Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Tour Scotland video of the Red Pine Timber Company singing Different Lonesome at the Southern Fried Festival on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Red Pine Timber Company are quickly becoming one of Scotland’s premier live bands.
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Old photograph of the railway station in Gretna Green in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The station was opened by the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway on 23 August 1848 as Gretna. The Glasgow and South Western Railway renamed the station as Gretna Green in April 1852. On 6 December 1965 the station was closed. The Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway station was one of three serving Gretna, the others being: Gretna built by the Caledonian Railway in 1847, closing in 1951. Gretna built by Border Union Railway in 1861, closing in 1915. The station re-opened in September 1993 by British Rail with just one platform, on the north side of the line to the west of the previous station, coinciding with the west end of the points marking the end of the single track section from Annan.
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Old photograph of the railway station in Glenwhilly in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This intermediate Scottish station on the Glasgow, Ayr, Girvan, Stranraer main line of the former Glasgow and South Western Railway was opened, by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway on 5 October 1877. It closed on 7 February 1882, reopened on 16 February 1882, closed again on 12 April 1886, reopened again on 14 June 1886, and finally closed on 6 September 1965. The line itself remains open to regular passenger traffic.
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Old photograph of Friars Vennel in Dumfries, Scotland. Friars Vennel was established in the 9th century by Scots, Irish colonists crossing from Galloway into Nithsdale, accessing by a ford over the Nith at the bottom of the Vennel. It is the most ancient part of the town and with a small part of the High Street formed the Dumfries of the eleventh century. In the late thirteenth century Devorgilla, wife of John Baliol, founded Greyfriars Monastery, at the top of the Vennel, in memory of her husband who died in 1269. In 1306 Robert The Bruce met John Comyn, his rival for the crown of Scotland, at Greyfriars monastery in Dumfries. A row erupted and Comyn was murdered. Bruce then became an outlaw.
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Old photograph of Glenquoich Lodge by Loch Quoich in Lochaber in the Highlands of Scotland. Before the widespread clearances of the 1780s, the shores of Loch Quoich were fringed with settlements and good grazing land. Edwin Landseer was among many fashionable sportsmen who came here in the 19th century, and his best known paintings were inspired by the red deer of Glen Quoich. The flooding of Loch Quoich destroyed Glenquoich Lodge, built for Edward Ellice, Member of Parliament, in 1838; extended by Alexander Ross around 1900 for Lord Burton of Dochfour, a tenant from 1873 to 1905, who poured money into the place. Situated near the mouth of Allt Coire Peitireach, it started life fairly spartan, `furnished in the simplest manner, with cane bottomed chairs and iron bedsteads, but became one of the most fashionable shooting lodges of its day.
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Old photograph of St Blane's Chapel on the southern tip of the Isle of Bute, Scotland. St Blane's Church and Monastery was built at an unknown date prior to 574. There is clear evidence of Christian burial there in the 6th and 7th centuries, also that the monastery became a cultural centre around that time. Its list of abbots extends to 790, when the Viking raids began. St Blane's Church, in use as the parish church of Kingarth until the early 18th century is a fine 12th century Romanesque building consisting of a nave and chancel.
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Old photograph of the parish church in Walston in East Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish church was built on the shoulder of a hill in the 17th century, and rebuilt in 1789. It has rubble and sandstone ashlar walls and a slate roof. The church is in good condition although it is no longer in ecclesiastical use.
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