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Painting with Sunlight: Hill & Adamson Edinburgh’s Pioneers in Photography ..

 

Bonjour Marie-Agnès, Janice et Jean-Claude, Hello again from Scotland ! 🙂

I know that you rarely travel without your camera, Jean-Claude, but I wonder whether you were keenly interested in photography even as a schoolboy? One or two of my school friends would talk of developing and printing their own photos – in black […]

March 29th, 2018 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: History, Letters From Scotland | One comment

Lerwick Post Office Staff Imprisoned, November 1914 .. ..

 

Lerwick Harbour with the old Tolbooth on the left and the Post Office on the right © Iain McEwan 2014

 

Bonjour Marie-Agnès, Bonjour Jean-Claude, Bonjour Janice,

The other day I came across a letter I received some years ago from Maurice Fleming, then Editor of the Scots Magazine, telling me about […]

October 24th, 2016 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Letters From Scotland, Shetland | 2 comments

Miss Toward’s Tenement House .. .. ..

 

Tenement House, Buccleuch Street, Glasgow © National Trust for Scotland

Bonjour Marie-Agnes, Janice et Jean-Claude –

Ca va bien? – How are you all today? 🙂 Margaret and I love to read all the letters you send us, so full of kindness and bonhomie! Our readers here at Scotiana may not know […]

April 5th, 2016 | Tags: | Category: Glasgow, Letters From Scotland | 3 comments

“Where Duty Lies .. .. “

 

 

George’s dog learning the tricks of the trade © Scotiana

Working dogs, careless of their own safety, ignore danger on the roads. It’s always with an immense pleasure that we receive a new Letter from Scotland so kindly written by Iain and Margaret. Each ‘letter’ is a wonderful gem, a true […]

April 10th, 2015 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Animal stories, Letters From Scotland | One comment

Oscar Slater is Set Free ..

Bonjour Janice, Marie-Agnès et Jean-Claude – Hello again from Scotland! 🙂 I think you once told me, Janice, that our posts on Oscar Slater were among the most-read here at Scotiana – some people, I’m sure, may find it almost impossible to believe that such a shocking story could be true! Quite […]

May 28th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Letters From Scotland, Miscarriage of Justice, Oscar Slater | 5 comments
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