Tour Scotland Video Solo Bagpiper Highland Games Blackford Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of a Solo Piper at Blackford Highland Games, Perthshire, Scotland. Blackford was first known as a ford over the Allan Water. There is a legend that a King Magnus lost his wife Queen Helen in a storm and she is buried on a nearby hill. Blackford became a popular stopping place especially when Scotland's first public brewery was started. James VII of Scotland even stopped in Blackford while travelling to sample their ale.
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Tour Scotland Video Putting The Shot Highland Games Blackford Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of Putting the Shot at Blackford Highland Games, Perthshire, Scotland. The famous Blackford Highland Games have been held since 1870 on the park, an area of land loaned to the community by the landowner. A condition of the loan is that the Highland Games are held there annually in May.
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Tour Scotland Video Cruise Firth Of Forth From South Queensferry
Tour Scotland video of a cruise on the Firth of Forth from South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland. The cruise departed from Hawes Pier at South Queensferry not far from Edinburgh, cruised under the Forth Railway Bridge built in the Victorian era and passed Inchcolm Island viewing the former Augustinian Abbey, one of the best preserved group of monastic buildings in Scotland. Inchcolm is sometimes referred to as the Iona of the East because of its connection with the Christian Missionary Saint Columba.
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Tour Scotland Video Drive Through Carse Of Gowrie Perthshire May 24th
Tour Scotland video shot today of a drive through the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The Carse of Gowrie consists of a stretch of low lying country in the southern part of Gowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It stretches for about 20 miles along the north shore of the Firth of Tay between Perth and Dundee. The area offers high quality agricultural land and is well known as a major area for strawberry, raspberry and general fruit growing. Fruit is easy to cultivate in the area because of a southerly aspect and low rainfall.
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Tour Scotland Video Parish Church Kirkton of Auchterhouse Angus
Tour Scotland video of the Parish Church at Kirkton of Auchterhouse, Angus, Scotland. Built 1630 with stone from earlier churches of 1275 and 1426. Partially rebuilt 1775.Situated on south side of Sidlaw Hills. There is documentary evidence of a church located here in 1238, which was dedicated to St Mary. A 15th century charter attests to the foundation of a chaplainry in the church. In 1426 the original structure was replaced by an impressive Gothic church. This lasted until 1630, when the present building was erected. However, structural failure necessitated its reconstruction, using the same stones, in 1775. The church building in the 17th century appears to have been an uncomfortable place, with small windows only partially glazed and no solid floor or heating. Rushes covered the soil floor and there were no pews.
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Tour Scotland Video Parish Church Kilspindie Carse Of Gowrie Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of the Parish Church and cemetery at Kilspindie, Perthshire, Scotland. Records show there has been a chapel in Kilspindie since 1214, the present church dates from 1670. The union of Kilspindie and Rait Churches took place around 1619. Past history links William Wallace to Kilspindie Church, the west wall between the graveyard and the neighbouring orchard of Kilspindie Farmhouse contains the Wallace Doorway through which he is reputed to have walked to services.
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Tour Scotland Video Parish Church Liff Near Dundee Tayside
Tour Scotland video of the Parish Church and cemetery at Liff near Dundee, Scotland. Liff Church was built in 1839 by William MacKenzie and is a rectangular plan Gothic structure with a tower and spire at the east end. The church is located in the small hamlet of Liff, a rural area close to Dundee. It lies in an impressive graveyard which contains a hearse house and large family monuments. The church has stugged sandstone walls with droved ashlar dressings and corner stones ( quoins ). The nave roof is slated.
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Tour Scotland Video Drive To Evelick Castle Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of a drive to Evelick Castle in the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The ruins of Evelick Castle, the ancient seat of the Lindsays, and the birthplace of Helen Lindsay, wife of John Campbell, of Glenlyon, whose daughter, Helen, according to the session records, was married on the 22nd of September, 1663, to the famed Rob Roy MacGregor. This castle looks out across the Tay from high on the Sidlaw hills in Perthshire, some 5 miles east of Perth. It is built on the L-plan, with the two blocks meeting in such a way as to form a second re-entrant angle at the back. There is a circular stair tower in the main re-entrant angle, in the base of which is the main doorway. The castle is defended by a considerable number of gunloops. The building is sadly in a state of steady collapse, and would be a prime candidate for restoration.
It was probably built in the early 16th century, by an offshoot of the Lindsays of Crawford. In 1666, Andrew Lindsay of Evelick was created a baronet, and his 2nd son Thomas was the victim of a particularly brutal murder here at the hands of his step-brother James Douglas. During a game, Douglas stabbed Lindsay 5 times, then held the dying youth under water in a burn before finally dashing his brains out with a rock. No doubt Douglas suffered from a dysfunctional family and a disadvantaged childhood! The last of the Lindsays of Evelick drowned in 1799.
Evelick Castle in the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.
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Tour Scotland Videos University Students Diving Of The Long Pier St Andrews Fife May 23rd
Tour Scotland video shot today of University Students diving of the long pier in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. It was a hot and beautiful afternoon in St Andrews and many students took the opportunity to cool off be jumping and diving into the sea.
Tour Scotland video shot today of University Students diving of the long pier in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
Tour Scotland video shot today of University Students diving of the long pier in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
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Tour Scotland Video Carlungie Earth House Angus
Tour Scotland video of Carlungie Earth House, Angus, Scotland. The Carlungie Earth House is a complex series of underground structures that date from the Iron Age. It is located 2.5 miles northeast of Monifieth in Angus. Earth Housea are examples of souterrains, probably used to store food.
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Tour Scotland Video Parish Church Murroes Angus
Tour Scotland video of Murroes and Tealing Parish Church and cemetery, Angus, Scotland. Murroes and Tealing Parish Church was built in 1848 by William Scott on the site of a much older ecclesiastical building. The earliest date for a church here is 1211 when Gilchrist, Earl of Angus, granted the church to Arbroath Abbey. There are a number of carved stones from the earlier church (or churches) encorporated into the 19th century church, and an original burial vault from the earlier building survives. Murroes and Tealing Parish Church is built of stugged and snecked rubble sandstone with a slate roof. It is T-plan, with a northern aisle, and built in the Victorian Gothic style.
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Tour Scotland Video Black Watch Memorial Dundee Tayside
Tour Scotland video of the Black Watch Memorial in Dundee, Scotland. The larger than life bronze statue of a Black Watch soldier which stands at Powrie Brae against the backdrop of the Angus countryside and commemorates the sacrifice of over 440 soldiers of the fourth and fifth Battalion Black Watch who died in the Second World War. The Black Watch lost nearly 1400 men during WW2, almost a third of them from the fourth and fifth battalions.
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Tour Scotland Night Video River Tay Perth Perthshire May 22nd
Tour Scotland video shot this evening of the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Shot this video at 10.30pm this evening. The church is St Matthews Church. It was a very beautiful evening in Scotland.
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Tour Scotland Morning Video River Tay Perth Perthshire May 22nd
Tour Scotland video shot this morning of the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Shot this video at 10am this morning. The church is St Matthews Church. It was a very beautiful morning in Scotland.
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Tour Scotland Smile In Your Sleep Video
Tour Scotland Smile In Your Sleep Video. Hush, hush, time to be sleeping. Hush, hush, dreams come a creeping. Dreams of peace and of freedom. So smile in your sleep, bonny baby.
Once our valleys were ringing
With songs of our children singing
But now sheep bleat till the evening
And shielings lie empty and broken
Hush, hush, time to be sleeping
Hush, hush, dreams come a-creeping
Dreams of peace and of freedom
So smile in your sleep, bonny baby.
Where is our proud highland mettle
Our troops once so fierce in battle
Now stand, cowed, huddled like cattle
And wait to be shipped o'er the ocean
Hush, hush, time to be sleeping
Hush, hush, dreams come a-creeping
Dreams of peace and of freedom
So smile in your sleep, bonny baby.
No use pleading or praying
For gone, gone is all hope of staying
Hush, hush, the anchor's a-weighing
Don't cry in your sleep, bonny baby
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Tour Scotland Hieland Sodger Video
Tour Scotland Hieland Sodger Video. High up amang yon Hieland hills. There lived a canny maiden. She's gone oot ane fine summer's night. For to watch all the soldiers paradin'.
And they looked sae braw as they marched awa'
The drums, they did rattle, and the pipes, they did blaw
Which caused young Mary for to weep and say
" I'll follow my Hieland sodger "
Ah but Mary dear, my wage, it is small.
And what if in battle I should fall.
I hae to gang hame to your Hieland hall.
Think nae mair on a soldier laddie.
I hae twenty pounds in the store.
And I hae a herd 'bout ten times more.
I'll gie it to the laddie I adore.
And follow my Hieland laddie.
High up amang yon Hieland hills.
There lived a canny maiden.
She's gone oot ane fine summer's day.
For to watch all the soldiers paradin'
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Tour Scotland Video Walk Scottish Bluebells Wood Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of a walk through a Scottish Bluebells wood near Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland.
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Tour Scotland Fisherman Catching Trout River Tay Dunkeld Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of a fisherman catching a trout in the River Tay by Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland.
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