The Scott Family Homes
Photo Album
The back of my old home in Elgin. The entry to
the kitchen is through the abutment seen
on the right and below
The front: my brother’s and my bedroom window is
2nd from the left
We don’t have
many photos of
our old Tayport
home so here’s
the view from it
and the one
corner from the
street. We sold
it for $18k and
40 years later
it’s worth $260k
But, except for the colour and the enclosed shed area, the above shows it quite well.
left: view up the street from the harbour right: down the street to the harbour
more below
Eden Cottage, Academy Street, Elgin , Moray
Where I lived as a boy in Scotland
Elgin is an old town, with records dating back a millenium. The pictures above are
of the cathedral, sacked by the Wolf of Badenoch, rebiuilt and then desecrated
in the reformation and the site of the old castle where I spent many an hour day-
dreaming of days-gone-by.
Today, it is the center of the Speyside whisky country with many famous
distilleries in the area.
area since prehistory. There is evidence of Neolithic settlement on the
hilltop of Old Sarum, which became a hill fort in the Iron Age. The
Romans called this fort "Sorviodunum" and may also have occupied it.
The Saxons established themselves there and named it "Searesbyrig".
Salisbury is another old town, originally
called New Sarum to distinguish it from
the original site of settlement to the
north of the city at Old Sarum. Although
the present city was not established until
1220, there has been a settlement in the
After the conquest, the
Normans built a castle or
"Seresberi". By 1086, in the
Domesday Book, it was called
"Salesberie". Today Salisbury
is a thriving small market
town (right is a picture of
the market place with its’
famous poultry cross. Below:
our hose in Salisbury; We had
the ground floor
our first home
Castle road
Salisbury
As part of my decommisioning, I was granted an education course which I took in the field of Computer
Programming and Systems Analysis at the London Polytechnic. This gave Linda a chance to see a bit of London,
She found a job working for the Electricity Board and we stayed with friends we’d made from the flat in
Salisbury. So I gained a skill to serve me well for the rest of my life and Linda discovered London.
Our next move was to Dundee for me to attend university. While we looked for a place to buy we
stayed at a friend’s cottage just outside Carnoustie. In the end we were fortunate to find somewhere
we could afford, in Tayport, Fife. Tayport, or its old name Ferry Port on Craig, was a lovely little
town on the south shore of the Firth of Tay. It had a small harbour where timber ships from Norway
would discharge their cargo. Not only was it close to Dundee but St Andrews was close by also. I
would often walk to university in Dundee across the road bridge, over four miles.
Top left: Dundee from the Fife side of the Tay road
bridge. right: RSS Discovery Robert Falcon Scott’s ship
bottom left: Tayport Harbour which he used for his Antartic expedition.
From Tayport we moved to Canada and, after 3 months travelling in the US and Canada, settled in
Woodstock, New Brunswick. Then, for the next 25 years lived in our old family home on Main Street. That is
except for an 18 month sojourn in Halifax where we lived in St. Margaret’s Bay.
Woodstock was where our sons grew up and so will always be a special place for us.
183 Viewmount Drive in the
Allen Heights Peninsular that
projected into St, Margaret’s
Bay was just 10 miles from
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
It was a very pictureque area
to live in and close to the
conveniences of the big city.
Halifax is a major seaport
and the largest city in
Atlantic Canada with a rich
history and vibrant
community life.
There’s a veritable montage of Memories we have of our home and life in Woodstock
Aerial View - Downtown Woodstock