Tour Scotland Video Violin Player Dunnottar Castle Stonehaven Aberdeenshire

Tour Scotland video of a young Scottish violin player at Dunnottar Castle, Scotland. A young man from Stonehaven playing the violin above the ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky outcrop on the north-east coast of Scotland, about two miles south of Stonehaven. Dunnottar was besieged by Montrose in 1645, and again in 1651 by Cromwell. The property of the Clan Keith from the 14th century, and the seat of the Earl Marischal, Dunnottar declined after the last Earl forfeited his titles by taking part in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715

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Old Photograph Parkhead Cross Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Parkhead Cross, Glasgow, Scotland. Parkhead Cross is a major junction in the Parkhead area in the East End of the city. It is the meeting point of Gallowgate, Duke Street, Westmuir Street, Tollcross Road and Burgher Street, which together form a turreted Edwardian five-way junction, including several fine buildings making the junction notable such as the former Glasgow Savings Bank. The junction can become very busy due to traffic for Football games at nearby Celtic Park.



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Old Photograph Bishopbriggs Scotland

Old photograph of Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, Scotland. This part of Scotland was once in the historic parish of Cadder, originally lands granted by King William the Lion to the Bishop of Glasgow, Jocelin, in 1180. Bishopbriggs' close geographic proximity to Glasgow now effectively makes it a suburb and commuter town of the city.



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Old Photograph Cenotaph George Square Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the Cenotaph in George Square, Glasgow, Scotland. The Cenotaph is the official memorial to the city's dead in both World Wars. Its design incorporates a colossal truncated obelisk carved with a figure of St Mungo, a 'great stone' sarcophagus and two recumbant lions.

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Old Photograph Crofters Torrin Scotland

Old photograph of crofters and cottages at Torrin, Isle of Skye, Scotland. This Scottish crofting and fishing village lies on the eastern shore of Loch Slapin, five miles south west of Broadford on the road to Elgol. The village boasts good views of Blaven and Loch Slapin. Crofting evolved from a turbulent period in the nineteenth century during the Highland Clearances. It was largely a means to sustain populations. In the 21st century, it is found predominantly in the rural Western and Northern isles and in the coastal fringes of the western and northern Scottish mainland. The Crofters' Holdings Scotland Act of 1886 provided for security of tenure, a key issue as most crofters remain tenants. The Act encouraged tenants to improve the land under their control, as it ensured that the control could be transferred within families and passed to future generations. Croft work was hard, back-breaking work, mainly done by women which yielded a subsistence living.



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Old Photographs Bay Portree Scotland

Old photograph of the Bay at Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. The current name of this coastal village, Port Rìgh translates as " king's harbour ", possibly from a visit by King James V of Scotland in 1540. However this etymology has been contested, since James did not arrive in peaceful times. The older name appears to have been Port Ruighe, or " slope harbour. " Portree was the last meeting place of Flora MacDonald and Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1746.



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Old Photograph Church Portree Scotland

Old photograph of the Church and Bank at Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Quarry Broadford Scotland

Old photograph of workers at the Marble Quarry near Broadford, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Marble was discovered near Kilchrist in Strath Suardal about 3 miles south west of Broadford around 1907. A large factory was built near the quarry for cutting and polishing the quarried blocks. A light railway extended 4 miles from Broadford pier to the quarries, and there was a branch line to the factory. The railway was operated by a Hunslet Engine Company steam locomotive named Skylark, which was acquired second hand from Ireland.



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Old Photograph Whisky Distillery Tobermory Isle Of Mull Scotland

Old photograph of the Whisky Distillery at Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The distillery was founded as Ledaig distillery in 1798 by John Sinclair, ten years after the founding of Tobermory by the British Fisheries Society. Sinclair had originally arrived in the village as a merchant dealing with soda ash from burning the locally available kelp. In April 1797, he applied for 57 acres to the south of the harbor in order to build houses and a distillery. The current buildings were constructed and were licensed in 1823. It was acquired by John Hopkins & Company in 1890, and by Distillers Company in 1916 before closing in 1930 following a drop in the demand for whisky due to ten years of prohibition in the United States. In 1972 it was reopened under the name of Ledaig Distillery Tobermory Ltd. In May 1975, production had to stop for a month as storage space for the whisky had run out. It closed again until 1989, and in 1991 it was purchased by Burn Stewart Distillers. Burn Stewart Distillers were bought out by Trinidad–based CL Financial in 2002, including the distillery at Tobermory and Deanston. It remains the only whisky distillery on the Isle of Mull, in the main village of Tobermory at the northern tip of the island.



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Old Photograph Mill Road Broadford Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people on Mill Road, Broadford, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Walk Gardens Falkland Palace Fife

Tour Scotland video of a walk in the gardens of the Palace in Falkland in Fife, Scotland. A very rainy morning in Falkland, a former royal palace of the Scottish Kings. The Scottish Crown acquired Falkland Castle from MacDuff of Fife in the 14th century. In 1402 Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany imprisoned his nephew David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, the eldest son of King Robert III of Scotland, at Falkland. The incarcerated Duke eventually died there from neglect and starvation. Mary, Queen of Scots, was a frequent visitor to Falkland Palace.

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Tour Scotland Photograph And Video Field Of Yellow Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of a field of yellow in North East Fife, Scotland. Field of yellow near Brunton in North Fife. The plants are Rapeseed, Brassica napus, also known as rape, oilseed rape, rapa, rappi, rapaseed, and in the case of one particular group of cultivars, canola, is a bright yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae, mustard or cabbage family.



Tour Scotland video of fields of yellow in North East Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph And Video Balcomie Golf Course Crail East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of the golf course at Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Balcomie Links one of Scotland’s most finely polished, golfing gems. This traditional, classic links course was laid out by the old master himself, Tom Morris, and opened in 1895. Created in the days when course design was governed by the natural lie of the land and not the mechanical earth mover, Balcomie has the unusual combination of three par fives, six par threes and nine par fours, producing a tough par of 69. Located 9 miles South of St Andrews. Golf Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Video Old Golf Course St Andrews Fife May 16th

Tour Scotland photograph of shot today of the Old Golf Course in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of shot today of the Old Golf Course in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of shot today of the Old Golf Course in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video of the Old Golf Course in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Golfers completing their round of golf this afternoon on the 18th Green. Cloudy and breezy this afternoon, which is often the way the weather is in St Andrews.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Neist Point Lighthouse Isle Of Skye

Tour Scotland photograph of Neist Point, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Neist Point is the most westerly point on the Duirinish peninsula on the Isle of Skye. It projects into The Minch and provides a popular walk and viewpoint. Neist Point Lighthouse, designed by David Alan Stevenson, was first lit on 1 November 1909. Neist Point is the most westerly point on the Duirinish peninsula on the Isle of Skye. It projects into The Minch and provides a popular walk and viewpoint. Neist Point Lighthouse, designed by David Alan Stevenson, was first lit on 1 November 1909. David was born on 21 July 1854 the son of David Stevenson and his wife, Elizabeth Mackay. His early years were spent at their home at 8 Forth Street in the eastern section of the New Town in Edinburgh. He was part of the famous Stevenson family of lighthouse engineers, including his brother, Charles Stevenson, uncle Thomas Stevenson, and grandfather, Robert Stevenson. His cousin was the author, Robert Louis Stevenson. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and then Edinburgh University. He retired aged 83 in March 1938. Stevenson died at his home, " Troqueer " in the Kingsknowe area of Edinburgh on 11 April 1938. He is buried in Dean Cemetery.


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Old Photograph Fishermen Lower Largo Scotland

Old photograph of fishermen mending fishing nets in Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This ancient fishing village, in the parish of Largo, Lower Largo is famous as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, who provided inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.



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Old Photographs Scalloway Scotland

Old photograph of Scalloway, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Built in 1600 by Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney, the remains of Scalloway Castle is the most notable feature of the village.



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Old Photograph Inver Dunkeld Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Inver by Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. Niel Gow, born 1727, died 1807, was the most famous Scottish fiddler of the eighteenth century. Gow was born in Inver, Perthshire, as the son of John Gow and Catherine McEwan. He started playing the fiddle when very young and at age 13 received his first formal lessons from one John Cameron. In spite of being something of a musical prodigy, he originally trained as a weaver, but eventually gave up that trade to become a full time musician.



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Old Photographs Ettrick Scotland

Old photograph of Ettrick, Scottish Borders, Scotland. The area around Ettrick has several literary connections. The poet James Hogg, born 1770, died 1835, known as the Ettrick Shepherd, was born at a farm in Ettrick, by Ettrick Hall, and is buried in Ettrick Kirkyard cemetery. Laverlaw, the fictional estate of Sandy Arbuthnot, Lord Clanroyden, in the works of John Buchan, is set near Ettrick. Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour in Kidnapped hails from the fictitious village of Essendean in Ettrick Forest. It is also mentioned in the traditional Scottish folk song, Ettrick Lady, recorded by The Corries. The Ettrick valley was used as the setting for the story No Advantages, from Alice Munro's short story collection, The View from Castle Rock. Ettrick was also home to one of Scotland's most enduring pastor theologians, Thomas Boston, born 1676, died 1732, minister from 1707. His seminal work, Human Nature in its Fourfold State, was widely read throughout Scotland by people of all classes and is still in print today.


Old photograph the old church at Ettrick, Scottish Borders, Scotland. There has been a church at Ettrick for at least 800 years. The Poet James Hogg is known as the "Ettrick Shepherd" was born at a farm in Ettrick, by Ettrick Hall,and is buried in Ettrick Kirkyard.

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Old Photographs Drumlithie Scotland

Old photograph of Drumlithie located seven miles South of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Previously a weaving village, Drumlithie has a small steeple at its heart which was rung to signal the start and end of the working day. Drumlithie is noted for its appearance in the classic Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel, Sunset Song, while neighbouring Glenbervie is the final resting place of the great grandparents of famous Scottish poet Robert Burns. Drumlithie is also twinned with Couture D'Argenson in France.





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Old Photograph Black Watch Soldier Dingwall Scotland

Old photograph of a Black watch soldier from Dingwall, Scotland. The Black Watch was formed at Aberfeldy in Perthshire in the early eighteenth century as an independent security force, or 'watch', to guard the approaches to the lawless areas of the Scottish Highlands.



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Old Photograph Black Watch Soldier Dunfermline Scotland

Old photograph of a Black Watch soldier from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The Black Watch was raised in an unique way. In the wake of the 1715 Jacobite rebellion companies of trustworthy Highlanders were raised from loyal clans, Campbells, Grants, Frasers, Munros. Six companies were formed from 1725 and stationed in small detachments across the Highlands to prevent fighting between the clans, deter raiding and assist in enforcing the laws against the carrying of weapons.



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Old Photograph Black Watch Soldiers Kirkcaldy Scotland

Old photograph of Black Watch soldiers from Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The Black Watch was an infantry unit born in the aftermath of the First Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. The regiment went on to fight in nearly all the British Army's campaigns and is now part of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. In the aftermath of the First Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, Independent Companies of militia were raised from loyalist Highland clans for policing and peacekeeping duties. These companies were commonly known in Gaelic as Am Freiceadan Dubh, or The Black Watch, due to their unpopular nature and their dark green government-issue tartan - the regiment wore kilts as part of its everyday uniform until 1940.



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Old Photograph Butchers Shop Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of a Butchers Shop in Glasgow, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph And Video Huntingtower Castle Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of Huntingtower Castle by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Huntingtower Castle once known as Ruthven Castle or the Palace of Ruthven is situated about 3 miles from the centre of Perth, on the main road to Crieff. The Castle was built in stages from the 15th century by the Clan Ruthven family and was known for several hundred years as the Palace of Ruthven. In the summer of 1582, the castle was occupied by the 4th Lord Ruthven, who was also the 1st Earl of Gowrie, and his family. Gowrie was involved in a plot to kidnap the young King James VI, son of Mary, Queen of Scots. During 1582 Gowrie and his associates seized the young king and held him prisoner for 10 months. This kidnapping is known as the 'Raid of Ruthven' and the Protestant conspirators behind it hoped to gain power through controlling the king. James eventually escaped and actually forgave Gowrie, but after a second abortive attempt by Gowrie and others to overthrow him, Gowrie was finally executed and his property, including Huntingtower, was forfeited to the crown. The Castle and lands were restored to the Ruthven family in 1586. However in 1600, the brothers John and Alexander Ruthven were implicated in another plot to kill King James VI and were executed. This time, the king was less merciful: as well as seizing the estates, he abolished the name of Ruthven and decreed that any successors would be ineligible to hold titles or lands. Thus the House of Ruthven ceased to exist and by royal proclamation the castle was renamed Huntingtower. The Castle remained in the possession of the crown until 1643 when it was given to the family of Murray of Tullibardine, from whom the Dukes of Atholl and Mansfield are descended. John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl resided in the Castle, where his wife Lady Mary Ross bore a son 7 February 1717. The Castle began to be neglected and after Lady Mary died in 1767, it was abandoned as a place of residence except by farm labourers. Today, the Castle can be visited by the public and is sometimes used as a venue for marriage ceremonies. It is in the care of Historic Scotland and is open to the public.



Tour Scotland video of Huntingtower Castle, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Carluke Scotland

Old photograph of Carluke, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. In a charter by Robert I, dated 1315, Carluke is written "Carneluk"; at different periods it appears as Carlowck, Carlowk, Carluk, Carlook, Carlouk and Carluke. Car or Caer tells us that it is a height or strong position and Luke suggests that it may be dedicated to the saint of that name, however there is evidence that the earliest church was dedicated to St. Andrew. The town was chartered as a Royal Burgh in 1662. Carluke expanded during through the industrial age, with work involving corn milling, cotton weaving, coal mining and the manufacture of bricks, glass, confectionery and jam.

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Old Photograph Duniquaich Tower Scotland

Old photograph of Duniquaich Tower above Inveraray, Scotland. A stone built watchtower on the summit of Duniquaich hill. Built in 1748, Roger Morris was the architect and William Douglas the stonemason.

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Old Photograph Kildonan House Scotland

Old photograph of Kildonan House, Ayrshire, Scotland. This house was the home of Captain David Euan Wallace, MC, MP, PC, born 1892, died 9th February 1941. He was a British Conservative politician who briefly served as Minister of Transport during World War II. He was the son of John Wallace, of Glassingall, Dunblane, Perthshire. Wallace gained the rank of Captain in the service of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards Reserve, acted as a special Commissioner for the North-East coast and acted as Aide-de-camp to the Governor General of Canada in 1920 and was decorated with the award of the Military Cross.



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Old Photograph Soldiers Forres Scotland

Old photograph of a Seaforth Highlander soldier from Forres, Moray, Scotland. The Seaforth Highlanders was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army, mainly associated with large areas of the northern Highlands of Scotland. The regiment existed from 1881 to 1961, and saw service in World War I and World War II, along with many numerous smaller conflicts. In 1961 the regiment was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders to form the Queen's Own Highlanders, Seaforth and Camerons, which merged, in 1994, with the Gordon Highlanders to form the Highlanders, Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons. This, however, later joined the Royal Scots Borderers, the Black Watch, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment, and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to create the present Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Old photograph of soldiers in Forres, Moray, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Black Watch Soldiers Montrose Scotland

Old photograph of Black Watch soldiers from Montrose, Angus, Scotland. The Black Watch was formed at Aberfeldy in Perthshire in the early eighteenth century as an independent security force, or ' watch ', to guard the approaches to the lawless areas of the Scottish Highlands. The battles which have contributed most to The Black Watch history have been those in which the odds have been most formidable. From Fontenoy to Fallujah with Ticonderoga, Waterloo, Alamein and two World Wars in between the Black Watch has been there when the world’s history has been shaped.



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Old Photograph Black Watch Soldier Perth Scotland

Old photograph of a Black watch soldier from Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Black Watch boasts a history of honour, gallantry and devoted service to King, Queen and country. The battles which have contributed most to The Black Watch history have been those in which the odds have been most formidable. From Fontenoy to Fallujah with Ticonderoga, Waterloo, Alamein and in and two World Wars in between.



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Old Photograph Black Watch Soldier Birnam Scotland

Old photograph of a Black Watch Soldier from Birnam, Perthshire, Scotland. On the outbreak of the First World War there were seven Black Watch battalions, for in addition to the Regular 1st and 2nd Battalions and 3rd, Special Reserve Battalion there were a further four Territorial ones which had become part of the Regiment in 1908. They were the 4th Dundee, 5th Angus, 6th Perthshire and the 7th Battalion from Fife.



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Old Photograph Of A Piper From Loch Ness Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish Piper from Dornie on the banks of Loch Ness, Scotland.

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