Tuesday 25 March 2008

Local history

Delved into some interesting local history this afternoon. I was asked for photographs of Kildun Farm, which was located on the Arnish Peninsula, onto which I look out. So, off I went to the library, where the staff were most helpful. They dug out an old magazine from 1975, which contained a picture from two decades previous, showing Kildonan Cottage.

I am not able to return to Arnish today to take that picture again. Kildonan Cottage was burned to the ground in the 1970s. The hill from which the photo was taken was razed, to make way for this:



A 2006 view shows the changes in the area
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13 comments:

  1. Anonymous25 March 2008 at 17:12

    Some thing in life are not an improvement. I would prefer they had rebuilt the cottage. (Hugs) Indigo

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  2. Anonymous25 March 2008 at 17:19

    Progress isn't always the prettiest...just like the beautiful church I featured in the Photo shoot.  Gone and in it's place an extenstion of a hospital that's already big enough.   Linda in WA

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  3. Anonymous25 March 2008 at 17:25

    All in the name of progress.Around here there is alot of strip mining going on.
    Granted we need those resources but the cost is raped land,wildlife gone,an eyesore to behold and torn up roads from their heavy equipment that our tax dollars take to repair instead of those companies that ruined them fixing....
    Frustrating..........
    connie

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  4. Anonymous25 March 2008 at 17:33

    The second picture is very bland. The building does not capture the imagination. I just hope and pray that wind farm does not get passed. That in its self would be a disaster.
    Love and hugs
    Katie

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  5. Anonymous25 March 2008 at 18:59

    I wondered who lived in the cottage...always a bit sad when a building (with a family history) is demolished.

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  6. Anonymous25 March 2008 at 23:14

    Seems idyllic in the old photo.  -  Barbara

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  7. Anonymous25 March 2008 at 23:59

    Yes, I wonder who lived in the cottage...did it say?  Great photos...so happy the staff was able to help you find them...take care!
    Joyce

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  8. Anonymous26 March 2008 at 01:06

    oooh, I loved the old photograph.  I just love to see pictures of the way things were before all the changes.  Sounds like you have a nice library staff, if you ask the women at our local library a simple question they act like you are asking them to cut off their arm.  They are nasty old biddies.
    Lisa

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  9. Anonymous26 March 2008 at 01:28

    blimey, helluva change

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  10. Anonymous26 March 2008 at 04:46

    I love seeing pictures like that... then and now.  I like the cottage better though.

    be well,
    Dawn
    http://journals.aol.com/princesssaurora/CarpeDiem/

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  11. Anonymous26 March 2008 at 06:44

    thats progress guido          god help us all       the lovely views that once were common are slowly being eroded    lovely pic.         take care mort

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  12. Anonymous26 March 2008 at 15:03

    Wow, such different landscapes in 30 yrs!
    Lj

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  13. Anonymous26 March 2008 at 16:06

    Wow.

    I really should find some of the 30-year "old" photo graphs of areas near me, which have changed from farmland to mini-cities.....

    Glad you can help them with this!  Your enjoyment of local history is really paying off, and will continue to pay off, for generations to come I"m sure.

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