In 1889 Dr Francis Gray Smart, the esteemed first President of the Tunbridge Wells Amateur Photographic Association, undertook a summer tour of Scotland.

The 280 photographs, one of which is illustrated here, are known as the 'Scotch Tour '89' and now form a small but important part of a private collection of l,000s of images of the Scottish Highlands and Islands, taken between 1860 and 1940.

The 'Bob Charnley Collection' contains many private Victorian and Edwardian family albums, photographs taken by gifted amateurs who recorded life on the family's Highland estates.

Few of these images have ever been published; they have a freshness about them, showing both the gaiety and the serious side of life in the Highlands of Scotland during this period.

Pictures:
Scotch Tour 1889 - Francis Gray Smart
A selection of photographs from the collection

Books by Bob Charnley - many of these are now out of print!
The Summer of '89'
Iona and Staffa via Oban
A Victorian Tourist in Glenelg
Over to Skye...Before the Bridge!

Postcards
Scotland - Sunnyfield Series