Tour Scotland Winter Photographs St Michaels Churchyard Dumfries


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of St Michaels Churchyard Dumfries, Scotland. St Michael's is the Parish Church of Dumfries and around it is the oldest town graveyard. Greyfriars, built in 1876. Robert Burns attended church here, and is buried in the graveyard.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of St Michaels Churchyard Dumfries, Scotland.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of St Michaels Churchyard Dumfries, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photographs Dumfries


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of Dumfries, Scotland. Former seaport where Robert Burns lived before his death in 1796. This market town and former royal burgh is situated close to the Solway Firth, near the mouth of the River Nith.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of Dumfries, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Jean Armour Statue


Tour Scotland photograph of the Jean Armour statue in Dumfries, Scotland. The wife of Robert Burns, whom she met in 1784 in Mauchline.

One of the poems that Rober Burns wrote to his wife.

Of a' the airts the wind can blaw,
I dearly like the west,
For there the bonie lassie lives,
The lassie I lo'e best:

There's wild-woods grow, and rivers row,
And mony a hill between:
But day and night my fancys' flight
Is ever wi' my Jean.

I see her in the dewy flowers,
I see her sweet and fair:
I hear her in the tunefu' birds,
I hear her charm the air:
There's not a bonie flower that springs,
By fountain, shaw, or green;
There's not a bonie bird that sings,
But minds me o' my Jean.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Scottish American War Memorial


Tour Scotland photograph of the Scottish American War Memorial, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland. The Memorial serves as a monument to the soldiers of WWI and features a seated and kilted soldier. The Memorial was donated by the United States and is familiarly known as "The Call."



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Old Photograph Clan Graves Scotland


Old photograph of Clan Graves at Culloden Battlefield, near Inverness, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Crofters Scotland


Old photograph of crofters outside a cottage on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Within crofting townships, individual crofts were established on the best land, and a large area of lesser quality hill ground was shared by all the crofters of the township for grazing. Crofters also harvested Peat which was an important source of fuel. The women often spun and dyed wool as well as hand knitting and weaving.



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Old Photograph Peat Carrier Scotland


Old photograph of a female crofter carrying a basket of Peat on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Pictish Symbol Stone Strathmiglo Fife


Tour Scotland photograph of the Pictish Symbol Stone in Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland. This symbol stone is located outside the cemetery wall at Strathmiglo. Two Pictish symbols, a tuning-fork and a hind's head are on the face of this stone.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Town Hall Falkland Fife


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the Falkland Town Hall near Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland. There is an exhibition on the history of the village, and burgh, in this building, which replaced an earlier tolbooth.



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Tour Scotland Photographs King James VI Stone Falkland Fife


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of a 1610 stone praising and thanking the monarch, King James VI, located opposite Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph photograph of a stone praising and thanking the monarch, James VI, located opposite Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Bruce Statue Falkland Fife


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the Onesiphorus Tyndall Bruce statue in the grounds of Falkland Church near Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland. Onesiphorus, born 1790, died 1855, became, by marriage, Keeper of the Palace of Falkland.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Bruce Fountain Falkland Fife


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the Bruce Fountain near Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland. The four lions at the corners carry shields of the Arms of the town.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the Bruce Fountain near Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photographs Falkland Palace Fife


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland. A former royal palace of the Scottish Kings.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photographs Standing Stone Circle


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the standing stone circle at Croft Moraig, between Aberfeldy and Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland. The most complete stone circle of its type in Scotland. A variant of the recumbent stone circle, overlying an earlier timber structure, from the 3rd and 2nd millenia BC.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the complex standing stone circle at Croft Moraig, between Aberfeldy and Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the complex standing stone circle at Croft Moraig, between Aberfeldy and Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Winter Photograph Golf Course Scotland


Winter photograph of the golf course at Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.


Winter photograph of the golf course at Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.


Winter photograph of the golf course at Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Winter Photograph Sheep Scotland


Winter photograph of Scottish sheep on the banks of South Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.


Winter photograph of Scottish sheep on the banks of South Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.


Winter photograph of Scottish sheep on the banks of South Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Ardeonaig Graveyard


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of Ardeonaig graveyard on the banks of South Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland. The old church of Ardeonaig, was located within the burying ground of what was called Twenty shilling land, and was called Cill ma Charmaig. Considering the antiquity of the place, the graveyard now contains a very few tombstones, none of which bear dates prior to the middle of last century. For sometime after the Reformation, the parishes of Kenmore, Ardeonaig, Killin, and Strathfillan were under the charge of one minister.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Red Telephone Box South Loch Tay


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of a traditional red telephone box on the banks of South Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland. The red telephone box, a telephone kiosk for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar. Despite a reduction in their numbers in recent years, the traditional British red telephone kiosk can still be seen in many places throughout the UK, and in current or former British colonies around the world. The colour red was chosen to make them easy to spot.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photographs Trees South Loch Tay Highland Perthshire


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of trees on the banks of South Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of trees on the banks of South Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of trees on the banks of South Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photographs Standing Stone South Loch Tay Highland Perthshire


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of a standing stone on the banks of South Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of a standing stone on South Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of a standing stone on South Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photographs Loch Tay Highland Perthshire


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.



The Loch Tay Boat Song

When I've done the work of day
And I row my boat away
Down the waters of Loch Tay
When the evening light is falling
Then I look towards Ben Lawers
Where the after glories glow
And I dream on two bright eyes
With a merry mouth below

She's my beauteous nighean ruadh
She's my joy and sorrow too
Though I own she is not true
Ah, but I cannot live without her
For my heart's a boat in tow
And I'd give the world to know
If she means to let me go
As I sing hori horo

Nighean ruadh, your lovely hair
Has more beauty I declare
Than all the tresses fair
From Killin to Aberfeldy
Be they lint-white, gold or brown
Be they blacker than the sloe
They mean not as much to me
As a melting flake of snow

And her dance is like the gleam
Of the sunlight on the stream
And the songs the wee folk sing
They're the songs she sings at milking
But my heart is full of woe
For last night she bade me go
And the tears begin to flow
As I sing hori horo

When I've done the work of day
And I row my boat away
Down the waters of Loch Tay
When the evening light is falling
Then I look towards Ben Lawers
Where the after glories glow
And I dream on two bright eyes
With a merry mouth below

She's my beauteous nighean ruadh
She's my joy and sorrow too
Though I own she is not true
Ah, but I cannot live without her
For my heart's a boat in tow
And I'd give the world to know
If she means to let me go
As I sing hori horo

The Gaelic words "nighean ruadh" mean "red-haired girl".

"Hori horo" are used by the Scots to indicate sorrow.

Ben Lawers is the mountain seen in the background of the photograph.

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Tour Scotland Winter Photographs Crannog Loch Tay Highland Perthshire


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the Crannog in Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland. A crannog is a type of ancient loch dwelling found throughout Scotland, dating from 5,000 years ago.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the Crannog in Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the Crannog in Loch Tay, Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Late Afternoon Firth of Forth


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the Firth of Forth, shot in the late afternoon, from Dysart, Fife, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photographs Video Setting Sun Loch Leven Perthshire


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the setting sun at Loch Leven, Perthshire, Scotland.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the setting sun at Loch Leven, Perthshire, Scotland.


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the setting sun at Loch Leven, Perthshire, Scotland.



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January 17th Photograph Dusk Scotland


January 17th winter photograph shot at dusk at Loch Leven, Perthshire, Scotland.


January 17th winter photograph shot at dusk at Loch Leven, Perthshire, Scotland. Loch Leven Castle is one of the best and least changed examples of a fourteenth century keep remaining in Scotland. It stands on an island in the loch.

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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Dysart Tower Fife


Tour Scotland Winter photograph of St Serf's church tower, Dysart, Fife, Scotland. The church tower on Shore Road dates from around 1500, is considered to be one of Scotland's finest examples of a battlemented church tower.



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