Fascinating Vintage Photos Show Life In Scotland From The Early 20th Century

#1 View from Clyde Place, Glasgow of the Central Station Bridge during construction, September 1902 (completed 1905). This was built for the Caledonian Railway Company to their design as part of the reconstruction of the Station.

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#2 View of the market cross from the south, 1904.

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#3 The Citadel Arch, Dock Street, Edinburgh with people, c.1912.

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#4 View of Leith Central Station, Edinburgh, from Leith Walk, with street scene and tram advertising Cadbury’s Cocoa, 1912. The station opened in 1903 and closed for regular passenger traffic in 1952. Visible is also the Queen’s Hotel.

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#5 School outing at beach, 1907.

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#6 Members of the Mather family with instruments, c.1910.

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#7 View of telegraph office at Creagorry, Benbecula, with family, 1910.

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#8 People outside cottages at Troon, South Ayrshire, with thatched cottage in foreground, c.1910.

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#9 Royal Troon Golf Course, 1902.

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#10 Photograph showing Ayr Street, Troon on the corner to West Portland Street, c.1910.

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#11 Group outside St John the Baptist’s Church, Ayr, c.1906.

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#12 Children at Troon beach, 1907.

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#13 Balquhain Castle from SW, c. 1910.

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#14 Crowd in front of the Phipps Institute, Beauly, under construction, c. 1903.

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#15 Shooting party at Glen Luss, 1904. Titled: ‘Glen Luss. 1904. Shooting for Astor Challenge Cup’ and ‘Col. Brock, Mr Christall and Mr Lumsden’.

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#16 St. James Terrace, Glasgow, with large group of children outside, c.1910. Titled below: ‘ 3 dwellings, 3 apartments, 24 dwellings, 1 apartment: 2 wash-houses containing in all 29 taps and 8 W.Cs

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#17 Gentleman and boy leaning on tree with a distant view of Holy Trinity Church, c.1900.

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#18 Two people in front of Kilmuir Free Church, Skye, 1906. Titled: ‘Witnesses – Kilmuir’

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#19 Side view of possible steam car with man, c.1906.

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#20 South Bridge, Edinburgh, from South East showing street scene with horses and carts, c. 1910.

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#21 Photograph of Industrial Hall building taken during the Glasgow International Exhibition in 1901.

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#22 Male pupils in a woodwork class at unidentified school run by the Edinburgh Merchant Company, c. 1910.

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#23 Female pupils in the Gymnasium of unidentified school run by the Edinburgh Merchant Company, c. 1900.

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#24 A hunting party on The Glen estate, c.1907.

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#25 Entrance to Milne’s Court, Edinburgh, on Lawnmarket elevation, with D Blake & Co and J Gilchrist Groceries & Provisions. c. 1910.

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#26 A steamer in the Caledonian Canal at Fort Augustus swing bridge, taken from the E., c. 1910.

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#27 Three men with bikes outside house, 1903. Inscribed beneath: ‘As we started from 2 Corrennie Gardens. July 20th 1903.’

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#28 High Street between Canongate and North Bridge, Edinburgh showing no 153 Allan Ramsay’s House, The Temperance Hotel, no 143 The Gun’Temperance and The Gun Coffee House, c. 1900.

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#29 Interior view of the gym at Fettes College, Edinburgh. c. 1905.

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#30 View of RCAHMS surveyors wading out to a dun in 1924, Dun Nighean Righ Lochlainn, North Uist.

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#31 View of the courtyard, George Heriot’s School, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, c. 1900.

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#32 View of Clerical Medical & General life Assurance Society, West George Street, Glasgow. Since demolished, 1906.

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#33 General view of building including horse and cart in foreground outside of ‘D. Cameron, Groceries & Provisions, Refreshments and Wines & Spirits,’ 1904. Possibly business of Duncan Cameron located near Rannoch Station or Kinloch-Rannoch.

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#34 Group in the loggia, Inchrye Abbey, c. 1900.

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#35 Inchrye Abbey entrance with couple in automobile, c. 1900.

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#36 View of High Street, South Queensferry, 1907. Titled: ‘South Queensferry, ‘Channel Fleet visit 1907’.

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#37 Group of people sitting in garden, 1905. Titled: ‘Aikenshaw July 1905. Miss Louise Stuart, Miss Grant, Mr Parker, Miss Parker, Francess, Mrs Jameson, Miss Davidson, Jessie, Mr W S Turnbull, Stroncher’.

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#38 Group of 12 people outside entrance, possibly at Aikenshaw, c.1904. Titled: ‘S K Turnbull, A Arrol Snr, Montagu Baird, Campbell of Cambusaskin, Franklyn Baird, A Theo Arrol, Miss Wm Arrol, Baroness V Grote, Miss G Arrol, Mr Baird’.

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#39 Cornelia Craven at Balmacaan House, c.1910. Titled: ‘Myself’ The album is titled: ‘These photographs were all taken with my little Kodak. Cornelia Craven’.

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#40 Group of seven people at excursion, c.1905. Titled: ‘Ms Thom, Prof. Sir A Geickie, Mrs Thom’.

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#41 Fishing party, c.1910. Titled: ‘Inveroykel and Kyle of Sutherland’.

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#42 Fishing party, possibly in the Ballindaroch area, c. 1905.

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#43 Woman in small carriage, possibly in the Ballindarroch area, c. 1907.

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#44 Soldier sitting by his tent, c.1904.

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#45 Children practising shooting, 1906.

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#46 Portrait of a soldier, 1910. Titled: ‘Stuart ready to start for King Edward VIIs funeral service parade’.

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#47 Elevated view of bridge looking NW from corner of Carlton Place/ Bridge Street, Glasgow.

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#48 View of Edinburgh at night, 1907. Titled: ‘Candlemakers Row and George IV Bridge April 1907’.

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#49 A group of people at Williamwood Moss, 1912.

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#50 Teaparty in unidentified garden (probably Achernack,Strathdon), c. 1906.

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#51 Group having picnic, 1907. Headed paper on the album page is titled ‘Achernack, Grantown-on-Spey’. Photograph titled: ‘I Asher, A Henderson, T Horne, E Macpherson, B Younger, M Younger, R Bruce-Clark, H J Horne’

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#52 Sheep-shearing near The Dorback, 1907.

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#53 Two women and a man with cameras, 1907. Titled: ‘A Henderson, Gladys Younger, J Henderson’.

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#54 9/1909.

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#55 Man on motorcycle, 1909.

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#56 Man in car, 1909.

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#57 Couple onboard a ship, c.1910.

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#58 Two women in a car, c.1910.

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#59 Woman on horseback outside Duchal House, Renfrewshire.

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#60 Soldiers at ‘Camp at Kilcreggan, 1902.

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#61 Soldier at ‘Camp at Kilcreggan, 1902.

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#62 Group on sailing boat, probably ‘Gadfly,’ c.1904. Titled: ‘Sunday afternoon cruise Brodick. Jack Swan, Monty Murray, Johnson family’.

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#63 Woman on sailing boat, probably ‘Gadfly,’ c.1904. Titled: ‘S.M (Mrs Hoggenheimn of Park Lane)’.

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#64 View from Alexandria, Egypt, c.1915-17. Titled: ‘Higginson and Flora sur mer’.

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#65 Group photograph showing five men and five ladies beside a large car, outside what appears to be a thatched striped tent. Some of them are members of the Wallace family of Duchal House.

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#66 Two women swimming, c. 1902.

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#67 View of the North British Railway Hotel, Edinburgh, c. 1902.

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#68 Group of people outside Kilmuir Free Church, Skye, 1906.

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#69 View of retort house during the construction of Granton Gasworks, 1906

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#70 Woman playing golf, 1902. Titled: ‘F.J.T Braid Hills 1902’.

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