant
Orr Archibald Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Company Sergeant Major
Smith Archibald Mac B. Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Second Lieutenant
Thomson Andrew Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Private
Todd William A.M.B. Captain
Turner Duncan Scottish Horse Trooper
Wilkie Hector Mac. L. Gordon Highlanders Cameron Highlanders Sergeant
Wilson Donald Gordon Highlanders Cameron Highlanders Private
Wilson Duncan Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Private

World War 2 Roll Of Honour

Campbell Duncan Merchant Navy
Campbell Hugh Merchant Navy Captain
Fletcher Donald Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 2nd.
Herriot John Merchant Navy 2nd Officer
Johnson John MacK. Merchant Navy Captain
Lambert Neil G. Merchant Navy Engineer
MacArthur John Royal Engineers
MacKellar Duncan Merchant Navy Captain
McKillop Hugh J. Royal Corp of Signals
McLarty Hugh Merchant Navy Captain
McLarty James W.J. Royal Army Service Corps
McLarty William Merchant Navy Chief Engineer
McLellan Donald Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 8th
Ogg Bruce M. Royal Army Service Corps
Robertson Ernest Royal Army Medical Corps
Watson Henry F. Royal Air Force Wireless Operator
Young George Royal Engineers B.E.M.
MacKinnon Archibald Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
MacLeod Roderick Royal Corps of Signals Lieutenant

Lochgilphead is 89 miles from Glasgow and Paisley



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Old Photograph Argyll Street Dunoon Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people and buildings on Argyll Street in Dunoon, Scotland. The history of Dunoon is dominated by two clans, Clan Lamont and Clan Campbell. During the height of "Doon the Watter", the travel by steamships around the Firth of Clyde, Dunoon was a popular destination. This ceased as roads improved and the popularity of overseas travel increased. The town then became a garrison town to the United States Navy in 1961, during the height of the cold war. When the US Navy closed the base at Holy Loch in 1992, Dunoon suffered an economic downturn.



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Old Photographs High Street Dalry Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people on the High Street in Dalry in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Dalry was mentioned in 1226 as a " chapel of Ardrossan ". The parish of Dalry was probably formed in 1279 when a " Henry, Rector of the Church of Dalry " appears in the Register of the Diocese of Glasgow. Lands including the area of Pitcon in Dalry were given by Robert the Bruce to his right hand man Robert Boyd in 1316. On the 8th Nov 1576, midwife Bessie Dunlop, resident of Lynne, in Dalry, was accused of sorcery and witchcraft. She answered her accusers that she received information on prophecies or to the whereabouts of lost goods from a Thomas Reid, a former barony officer in Dalry who died at the Battle of Pinkie some 30 years before. She convicted and burnt at the stake at Castle Hill in Edinburgh in 1576. Various manufacturing existed in the parish relating to cotton and carpet yarn with silk and harness weaving, in which both men and women were employed.A significant number of women were occupied in sewing and embroidering, mainly for the Glasgow and Paisley manufacturers. The dressing and spinning of flax to some extent was also done in the area.

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Old Photograph Church Street Drummore Scotland

Old photograph of a car, cottages and church on Church Street in Drummore, Wigtownshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located where the Kildonan Burn runs out to the sea, a few miles north of the Mull of Galloway. It is the most southerly in Scotland, and further south than the cities of Durham and Carlisle in England. A branch line was proposed in 1877 linking to the Portpatrick Railway. It was opposed by the feudal landowner, the Earl of Stair, and finally abandoned after the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank in 1882; aspects of the village's street layout still reflect plans for the railway.



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Old Photograph Rosshill Terrace Dalmeny Scotland

Old photograph of people and houses on Rosshill Terrace in Dalmeny by South Queensferry near Edinburgh, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Kirkconnel Scotland

Old photograph of people standing outside a shop in Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Life changed dramatically for this small Scottish town in the 1890s when a coal pit was opened at Fauldheld. Coal had always been mined in the district before, but never in large quantities. From then on coal dominated the life of the little town. The coal industry moved away in recent decades, and with it much of the population. 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 St Nicholas Street Aberdeen Scotland

Old photograph of a Tram, shops, buildings and people on St Nicholas Street in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is believed that ST Nicholas Street was a commonly used place for the hiding of money by citizens in the 13th and 14th centuries.

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Old Photograph Bridge Street Ellon Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people and buildings on Bridge Street in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs King Street Stirling Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people, cars and buildings on King Street in Stirling, Scotland.





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Old Photograph Nelson Street Greenock Scotland

Old photograph of people, shops and houses on Nelson Street in Greenock by Glasgow, Scotland. Pirate William Kidd claimed on death row that he was born in Greenock, but subsequent evidence has shown that he was born either in Belfast, Ireland or Dundee. Robert Burns' lover Mary Campbell, Highland Mary, and her father sailed from Campbeltown to visit her brother in Greenock early in October 1786. Her brother fell ill with typhus, which she caught while nursing him. She died of typhus on 20 or 21 October 1786, and was buried in the Old West Kirk graveyard. In 1842 increasing interest in their romance led to a monument being erected by public subscription to mark the grave. In 1920 when the church site was needed to expand Harland and Wolff's shipyard, the monument was moved to its present site in Greenock Cemetery, with her remains being transferred to a casket and re-interred with due ceremony. The church itself was moved and rebuilt in its current location at the west end of the Esplanade in 1926.



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Old Photograph Brass Band Biggar Scotland

Old photograph of a Brass Band in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. In the 14th century, the Fleming family were given lands in this area by Robert the Bruce, whose cause they had supported. This Scottish town is situated in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, around thirty miles from Edinburgh along the A702. The closest towns are Lanark and Peebles. 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 Post Office Fincastle Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office in Fincastle, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Doune Broch Carloway Scotland

Old photograph of Doune Broch at Carloway on the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Dun Carloway was probably built in the 1st century AD. The broch was occasionally used in later times as a stronghold. The Morrisons of Ness put Dun Carloway into use in 1601. The story goes that they had stolen cattle from the MacAuleys of Uig. The MacAuleys wanted their cattle back and found the Morrisons in the broch. One of them, Donald Cam MacAuley, climbed the outer wall using two daggers and managed to smoke-out the inhabitants by throwing heather into the broch and then setting fire to it The MacAuleys then destroyed the broch.

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Old Photograph Paddle Steamer Wemyss Castle Elie Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the paddle steamer Wemyss Castle at the pier in Elie, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish paddle steamer was built in 1872 originally for for North British Steam Packet Co's Clyde services. The North British Railway was earlier than its rivals in operating its own steamers rather than relying on private owners to provide connections at the railheads. The Railway established the North British Steam Packet Company to run services from the railhead at Helensburgh to Dunoon and Rothesay and also to Ardrishaig, in competition with the route to the West Highlands operated by David Hutcheson. Two large steamers were ordered for the 1866 season which ended in operational and financial failure. A more limited service was resumed in 1869 and a regular service was established from the north bank of the Clyde.



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Old Photograph Fast Castle Scotland

Old photograph of the ruins of Fast Castle located four miles North West of Coldingham which is near Eyemouth, Scotland. Fast Castle is first recorded in 1333. In 1346 the site was occupied by an English garrison and was used as a base to pillage the surrounding countryside. In 1410, a force led by Patrick Dunbar, second son of the 10th Earl of Dunbar and March seized the castle and imprisoned the governor. The castle fell into the hands of the Home family, pronounced " Hume ", and in 1503 they hosted Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England, at Fast Castle en route to her marriage to James IV. Following the Scots defeat and the death of James IV at the battle of Flodden in 1513, in which numerous Homes were killed, a power struggle ensued between the Regent Albany and various other nobles including Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home, Chamberlain of Scotland. Fast Castle was destroyed in the chaos in 1515, and Alexander Home was executed in 1516 and his land forfeit. The castle was rebuilt by 1522, when the Home estates were restored to Alexander's brother George Home, 4th Lord Home. During the " Rough Wooing " of Scotland by Henry VIII, the castle was captured again by the English in 1547, but was back in Scottish hands by the time of Mary, Queen of Scots stay here in 1566. The castle passed to Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig through his mother, a widow of Lord Home. It was briefly recaptured by the English in 1570.] Fast castle was well armed: some of the guns were taken to Berwick on Tweed during the English intervention against the supporters of Mary, Queen of Scots in the 1570s. The castle was by now ruinous. It passed briefly to the Douglas family, then back to the Earls of Dunbar, then the family of Arnot, back to the Homes and finally to the Hall family.



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Old Photograph Cockburnspath Tower Scotland

Old photograph of Cockburnspath Tower near Cove, Scotland. Cockburnspath was held by several Scots Clan families, the Dunbars, the Homes, the Sinclairs and the Douglases who stole lands and castles from each other on a regular basis. Originally the Dunbars and Douglases fought unitedly against the English. At the first battle of Nisbet in 1355, for example Sir Patrick Dunbar supported William 1st Earl of Douglas's ambush of the garrison from Norham castle England and the abortive raid on Berwick castle. Patrick travelled abroad to France with William and his cousin Archibald the Grim, later 3rd Earl of Douglas, to fight on behalf of the French King John II at the battle of Poitiers in 1356, against the invading English. Although the Scots French army was defeated and King John captured, these three Scots knights returned home relatively rich men with French monies paid as mercenaries. William building the great red curtain wall of Tantallon castle, near North Berwick. Archibald, once he had cleared the English out of Dumfries as Lord of Galloway, built his grey island Keep of Threave to protect Dumfries and Galloway. While Patrick chose to use his money to go on pilgrimage to the Holy lands where he died in 1357, leaving his son George to become Earl of March and inherit Cockburnspath tower and several other family castles, including the great coastal fortress of Dunbar castle.



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Old Photograph Paddle Steamer Gondolier Loch Ness Scotland

Old photograph of the paddle steamer Gondolier by Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness, Scotland. The Gondolier was a well fitted iron paddler who was much loved by tourists. She had alleyways round her aft saloon, but had full width saloons forward and a well deck for her bow passengers. When Gondolier was withdrawn at the end of the 1939 season she was taken over by the Admiralty and after her engines, boiler, sponsons, paddle boxes and saloons were removed, she was taken to Scapa Flow on the Orkney Islands, and sunk as a blockage to enemy shipping.



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Old Photograph Virgin and Child Statue Island Of Barra Scotland

Old photograph of the Virgin and Child statue on the Island of Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The white statue is located on Heaval hill, the highest hill on the island of Barra, located one mile North East of Castlebay.



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Old Photograph Church Street Inverness Scotland

Old photograph of shops, people and buildings on Church Street in Inverness, Scotland.



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Old Photograph North Feus Street Upper Largo Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and children on North Feus Street in Upper Largo by Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Dr William Julius, Joe, Eggeling was born, the son of a doctor, on 18 July 1909 in Upper Largo, Fife. He was a Scottish forester, botanist, and naturalist. Eggeling was a dominant figure in the Uganda Forest Department in the 1930s and 1940s, and played an important role in nature conservation in Scotland during the 1950s and 1960s. When seven years old and enrolled at Kirkton of Largo Parish School, he spent 18 bed ridden months with tuberculosis of the hip. Despite this initial set back he rose to a distinguished career. Following St Mary's Preparatory School in Melrose, where he was Vice Captain, Dux and Victor Ludorum, his schooling was completed at Giggleswick in Yorkshire, England. At Edinburgh University he obtained a BSc in Forestry, being awarded the Younger Medal in Practical Forestry, and three class medals for Indian and Colonial forestry, and forest mycology. In 1930 he attended the Colonial Service Postgraduate Course in Forestry at Oxford University. Despite his educational focus upon India, he instead joined the Uganda Forest Department in 1931, becoming Assistant Conservator. By 1939 Eggeling had collected some 3800 specimens for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the British Museum Natural History. In 1954 Eggeling retired from the Colonial Forest Service and returned to the United Kingdom. Eggeling helped to found the Scottish Wildlife Trust in 1964 and became Vice President. He was also a Member of Council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Chairman of its Scottish Advisory Committee, and President of the Scottish Ornithologist Club between 1966 and 1969. In 1939 he had married Jessie Elizabeth Tothill, died 1988, daughter of Dr John Douglas Tothill, born 1888, died 1969, Director of Agriculture in the Sudan, who had filled a similar post in Uganda. Jessie accompanied her husband on most of his trips in Africa, and thereafter in the UK, raising a family of two sons and three daughters. After 19 years in Anstruther, where his wife's parents had retired, he and his wife moved to Dunkeld in 1973. He died on 10 February 1994 in Perth, Perthshire.



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Old Photograph Pettycur Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the harbour at Pettycur, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph St. Ninians Stirling Scotland

Old photograph of houses and shops in St. Ninians, Stirling, Scotland. St. Ninians is a long standing settlement which is now a district of the city of Stirling. It was originally known as Eccles, and may have been a Christian site from an unusually early date, perhaps in the 5th or 6th century. Later called St. Ringan's, a variant of St Ninian's. The church here was the administrative centre for churches across the strath of the River Forth. In the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, the retreating army of Bonnie Prince Charlie blew up the church of St. Ninians where they had been storing munitions; only the tower survived and can be seen to this day. During the 19th century, St. Ninians' main industry was nail making, with the main works located at the corner of Weaver Row and Main Street, known locally as Nailworks Corner.





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Old Photograph Carbrook House Scotland

Old photograph of Carbrook House near Larbert located two and half miles from Falkirk, Scotland. Joseph Cheney Bolton, who was Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire between 1880 and 1892, lived in this house. Joseph, born in 1819, was a partner in the firm of Ker, Bolton, & Company, East India merchants, of Glasgow and London, England, he was a Justice Of The Peace for Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire. At the 1874 general election Bolton stood for Parliament in the Glasgow constituency, where he won by less than 1% of the votes. However, at the next general election, 1880, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire. He held the seat until he stood down at the 1892 general election. Bolton died at the age of 81 on 14 March 1901.



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Old Photograph Dennyloanhead Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Dennyloanhead near Falkirk, Scotland. This Scottish village is located between Head of Muir and Longcroft.



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Old Photograph Cottages Torbrex Scotland

Old photograph of thatched cottages in the former weaving village of Torbrex near Stirling, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Gargunnock House Scotland

Old photograph of Gargunnock House near Stirling, Scotland. Originally a sixteenth century tower house, but remodelled over the years to include a classical late Georgian façade, Gargunnock House is set within its own estate and family tradition has it that Frederic Chopin once stayed here.



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Old Photograph Oliver Cromwell House Arnbrae Kilsyth Scotland

Old photograph of the house where Oliver Cromwell spent a night in Arnbrae, Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. On his way to Glasgow his army camped at Arnbrae and stormed and destroyed Kilsyth Castle. From earliest recorded times Kilsyth was one of the main routes between Glasgow, Falkirk and Edinburgh, and is very close to the Roman Antonine Wall, and the Forth and Clyde Canal.



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Old Photograph Bridge Larbert Scotland

Old photograph of the bridge over the River Carron at Larbert located two and half miles from Falkirk, Scotland. The lands to the south of Larbert and Camelon, in the area traversed by the Antonine Wall, were strategically important to the Romans. The original crossing point on the River Carron at Larbert was an important transportation route for the Romans on the road they constructed from Watling Lodge on the Antonine Wall to Stirling.



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Old Photograph Viaduct Markinch Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Sythrum mill and viaduct over the River Leven by Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. The mill was converted in 1864 from a meal mill by N and N Lockhart of Kirkcaldy to make hemp twine using both water and steam power.



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Old Photograph Lennoxtown Scotland

Old photograph of people, houses and shops in Lennoxtown, Scotland. This Scottish town is located at the foot of the Campsie Fells, which are just to the north. A significant event in the history of the locality was the establishment of the calico printing works at Lennoxmill during the late 1780s, on a site adjacent to the old corn mill. Calico is a type of cotton cloth, and the printing of cotton cloth was soon established as a major industry in the area, also at Milton of Campsie. It was to provide accommodation for the block makers and other cotton printing workers that the village of Lennoxtown was established, during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. During the 19th century Lennoxtown grew to be the largest centre of population in Campsie Parish. Another important industry was soon established, a chemical works, founded by Charles Macintosh, of waterproof clothing fame, and his associates. At first their principal product was alum, a chemical employed in the textile industry. Alumschist, the basic ingredient in the process, was mined in the area. The works came to be known as the Secret Works, presumably because of the need to keep the industrial processes secret.



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Old Photograph Firs Street Bannockburn Scotland

Old photograph of women standing at the door of a thatched cottage on Firs Street in Bannockburn village located just South of Stirling, Scotland.





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Old Photograph William Street Torphins Scotland

Old photograph of a shop on the corner of William Street in Torphins, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Toll House Arbroath Scotland

Old photograph of the Toll House on Infirmary Brae in Arbroath, Scotland. John Grant, born 1849, died 1906, was a Toll keeper in Arbroath.



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Old Photograph Castle Street Ceres Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses on Castle Street in Ceres, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Tryst Road Stenhousemuir Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people on Tryst Road in Stenhousemuir located two miles North West of Falkirk, Scotland. The " stone house " from which the village took its name was a Roman building on the north of the Carron River Valley known in later centuries as King Arthur's oven. Stenhousemuir became home to the Falkirk Tryst one of the largest gatherings of livestock farmers and buyers from all over Scotland and beyond. These Trysts lasted from 1785 until the late 19th century.



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Old Photograph Stripeside Denny Scotland

Old photograph of the bridge, houses and people in Stripeside by Denny located seven miles West Falkirk, Scotland. There was a lint mill here becoming a chemical works in 1837 to be called Custonhall Chemical Works in 1865 owned by James Benny.



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Old Photograph Constitutional Club Johnstone Scotland

Old photograph of the Constitutional Club in Johnstone located three miles West of Paisley, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Crawick Scotland

Old photograph of Crawick by Sanquhar north of Dumfries, Scotland. The village of Crawick had once been known as a haven for witches. One story is that the parish minister’s cows began making milk that would not churn. He sent one of his servants to tie a branch from a rowan tree over the doorway of the witch’s house in Crawick, which ended the curse. Work came in the village came in the form of a carpet factory, along the Crawick Water. At first, it consisted of a few separate looms, but by the 1830s, there was a large factory, boasting 54 looms at its height. The carpets made here were world renowned for their durability and orders came from as far away as South America. A large proportion of their total production was shipped to Valparaíso, Chile. The location along the Crawick River was also the home of John Rigg’s forge. In the late 18th century, he had been persuaded to move here from Dalston in Cumbria, England, to supply tools for the coalfields. He made a damhead opposite the village of Crawick and used the water to power his factory. The water separated the parishes of Sanquhar and Kirkconnel, and although the forge was on the Kirkconnel side, Sanquhar always laid claim to it. The forge produced shovels and other tools into the 20th century. Between 1885 and 1916, Crawick even had its own post office, known as Crawick Bridge; it also had gas powered street lights two years before the rest of the town of Sanquhar. All of this came to a sad end when one of the owners of the factory died, and the others squabbled. By 1860, the factory was shut down. Many of the weavers moved to larger cities to keep their trade. The forge, and the nearby colliery, kept people employed until the 20th century. During the period just before World War II many people moved away, and the little hamlet was all but deserted. Only a few homes stand there now, the occupants little aware of the industries that once thrived there.



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Old Photograph George Spence Melvin Scotland

Old photograph of George Spence Melvin who was born in Old Machar in Aberdeen, Scotland. Known as G.S. Melvin, he was born 20 February 1886, and died 2 December 1946. He was a famous Scottish pantomime dame and comedian. He became famous for his song " I'm Happy When I'm Hiking " which in the 1930s was adopted as the hikers' anthem. He drowned in the river Thames at Datchet in Buckinghamshire, now Berkshire, England, whilst appearing at the Drury Lane Theatre



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