Tour Scotland Video Bagpiper Duncan MacDonald High Street Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Bagpiper Duncan MacDonald, from Newburgh, Fife, playing the bagpipes in the High Street on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

MacDonald, Macdonald, and McDonald are Anglicised forms of the Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic name MacDhòmhnaill, which in modern Gaelic is approximated as McConnell. It is a patronym where Mac means " son " and Dhòmhnaill means " of Dòmhnall ". The personal name Dòmhnall is composed of the elements domno " world " and val " might ", " rule ". The Gaelic personal name is probably a borrowing from the British Celtic Dyfnwal. In the context of Scottish clans, the various forms of the name refer to one of the largest clans, Clan Donald.

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Tour Scotland Video Aaron New York City's Killing Me Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of singer, songwriter, Aaron Fyfe singing a cover version of New York City's Killing Me by Ray LaMontagne in the Greyfriars Bar on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

There's just somethin' about this hotel
Got me wishin' I was dead
Gotta get out of New York City, son
Somewhere I can clear my head

I was just kickin' along the sidewalk
No one looks you in the eye
No one asks you how you're doin'
Don't seem to care if you live or if you die

I just got to get me somewhere
Somewhere that I can feel free
Gotta get out of New York City, boy
New York City's killin' me

It was just outside of Nashville
I met the woman of my dreams
Sure would like to get to know her
Maybe find out what it means

I get so tired of all this concrete
I get so tired of all this noise
Gotta get back up in the country
Have a couple drinks with the good ol' boys

I just got to get me somewhere
Somewhere that I can feel free
Get me out of New York City, son
New York City's killin' me

I just got to get me somewhere
Somewhere that I can feel free
Get me out of New York City, son
New York City's killin' me
Gotta get out of New York City, son
New York City's killin' me

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Tour Scotland Video Gavin Munro Singing The Bottle Let Me Down Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Gavin Munro and friends singing a cover version of The Bottle Let Me Down by Merle Haggard in the Greyfriars Bar on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Each night I leave the bar room when it's over
Not feeling any pain at closing time
But tonight your memory found me much too sober
Couldn't drink enough to keep you off my mind

Tonight the bottle let me down
And let your memory come around
The one true friend I thought I'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down

I've always had a bottle I could turn to
And lately I've been turnin' every day
But the wine don't take effect the way it used to
And I'm hurtin' in old familiar ways

Tonight the bottle let me down
and let your memory come around
The one true friend I thought I'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down

Tonight the bottle let me down

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Tour Scotland Video Gavin Munro I Sent You Up Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Gavin Munro and friends singing a cover version of I Sent You Up by Knife in the Water in the Greyfriars Bar on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Well, I watched the fire in earnest
'Cause I thought it would quell my pain
But the more that I saw you burning
The more I only felt the same

So, I sent you up
But the angels turned you down
And the devil already had you
Well, he turned you right back around

So, I put you on the canvas
Like a prison for all time
But I couldn't stand to see your face
Sent chills along my spine

So, I sent you up
But the angels turned you down
And the devil already had you
But he turned you right back around

So, I cut you into pieces
And I threw you in the river
Now, the fishes, they all curse me
For the poison I deliver

So, I sent you up
But the angels turned you down
And the devil already had you
But he turned you right back around

Now your body's in the ocean
About nine hundred miles from home
And your life it never left you
Well, it just wants to be alone

So, I sent you up
But the angels turned you down
And the devil already had you
But he turned you right back around

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Old Photograph Lochrutton Parish Church Scotland

Old photograph of Lochrutton Parish Church near Dumfries, Scotland. This Scottish church is located on rising ground overlooking a large area of countryside. The church is located on the site of a pre-Reformation church, and old gravestones in the graveyard testify to this. The current church has whinstone walls and a slate roof. The walls are whitewashed. There is also a belltower.



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Old Photograph Kildalton Cross Scotland

Old photograph of Kildalton Cross, Islay, Scotland. This is a monolithic high cross in Celtic cross form in the churchyard cemetery of the former parish church of Kildalton, from Scottish Gaelic Cill Daltain, " Church of the Foster Son " i.e. St John the Evangelist, on the island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides. It was carved probably in the second half of the 8th century AD, and is closely related to crosses of similar date on the isle of Iona. It is often considered the finest surviving Celtic cross in Scotland, and is certainly one of the most perfect monuments of its date to survive on western Europe.



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Tour Scotland Video Heavy Horse Sculpture Coupar Angus Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the heavy horse sculpture on ancestry visit to Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland. The heavy horse has been made from corten steel, the same material used to build the Angel of the North, and celebrates the equine heritage of Coupar Angus.

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Old Photograph Balcaskie House Scotland

Old photograph of Balcaskie House located North of Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish house was first built before 1629, as the home of the Moncrieffs of that Ilk, and was an L-plan house of four storeys. In 1665 the estate was bought by Sir William Bruce, who set about enlarging the house between 1668 and 1674. Bruce planned the new house himself, and employed John Hamilton as mason, and Andrew Waddell as wright. The estate was sold in 1684 to Sir Thomas Steuart, when Bruce moved to his new home at Kinross House. In 1698 it changed hands again, becoming the property of Sir Robert Anstruther, whose son Philip undertook works in the mid-18th century, including heightening the central block. It was now that the wing walls and pavilions were added, according to John Gifford. Further alterations were made by William Burn in 1830-32, including a porch and new windows, and a stable block. Between 1856 and 1858 David Bryce worked at Balcaskie, adding several baronial features. Balcaskie remains the seat of the Chief of the Name and Arms of Clan Anstruther.



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Tour Scotland Video Drive North On M90 From Edinburgh To Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland April video of part of a drive North from Edinburgh on the M90 Motorway and over Friarton Bridge which spans the River Tay, on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Friarton Bridge is a two lane dual carriageway; unusually for a motorway, although not unusually for the M90, neither carriageway has a hard shoulder. When it was built in 1978, it was designated as the M85 motorway. When the A85 from the north end of the bridge to Dundee was renumbered in the early 1990s to A90 through to Dundee, the motorway's designation changed to M90 to provide a continuous route number from Edinburgh through to Fraserburgh.

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Tour Scotland Video Classic Cars Gleneagles Hotel Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of classic cars from Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, leaving after a visit to the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum located North of Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum based at Lathalmond near Dunfermline is a gem for the bus enthusiast, featuring preserved buses and coaches from all over the British Isles, but majoring on the fleets of Scotland in the years gone by.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Clydesdale Horse Foal Kinross Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish Clydesdale horse Foal near Kinross by Loch Leven on ancestry visit to Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Crofthead Mill Scotland

Old photograph of Crofthead Mill in Neilston, East Renfrewshire near Glasgow, Scotland. Crofthead Mill, known locally as Neilston Mill, was established in 1792. It was one of seven large cotton mills on the banks of the River Levern between Neilston and Dovecothall. Because of the large size of the complex, coupled with its short distance from the main residential core of Neilston, it was described in 1830, at the peak of the industry's prosperity, as " a little town of its self. "





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Old Photographs Connel Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of Connel Bridge, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish bridge is a cantilever bridge that spans Loch Etive at Connel in Scotland. The bridge takes the A828 road across the narrowest part of the loch, at the Falls of Lora. The bridge appears in the 1981 film Eye of the Needle, starring Donald Sutherland. In the film, Sutherland's character is seen riding a stolen motorcycle across the bridge, which he then disposes of by pushing it down the embankment at the north end of the bridge after it runs out of fuel.

Old photograph of Connel Bridge, Argyll, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Laggan Dam Scotland

Old photograph of Laggan Dam in the Highlands of Scotland. This Scottish dam located on the River Spean south west of Loch Laggan. It is part of the Lochaber hydro-electric scheme. The structure was built by Balfour Beatty for the British Aluminium Company and construction was finished in 1934. Water from the dam is conveyed to Loch Treig through 3 miles of tunnel. From there, the waters are conveyed to a power house at Fort William via 15 feet diameter pipe 15 miles long. The dam can be found next to the A86 road from Fort William.

Old photograph of Laggan Dam in the Highlands of Scotland.

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Old Photograph Collegiate Church of St Nicholas Buccleuch Dalkeith Scotland

Old photograph of The Collegiate Church of St Nicholas Buccleuch in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. This Medieval church, became collegiate in 1406. Medieval nave and transepts restored in 1854 by David Bryce. James, 1st Earl of Morton, and his wife Princess Joanna, the profoundly deaf third daughter of James I, are buried within the choir. Joan Stewart, Countess of Morton, also called Joanna, born 1428, died 16 October 1486), was the daughter of James I, King of Scotland, and the wife of James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton. She was known, in Latin, as the muta domina, mute lady, of Dalkeith. Joan had two younger brothers, including the future King of Scotland, James II, and five sisters. She had the misfortune to be deaf and dumb. Joan married The 4th Baron Dalkeith before 15 May 1459, who at the time of their marriage was raised to the peerage as the first Earl of Morton. Together Joan and her husband James had four children: Sir John Douglas, 2nd Earl of Morton, killed at the Battle of Flodden; James Douglas; Janet, married to Sir Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell. Elizabeth, mentioned in a charter of 1479 after which nothing further is known of her.



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Old Photograph Cove Argyll Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Cove in Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village is on the south west of the Rosneath peninsula, on the east shore of Loch Long. In common with many villages in the area, it was home to wealthy Glasgow merchants and shipowners in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Several of the large houses have either been converted or have gone. Survivors include over a dozen houses by Alexander " Greek " Thomson: Craigrownie Castle, Glen Eden, Craig Ailey, Ferndean and Seymour Lodge, all dating from the 1850s.



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Old Photographs Strathyre Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Strathyre near Balquhidder, Scotland. Now in the Stirling local government district this village was at one time part of Perthshire. It is within the bounds of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. It is largely a Victorian creation, having grown up with the arrival of the railway in the 1870s and the establishment of Strathyre railway station.



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Old Photograph Eliock House Scotland

Old photograph of Eliock House by Sanquhar north of Dumfries, Scotland. The lands of Elliok were in the hands of the Dalzell family from 1388 to 1720. This large Scottish mansion house, standing on a natural platform overlooking the River Nith, was owned by the Veitch family up until at least 1905 and later by James Irving McConnel, born 1863, fourth son of Frederic McConnel of Blackyett, Dumfriesshire.

The Dalzell name originates from the former barony of Dalzell in Lanarkshire, in the area now occupied by Motherwell. The name Dalzell is first recorded in 1259, and Thomas de Dalzell fought at the Battle of Bannockburn. The Dalzell lands were forfeited later in the 14th century, but regained through marriage in the 15th. Sir Robert Dalzell was created Lord Dalzell in 1628, and his son was further elevated in the peerage as Earl of Carnwath, in 1639. In 1645 the Dalzell estates were sold to the Hamiltons of Orbiston, who held them until the 20th century.



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