Tour Scotland Video 10 Mile Pink Ribbonwalk From Scone Palace Perth Perthshire May 12th

Tour Scotland video shot this morning of part of the 10 mile Breast Cancer Care Pink Ribbon Walk from the grounds of Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. These wonderful folks were raising funds for Breast Cancer Care. In this video walkers are walking through Scone Woods to the village of New Scone. The 10 mile Pink Ribbon Walk route had the same beginning and end as the 20 mile route. The route passed beautiful open farmland tracks and picturesque rural cottages before rejoining the 20 mile walk at the old ferry station at Waulkmill. It was a beautiful sunny morning for the start of this Charity fundraising walk.

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Tour Scotland Video 20 Mile Pink Ribbonwalk From Scone Palace Perth Perthshire May 12th

Tour Scotland video shot this morning of part of the 20 mile Breast Cancer Care Pink Ribbon Walk from the grounds of Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. These wonderful folks were raising funds for Breast Cancer Care. In this video walkers are walking through Scone Woods to the village of New Scone. From there the walkers continued along forest trails through Muirward Wood until they reached the ruins of Cambusmichael Church. From there they dropped down to the tree lined banks of the River Tay and enjoyed wonderful views along the scenic river path before returning to Scone Palace. It was a lovely morning for the start of this Charity fundraising walk.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Eagle Owl Perth Perthshire May 12th

Tour Scotland photograph shot today of an Eagle Owl in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Harris Hawk Perth Perthshire May 12th

Tour Scotland photograph shot today of a Harris Hawk in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Videos Scottish Wedding Bagpiper Old Parish Church Scone Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish Wedding Piper at the entrance gate of the Old Parish Church in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. Scottish Church built in 1286 near to Scone Palace. Moved to present site in 1806 using stone from original building.



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Old Photograph Inversnaid Scotland

Old photograph of horses and carriages and people outside the hotel in Inversnaid on the East bank of Loch Lomond, Scotland. This Scottish village has a pier and a hotel which was built in 1790 for the Duke of Montrose as a hunting lodge. The hotel has had many distinguished guests including Queen Victoria.



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Old Photograph Soldiers Esplanade Edinburgh Castle Scotland

Old photograph of soldiers on the Esplanade at Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Balmaclellan Scotland

Old photograph of Balmaclellan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. A small hillside Scottish village of stone houses with slate roofs in a fold of the Galloway hills in south-west Scotland. Balmaclellan was once a centre of the Covenanter religious movement.

Old photograph of Balmaclellan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Old photograph of Balmaclellan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Bridges Monzie Scotland

Old photograph of the old bridges at Monzie near Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. Monzie is best known in connection with the burning of a witch. The traditional story makes out Kate McNiven to have been a nurse in the family of the Grammes of Inchbrakie, and as a proof that she was a member of the weird sisterhood, a story is told of her in connection with a visit which the Laird of Inchbrakie made to Dunning on the occasion of some festivity. According to the fashion of the time, he took with him his knife and fork. After he was seated at the dinner table he was subjected to annoyance similar to that which teased Uncle Toby, namely, the hovering of a bee about his head. To relieve himself from the tiny tormentor, he laid down his knife and fork, and attempted to beat off the insect with his hands. It soon flew out at the window; but behold! the laird's knife and fork had disappeared. They were searched for all over the table, and under the table; nowhere could they be found; but when their owner reached home and recounted his mysterious loss, Kate McNiven, who was present, straightway went and produced both articles safe and sound from their accustomed repository. It was whispered that Kate had personated the bee. Relieved of her duties in the house of Inchbrakie, as the result, it is said, of an attempt to poison the young laird, Kate McNiven returned to her old home at the Kirkton of Monzie, where she acquired an " uncanny " reputation. Evidence of her sorceries was collected or suborned, and through the machinations of the young laird of Inchbrakie, she was apprehended and brought to trial on a charge of witchcraft, and her guilt being conclusively established, sentence of death was pronounced against her. The stake was pitched and the faggots piled on the summit of the Knock of Crieff, and thither was the sorceress dragged, to suffer in presence of an immense multitude gathered from all the surrounding country.



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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Fire And Rescue Service River Tay Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video of Scottish Fire and Rescue Services by the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Street Pastors from Perth receiving Throwbag training from Scottish Fire and Rescue Service on the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire. The use of a throw bag is generally used to rescue someone who is swimming down a river after, for example, capsizing their kayak or canoe.

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Old Photographs Ellenabeich Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Ellenabeich, Scotland. A small Scottish village on the isle of Seil, an island on the east side of the Firth of Lorn, 7 miles south west of Oban. It is a former slate-mining village and is where parts of Ring of Bright Water were filmed. Seil is one of the Slate Islands.

Old photograph of cottages in Ellenabeich, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Fisher Folk And Cottages Auchmithie Scotland

Old photograph of the village of Auchmithie, Angus, Scotland. Scarlett Johansson, best known for her roles in Lost in Translation and Iron Man 2, filmed scenes at the beach in Auchmithie for new sci-fi film Under the Skin. In the film, Miss Johansson plays an alien who travels around the Highlands of Scotland, seducing men for their body parts.



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Old Photograph West Port St Andrews Scotland

Old photograph of the West Port, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The establishment of the present town began around 1140 by Bishop Robert on a L-shaped vill, possibly on the site of the ruined St Andrews Castle. According to a charter of 1170, the new burgh was built to the west of the Cathedral precinct, along Castle Street and possibly as far as what is now known as North Street. This means that the lay-out may have led to the creation of two new streets, North Street and South Street, from the foundations of the new St Andrews Cathedral filling the area inside a two-sided triangle at its apex. The northern boundary of the burgh was the southern side of the Scores, the street between North Street and the sea, with the southern by the Kinness Burn and the western by the West Port. The burgh of St Andrews was first represented at the great council at Scone Palace near Perth, Perthshire, in 1357.



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Old Photographs Benderloch Scotland

Old photograph of cottages at Benderloch, Argyll, Scotland. The name of this Scottish is derived from Beinn eadar dà loch, meaning " mountain between two lochs ". Benderloch lies on the A828 road in the coastal area of Appin.



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Old Photographs Auchenblae Scotland

Old photograph of Auchenblae, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A Scottish village in the Kincardine and Mearns area of Aberdeenshire, formerly in Kincardineshire, Scotland. It is featured in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel, Sunset Song. The name is a derivation from the Gaelic for " Field of Flowers " possibly due to the growing of flax in bygone times. The village was known for its weavers, a whisky distillery and the annual Paldie's Fair horse market.



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Old Photograph Postman And Cottage Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of a Postman delivering to Crofter cottage on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Travelling Woman And Child In Birnam Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a travelling woman and child in Birnam, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Pilgrims in the Mist: The Stories of Scotland's Travelling People. Sheila Stewart, singer, storyteller and author, is one of the last in the line of Scotland's travelling people. The way of life of the old travellers, tramping the country roads, camping in the woods, hawking, fortune-telling and temporary work on farms, has now all but died out. Before the memories melted away like winter snow, Sheila gathered from family and friends this wonderful collection of travellers' tales. Here are the stories that she and her parents used to listen to by the camp fire as the shadows of night clustered around. There are magical tales here, tales of hauntings and sudden deaths, tales of lovers and childbirths, tales of cruel hardship in a land where all too often the travellers were spurned as social outcasts. There are happy stories too, in which the travellers outwit their persecutors and prosper. Many of the stories recount true events that happened to Sheila and her relations. Running through them all is a vein of humour, laughter in the face of adversity. These aren't polite versions of folk tales that are suitable for the nursery or the Disney studio. They can be rough and tough and earthy, and show with unblinking clarity the rawness of life on the edge. But they have the grotesque and haunting imagery, the depth and power of the real folk tradition. This collection of stories, written down when they were on the point of vanishing into oblivion, has in it the potential to become a classic of its kind. Pilgrims in the Mist: The Stories of Scotland's Travelling People.

Old Photographs Auchmithie Scotland

Old photograph of Auchmithie a former fishing village in Angus, three miles north east of the town of Arbroath, Scotland. Auchmithie village sits atop a red sandstone cliff, approximately 120 feet above a shingle beach which contains an unusual amount of jasper. In the dilapidated harbour, built in 1891, there are still some small fishing boats. The Arbroath Smokie (haddock hot smoked in a particular way) originated in Auchmithie. Sir Walter Scott stayed in the Waverley Hotel in Auchmithie and described Auchmithie in his novel The Antiquary in 1816, under the name Musslecrag. Scarlett Johansson, best known for her roles in Lost in Translation and Iron Man 2, filmed scenes at the beach in Auchmithie for new sci-fi film Under the Skin. In the film, Miss Johansson plays an alien who travels around the Highlands of Scotland, seducing men for their body parts. It is based on a book by Scottish author Michel Faber, also called Under the Skin.

Old photograph of the beach at Auchmithie, Scotland.

Old photograph of Auchmithie, Scotland.

Old photograph of Auchmithie, Scotland.

Old photograph of Auchmithie, Scotland.

Old photograph of Auchmithie, Scotland.


Old photograph of Auchmithie, Scotland.

Old photograph of Auchmithie, Scotland.

Old photograph of Auchmithie, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Kingdom Of Fife Lifeboat Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland photographs of Kingdom Of Fife Lifeboat in Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. A small selection of my photographs of Anstruther Lifeboats. The Anstruther Lifeboat Station was founded in 1865, and the present Lifeboat is a 12 metre Mersey Class Fast Carriage Boat called The Kingdom of Fife.

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Old Photograph Crofter Spinning Wool Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish Crofter spinning wool outside her cottage on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Jenny Mackay from Uig spinning wool. The branches of Mackays, are as follows: Aberach Mackays, Scoury Mackays, Bighouse Mackays, Strathy Mackays, Melness Mackays, Sandwood Mackays, Dutch Mackays, Swedish Mackays, now von Key, Galloway Mackays, Argyle and Western Mackays, Erchar or Vic Farquhar, Polson, Achmonie Mackays, Mackie, Mack, and the three different forms of the name Iyeson or Mackay: Ison, Eason, and Esson. The MacKays in Argyllshire and Galloway became a sept of the Lords of the Isles, MacDonald of the Isles. In these areas, the name MacKay is derived from Morgan's grandson, Aodh, whose mother was a MacNeil of Gigha. MacKays in the Western Isles of Scotland also form a sept of the Lords of the Isles. MacKays or MacAys of Clan Chattan, from Inverness-shire eastward, are really a sept of Clan MacDhai, or Davidson. There are many Clan MacKay members in Nova Scotia, Canada.



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Old Photographs Mousa Broch Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of the 2000 year old Mousa Broch, Shetland, Scotland. Mousa Broch is the best preserved of all brochs, in wonderful condition, due to its isolation on Mousa Island, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Mousa Broch was used over the centuries and is mentioned in two Norse Sagas. Egil's Saga tells of a couple eloping from Norway to Iceland who were shipwrecked and used the broch as a temporary refuge.

Old photograph of Mousa Broch, Shetland, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Bridgend Islay Scotland

Old photograph of Bridgend, Island of Islay, Scotland. Islay Whisky. The island's two main road the A846 and A847 meet in the village just north of the bridge over the River Sorn that gives the village its name. The River Sorn is a small river on the Scottish island of Islay. Draining Loch Finlaggan and having gathered the waters of the Allt Ruadh and the Ballygrant Burn, it flows southwestwards to enter the sea at the village of Bridgend at the head of Loch Indaal.



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Old Photographs Abbotsford Scotland

Old photograph of Abbotsford House in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. Abbotsford House, which was at one time the residence of historical novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott.

Old photograph of Abbotsford House in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.

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Old Photograph St Giles Cathedral Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. St Giles' Cathedral, also known as the High Kirk of Edinburgh, is the principal place of worship of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh. Its distinctive crown steeple is a prominent feature of the city skyline, at about a third of the way down the Royal Mile which runs from the Castle to Holyrood Palace. The church has been one of Edinburgh's religious focal points for approximately 900 years. The present church dates from the late 14th century, though it was extensively restored in the 19th century. Today it is sometimes regarded as the " Mother Church of Presbyterianism ". The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Giles, who is the patron saint of Edinburgh, as well as of cripples and lepers, and was a very popular saint in the Middle Ages. It is the Church of Scotland parish church for part of Edinburgh's Old Town.



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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Film Location The Railway Man St Monans East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of the old church by the sea in St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This is where the scenes were shot for The Railway Man film starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman. Scenes for the movie of the best-selling novel by Eric Lomax were shot this week at the harbor and St Monans Parish Church in the East Neuk of Fife. St Monans Church is situated within its kirkyard just to the west of the village on the very edge of the sea. It has a very dramatic setting, perched on a low rock, reached over a small valley with a burn. As seen from most directions it has the sea as a backdrop. A more modern cemetery stands further westwards on the upper slopes of the little hill. This contains the local war memorial. Standing at the extreme west end of this a romantic ruin can be viewed across fields, again perched on the sea edge. It is often said that St Monans is the church nearest the sea in the whole of Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of the harbour in St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video of the old church by the sea in St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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