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St Kildans grinding grain, c 1885
Photograph of a couple milling grain by hand with a quern or grindstone beside a blackhouse on St Kilda
Weavers, Darvel, c 1881
Photograph of Andrew Smith and Hugh Young, two weavers of the village of Darvel.
Postmen, East Linton, c 1900
Photograph of Post Office staff standing with their delivery bicycles and post bags in East Linton, East Lothian
Volunteer firemen and estate workers with a pump mounted on wheels, c 1905
Photograph of volunteer firemen and estate workers with a pump mounted on wheels outside buildings possibly on the Whittinghame Estate in East Lothian
Miners' houses New Cumnock, c 1950
Photograph of rear of terrace of miners' housing built by New Cumnock Collieries Ltd in Stepends Row, New Cumnock, Ayrshire
Gaelic contract of fosterage
Contract of fosterage between Sir Roderick Macleod (Rory More) and Eoin Mac Vic Kenneth.
Houses at Ellenabeich
Photograph of a crumbling workers cottage at Ellenabeich, Argyllshire.
Shore and houses at Ellenabeich
Photograph of shore front and crumbling workers cottages at Ellenabeich, Argyllshire.