Tour Scotland Video Pipe Band World Highland Games Heavy Events Championship Dunfernline Fife



Tour Scotland video of a pipe band at the World Highland Games Heavy Events Championships in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry visit to to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Dunfermline is the ancient capital of Scotland, birthplace of Kings and Queens and the final resting place of King Robert The Bruce. The town was first recorded in the 11th century, with the marriage of Malcolm III, King of Scotland, and Saint Margaret at the church in Dunfermline. As his Queen consort, Margaret established a new church dedicated to the Holy Trinity, which evolved into an Abbey under their son, David I in 1128. Following the burial of Alexander I.

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Tour Scotland Video Drummers And Piper World Highland Games Heavy Events Championships Dunfermline Fife



Tour Scotland video of drummers and a Piper at the World Highland Games Heavy Events Championships in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry visit to to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Dunfermline is the ancient capital of Scotland, birthplace of Kings and Queens and the final resting place of King Robert The Bruce.

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Tour Scotland Video Torrential Rain Old High Street Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of torrential rain in the old High Street on ancestry visit toPerth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Diabaig Scotland

Old photograph of a crofters cottage in Diabaig in Wester Ross, Scotland. This remote Scottish coastal fishing and crofting township is located on the north shore of the sea loch of Loch Diabaig, an inlet off the north side of Loch Torridon. The villages of Alligin Shuas and Inveralligin lie to the South East along this road. A footpath continues along the coast from Diabaig, to the small settlement of Redpoint, near Gairloch. Loch Diabaig played the part of Loch Ness in the 1995 film of the same name. Ted Danson starred.





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Old Photograph Thatched Houses Ladywell Street Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of thatched houses in Ladywell Street in Glasgow, Scotland. Lady Well was an ancient holy well dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and was probably one of the sixteen public wells in Glasgow in 1736. It used to flow from the East bank of the Merchants' Park, but when this was converted to the Necropolis, the well became polluted and was closed. The Merchants' House, in 1836, built a niche on the spot to mark the site of its exit from the brae. This was rebuilt in 1874.



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Tour Scotland Video Drummers HM Royal Marines Band Mini Military Tattoo Dundee Tayside



Tour Scotland video of Drummers from HM Royal Marines Plymouth and Portsmouth Band in the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Drummers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo performing at the mini tattoo in Dundee.

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Tour Scotland Video Lone Piper Playing When The Battles Over Mini Military Tattoo City Square Dundee Tayside



Tour Scotland video of a lone Piper playing When The Battles Over from a balcony overlooking the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Lone bagpiper from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Dundee. The tune is a late 19th century composition by Pipe Major William Robb, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, the tune entered piping repertoire between the Boer and First World Wars.

When the Battle’s Over
I returned to the fields of glory,
Where the green grasses and flowers grow.
And the wind softly tells the story,
Of the brave lads of long ago.

March no more my soldier laddie,
There is peace where there once was war.
Sleep in peace my soldier laddie,
Sleep in peace, now the battle’s over.

In the great glen they lay a sleeping,
Where the cool waters gently flow.
And the gray mist is sadly weeping,
For those brave lads of long ago.

See the tall grass is there awaiting,
As their banners of long ago.
With their heads high forward threading,
Stepping lightly to meet the foe.

Some return from the fields of glory,
To their loved ones who held them dear.
But some fell in that hour of glory,
And were left to their resting here

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Old Photograph Rosneath Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Rosneath castle located near the village of Kilcreggan, Scotland. This, now demolished, Scottish castle was ruined and rebuilt many times; the final rebuilding came in 1803, three years after the previous building burnt down. Located further uphill from previous versions, it belonged to the Duke of Argyll whose family retained it until Princess Louise died in 1939. In stark contrast to the earlier castles, it was in the Romanesque style.





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Old Photograph Dougalstoun House Scotland

Old photograph of Dougalstoun House by Milngavie, Scotland. Dougalstoun, now demolished, early came into the family of Grahams, allied to the ancestors of the Montrose family, and at the beginning of the 19th century was owned by Henry Glassford, son of James Glassford, one of the great merchant princes and tobacco lords of Glasgow, who had lavished money in building the large mansion house, laying down ornamental water ponds and planting trees.



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Old Photograph Glenborrodale Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Glenborrodale castle by Loch Sunart in the south of the Ardnamurchan peninsula in Lochaber, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built as a guest house by Charles Rudd, the main business associate of Cecil Rhodes, and was later owned by Jesse Boot, who was the proprietor of the Boots chain of chemist shops. In May 1746, following the Jacobite rising of 1745 two French supply ships were attacked off Glenborrodale by three ships of the Royal Navy.



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Old Photograph Kilnave Chapel And Cross Islay Scotland

Old photograph of Kilnave Chapel and Cross, Isle of Islay, Scotland. This medieval chapel stands within a trapezoidal enclosure bounded by a wall of 19th century date, at the edge of a raised beach terrace close to the West shore of Loch Gruinart. The chapel is said to have been burnt by the MacDonalds when a party of MacLeans took refuge there after the battle of Traigh Ghruineard in 1598. This free standing ringless cross, probably of 5th century date, is carved from a thin slab of greenish Torridonian flagstone.



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Tour Scotland Video Pipers Playing Scotland The Brave Mini Military Tattoo City Square Dundee



Tour Scotland video of Pipers and the Royal Marines Band playing the music for Scotland The Brave and For We're No' Awa' Tae Bide Awa in the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Bagpipers and Portsmouth and Plymouth Royal Marines from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Dundee.

Hark! When the night is falling
Hear, Hear! the pipes are calling,
Loudly and proudly calling, down through the glen.
There where the hills are sleeping,
Now feel the blood a-leaping,
High as the spirits of the old Highland men.

Towering in gallant fame,
Scotland my mountain hame,
High may your proud standards gloriously wave,
Land of my high endeavour,
Land of the shining river,
Land of my heart for ever, Scotland the brave

High in the misty Highlands,
Out by the purple islands,
Brave are the hearts that beat beneath Scottish skies.
Wild are the winds to meet you,
Staunch are the friends that greet you,
Kind as the love that shines from fair maidens' eyes.

Far off in sunlit places,
Sad are the Scottish faces,
Yearning to feel the kiss of sweet Scottish rain.
Where tropic skies are beaming,
Love sets the heart a-dreaming,
Longing and dreaming for the homeland again

For we're no' awa' tae bide awa',
For we're no' awa tae le'e ye,
For we're no' awa' tae bide awa',
We'll aye come back an' see ye

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Tour Scotland Video Pipers Playing Auld Lang Syne Mini Military Tattoo City Square Dundee



Tour Scotland video of Pipers and the Royal Marines Band playing the music for Auld Lang Syne in the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Bagpipers and Portsmouth and Plymouth Royal Marines from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Dundee.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne

For auld lang syne, my jo,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

And surely ye’ll be your pint-stowp!
and surely I’ll be mine!
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

We twa hae run about the braes,
and pu’d the gowans fine;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
sin auld lang syne.

We twa hae paidl’d i' the burn,
frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
sin auld lang syne.

And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere!
and gie's a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll tak a right gude-willy waught,
for auld lang syne.

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Tour Scotland Video Skye Boat Song HM Royal Marines Band Mini Military Tattoo City Square Dundee Scotland



Tour Scotland video of the Royal Marines Band playing the music for the Skye Boat song in the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Portsmouth and Plymouth Royal Marines from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Dundee.

Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing,
Onward! the sailors cry;
Carry the lad that's born to be King
Over the sea to Skye.

Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar,
Thunderclouds rend the air;
Baffled, our foes stand by the shore,
Follow they will not dare.

Though the waves leap, so soft shall ye sleep,
Ocean's a royal bed.
Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep
Watch by your weary head.

Many's the lad fought on that day,
Well the Claymore could wield,
When the night came, silently lay
Dead in Culloden's field.

Burned are their homes, exile and death
Scatter the loyal men;
Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath
Charlie will come again.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Highland Dancing Mini Tattoo City Square Dundee Tayside



Tour Scotland video of Scottish Highland Dancing to the music of the Shetland Fiddlers in the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Traditional dancers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo at the mini tattoo in Dundee. Dancers from Scotland and New Zealand.

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Old Photograph Baledmund House Scotland

Old photograph of Baledmund House by Moulin near Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Baledmund has belonged to the Ferguson family from as early as 1715 when as a result of the Jacobite Rebellion, Finlay Fergusson of Baledmund was taken prisoner at the Battle of Preston. The Ferguson surname is of Old Gaelic origin, found in Ireland and Scotland, and is a patronymic form of " Fergus ", from an Old Gaelic personal name " Fearghus ", composed of the elements " fear ", man, and " gus ", vigour, force, with the patronymic ending " son ". This Gaelic personal name was the name of an early Irish mythological figure, a valiant warrior, and was also the name of the grandfather of St. Columba. Ferguson is by far the most popular and widespread form of Fergus. Some Irish bearers of the name Fergus claim descent from Fergus, Prince of Galloway who died in 1161. Ferguson is widespread in Ireland in Ulster, where it is of Scottish descent. The surname is first recorded in Scotland in the mid 15th Century where the Fergusons are classed among the septs of Mar and Atholl.



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Old Photograph Inchmurrin Island Loch Lomond Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage on Inchmurrin Island on Loch Lomond, Scotland. This Scottish island was formerly a deer park of the Dukes of Montrose, who had a hunting lodge built in 1793 and maintained a gamekeeper and his family there. There are ruins of Lennox Castle, probably built for Duncan, 8th Earl of Lennox whose seat was Balloch Castle at the south end of Loch Lomond. The castle here was probably a hunting lodge for the deer park established on the island by King Robert I of Scotland in the early 14th century. After her husband Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany, father Donnchadh, Earl of Lennox, and two sons were executed by James I in 1425, Isabella Countess of Lennox retired to the castle on Inchmurrin with her grandchildren. In 1417, Iain Colquhoun of Luss was killed here by robbers. Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, governor of Dumbarton Castle, was murdered at Inchmurrin in 1439, during a raid led by Lachlan MacLean. In 1617, James VI made his only return visit to Scotland, and included Inchmurrin in his itinerary to go hunting. Rob Roy raided the island. At one point, his men came to control all the boats on the River Endrick and Loch Lomond, which were later used to remove cattle from Inchmurrin. Inchmurrin was used as a mental asylum, and also unmarried pregnant women were sent here to give birth.



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Tour Scotland Video Opening Parade Mini Military Tattoo City Square Dundee Tayside



Tour Scotland video of the opening parade in the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Performers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo marching on parade at the mini tattoo in Dundee, including The Royal Regiment of Scotland, The Royal Army of Oman, Australian Federal Police, The Black Watch, Scottish Highland dancers, Shetland Fiddlers, Royal Marines Band, New Zealand Kapa Haka Dancers, Band of The Armed Forces of Malta, Nagaland Folkloric Group, Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Steel Orchestra, iNgobamakhosi Zulu Dance Troupe, The Band of the Armed forces of Malta.

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Old Photograph South Leith Parish Church Scotland

Old photograph of South Leith Parish Church in Edinburgh, Scotland. This Scottish church originally called the Kirk of Our Lady, is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. It is the principal church and congregation in Leith, in Edinburgh. Its kirkyard is the burial place for John Home, author of Douglas, and John Pew, the man from whom the author Robert Louis Stevenson reputedly derived the character of Blind Pew in the novel Treasure Island.



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Old Photograph St Columba’s Church Boat Of Garten Scotland

Old photograph of St Columba’s Church in Boat of Garten in Badenoch And Strathspey, Scotland. This Scottish church was built in the summer of 1900 at a cost of £820, and the church hall was added in 1934. After the Disruption of 1843, a schism within the established Church of Scotland, in which 450 evangelical ministers of the Church broke away, the men of the area engaged in a fanaticism, erecting the " Stone of the Spey " below Boat of Garten. The stone was inscribed by one William Grant and was erected in 1865 in memory of the wife of Patrick Grant. As it was associated with scandal, the district residents destroyed it and threw it into the river.



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Old Photograph Johnston Tower Scotland

Old photograph of Johnston Tower by Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish tower was built in 1813 by James Farquhar of Johnston on the Hill of Garvock. James, who came from an Aberdeen mercantile family, was in successful practice as a proctor in Doctors’ Commons, also called the College of Civilians, a society of lawyers practising civil law in London, England. He was in partnership with Joseph Sladen at 19 Bennett’s Hill until about 1820, when they were joined by John Irving Glennie. Since 1810, Farquhar had held the remunerative post of deputy registrar of the admiralty court, the duties of which were administered from his other office at 2 Paul’s Bakehouse Court. His elder brother William, born 1762, died 1838, was in partnership as a merchant at 12 St. Helens Place, Bishopsgate Street with their youngest half brother John Morice until about 1828. Their mother, widowed in 1768, had married David Morice, an Aberdeen advocate, in 1773. James died at his London home in Duke Street in September 1833.



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Old Photograph Tullich Kirk Scotland

Old photograph of Tullich Kirk near Ballater in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A Celtic chapel was established here by Nathalan, or Neachtan, who died in AD 678. The church was held by the Knights Templars and latterly by the Hospitallers, who built a fort around the church in the 13th century, traces of which still remain. The present, now ruined, building is a good example of a Medieval parish church. Against the north wall of the church is a worn Pictish stone carved with traditional Pictish symbols of a mirror, beast, double disc, and Z-rod. There is a Pictish cross slab five miles away at Kinord, and a stone circle at Tomnaverie, nine miles away.



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Old Photograph Tombae Scotland

Old photograph of Tombae church and school in Moray, Scotland. This Scottish church was designed by John Gall of Aberdeen, but completed in 1844 by Bishop James Kyle, replacing a simple mass house further upstream. The scenic rural site overlooks the River Livet, farmland and hills, now scantily populated. Gothic Revival church with pinnacled west front and lofty, elegant vaulted interior lit by large traceried windows. The former chancel served as the presbytery until 1862 when replaced by a neighbouring house, and then as a school until 1903.



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Tour Scotland Video Marching Pipe Bands Mini Military Tattoo Stirling



Tour Scotland video of marching pipe bands on Port Street at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Stirling, Scotland. Pipers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Stirling, including The Royal Regiment of Scotland, The Royal Army of Oman, Australian Federal Police, The Black Watch

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Tour Scotland Video HM Royal Marines Plymouth Band Mini Military Tattoo Stirling



Tour Scotland video of HM Royal Marines Plymouth Band on Port Street at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Stirling, Scotland. Musicians and dancers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Stirling. The band from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo marching and playing at the mini tattoo in Stirling. This fine band is based at HMS Raleigh in Torpoint, Cornwall, England.

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Tour Scotland Video Band Of The Armed Forces Of Malta Mini Military Tattoo Stirling



Tour Scotland video of the Band Of The Armed Forces Of Malta with dancers on Port Street at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Stirling, Scotland. Musicians and dancers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Stirling.

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