The View From Stirling Castle

Digging Up the Past in Strichen

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August 11th 2010
I don't think we ever will know why my Great-Grandmother Mary, a trained nurse, gathered her younger sisters together to catch a boat to Australia just after World War 1. The region of Aberdeenshire was booming and work would have been plentiful. Entering the small town of Strichen where she came from, it's understandable that she probably felt that there was much more to the world than the small ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more