Tour Scotland March Photograph Video Forth Railway Bridge Firth Of Forth Scotland




Tour Scotland March video of the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth Of Forth on ancestry visit to South Queensferry near Edinburgh ,Scotland. The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles west of central Edinburgh. It was opened on 4 March 1890. The bridge connects Edinburgh with Fife, leaving the Lothians at Dalmeny and arriving in Fife at North Queensferry and onwards to Perth, Perthshire, connecting the north-east and south-east of the country. The bridge was begun in 1883 and took 7 years to complete with the loss of 98 men. Until 1917, when the Quebec Bridge was completed, the Forth Bridge had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world, and it still has the world's second-longest single span.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Coastal Path East Neuk Of Fife




Tour Scotland video of the coastal path on visit to St Monans, Pittenweem, Elie, Anstruther and Cellardyke in the Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Fife Coastal Path runs from the Forth Estuary in the south, to the Tay Estuary in the north and stretches for 117 miles. This is the area in which I was raised in Scotland.

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Old Photograph Ardchonnel Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Ardchonnel Castle, Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish castle dates from the 11th century, and belonged to the ancestors of the Duke of Argyll who was the chief of Clan Campbell. It is now a ruin covered in heather. It was from here that the saying " It's a far cry to Lochow " came from, since they often launched attacks from this island.



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Tour Scotland Video Floyd Tomlinson Oblivious Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of Floyd Tomlinson singing a cover version of Oblivious by Aztec Camera in a pub on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

From the mountain tops down to the sunny street
A different drum is playin' a different kind of beat
It's like a mystery that never ends
I see you cryin' and I want to kill your friends

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet, it's obvious
Just count me in and count me out
And I'll be waitin' for the shout, oblivious

Met Mo and she's okay, said no one really changed
Got different badges but they wear them just the same
Down by the ballroom I recognized
That flamin' fountain in those kindred carin' eyes

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet, it's obvious
Just count me in and count me out
And I'll be waitin' for the shout, oblivious

I hope it haunts me 'til I'm hopeless
I hope it hits you when you go
And sometimes on the edge of sleepin'
It rises up to let me know, it's not so deep, I'm not so slow

They're callin' all the shots, they'll call and say they phoned
They'll call us lonely when we're really just alone
Like a funny film, it's kinda cute
They've bought the bullets and there's no one left to shoot

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet, it's obvious
Just count me in and count me out
And I'll be waitin' for the shout, oblivious

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet, it's obvious
Just count me in and count me out
And I'll be waitin' for the shout, oblivious

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Tour Scotland Video Floyd Tomlinson Ain't No Sunshine Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of Floyd Tomlinson singing a cover version of Ain't No Sunshine in a Pub on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Ain't No Sunshine is a song by Bill Withers from his 1971 album Just as I Am, produced by Booker T. Jones.

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone Its not warm when she's away
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone And she's always gone too long
Anytime she goes away
Wonder this time where shes gone
Wonder if shes gonna stay
Ain't no sunshine when shes gone
And this house just ain't no home
Anytime she goes away
And I know, I know...
Hey, I oughtta leave young thing alone
But ain't no sunshine when she's gone
Ain't no sunshine when shes gone
Only darkness everyday
Ain't no sunshine when shes gone
And this house just ain't no home
Anytime she goes away
Anytime she goes away...

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Old Photograph Brough Lodge Scotland

Old photograph of Brough Lodge on Fetlar Island one of the Northern Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The Gothic Brough Lodge was built by Arthur Nicolson in about 1820.



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Tour Scotland Video Molly McCabe Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of Molly McCabe singing a cover version of Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You in a Pub on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Can't Take My Eyes Off You was a 1967 single by Frankie Valli.

You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off of you.
You'd be like heaven to touch.
I wanna hold you so much.
At long last love has arrived.
And I thank God I'm alive.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off of you.

Pardon the way that I stare.
There's nothing else to compare.
The sight of you leaves me weak.
There are no words left to speak.
But if you feel like I feel.
Please let me know that it's real.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off of you.

I need you baby, if it's quite all right,
I need you baby to warm a lonely night.
I love you baby.
Trust in me when I say, "OK." (it's OK)
Oh pretty baby, "Don't let me down," I pray.
Oh pretty baby, now that I found you, stay.
And let me love you, oh baby let me love you, oh baby...

You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off of you.
You'd be like heaven to touch.
I wanna hold you so much.
At long last love has arrived.
And I thank God I'm alive.
You're just too good to be true.
Can't take my eyes off of you (I want you, I want you).

I need you baby, and if it's quite all right,
I need you baby to warm a lonely night.
I love you baby.
Trust in me when I say, "It's OK."
Oh pretty baby, "Don't let me down," I pray.
Oh pretty baby, now that I found you, stay.
And let me love you, oh baby let me love you, oh baby....

I need you baby, if it's quite all right,
I love you baby, you warm a lonely night.
I need you baby.
Trust in me when I say, "It's OK."
Oh, oh pretty baby, "Don't let me down," I pray.
Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay.
And let me love you, oh baby let me love you, oh baby....

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Tour Scotland Video Rory Yates Save The Last Dance For Me Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of Rory " Rowdy " Yates singing a cover version of Save The Last Dance For Me at a music session in the Greyfriars Bar on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Save the Last Dance For Me is the title of a popular song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, first recorded in 1960 by Ben E. King and The Drifters.

You can dance
Every dance with the guy
Who gave you the eye
Let him hold you tight

You can smile
Every smile for the man
Who held your hand
'Neath the pale moonlight

But don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin'
Save the last dance for me, mmm

Oh I know
That the music is fine
Like sparkling wine
Go and have your fun

Laugh and sing
But while we're apart
Don't give your heart
To anyone

But don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin'
Save the last dance for me, mmm

Baby don't you know I love you so?
Can't you feel it when we touch?
I will never, never let you go
I love you oh so much

You can dance
Go and carry on
Till the night is gone
And it's time to go

If he asks
If you're all alone
Can he take you home
You must tell him no

'Cause don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin'
Save the last dance for me

'Cause don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin'
Save the last dance for me, mmm

Save the last dance for me, mmm
Save the last dance for me

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Tour Scotland Video Shetland Pony Highland Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of a Shetland Pony in a field on visit to Highland Perthshire, Scotland. These ponies originated in the Shetland Islands. Small horses have been kept on the Shetland Isles since the Bronze Age. People who lived on the islands probably later crossed the native stock with ponies imported by Norse settlers.

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Old Photograph Balbithan House Scotland

Old photograph of Balbithan House located four miles South of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The grounds once belonged to the Abbey of Lindores, but by 1490 the Chalmers family had acquired them. An earlier House of Balbithan, of which there is now no trace, stood above the river Don, opposite Kintore. Jacobites are supposed to have used the tower in 1746, after Culloden. The Chalmers sold the property to James Balfour, an Edinburgh merchant, in 1696. After a brief period, from 1699 to 1707, in the ownership of the Hays, it came to be owned by a branch of the Gordons until 1859.



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Tour Scotland Video Search And Rescue Helicopter Searching For Body River Tay Perth Perthshire




Tour Scotland February night video of a Search and Rescue Helicopter searching for a body in the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. A body was spotted in the water around 5pm near Smeaton's Bridge. The search focused on the Moncreiffe Island area, where the person was last spotted. I shot this video at 8.30pm as the search continued.

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Old Photographs Menmuir Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Menmuir village located in Angus, Scotland. Neolithic cup and ring marked stones have been found in the area. Bronze age archaeology has been found nearby, with a short cist burial found a mile to the south-east of the village, containing bones and a flint spearhead, and a bronze axehead found nearby. The Brown Caterthun and the White Caterthun, hillforts dating from the iron age, can also be seen nearby. A number of Pictish symbol stones have been found in Menmuir, including a cross-slab and a sculptured stone found in the kirkyard around 1844 when an old wall was demolished, three fragments, found in the grounds of the village Manse in 1943. These point to Menmuir having been a centre of some ecclesiastical importance in the early Medieval period.


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Old Photograph Trinity Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Trinity village located one mile North West of Brechin in Angus, Scotland. This Scottish village was the location of the toll house to the Strathmore turnpike, operating from 1794 to 1879.



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Old Photographs Douglastown Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and children in Douglastown located three miles South West of Forfar, Scotland. This Scottish village takes its name from the landowner who in about 1789 provided land for James Ivory & Co., in which Mr Douglas was a partner, to build a flax mill to spin yarn for heavy linen cloth called osnabruks, named from the German town of Osnabruk, where it was originally made. The hamlet of Douglastown was built to house the workers. The mill closed in 1834. It used flax-spinning technology invented by John Kendrew and Thomas Porthouse of Darlington, patented in 1787.




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Old Photographs Ruthven Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Ruthven village located two miles North of Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland.




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Old Photographs Sorbie Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in Sorbie located between Wigtown and Whithorn in Wigtownshire, Scotland. Sorbie parish was a seventeenth century amalgamation of Sorbie, Kirkmadrine and Cruggleton. Sorbie station on the Wigtownshire Railway branch of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway which closed in the 1964 formerly served Sorbie village. For many years Sorbie had a creamery located beside the railway station, some of whose products were once exported via the port at nearby Garlieston. Sorbie Parish Church, in the centre of the village, dates from around 1755. Farming forms the principal local industry in the area.




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Old Photograph High Lighthouse Tayport Scotland

Old photograph of the High Lighthouse in Tayport, Fife, across from Dundee, Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse was built by Robert Stevenson in 1823.



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Old Photograph Low Lighthouse Tayport Scotland

Old photograph of the Low Lighthouse in Tayport, Fife, across from Dundee, Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse was built in 1823 and has been inactive since 1848.



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Old Photograph Carloway Scotland

Old photograph of a cattle market in Carloway village on the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Carloway has a few historical sites. An Iron Age Broch in Doune Carloway, a Blackhouse Village in Garenin and many others, including a standing stone called Clach an Tursa in Upper Carloway.



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Old Photograph Kelly Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Kelly Castle near Arbroath, Scotland. This Scottish castle which overlooks the Elliot Water, comprises a four storey tower of the late 15th or early 16th Century, set within a 19th century courtyard. It was a stronghold of the Mowbray family until forfeited to the Stewarts in the early 14th century and was restored from a semi ruined state by the Earl of Dalhousie in the 19th century.



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Old Photograph Bishopton Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish village actually has no streets. All of the roads have names such as Road and Crescent but there are currently no Streets.



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Old Photograph Crimond Scotland

Old photograph of Crimond, located ten miles North West of Peterhead, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In 1324, Sir Archibald Douglas was recorded as being granted the lands of Crimond. In the summer of 1297 after capturing Aberdeen, William Wallace and his army travelled through Crimond as they marched to meet another rebel commander Andrew de Moray at a stronghold on the banks of the river Spey.



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Old Photograph John Brown and Company Shipyard Clydebank Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of shipyard workers coming out of the John Brown and Company Shipyard in Clydebank by Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish shipyard built many notable and world famous ships including RMS Lusitania, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and RMS Queen Elizabeth 2. At its height, from 1900 to the 1950s, it was one of the most highly regarded, and internationally famous, shipbuilding companies in the world.



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