Tour Scotland Video St Andrews Pipe Band Bonnygate Cupar Fife



Tour Scotland video of St Andrews Pipe Band marching ahead of the Scottish Highland Games parade up the Bonnygate on ancestry visit to Cupar, Fife, Scotland. Parade included past Chieftains, Games President, Honorary President and Officials with Chieftain carrying Games Flag marched from the church to Duffus Park.

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Tour Scotland Video St Andrews Pipe Band Parade St John's Church Cupar Fife



Tour Scotland video of St Andrews Pipe Band leading the Scottish Highland Games parade from St John's Church on ancestry visit to Cupar, Fife, Scotland. Parade included past Chieftains, Games President, Honorary President and Officials with Chieftain carrying Games Flag marched from the church to Duffus Park.

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Tour Scotland Video St Andrews Pipe Band St John's Church Cupar Fife



Tour Scotland video of St Andrews Pipe Band playing outside St John's Church on ancestry visit to Cupar, Fife, Scotland. The Band wears the very striking Red Erskine tartan. This was the regimental tartan, pipers kilts and plaids, of the first Pipe Major who was a member of the Royal Highland Fusiliers. This choice of tartan is especially relevant since the Clan Erskine family home is just outside St Andrews.

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Old Photographs Longformacus Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Longformacus, Berwickshire, Scotland. The Southern Upland Way, a Long Distance Route which crosses southern Scotland, passes through the village, and the Sir Walter Scott Way from Moffat to Cockburnspath passes through Longformacus.



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Old Photograph Abbey St Bathans House Scotland

Old photograph of Abbey St Bathans House, Berwickshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Abbey St Bathans Scotland

Old photograph of Abbey St Bathans, Berwickshire, Scotland. Abbey St Bathans was originally a priory of Cistercian Nuns. It was sanctified and then used as a retreat by the sisters who formed the community at Haddington and at Nunraw, under the patronage of Ada, Countess of Dunbar and her husband Patrick, Earl of Dunbar.



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Old Photographs Morebattle Scotland

Old photograph of a vintage car, cottages and houses in Morebattle, seven miles South of Kelso, Scotland. James Thomson, the Ednam poet, was born in Morebattle. Robert Davidson, poet, lived and was buried in Morebattle, where he is commemorated.



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Old Photograph Townhead Scotland

Old photograph of houses and shop in Townhead in Glasgow, Scotland. Townhead has no fixed boundaries. In ancient times it was the undeveloped area north of the cathedral and town. It is bordered to the west by the area of Cowcaddens, to the north by Sighthill and the east by Royston and south by Merchant City.



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Old Photograph Cadger's Brig Scotland

Old photograph of Cadger's Brig, Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. A stone single arch footbridge of 13th century origin. Its name derives from it traditionally having been crossed by William Wallace disguised as a cadger, hawker, on his way to where the English were camped, near Biggar.



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Old Photograph Wallace Monument Scotland

Old photograph of The Wallace Monument by Stirling, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Edinburgh Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Jimmy Shand Memorial East Wemyss Fife



Tour Scotland video of the Jimmy Shand memorial on ancestry visit to East Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. James Shand was born in East Wemyss in Fife, son of a farm ploughman turned miner and one of nine children. The family soon moved to the burgh of Auchtermuchty. More than 330 compositions are credited to Jimmy Shand. He recorded more tracks than the Beatles and Elvis Presley combined and was truly the King of Scottish Dance music.

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Tour Scotland Video MacDuff's Castle East Wemyss Fife



Tour Scotland video of MacDuff's Castle on ancestry visit to East Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. The location of this Scottish castle is associated with the MacDuff Earls of Fife, the most powerful family in Fife in the middle ages, although nothing survives from this period. The present ruins are the remains of the home of the Wemyss family, who lived here from the 14th century, and their successors in the 16th century. It is thought that a castle may have been built here by the MacDuff Mormaers, or Earls, of Fife in the 11th century, at the time of King Macbeth of Scotland. The castle is supposedly haunted by a Grey Lady, said to be a Mary Sibbald who was found guilty of theft and died in the castle.

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Tour Scotland Video Coast And Castle Wemyss Fife




Tour Scotland video of the coast and castle on ancestry visit to Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Wemyss Castle is located on the cliffs between the villages of East Wemyss and West Wemyss overlooking the Firth of Forth.. Accounts date the construction of the castle to the year 1421 when Sir John Wemyss decided to build a fortified castle to replace one destroyed by the Duke of Rothesay at Kilconquhar in 1402. The castle is thus the ancient seat of the Earls of Wemyss and their families. The castle is best known as the location where Mary, Queen of Scots, met her future husband Lord Darnley in 1565.

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Tour Scotland Video Mary Poppins Penguins Scarecrow Festival Newburgh Fife



Tour Scotland video of Mary Poppins and Penguins on visit to the Scarecrow Festival in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Pirates Scarecrow Festival Newburgh Fife



Tour Scotland video of Pirates on visit to the Scarecrow Festival in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Palnackie Scotland

Old photograph of Palnackie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Palnackie is a working sea port on the Urr Water which is visited by fishing boats and pleasure craft alike, it is also home to the Grande Internationale World Flounder Tramping Championships.



Old photograph of Palnackie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Old photograph of Palnackie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video David Rattray Flax Spinner Gravestone Rattray Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of the David Rattray, Flax Spinner, gravestone on ancestry visit to the Parish Church graveyard in Rattray by Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Erected by Helen Jamieson in memory of her husband, Flax Spinner, Bramble Bank, who died 23rd November, 1850, aged 58 years. Also of their five children who died in infancy. Also in memory of the above Jamieson who died 29th April, 1856, aged 59 years.

The surname Rattray is taken from the barony of Rattray in Perthshire. This barony has been in their possession since the eleventh century. The Rattray estate includes the ruins of a pictish fort dwelling. It stands on a sandy mound which is associated by local tradition with Pagan rites. The first recorded Laird of Rattray was Alan who witnessed charters by William the Lion and Alexander II of Scotland. During the Wars of Scottish Independence, Alan's grandson, Eustace Rattray, was captured at the Battle of Dunbar in 1296 and taken to England as a prisoner. Eustace's son was Adam Rattray who swore fealty to King Edward I of England, appearing on the Ragman Rolls of 1296. Adam was succeeded by his son, Alexander Rattray, who was amongst the barons who sat in the Parliament at Ayr to determine the succession to the throne in 1315. Alexander was succeeded by his brother, Eustace, the sixth Laird of Rattray, who was accused of being involved in a plot to depose Robert the Bruce, but he was latter acquitted.

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Tour Scotland Video John Coutts Schoolmaster Gravestone Rattray Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of the John Coutts, Schoolmaster, gravestone on ancestry visit to the Parish Church graveyard in Rattray by Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. In memory of Mr John Coutts. For 38 years the zealous and respected Schoolmaster of this Parish. Born in Glenshee in 1787, died in Rattray, 24th January, 1859, aged 72 years. This stone is erected by his brothers and sister.

Coutts and Couts are English language surnames derived from the Gaelic language. The names are derived from the Gaelic cuilt, meaning " nook" . It also was a habitational name from Cults, Aberdeen, Scotland. William Coutts, a Coutts of Auchintoul, was a vassal of the Clan Macdonald, settled in Montrose, in the 16th century and became a provost of the town. The Coutts are associated with the Clan Farquharson.

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Tour Scotland Video David Stewart Celtic Cross Gravestone Rattray Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of the David Stewart, Celtic Cross, gravestone on ancestry visit to the Parish Church graveyard in Rattray by Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. In memory of David Stewart, Draper, Rattray, who died March 1st, 1913, aged 82. And Amelia Fraser, his wife, who died August 18th, 1911, aged 79. Also their children; Annie Forbes, died January 4th, 1888, aged 4; Jessie Alexandra, died June 18th, 1889, aged 21

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Old Photograph Fitful Head Scotland

Old photograph of cottages below Fitful Head, Shetland Islands, Scotland. This is a headland located at the South West corner of the Shetland Mainland in Dunrossness.



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Old Photograph Sandwick Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Sandwick, located 13 miles south of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Sandwick is an area of the east coast of Mainland Shetland which extends from the main A970 out towards the promontories of No Ness and Cumlewick Ness.



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Old Photograph Bagging Peats Scotland

Old photograph of crofters bagging Peats on the Shetland Islands, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Walk Branklyn Garden Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland travel video of a walk on visit to Branklyn Garden in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This excellent Scottish garden has a superb collection of rhododendrons, alpines, and herbaceous and peat‑garden plants and Himalayan blue poppy.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Bagpiper Bluebell Woods Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Callum Younger a young Scottish Bagpiper in a Scottish Bluebells wood on visit to rural Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Walk Bluebells Wood Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of walk in a Scottish Bluebells wood on visit to rural Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Rapeseed In Bloom Highland Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Rapeseed in bloom in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Brassica napus Linnaeus, known as rapeseed, rape, oilseed rape, and in some cultivars, Canola—is a bright yellow flowering member of the Brassicacea family.

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Tour Scotland Video Kirking of the Council Concert Hall Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of the Kirking of the Council procession leaving the Concert Hall and Theatre on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Perth and District Pipe Band led this civic procession which included representatives from all the emergency services and the NHS. For the first time, the Lord Provost of Dundee City Council and the Provost of Angus Council also participated. The Vice Chancellor of UHI and the Principal and Assistant Principal of Perth College UHI also walked the route along with the High Constables of Perth, the Lord Dean of Guild and members of the Merchant Guild of Perth.

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