A visit to Culross
Last Wednesday, the volunteer gardeners for Bannockburn House visited the village of Culross on the Firth of Forth. Our thanks go to Margaret Pollock, head gardener for Bannockburn House, for … Continue reading A visit to Culross
Category: Time passes
Time passes. Listen. Time passes: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
a televisual poem
A ‘televisual poem‘ that asks: can you remember what it is like to see the world from a child’s point of view? To play this televisual poem please click here … Continue reading a televisual poem
The Chrystal family
I have been exploring this wonderful collection in the Trove archive: The photographs are by father and son. The father was George Chrystal [1851-1911], Professor of Mathematics at the University … Continue reading The Chrystal family
Magnus Jackson, father and son [Evergreen]
2 March 1891, Perthshire Constitutional Journal: Transference of photography business, 62 Princes Street, Perth, from father to son: 5 April 1891 census: 28 April 1891, Perth & Dundee Evening Telegraph: … Continue reading Magnus Jackson, father and son [Evergreen]
‘The New Hotel at Perth Station’
Dundee Courier, 19 March 1890:
1867 Improvement Act: St Mary’s Street, Edinburgh
The photograph [above] taken by Dr Francis Maxwell Chrystal, fascinates me. I admire the way he never excludes ‘passing life’ from his photographs. It is one of the ‘Chrystal collection’ … Continue reading 1867 Improvement Act: St Mary’s Street, Edinburgh
Granton: ‘out with the old and in with the new’
In my previous post I shared some of the history of Edinburgh Gas Light Company and that it relocated around the turn of the 19c to Granton. This led me … Continue reading Granton: ‘out with the old and in with the new’
Edinburgh Gas Light Company
This delightful old photograph of the Edinburgh Gas Light Company is crammed with the workers who brought light to the night-time streets of Edinburgh: In Indexing this photograph, Trove provide … Continue reading Edinburgh Gas Light Company