April 10th Photograph Evening Glenfarg Scotland

April 10th photograph of evening performers at Folk Concert, Glenfarg, Perthshire, Scotland. Jeana Leslie and Siobhan Miller.

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Old Photograph Balfluig Castle Scotland

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Old photograph of Balfluig Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Built in the late 16th century, this was the seat of a branch of the Forbes clan which was the pricipal clan in the Howe of Alford, but was sold to a Farquharson in 1753. Local tradition apparently relates that at one time there was another castle near enough for the respective lairds to shoot at one another from their windows, until one laird killed the other, regretting the deed for the rest of his life.

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Old Photograph Aboyne Castle Scotland

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Old photograph of Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle was constructed by Bysets, Lords of Strathdee and Aboyne before 1233. In 1242, after the expulsion from Scotland of John and Walter Byset, who had been alleged of the murder of Patrick, Earl of Atholl, at Haddington, East Lothian, Aboyne Castle fell to ownership of the Crown and became a favourite royal residence.

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Old Photograph Abergeldie Castle Scotland.

Old photograph of Abergeldie Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In 1481 Abergeldie passed to Sir Alexander Gordon of Midmar, first son of the 1st Earl of Huntly. The castle was built by the 4th laird of this line, Alexander, better known as Black Alister. He supported his kinsman the 4th Earl of Huntly at Corrichie in 1562 and was subsequently imprisoned by Queen Mary at St. Andrews. He took a leading part in the Gordon-Forbes feud and in 1594 his son was killed fighting the Campbells and Forbes at Glenlivet. In 1592 the castle successfully resisted a raid by the Mackintoshes and other western clans known as the Great Spulzie. When the Convenanters finally took control of Deeside in the 1640s the castle was ordered to be destroyed because Alexander, 7th laird, was an ardent Royalist, but for some reason the instruction was not executed. In 1686 Abergeldie Castle was used as a mustering point by John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, when he was raising a Highland army against William III. The castle was captured and garrisoned by General Mackay but it was soon blockaded by the Farquharsons and in 1690 Mackay had to come to its relief. He reported that it would have had to surrender within three more days if the garrison had not been “ timely succoured ”. When Queen Victoria and Albert began to develop neighbouring Balmoral castle as a holiday home they rented Abergeldie Castle, it being used by the then Queen Mother, the Duchess of Kent. It was later inhabited by the Princess Eugenie, widow of Napolean III, and then became the Deeside home of the Prince of Wales and his family. More recently it has been used to accommodate guests of the royal family when they were residing at Balmoral. The castle at present is occupied by the 21st Laird John Gordon, Baron of Abergeldie.



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April 10th Photograph Glenfarg Scotland

April 10th photograph of Stan Ginter at Glenfarg Folk Festival, Perthshire, Scotland.


April 10th photograph of Glenfarg Folk Festival, Perthshire, Scotland.


April 10th photograph of Tommy Sands at Glenfarg Folk Festival, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Street View Golf Course Machrihanish Scotland

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Street view of the golf course at Machrihanish, Scotland. Machrihanish has become well known in the last few years mainly because of its exceptional first hole which requires the round's opening shot to carry the Atlantic. It is a tough start, particularly into a breeze. The course is set in wonderful dunes in the small village of Machrihanish, which is situated on the western side of the remote Kintyre Peninsula; this is where the sky is big, the sunsets are dramatic and the air has been warmed by the Gulf Stream and its relative inaccessibility has saved it from becoming more commercialised. Machrihanish Golf Club. Tour Campbeltown.

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April 9th Photograph Daffodils Scotland

April 9th photograph of daffodils by the side of a road in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Ethie Castle Scotland

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Old photograph of Ethie Castle, Angus, Scotland. Ethie Castle is a 14th Century castle, situated around three miles north of the fishing town of Arbroath in Angus, Scotland. Ethie Castle dates to around 1300, when the monks at nearby Arbroath Abbey built a sandstone keep. The castle passed through the hands of the de Maxwell family and into the ownership of Scotland's last Cardinal, David Beaton who was murdered in St. Andrews in 1546. The castle was purchased in 1665 by the Carnegie family, who later became the Earls of Northesk, and was owned by them through to 1928. The castle is reputed to be the basis for the fictional Castle of Knockwhinnock in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Antiquary. Sir Walter Scott was a close friend of William Carnegie, 8th Earl of Northesk and frequently stayed at Ethie Castle. The castle is presently owned by the de Morgan family and has been converted for use as a hotel.

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Old Photograph Kinnairdy Castle Scotland

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Old photograph of Kinnairdy Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Aberchirder was originally a small Royal Burgh but the main town was founded in 1764. Kinnairdy Castle, belonging to the Crichton family is two miles to the south west, where the River Deveron joins the Auchintoul Burn.

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Old Photograph Eriskay Scotland

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Old photograph of Eriskay, Scotland. Eriskay is an island of the Outer Hebrides in northern Scotland. It lies between South Uist and Barra and is connected to South Uist by a causeway.

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Street View Balquhidder Church Scotland

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Street view of Balquhidder Church, Scotland. Balquhidder was the scene of some of the exploits of Rob Roy, who died there in 1734. The local kirkyard is his final resting place, his grave marked with the appropriately defiant motto 'MacGregor Despite Them'. St Angus came to Balquhidder Glen in the 8th or 9th century and recognised what the Celts called a "thin place" where the boundary between Earth and Heaven was close. He knelt and blessed the glen and built a stone oratory at Kirkton, where he spent the rest of his life. Angus was the first to bring Christianity to Balquhidder. Behind the present kirk is Tom nan Angeae, the hill of fire, where until the 19th century hearth fires were renewed at Beltane and Samhain to encourage ancient gods to bring warmth to the land. Angus was buried at the foot of this hill and a flagstone laid over him which stands today in the present church. There are some foundations of the east end of the small medieval parish church of Balquhidder around the grave of Rob Roy and his family (which seem deliberately to have been buried at the site of its altar). A few metres to the west are the roofless ruins of this building's 17th century seccessor. The present church, built on a new site to the north of the ancient graveyard, is of 19th century date.

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Street View Edinample Castle Scotland

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Street view of Edinample Castle, Scotland. This is a late 16th century Scottish castle on the southern shores of Loch Earn, Scotland. The castle takes the form of a Z-plan tower house, originally built by 'Black' Duncan Campbell (Donnchadh Dubh) of Glenorchy. It is built on land acquired by the Campbells after their campaign for proscription, and subsequent demise of the MacGregors. It is said that Black Duncan pushed the castle's builder off the roof, in part to avoid paying him, but also because he omitted to construct the ramparts that had been requested. It is also said that the ghost of the builder has been seen walking on the roof. The castle was extended in both the 18th and early 20th centuries, but fell into a state of dereliction by the early 1970s. It has now been refurbished for use as a private family home.

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Old Photograph Trafalgar Scotland

Old photograph of Trafalgar, Fife, Scotland. In the hamlet of Trafalgar are two spots, supposed to have been the sites of military stations erected to secure the pass from Newburgh to the interior of the county of Fife, from which circumstance a small lake between this place and Newburgh is called Lindores, from the Gaelic Linne-Doris, the loch of the pass. The eastern fort, called Agabatha, was seated on an eminence surrounded with a moat; and relics of antiquity have been discovered near the spot, among which was a quern or hand-mill of mica-slate, and a number of coins of the date of Edward I. The western fort, called Maiden Castle, is said to have derived that name from the daughter of the governor, who, concealing the death of her father during a siege, continued to give, herself, the necessary orders for its defence, till the assailants were compelled to abandon the attempt. The site of this fort is pointed out by some trees planted there by the late proprietor of the land. In the interval between the forts numerous coffins, urns, and human bones have been frequently discovered; the urns, one of which is still preserved at Kinloch, were of Celtic origin, about eighteen inches in height, and fifteen in diameter at the base, and extremely conical in form. Among the eminent persons connected with the parish, was Sir James Melville, proprietor of the lands of Hall Hill in the time of Mary, Queen of Scots; there are no remains of the mansion, and the site of it has disappeared since the inclosure of the lands. Dr. Hugh Blair was incumbent of this parish, to which he was ordained in 1742.



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Street View Dunure Castle Scotland

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Street view of Dunure Castle, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Dunure Castle is located on the west coast of Scotland, in South Ayrshire, about five miles south of Ayr and close to the village of Dunure. Dunure Castle today stands in ruins on a rocky promontory on the Carrick coast, protecting the small Dunure harbour. The castle is the point of origin of the Kennedys of Carrick, who once ruled over much of south western Scotland and were granted the lands in 1357. In August 1563, Mary, Queen of Scots, visited the castle for three days during her third progress round the west of the country.

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Tour Scotland Photograph West Lighthouse Tayport

Tour Scotland photograph of the West Lighthouse, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Located on the south shore of the Firth of Tay, opposite Dundee, and north west of Tayport, the the white tower which comprises the West Lighthouse, also known as the High Light, was built in 1823 by noted lighthouse engineer Robert Stevenson, born 1772, died 1850.



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Photograph Old Parish Church Tulliallan Scotland

Photograph of the Old Parish Church Tulliallan, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish church was built in 1675, as a successor to the even older parish church, and was itself replaced about 1825 when a new church was built. Now roofless, it is rectangular, with a North transept, a square tower at the West end, and an old graveyard.

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Old Photograph Kisimul Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Kisimul Castle, Island of Barra, Scotland. The earliest documentary record of Kisimul Castle dates from the mid 16th century. As Kisimul is completely surrounded by the sea, it can only be reached by boat making the fortification impregnable but it has its own fresh water wells. Kisimul was abandoned in 1838 when the island was sold, and the castle's condition deteriorated. Some of its stone was used as ballast for fishing vessels, and some even ended up as paving in Glasgow. The remains of the castle, along with most of the island of Barra, were purchased by the chief of Clan MacNeill in 1937, who made efforts at restoration. In 2001 the castle was leased by the chief of Clan MacNeil to Historic Scotland for 1000 years for the annual sum of £1 and a bottle of whisky.

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Old Photographs Auchtermuchty Scotland

Old photograph of Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland.


Old photograph of Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland.

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The Weather Today In Scotland

The Weather Today In Scotland.

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Old Photographs Scrabster Scotland

Old photograph of Scrabster, located on Thurso Bay, Caithness, Scotland.

Old photograph of Scrabster Lighthouse, located on Thurso Bay, Caithness, Scotland.


Old photograph of Scrabster, located on Thurso Bay, Caithness, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Strachur Scotland

Old photograph of Strachur village, Argyll, Scotland. By tradition, Strachur has been held as one of the original strongholds of Clan Campbell, and in 1870 the principal landowners of the parish were Campbell of Strachur and McLachlan of that Ilk.



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Old Photograph Ackergill Tower Scotland

Old photograph of Ackergill Tower, Caithness, Scotland. Built in the 1400s by Clan Keith, Ackergill Tower is a five storey oblong tower house. The Keith clan, under John Keith, took the lands at Ackergill in 1354, and Ackergill Tower was probably built by his son. This tower has several historically famous things, but one which is often forgotten is the fate of a young woman by the name of Helen Gunn. In her story, the young woman is abducted by John Keith because he wanted her for her amazing beauty. She flung herself, or fell, from the highest tower to escape her abductors advances. Supposedly her ghost is still seen, wearing a long red rustling ball gown and a tall head of black hair. This was in the late 14th or early 15th century and is said to have been the true beginning for all Feuding between the Gunns and Keiths. It led to the Battle of Champions in either 1478 or 1464, a massacre of the Gunns by the Keiths at the chapel of St Tear (Tayre) just east of the village. In 1547, the Sinclairs of Sinclair and Girnigoe Castle attacked and seized the castle. Mary the Regent granted the Sinclairs remission for this, and returned Ackergill Tower to the Keiths, and later installed Lord Oliphant as keeper of Ackergill in 1549. The Sinclairs again captured the castle in 1556, for which they were again granted remission. In 1593, Robert Keith, brother to the William Keith, 6th Earl Marischal, who rightfully owned the tower, seized Ackergill by force, for which he was declared a rebel, and the castle returned to the Earl. In 1598, another Keith, one John Keith of Subster, attacked the tower in the dead of night, taking its occupants by surprise and capturing the place. In 1612, the Sinclairs acquired Ackergill Tower once again, but through legal means, when it was sold to the Earl of Caithness by the Earl Marischal. However, by 1623 it was under assault once more, when it was besieged by Sir Robert Gordon during his feud with George Sinclair, 5th Earl of Caithness, but the Sinclairs surrendered the castle before any assault took place. In 1651, Oliver Cromwell may have used Ackergill Castle to garrison his troops during his siege of the Keith's Dunnottar Castle, as he was hunting for the Honours of Scotland. In 1676, John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland took possession of Ackergill Tower in repayment of debts owed by the Sinclairs.

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Old Photographs Dunbeath Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Dunbeath Castle, Caithness, Scotland. A castle is first recorded on the rocky peninsula at Dunbeath in 1428, when the lands belonged to the Earl of Caithness. The first recorded laird was Alexander Sutherland. It later became the property of the Clan Sinclair through the marriage of the daughter of Alexander Sutherland to William Sinclair (1410–1484), the first Sinclair Earl of Caithness. The Sinclairs replaced the earlier structure with a four-storey tower house in 1620. In March 1650, Dunbeath was attacked by the Royalist forces of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Sir John Sinclair rode to Edinburgh to warn of Montrose's arrival, leaving his wife to defend Dunbeath against Sir John Hurry. She soon surrendered, and a Royalist garrison was installed. Montrose was defeated in April at the Battle of Carbisdale, and the opposition forces, under David Leslie, recaptured the castle. The castle was extensively remodelled in the 17th century by Sir William Sinclair, and again in 1853 and 1881, when David Bryce was the architect. From 1894 to 1945, the castle was owned by Vice-Admiral Sir Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair. In that year, after 325 years of occupation by the Sinclair Family, the castle was sold to Bertram Currie. In 1967 it was sold again to Harry Blythe and Helen (Sinclaire) Blythe. The castle remained in their possession until 1976 when it was sold to Ray Stanton Avery. In 1997 the castle was sold to the current owner, Stuart Wyndham Murray-Threipland. The castle remains a private residence today and is not open to the public.

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Old Photograph Little Glenshee Scotland

Old photograph of a farm house in Little Glenshee, North of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Kyle of Lochalsh Scotland

Old Photograph of Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland. Kyle of Lochalsh railway station is connected to Inverness by the Kyle of Lochalsh railway line, built in 1897 to improve public transport to the north west of Scotland. The line ends on the water's edge, near where the ferry connection used to run.



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Old Photograph Waterloo Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, house and children in the hamlet of Waterloo, North of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Bankfoot Scotland

Old photograph of houses, cottages and people in Bankfoot, Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of Waterloo by Bankfoot, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Raining Again In Scotland

Raining again in Scotland. Perfect time for a shower.

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Photograph Kilted Busker Scotland

Photograph of a kilted busker in Pitlochry, Scotland.

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Photograph Kilt Shop Blairgowrie Scotland

Photograph of two of my tour guests in kilts in Blairgowrie, Scotland.

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Photograph Extra Long Kilt Scotland

Photograph of an extra long kilt in Scotland.

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Photograph Kilted Bryan Adams Scotland

Photograph of Bryan Adams wearing a kilt at the Scottish Exhibition Centre, in Glasgow, Scotland. Photographic Print of Bryan Adams from MirrorPrintStore.

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Photograph Kilted Muhammad Ali Scotland

Photograph of Muhammad Ali dressed in a kilt in Scotland. Photographic Print of Muhammad Ali from MirrorPrintStore.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Ruins Culross Abbey

Tour Scotland Photograph of the ruins of Culross Abbey in Culross, Fife, Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1217 by Malcolm I, Mormaer or Earl of Fife, and was first colonised by monks from Kinloss Abbey. Culross may have been chosen to establish an abbey because this was the birth place of Saint Mungo. It is evident that the abbey was built over the earlier Pictish church supposedly founded by Saint Serf in the 6th century, as witnessed by the presence in the ruined Cistercian church of early medieval carved stones and from a ninth-century reference to a church of St Serf at Culross. The original 13th century abbey was cruciform in plan, without aisles. By the late 15th century the lay brothers had left, and the abbey community consisted of only choir monks. The western half of the abbey was therefore abandoned, and the nave was demolished around 1500. In 1633 the east choir of the abbey was taken over for use as a parish church, while the adjoining buildings show above fell into decay.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Stewart McPherson Gravestone Culross

Tour Scotland photograph of the Stewart McPherson Gravestone in Culross, Fife, Scotland. Stewart McPherson VC, born in Culross in 1819, died 7th December 1892, he was a Scottish soldier in India and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth military forces. His citation reads: For daring gallantry in the Lucknow Residency on the 26th September, 1857, in having rescued, at great personal risk, a wounded Private of his Company, who was lying in a most exposed situation, under a very heavy fire. Colour-Sergjeant McPherson was also distinguished on many occasions by his coolness and gallantry in action.



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Photograph James Virtue Gravestone Scotland

Photograph of the James Virtue Gravestone in Culross, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Charlestown Harbour

Tour Scotland photograph of a fishing boat in the harbour at Charlestown, Fife, Scotland. Charlestown was established in 1770 by Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin. The planned village is laid out in the shape of a letter E for Elgin. It was established as a harbour town for the shipment of coal mined on Lord Elgin's Fife estates, and for the production of lime. The harbour's outer basin was built around 1840. Shipbuilding was carried on at Charlestown in the 19th century, as well as shipbreaking. Some of the German Imperial Fleet were brought here from Scapa Flow after World War I to be broken up.



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Street View West Braes Pittenweem Scotland

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Street view of West Braes, Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This is an excellent spot for shooting photographs of Pittenweem foreshore.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Pantile Roofs Culross

Tour Scotland photograph of houses with pantile roofs in Culross, Fife, Scotland. Pantiles initially appeared in eastern coastal areas of Scotland during the 17th century, being brought at first from Holland as ballast in trading ships. A legend states that when the British princess, and future Saint, Teneu, daughter of the king of Lothian, became pregnant before marriage, her family threw her from a cliff. She survived the fall unharmed, and was soon met by an unmanned boat. She knew she had no home to go to, so she got into the boat; it sailed her across the Firth of Forth to land at Culross where she was cared for by Saint Serf; he became foster-father of her son, Saint Kentigern or Mungo.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Culross Palace Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of Culross Palace, Fife, Scotland. This Palace is a late 16th, to early 17th century merchant's house. The palace, or "Great Lodging", was constructed by Sir George Bruce, the Laird of Carnock. Bruce was a successful merchant who had a flourishing trade with other Forth ports, the Low Countries and the Baltic countries. He had interests in coal mining and salt production, and is credited with sinking the world's first coal mine to extend under the sea. Although never a royal residence, James VI visited the Palace in 1617.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Auchinbaird Windmill

Tour Scotland photograph of Auchinbaird Windmill, New Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. A late 17th century vaulted tower grain mill. Before 1860 the top of tower was castellated, later on the brick dome was added and tower converted into a doocot. New Sauchie is a relatively modern settlement developed around the Holton Village area to house miners working in the Earl of Mar's colliery at the Holton mine.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Sauchie Tower

Tour Scotland photograph of Sauchie Tower, Scotland. Sauchie is a village in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The name means the place or field of the willows. The land originally belonged to Clan Campbell, being mentioned in connection with Cailean Mór and Gilleasbaig of Menstrie. In 1321 Robert the Bruce granted the lands of Sauchie to Henry de Annand, former Sherriff of Clackmannan. A tower was built in 1335, and the present Sauchie Tower is on the same site. The extant tower was built before 1431 when Mary de Annand, the co-heiress to the estate, married Sir James Schaw of Greenock. The tower is all that remains of the village which developed within its protective radius. In the early 1700's the Schaw family moved from the tower to the more comfortable Newtonschaw.



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April 4th Photograph Daffodils Scotland

April 4th photograph of a few daffodils in Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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April 4th Photograph After The Rain Scotland

April 4th photograph shot after the rain in Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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April 4th Photograph Pittenweem Scotland

April 4th photograph of Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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April 4th Photograph Rocky Shoreline Scotland

April 4th photograph of the rocky shoreline at St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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