Tour Scotland Photograph Video Pipe Band Christmas Lights Switch On Blairgowrie Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of the Pipe Band marching into town at the Christmas Lights Switch On on visit to the Wellmeadow, a park in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Lyrics Choir Christmas Lights Switch On Blairgowrie Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of the Lyrics Choir at the Christmas Lights Switch On on visit to the Wellmeadow, a park in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Drum Corps Christmas Lights Switch On Blairgowrie Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of the Drum Corps at the Christmas Lights Switch On on visit to the Wellmeadow, a park in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The Drum Corps marching into town over the bridge which spans the River Ericht.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Perthshire Brass Band Christmas Lights Switch On Blairgowrie Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of Perthshire Brass Band at the Christmas Lights Switch On on visit to the Wellmeadow, a park in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland November Photograph Video Level Crossing Forteviot Perthshire




Tour Scotland November video shot at dusk of a ScotRail diesel passenger train crossing the level crossing at Forteviot, Strathearn, Perthshire, Scotland. A level crossing, or grade crossing, is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road or path at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using a bridge or tunnel. The term also applies when a light rail line with separate right of way or reserved track crosses a road in the same fashion. Other names include railway crossing, road through railroad, railroad crossing, and train crossing.

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Old Photographs Lochmaben Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and car in Lochmaben located four miles West of Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.




Old photograph of Lochmaben located four miles West of Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Smallest Cemetery In Scotland

Old photograph of the smallest cemetery in Scotland located in Galashiels, Scottish Borders of Scotland. This graveyard measured just 21ft by 14ft. The Darlings of Appletreeleaves were influential local landowners and this was once their private cemetery.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Video Sunset Friarton Bridge Perth Perthshire




Tour Scotland Winter video of sunset over Friarton Bridge on visit to River Tay just outside Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish bridge which spans the River Tay forms part of the important east coast road corridor from Edinburgh through to Dundee and Aberdeen. It is the single largest structure on the M90, a title it will hold until the completion of the second Forth Road Bridge in 2016.

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Tour Scotland Winter Video Photograph Setting Sun Friarton Bridge Perth Perthshire




Tour Scotland Winter video of the sun setting over Friarton Bridge on visit to River Tay just outside Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish bridge which spans the River Tay forms part of the important east coast road corridor from Edinburgh through to Dundee and Aberdeen.

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Old Photograph Ecclefechan Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, church and people in Ecclefechan, Scotland. Thomas Carlyle, born 1795, died 1881, the essayist, satirist and historian was born in Ecclefechan on the 4th of December 1795 at The Arched House. Carlyle left Ecclefechan at the age of 13 and walked the 84 miles to Edinburgh in order to attend university. In 1828 he moved to Craigenputtock with his wife Jane. He never forgot his roots and insisted that Ecclefechan should become his final resting place. He was buried in Ecclefechan churchyard on 5 February 1881. Robert Burns composed a song entitled The Lass O' Ecclefechan.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Hawick Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Hawick, Scotland. Tour Scottish Borders. The last train to cross Hawick station viaduct did so on 18 April 1971. The South signalbox was demolished on the 13th of July 1972, while work on dismantling the station buildings and goods shed started on the 20th of January 1975. Demolition of the viaduct over the River Teviot commenced nine months later, on the 1st of September 1975. After the closure and lifting of the line, the parcels office at Hawick and Galashiels remained open and British Rail vans continued to carry parcels traffic by road for a few more years.




Old photograph of the railway station in Hawick, Scotland. Tour Scottish Borders.

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Old Photograph Carrington Scotland

Old photograph of church and cottages in Carrington village which is located to the south of the town of Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, Scotland. This Scottish village is located to the south of the Scottish Capital city Edinburgh. The church tower is unusually tall for a comparatively small church and its design was copied, on a larger scale, for Kilconquhar Parish Church in the East Neuk of Fife. The Carrington Parish Church was built in 1710. It closed for regular worship in 1975, and has been converted into business premises. The congregation united with nearby Cockpen Church to form the current Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church.



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Old Photograph Busby Scotland

Old photograph of Busby located in East Renfrewshire near Glasgow, Scotland. Until 1780 Busby village consisted of a few cottages along a track leading from Carmunnock to Mearns. Big change started after 1780 with the founding of Busby's first Cotton Mill. This was at Newmill, on Cartsbridge lands on the opposite side of the River Cart. Busby and Newmill each had several earlier mills. Busby itself had Busby Meal Mill at the end of Field Road, and Busby Waulk Mill in the Glen. Newmill also had two mills, situated together at the waterfall. The first was another early Meal Mill and the second a more recent Lint Mill. The cotton mill built in 1780 was on a completely different scale to the old rural mills. It attracted many families to settle in the area, and the centre of Busby swung from the old declining fermtoun on the Lanarkshire side of the River Cart, to Newmill on the Renfrewshire side.



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Old Photographs The Cluanie Inn Scotland

Old photograph of The Cluanie Inn at the head of Glenshiel, Scotland. This Scottish glen runs 9 miles from south-east to north-west, from the Cluanie Inn at the western end of Loch Cluanie and the start of Glenmoriston to sea level at the village of Shiel Bridge and Loch Duich. In the heart of the Scottish Highlands you will find The Cluanie Inn, a 13 bedroom hotel with a choice of accommodation, set in the remote and beautiful valley of Glen Shiel in Skye & Lochalsh.





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Old Photograph Little Wamphray Scotland

Old photograph of thatched cottages in Little Wamphray village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. To the south east of old Wamphray, new houses of were built from about 1760 along what used to be the main road between Carlisle and Glasgow, which was a Roman road before that. They were part of an improvement scheme for the Wamphray estate. Wamphray derives its name, from the Gaelic signifying " the deep glen in the forest, " from the location in a sequestered and thickly wooded vale on the south side of the Water of Wamphray.



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Old Photographs Dunvegan Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Dunvegan village on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Dunvegan sits on the shores of the large Loch Dunvegan and is famous for Dunvegan Castle, seat of the chief of Clan MacLeod.



Old photograph of Dunvegan hotel on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Mossend Scotland

Old photograph of children, cottages and houses in Mossend located to the east of its sister town Bellshill, and to the west of the large town of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Mossend first appears on an early Timothy Pont map at the end of the 16th century as Mossid and the name most likely originates from the area being at the end of Moss land. Mining is the reason why the town began to expand. The arrival of Iron and Steel working industry and the attendant railway put Mossend on the map.



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Old Photographs Tranent Scotland

Old photograph of cottage, houses and people in Tranent, Scotland. Tranent is a town in East Lothian, Scotland. It is approximately eleven miles east of Edinburgh. It was here that the Tranent Militia Riot, known as the Massacre of Tranent, took place in 1797, when local people were killed by soldiers after protesting against conscription into the British Army. One of the 12 victims Jackie Crookston is depicted on the memorial that commemorates the dead in Civic Square.




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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Video Sunset Over Perth Perthshire




Tour Scotland Winter video of sunset over Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Video Sunset And Trees Scone Perthshire




Tour Scotland Winter video of sunset and trees on visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Coylton Scotland

Old photograph of cottage and houses in Coylton village in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Coylton was the home to one of Ayrshire's celebrated artists. Robert Bryden, born 1865, died 1939, who was born in the village. After a period working in Ayr, he became a modeller of bronze busts which are highly regarded. Among his works are bronze portraits of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in Ayr Town Hall. He also specialized in carved wooded figures, a collection of which are to be found at Rozelle. Bryden was also responsible for the Coylton War Memorial.



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Old Photographs Buchlyvie Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Buchlyvie village in Stirlingshire, Scotland. Buchlyvie was granted Burgh of Barony status in 1672, and by the eighteenth century was a mining village served by two railway lines. Buchlyvie Junction formed the intersection of the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway, which linked Stirling and Balloch, and the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which ran north to Aberfoyle. Passenger services closed in 1951, and the railway itself closed in 1959.



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Old Photographs Markinch Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and children in Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. During the industrial revolution in the middle of the 19th century, the old village started to adapt to spinning and weaving production. The use of water wheels of the corn and meal mills encouraged new industries to begin along the River Leven on land between Auchmuty, now part of Glenrothes, and Milton of Balgonie in the form of paper mills, bleach mills and ironworks. Papermaking was also an important local employer based on the town's close proximity to the River Leven.



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Old Photograph Roybridge Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station is on the West Highland Line at Roybridge located three miles East of Spean Bridge, Scotland. Both of the parents of the only recognized saint in Australia, Mary MacKillop, lived in Roybridge, prior to emigrating to Australia. MacKillop visited Roybridge in the 1870s where the local Catholic church, St Margaret's, now has a shrine to her. Mary Helen MacKillop was born on 15 January 1842 in what is now the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria, at the time part of an area called Newtown in the then British colony of New South Wales, to Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald. Although she continued to be known as " Mary ", when she was baptised six weeks later she received the names Maria Ellen. MacKillop's father, Alexander MacKillop, was born in Perthshire, and had been educated at the Scots College in Rome and at Blairs College in Kincardineshire, for the Catholic priesthood but at the age of 29 left, just before he was due to be ordained. He migrated to Australia and arrived in Sydney in 1838. MacKillop's mother, Flora MacDonald, born in Fort William, in the Highlands, she had left Scotland and arrived in Melbourne in 1840. Her father and mother married in Melbourne on 14 July 1840. MacKillop was the eldest of their eight children. Her younger siblings were Margaret, born 1843, died 1872, John born 1845, died 1867, Annie born 1848, died 1929, Alexandrina, born 1850, died 1882, Donald born 1853, died 1925), Alick, who died at 11 months old, and Peter born 1857, died 1878. Donald became a Jesuit priest and worked among the Aborigines in the Northern Territory. Lexie also became a Josephite.



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Old Photograph Corsewall Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Corsewall Lighthouse at Corsewall Point, Kirkcolm near Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. First lit in 1817, it overlooks the North Channel of the Irish Sea. The definition of the name Corsewall is the place or well of the Cross. Corsewall Lighthouse was automated in 1994 and is now a unique Lighthouse Hotel.



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Old Photograph Rannoch Station Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station on the West Highland Line which serves the area of Rannoch, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Although the railway links the station with Glasgow and Fort William on the West Highland Line, the station area is otherwise more closely linked, by road, with central Highland towns and villages on or near the A9 road. The B846 road meets the A9 between Pitlochry and Blair Atholl, about 34 miles east of the station. Rannoch station opened to passengers on the 7th of August 1894.


Old video of the railway station on the West Highland Line which serves the area of Rannoch, Highland Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Fraserburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish railway station opened in 1865 and closed to passengers in 1965. The railway line was built by the Formartine and Buchan Railway Company, which became part of the Great North of Scotland Railway.



Old photograph of the railway station in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Wick Scotland

Old photograph of the High Street in Wick, Scotland.

Old photograph of the railway station in Wick, Scotland. The station was built by the Sutherland and Caithness Railway, opening the line in 1874. On the 1st of July 1903, the station became the junction with the Wick and Lybster Light Railway. The last trains to Lybster ran in 1944, although the line was not officially closed until 1951.



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Old Photograph Salvation Army Band Scotland

Old photograph of a Salvation Army Band in Paisley, Scotland. The Salvation Army was founded in the East End of London in 1865 by one time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine. Originally, Booth named the organisation the East London Christian Mission. The name The Salvation Army developed from an incident during 19th and 20th May. William Booth was dictating a letter to his secretary George Scott Railton and said, " We are a volunteer army. " Bramwell Booth heard his father and said, " Volunteer! I'm no volunteer, I'm a regular ! " Railton was instructed to cross out the word " volunteer" and substitute the word " salvation ". The Salvation Army was modeled after the military, with its own flag and its own hymns, often with words set to popular and folkloric tunes sung in the pubs. Booth and the other soldiers in " God's Army " would wear the Army's own uniform, for meetings and ministry work. He became the " General " and his other ministers were given appropriate ranks as " officers ". Other members became " soldiers. "



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Christmas Fair Walk Princes Street Edinburgh




Tour Scotland Winter video of a Christmas Fair walk along Princes Street near Edinburgh Castle on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Stone Isle Of Tiree Scotland

Old photograph of the Ringing Stone on the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. This rock known in Gaelic as Clach a' Choire’ is about ten feet across and is struck by small hand held stones. It’s said that if it is ever moved, the island will sink back into the ocean. The Tiree name derives from Tìr Iodh, meaning, land of the corn, from the days of the 6th century Celtic missionary and abbot St Columba. Tiree provided the monastic community on the island of Iona, south east of the island, with grain. A number of early monasteries once existed on Tiree itself, and several sites have stone cross slabs from this period.



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