Tour Scotland August Video Photographs Firth Of Forth Near Edinburgh



Tour Scotland wee video of photographs of an afternoon visit to the Firth of Forth by South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland. Includes the Forth Railway Bridge, Forth Road Bridge and Queen Elizabeth cruise ship the luxury liner, named in 2010 by Her Majesty the Queen. A small selection of my personal photographs shot on small group tours of Scotland.

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Old Photograph Busta Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage and farm in Busta, Shetland, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Scottish Highland Dance Teacher Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish Highland Dance teacher from Paisley, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Buckhaven Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottage and houses in Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland. I was born in this village.

Old photograph of Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland.

Old photograph of Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland.

Old photograph of Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Powfoot Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in Powfoot in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Cessnock Castle Ayrshire Scotland

Old photograph of Cessnock Castle near Galston, East Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle dates from the 15th century, and was a stronghold of the Campbell Clan. The castle was converted to a mansion house much later in its history. Mary Queen of Scots is said to have come to the castle after her defeat at the battle of Langside (the site of which is also said to be haunted). One of her ladies in waiting died during her brief stay and she is said to haunt the castle. The ghost of John Knox is also said to wander the castle preaching sermons.

Old photograph of Cessnock Castle near Galston, East Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Selina Ross And Louise Jordan Festival Fringe Edinburgh



Tour Scotland video of Selina Ross and Louise Jordan on the Royal Mile on visit to the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Andrea Soler Royal Mile Festival Fringe Edinburgh



Tour Scotland video of Andrea Soler and James Ross on the Royal Mile on visit to the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Oxford Gargoyles A Cappella Festival Fringe Edinburgh



Tour Scotland video of Oxford Gargoyles A Cappella on the Royal Mile on visit to the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Glasgow Musicians Royal Mile Festival Fringe Edinburgh



Tour Scotland video of young musicians from Glasgow on the Royal Mile on visit to the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Kingsbarns Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and children in Kingsbarns, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.


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Old Photograph Portessie Scotland

Old photograph of Portessie located East of Buckie on the Moray Firth, Scotland. This is a small fishing village east of Buckie, on the north east coast. It is commonly nicknamed " the Sloch ", due to the name of the original settlement being Rottenslough. The village is sandwiched between Buckie and Findochty To the south of the village is a small community called Rathven which is home to two graveyards.



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Old Photograph Crofters Spinning Wool Island Of Harris Scotland

Old photograph of crofters carding and spinning wool on Island Of Harris, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Saline Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Saline, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish village was a weaving centre, Saline was not much redeveloped during the 19th and 20th centuries as the expansion of industrial mining in west Fife largely passed it by. As a result, Saline contains a sizable number of listed buildings, mostly 18th century weavers' cottages.

Old photograph of Saline, Fife, Scotland.

Old photograph of Saline, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Austin 7 Drive To Glenshee Perthshire



Tour Scotland video shot while driving behind a vintage Austin 7 convertible sports car on the A93 old military road North to visit Glenshee, Perthshire, Scotland. The A93 road, part of General Wade's military road from Perth to Fort George, runs north through the glen and on into Glen Beag, where it crosses the Cairnwell Passthe highest public road in the UK. The Glenshee Ski Centre sits at the head of the Cairnwell Pass and is Scotland's biggest with 21 lifts spread over 4 mountains. Glen Shee is known as the glen of the fairies it takes its name from the Gaelic " sith " meaning fairy and the old meeting place at the standing stone behind the present day church is called Dun Shith or Hill of the Fairies.

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Old Photograph Aberargie Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Aberargie village South of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Aberargie is recorded in the Pictish Chronicle as part of Nechtan's land grant in 460 AD, and may have been in existence for much longer. Aberargies' place in most history books is as a small part of the bigger Parish of Abernethy, but there was at one time a thriving community, based on the utilisation of the River Farg to power water mills for various purposes from sawing timber to the milling of flax and meal.



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Old Photograph Cabrach Scotland

Old photograph of Cabrach, Moray, Scotland. This Scottish name means " antler place " in Scottish Gaelic. The forces of Huntly and Errol mustered in Cabrach before the battle of Glenlivet in 1594. This battle is often seen as a religious conflict, and was fought by the Catholic forces of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly and Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll, who were victorious over the Protestant forces of Archibald Campbell, 7th Earl of Argyll. When the decree of 12 November 1593 came out, by which Catholics were ordered to give up their faith or leave the country, Huntly refused to obey. His continued resistance culminated in the Battle of Glenlivet, where, accompanied by the Earl of Erroll, he engaged Argyll's army above Allt a' Choileachain. The Earl of Huntly's forces consisted of 2,000 Highlanders from Clan Gordon, Clan Hay, Clan Comyn, Clan Cameron, Clan Cumming. The Earl of Argyll's forces consisted of 10,000 Highlanders from Clan Campbell, Clan Murray, Clan Stewart, Clan Forbes, Clan Macgillivray, Clan Maclean, Clan Grant, and the Chattan Confederation of Clan Mackintosh. Huntly's retainers prepared for battle by confession and communion. Mass was said at Auchindoun for them by Father James Gordon, before they set out on their march through Glenrinnes. Their weapons were sprinkled with holy water, and a cross placed on their armour symbolised that they fought in defence of the Cross of Christ. The Earl of Huntly's force of 2,000 men routed the Earl of Argyll's force of 10,000. Huntly's victory was a dramatic victory of horse and artillery over irregular infantry.



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Old Photograph Making Tweed Outer Hebrides Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter making Tweed on Island Of Harris, Scotland. For centuries the islanders of Lewis and Harris, the Uists, Benbecula and Barra have woven cloth by hand calling it Clò Mór in the original Gaelic or The big cloth. As the Industrial Revolution reached Scotland, mainland manufacturers turned to mechanisation but the Outer Hebrides retained their traditional processes.



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Old Photographs Ballintore Scotland


Old photograph of fishing boats in Ballintore in Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. This Scottish village has a large harbour, built around 1890. On the sea front there is a plaque in commemoration of John Ross, a Scots Missionary, born 1842, died 1915, who was responsible for translation of the Bible into Korean. John received his education at Fearn School, Glasgow University and Theological Hall, Edinburgh. In 1872 he was sent by the Scottish United Presbyterian Mission to Northeast China, known at that time as Manchuria. While in China, John met traders from Korea one day, and decided to make a Korean translation of the New Testament, which was completed in 1887 and brought to Korea. John returned to Scotland in 1910, but continued to help the Scotland China Society. He died in Edinburgh and is buried in Newington Cemetery.

Old photograph of Ballintore in Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Dochgarroch Lock Scotland

Old photograph of Dochgarroch Lock at the head of Loch Ness, Scotland. Dochgarroch is located at the start of the Caledonian Canal. The canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William in the Highlands. The canal was constructed in the early nineteenth century by Scottish engineer Thomas Telford, and is a sister canal of the Göta Canal in Sweden, also constructed by Telford.



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Old Photographs Nethy Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of Nethy Bridge, Scotland. Known locally as simply as " Nethy " the village has, since Victorian times been a tourist destination noted for its quiet and secluded location at the edge of the Abernethy Forest. It is situated in the heart of Strathspey in the Highlands of Scotland between Aviemore and Grantown-on-Spey.

Old photograph of Nethy Bridge, Scotland.

Old photograph of Nethy Bridge, Scotland.

Old photograph of the golf course in Nethy Bridge, Scotland.


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Old Photographs Stevenston Scotland

Old photograph of Stevenston in North Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish town is named after Stephan Loccard or Lockhart, whose father obtained a grant of land from Richard de Morville, Lord of Cunninghame and Constable of Scotland, around 1170. The town is first mentioned in a charter of 1240. The town has a link with Robert Burns as Mayville House was the birthplace in 1768 of Miss Lesley Baillie. Robert Burns met her in 1792 and described her to a friend as " the most beautiful, most elegant woman in the world ". She inspired one or two of his love poems, in which she is described as Bonnie Lesley.




Old photograph of Stevenston in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Kildermorie Scotland

Old photograph of the church and cemetery in Kildermorie in Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. Kildermorie, at the head of Strathruisdale, was formerly a village of which there is little trace today. The site was cleared in the Highland Clearances of 1792. Kil refers to church, so the translation is Church of Morie.



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Tour Scotland Video Police Canoe River Tay Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of the third day of the search for a body in the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. A Police canoe just below the harbour searching for the missing 16 year old boy named Mateusz Wilamowski from Poland who was swept into the River Tay in Perth.

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Old Photographs St Monans Scotland

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

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

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

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Old Photograph Doctor East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a Doctor in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Cortachy Scotland

Old photograph of Cortachy village near Cortachy Castle, Angus, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Crofters Island Of Barra Scotland

Old photograph of crofters taking home Peat on ponies on the Island of Barra, Scotland. The Clan MacNeil has strong ties to the Isle of Barra and claims descent from the O'Neills of Ulster. The name Barra is thought to take its name either from Saint Finbarr, the founder of Cork in Ireland, or from Saint Barr, the great grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the legendary 4th century king of Ireland.



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Old Photographs Lyne of Skene Scotland

Old photograph of the Blacksmith and cottages in Lyne of Skene, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This is a small Scottish farming community in North East Scotland some seven miles west of Aberdeen. Nearby are the Loch of Skene and Skene House.





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Old Photographs Tighnabruaich Scotland

Old photograph of shops and people in Tighnabruaich, Kyles of Bute, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village is just an hour and a half west of Glasgow, and is located along the east coast of Loch Fyne and stretching into the Kyles of Bute.



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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Shepherd Sheep Shearing Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of a Scottish shepherd sheep shearing on visit to Ashintully Estate, Strathardle, near Kirkmichael, Perthshire, Scotland. Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a shearer. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year, a sheep may be said to have been " shorn " or " sheared ", depending upon dialect. The annual shearing most often occurs in a shearing shed, a facility especially designed to process often hundreds and sometimes more than 3,000 sheep per day.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Sheep Dog Trial Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of a Scottish Sheep Dog Trial on visit to Ashintully Estate, Strathardle, near Kirkmichael, Perthshire, Scotland. This event was held midway between the towns of Blairgowrie and Pitlochry. The first Scottish sheepdog trial was held at the Carnworth Agricultural Society Show in Lanarkshire around 1874. A Sheepdog trial is a competitive dog sport in which herding dog breeds move sheep around a field, fences, gates, or enclosures as directed by their handlers. Such events are particularly associated with hill farming areas, where sheep range widely on largely unfenced land.

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Old Photograph Shepherd Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish shepherd in the Cairngorms of Scotland. The surname Shepherd has an ancient history in both England and Scotland. The many variations in England include Sheppard, Shephard, Shepperd, Shepard, Shipman and Shippard. The Scots have these as well as Sheepheard, and Shippert.



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Old Photograph Hill Walking Guide Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish hill walking guide in the Cairngorms of Scotland. The idea of undertaking a walk through the countryside for pleasure developed in the 18th century, and arose because of changing attitudes to the landscape and nature, associated with the Romantic movement. In earlier times walking generally indicated poverty and was also associated with vagrancy.



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Old Photographs Dalbeattie Scotland

Old photograph of Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish town is famed for its granite industry and for being the home town of William McMaster Murdoch First Officer of the RMS Titanic. William was the fourth son of Captain Samuel Murdoch, a master mariner, and Jane Muirhead, six of whose children survived infancy. They were a long and notable line of Scottish seafarers who sailed the world's oceans as early as the 19th century; his father and grandfather were both sea captains as were four of his grandfather's brothers.



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Tour Scotland Videos Daytime Search For Body River Tay Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of daytime search for a body in the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Police, firemen and Tayside Mountain rescue teams resumed the search just below Smeaton's Bridge for the missing 16 year-old boy named Mateusz Wilamowski from Poland who was swept into a river in Perth.



Tour Scotland video of daytime search for a body in the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Fire Service Night Search River Tay Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Scottish Fire Service searching for a body at night in the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This search and rescue operation was looking for a 16 year old boy named Mateusz Wilamowski from Poland who got into difficulty while crossing the River Tay near to the Woody Islands after attending the Rewind Festival in Scone. Five fire appliances where at the scene and police diving teams and firefighters searched the water while officers were on Queen's Bridge watching the river.

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Tour Scotland Video Search and Rescue Helicopter River Tay Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of a night Search and Rescue Helicopter from Lossiemouth searching for a body in the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This search and rescue operation was looking for a 16 year old boy named Mateusz Wilamowski from Poland who got into difficulty while crossing the River Tay near to the Woody Islands after attending the Rewind Festival in Scone. The helicopter flew up and down the river well into the night.

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Old Photograph Steam Traction Engine Roxburgh Scotland

Old photograph of a steam traction engine in Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Roxburgh's significance lay in its position in the centre of some of Lowland Scotland's most agriculturally fertile areas, and its position upon the River Tweed, which allowed river transport of goods via the main seaport of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Its position also acted as a barrier to English invasion.



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Tour Scotland Video Lady Ashmore Celtic Cross Gravestone Drimmie Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of the Lady Ashmore Celtic Cross gravestone on visit to Drimmie, near Bridge of Cally, Perthshire, Scotland. Lady Ashmore was the daughter of William Hartley, Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire. She married John Wilson, Lord Ashmore, a Senator of the College of Justice, Scotland. Their only son was killed in action in 1915. She wrote many songs and poems about the Clan Cameron including; The Cameron Men, Tales Of Two Streets, Farewell To The Camerons, Cameron Colours, The Changing Of The Guard, The Witch's Warning, Loch-na-Clive, Lochaber Bees, In Nevis Glen, A Cameron Claymore, Cameron Coins, Pipe And Drum, Cameron Born, A Cameron Badge, Camerons All, A Highland Laddie.

Far, far away in the wilds of Lochaber,
Ever since there was a home on the heath,
There have been men with a dirk or a claymore
Ready if need be to fly from the sheath:
And as of old in the Cameron country,
When the dear Standard is raised in the glen,
There will the tartans be gathered together
While there are Camerons, Cameron men.

Have they not shown the brave Cameron spirit
Over and over and over again,
Ever since facing the Germans' first fury,
Whether at Mons, on the Marne, or the Aisne,
Are there not many new names on their Honours,
And though the Colours may only bear ten,
None of the rest will be ever forgotten
While there are Camerons, Cameron men.

Who could forget their success at Givenchy,
When a great midnight advance had been made -
Mile after mile with the Camerons marching
Right at the head of the war worn Brigade:
All day and night the fierce battle had lasted,
Many a comrade had passed from their ken;
But in the line when Sir Douglas took over,
There were the Camerons, Cameron men.

Theirs is the heart that will rise in disaster -
Oh, how they fought with their backs to the wall,
In that dark hour when the Channel was threatened,
Holding their own though the heavens should fall!
Vainly the enemy tried to recover
Even a part of that dearly bought fen
Vainly he tried, not an inch would be yielded
While there were Camerons, Cameron men.

And, in the end, after taking Buzancy,
Storming the fort of the Hindenburg Line,
They would remember then, even while marching
Marching at last on the road to the Rhine
Those gallant comrades who fell by the wayside,
Giving their all for their country, and then
Say but these words, and no more would be needed
"They, too, were Camerons, Cameron men."

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