Photographs

[Graeme]

I bet you thought I didn't really have these photos. Oh ye of little faith!

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Another picture of Killin and one of my grandfather with Colonel Soper and, I presume, his son.

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[cathy]

What treasures Graeme! What year were these taken?? Is the school still there???

Cathy

[Graeme]

Yes the school is still there but it's a private house now. It's situated just along the road from Drumtemple Church. I'm not exactly sure when the photos were taken but it was around 1930 give or take a year. My auntie is 5 from the right, front row, in the first photo. She's middle row 2nd from right in the second photo and my mother is far left middle row.

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I'm scanning a few of these photos just now. Loch Ness Heritage are after them as well but I've posted them here first.

[cathy]

Thank you for posting them here! They are serious treasures. Where is the Boleskine church now? The ruins of the old one are in the old Graveyard I know. Is the church near by? I am really looking forward to meeting you next fall, and seeing some of these places in person!
YOu are terrific!

Cathy

[Graeme]

This is a photo of my son and myself taken at Loch Killin on 24th July 1994. I remember the date because the weather was so nice. Note the snow on the hilltops.

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[cathy]

Ah Graeme, what a nice looking boy with you. 1994....that means your son must now be 13 or 14 years old. Time passes so fast. And what a great picture of yourself! And the landscape, what can I say! I am really, really, looking forward to meeting you next fall!
Cathy

[Misty]

What wonderful pictures! Thank you for posting them for us to see. :) Your son dosen't look too happy in that photo of you and him. :unsure: :D What beautiful scenery all around you, you are so lucky.

Misty

[Graeme]

My son never looks happy especially now he's 14. He's a bit like his old Dad.

I've just come back from Gorthleck and I have a few photos for you all to have a look at. You'll be glad to know that Garthbeg is being dug up for new hydro electric pipes and the place is a tip - a building site of magnificent proportions.

Photos to follow within the next 24 hours when I've settled in at home again.

[Graeme]

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[Graeme]

More to come but imageshack is too slow tonight.

[cathy]

thank you Graeme. The pictures make me homesick!

I am looking forward to the rest of them!

Cathy

[migovie]

truely amazing my friend....congrats and thanks ....it would be great to acumulate all these pics of our families area and detail whose who....and leave questions over the as yet unkown faces....everyone pictured mustve left an imprint on this earth ....if not in life , it will be in death....if neither it will be a descendant who recognises the face or features.

please evryone who has pics sitting anywhere of times of old....please share them .....your pics may some day be lost, forgotten or destroyed ....but placement on a garthbeg site such as cathys will leave the thread to the past alive....threads attach and entwine and from the spools of thread our family will reunite....

maybe not today , or tomorrow ...and maybe not even in our lifetimes,,,,but those beaut old pics will be someones unknown or lost ancestor ...the face to the name ....

as a young boy i gave a piano recital at a war veterans home...the song i chose was "au revoir jatendrai" whic i elected to actually play on piano accordion as it was a french song......
at the end a 6 ft vet came up to me with tears rolling down his cheeks....he extended his hand and shook my hand with the firmness of a man that was a true warrior......what remains in my mind is the heaving of his chest....and his uncontrolled tears ....and the firmer impact of his war medals being jingled and unsettled on his chest from his emotion...here was a soldier decorated to the hilt....victorian cross ....and every other medal asociated .....
what had moved this man so much was my simple song...
a melody of a song pretty much not heard of since ww2.....a song that he thought had hung in his mind for 50 years....
until i played it....and he noted the other veteran sitting next to him also crying...
the impact of this song was that neither men had heard it since their time in france in ww 2
both had suddenly realised they had been sitting in the same cafe in france and both had heard the song...yet neither had ever known they were at that same place in time until i played the song
that song had brought the realisation that these 2 old vets had sat within feet of each other at the cafe in 1936....both had attended all cermonies of returned vets and both were now good friends and lived close to each other...
that simple song made them realise they had both been drinking at the same cafe in 1936,,,,,both had heard that song there and both had never heard it again.....
that song attached them thru time back to that moment in france when those 2 young boys drank and laughed and feared death.
photoes such as yours graeme will bring the same pleasure and sadness to others....
the sadness is not a bad sadness....its simply a realisation that the pieces of a past are falling together....
cheers ....to you....

[Graeme]

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The eagle on the gatepost at Corriegarth.

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Drumtemple Church from the road by Garthbeg.

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Garthbeg in the distance from the hydro input on Lochgarthside.

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This is the old hydro input on Lochgarthside.

And finally the newspaper report from 1916 on the death of Donald Cameron - a Boleskine descendent and my ancestor.

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[Graeme]

Photographs of graves in the old Boleskine cemetary on Loch Ness just outside Foyers.

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[packer71]

Graeme, these are wonderful! The age of tombstones are always amazing to me. It's hard to find "old" tombstones in the States, and when you do, it's even tougher to find them pre-1900. There is so much history behind each of these!

Thanks again for sharing.

Packer71

[migovie]

graeme , you may be able to help with an ancient mactavish grave .
the garthbeg mactavish are buried in a line and in an area just south to the fraser enclosure at boleskine.
on the ground and a little more to the south ( in the same group) is a slab laying at the "head" of all these mactavish graves.
this slab is ancient, far more simply cut and its position i feel may have indication it is a very impprtant mactavish...the slab is unmorked but its position may show the respecfull placement of all the others in that area of the cemetory.

it may be coincidnece , it may mean nothing, but id like to look into it. , have you any ideas.? im planiing to revisit boleskine next trip, ( of course )

[Graeme]

Well, there is certainly a line of Mactavish graves along the back wall of the cemetery and if I recall correctly they end up against the wall of the old church and perhaps there are a couple along the church wall itself. It's a very crowded part of the site. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of that particular area. Regarding the slab, I don't know, but I recall seeing photos of the corner somewhere on the internet relating to an incident with Redcoats and some kid at a funeral stealing some bread. It ended up with shots being fired and one of the graves still shows the mark where a ball hit it. I'll have a search.

Quick edit: I didn't have far to look. There's a picture of the graves on www.garthbeg.com in the pictures link. :rolleyes:

[cathy]

This site is pretty cool! Go towards the bottom of the page and click on Grid square, find more images nearby!

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