Tour Scotland Autumn Video Drive Coastal Road From Pittenweem to Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a drive on the A917 coastal road from Pittenweem on ancestry visit to the fishing village of Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Anster is my home town where I was raised in Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Autumn Walk Along Shore Street From The Fish Bar In Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of an Autumn walk along Shore Street from The Fish Bar by the harbour front on ancestry visit to the fishing village of Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish fish and chip shop has served has served Prince William, Tom Hanks, Tim Hinkley and Robert De Niro to name just a few famous folks who have visited. Anster is my hometown where I was raised in Scotland

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Old Photograph War Memorial Callander Scotland

Old photograph of the War Memorial in Callander, Trossachs, Scotland.

World War 1 Roll of Honour

Anderson Donald
Baxter John S.
Bell William
Biggs William
Blair Duncan
Blair James
Brickman Frederick W.
Brickman Hugh M.
Brickman Noel
Buchanan John
Buchanan John
Cameron John K.
Cameron John M.
Campbell Duncan
Campbell John
Campbell John
Campbell Victor R.W.
Dow Stewart
Drummond John J.
Duncanson George O.
Ferguson Finlay
Ferguson John
Ferguson Robert
Hamilton Arthur B. Baillie
Liles James D.
Lindsay David
Lister John R.
MacDonald Archibald R.
MacDonald Ian B.
MacDonald James
MacFarlane Walter
MacTavish Daniel
McAlpine Alpine
McAlpine David
McIntyre Donald
McIntyre William
McKay James
McKay John
McLaren Robert
McMichael Walter B.
McMurtrie Thomas
McNab Robert L.
McNicol Duncan
McVean Hugh
McVean John
Miller William B.
Motherwell James
Nicol James
Rennie Ebenezer L.
Robert Waugh
Roberts Edwin A.
Roberts Lawrie P.
Robertson John
Russell William
Shanklands James
Skinner Robert L.G.
Stevenson Alexander
Stewart John
Stewart Peter M.
Sutherland Malcolm
Tait Robert W.
Taylor Duncan
Thomson Hugh
Waugh Andrew
Wright Alexander
Wright James M.

World War 2 Roll of Honour

Baillie-Hamilton Neil A.
Cairns Gordon
Cardie James
Cotterill Colin W.
Dewar Denis
Dunlop Hamish B.
Lawson Robert
Lamie Frederick T.
Leckie James
MacGregor Alexander
McKiggan Hugh
Stewart James M.
Wilson Jock

The distance from Callander to Glasgow and Paisley is 42 miles

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Old Photograph Aboyne Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Aboyne Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In 1242, after the expulsion from Scotland of John and Walter Byset of Clan Bissett, who had been alleged of the murder of Patrick, Earl of Atholl, at Haddington, East Lothian, Aboyne Castle passed to the Knights Templar in that year. It passed next to the Frasers of Cowie, before passing yet again, this time by marriage, to Sir William de Keith, Great Marischal of Scotland around 1355. In 1449, De Keith's great granddaughter, Joan, brought the castle by marriage to Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly. Its present owner is the Marquis of Huntly whose family has owned it since the early 15th century.



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Old Photograph Dalguise Castle Scotland

Old photograph of the castle in Dalguise, Perthshire, Scotland. Located on the western side of the River Tay on the B898 road, north of Dunkeld, This is the place, in this 18th Century mansion house, where Beatrix Potter stayed in her childhood as a summer visitor, and acted as inspiration for some of her later stories.



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Old Photograph St Ronan's Well Scotland

Old photograph of St Ronan's Well, Innerleithen near Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. Originally constructed by the Earl of Traquair in the 1820s to provide a comfortable retreat for visitors to the spa, it was largely rebuilt and extended in 1896 to accommodate indoor bathing facilities and a bottling plant. The spa was frequented by Sir Walter Scott as a boy.



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Old Photograph Cathkin Braes Scotland

Old photograph of a house in Cathkin Braes which is an area of hills to the south east of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Cathkin Braes lies to the south of the districts of Castlemilk, Fernhill and Burnside, and to the east of Carmunnock. Rising to over 200m in elevation, it includes the highest point in the Glasgow City area. It was a rallying point in the Radical War. The Radical War also known as the Scottish Insurrection of 1820, was a week of strikes and unrest, a culmination of Radical demands for reform in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which had become prominent in the early years of the French Revolution, but had then been repressed during the long Napoleonic Wars. On Monday 3 April work stopped, particularly in weaving communities, over a wide area of central Scotland including Stirlingshire, Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, with an estimated total of around 60,000 stopping work. Reports came in that men were carrying out military drill at points round Glasgow, foundries and forges had been raided, and iron files and dyer's poles taken to make pikes. In Kilbarchan soldiers found men making pikes, in Stewarton around 60 strikers was dispersed, in Balfron around 200 men had assembled for some sort of action. Pikes, gunpowder and weapons called wasps, a sort of javelin and clegs, a barbed shuttlecock to throw at horses, were offered for sale. Rumours spread that England was in arms for the cause of reform and that an army was mustering at Campsie commanded by Marshal MacDonald, a Marshal of France and son of a Jacobite refugee family, to join forces with 50,000 French soldiers at Cathkin Braes under Kinloch, the fugitive Radical laird from Dundee. In Paisley the local reformers' committee met under command of their drill instructor, but scattered when Paisley was put under curfew. Government troops were ready in Glasgow, including the Rifle Brigade, the 83rd Regiment of Foot, the 7th and 10th Hussars and Samuel Hunter's Glasgow Sharpshooters. In the evening 300 radicals briefly skirmished with cavalry, but no one came to harm on that day.



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Old Photograph Guild Hall Stirling Scotland

Old photograph of the Guildhall in Stirling, Scotland. Cowane's Hospital was a 17th century almshouse in the Old Town of Stirling. It was established in 1637 with a bequest of 40,000 merks from the estate of the merchant John Cowane, born 1570, died 1633. During the later 17th and early 18th century the hospital was well used by pensioners, though a strict set of rules seems to have discouraged some from taking up residence. Further improvements to the gardens were ordered in 1712 when Thomas Harlaw, gardener to the Earl of Mar, was appointed to draw up plans for the site. Around 1720 the hospital was converted, by removing internal partitions, into a hall for use of the Merchant Guildry. The building was subsequently referred to as the Guildhall. In 1832 the building was pressed into service as an isolation hospital during a cholera epidemic which killed around one third of Stirling's population. The hospital building itself is now used as an arts venue, and remains in use by the Merchant Guildry.



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Old Photograph Traquair Church Scotland

Old photograph of Traquair church just South of Innerleithen near Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. In early times here the village bore the name Kirkbryde or Strathquair, the Kirkbryde coming from the local church which was dedicated to St. Bride, or Bridget. As early as the 12th century, Traquair was of some importance, important enough to be raised to the status of a Sheriffdom. There is reputed to have been a religious establishment at Traquair since 1116, in the See of St. Kentigern of Glasgow. It was dedicated to St. Bride whose holy well was in the glebe. The present church building was built in 1778 on top of those ancient and historic foundations.



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Old Photograph Lincluden Abbey Scotland

Old photograph of Lincluden Abbey near in Dumfries, Scotland. The foundation of the priory is accredited to Uchtred, died 1174, who had co-ruled Galloway with his brother Gille Brigte. Uchtred did not have the benefit of the relative peace of his father's reign in Galloway. Fergus of Galloway, died 1161, had founded such establishments such as Soulseat Abbey, St Mary's Isle Priory, Dundrennan Abbey, the foundation at Kirkcudbright, Kirk of St. Cuthbert, and re-established the foundation at Whithorn, the historic community of St Ninian. Uchtred's focus of power was in eastern Galloway, while his brother's was in the west, their reigns were marked by turbulent relationships between themselves, the Irish Kings of Ailech, the King of Scots, William the Lyon, and the King of England, Henry II. Lincluden was the only monastic house that Uchtred would found, meeting his death at the hand of his brother in 1174. Prior to the foundation of Lincluden, there had been only been houses of Monks in Galloway, Uchtred's new house was the first nunnery within the Lordship. The first intake were probably Cluniac sisters from France or England, later being supplemented by local novices. In the late 14th century the area became part of the fief of Archibald the Grim, Lord of Galloway, and latterly 3rd Earl of Douglas. The nuns at Lincluden had reputedly broken their vows of chastity and were guilty of licentious behaviour, Douglas with an eye on the revenues from the priory, sat in judgement over them and found them guilty. He dismissed the nuns from the priory. Pehaps penitent at the expulsion of the nuns, Earl Archibald ordered the construction of a new church to be built, and set up a College consisting of a Provost and twelve Canons. Earl Archibald and his successors spent a great of money on ornamenting the church, and there are many fine armorial carvings still within the ruins. Still extant is the tomb of Princess Margaret, Countess of Douglas and Duchess of Touraine, the daughter of King Robert III of Scotland and wife of Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas. The abbey was eventually abandoned around 1700.



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Old Photograph Pluscarden Priory Scotland

Old photograph of Pluscarden Priory located South West of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. In 1454, following a merger with the priory of Urquhart, a cell of Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Pluscarden Priory became a Benedictine House. The years immediately preceding the Scottish Reformation, and those after, saw the decline of the priory. By 1680 it was in a ruinous condition. Some work to arrest the decay took place in the late 19th century but it wasn't until 1948 when restoration of the priory was begun by monks from the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, England. In 1966 the priory received its independence from the mother-house and was elevated to abbatial status in 1974.



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Old Photographs Keir House Scotland

Old photograph of Keir House near Stirling, Scotland. This Scottish house is located in the parish of Lecropt, North West of Bridge of Allan, in the former county of Perthshire. The estate was home to the Stirling family from the 15th to the 20th century. The Keir estate was acquired by the Stirling family in 1448, and a house was built on it in the 16th century. The Stirlings supported the Jacobites during the 18th century rebellions, and the estate was forfeited. However, they continued to live at Keir, and built the present house in around 1760. Income from the family's estates in Jamaica funded agricultural improvements and landscaping of the grounds. Additions were made to the house, including the South West wing to designs by David Hamilton, completed in 1831. In 1847 Sir William Stirling Maxwell inherited the estate, and began a remodelling of the house and grounds. Architects Alfred Jenoure and William Stirling II worked on the house, while formal gardens were laid out by James Niven. A chapel was added in 1912, designed by Rowand Anderson and Paul, and with interior mosaic decoration by Boris Anrep. Sir William's grandson David Stirling, founder of the Special Air Service, was born at Keir in 1915.

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Old Photograph Pass of Melford Scotland

Old photograph of tourists on a horse and carriage tour through the Pass of Melford from Oban, Scotland. The circular route went by Loch Feochan and the Pass of Melford to Loch Anne and was a popular day trip.



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Tour Scotland Video Corrente Corelli Violin Music St Ninian's Cathedral Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a young Scottish female violinist playing Corrente Corelli violin music in St Ninian's Cathedral on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Arcangelo Corelli, born 17 February 1653, died 8 January 1713, was an Italian violinist and composer of the Baroque era. His music was key in the development of the modern genres of sonata and concerto, in establishing the preeminence of the violin, and as the first coalescing of modern tonality and functional harmony. According to the poet Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, who presumably knew the composer well, Corelli initially studied music under a priest in the nearby town of Faenza, and then in Lugo, before moving in 1666 to Bologna.

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Old Photograph Dunans Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Dunans Castle in Glendaruel on the Cowal Peninsula, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish castle was for over two centuries the home of the Fletcher Clan who moved to the site between 1715 and 1745 carrying with them the door of their previous home at Achallader Castle. The building passed out of Fletcher hands in 1997 when the entire 3000 acre Dunans estate was sold off by Colonel Archibald Fletcher's heirs and subsequently split up. castle was gutted by fire on 14 January 2001 while being run as a hotel and the building was left as a ruin.



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Old Photograph Combination Hospital Lochmaben Scotland

Old photograph of the Combination Hospital in Lochmaben located four miles West of in Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Combination Hospital was also known as the Sanatorium. The photo shows the main building and the Fever Wards.



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Old Photograph Ballimore House Scotland

Old photograph of Ballimore House near Loch Fyne in Argyll, Scotland. A mid 19th century Scottish baronial mansion house with landscaped gardens laid out by Thomas Mawson in 1910. Thomas Hayton Mawson, born 5 May 1861, died 14 November 1933, known as T. H. Mawson, was a British garden designer, landscape architect, and town planner. Mawson was born in Nether Wyresdale, Lancashire, England, and left school at age 12. His father, who died in 1877, was a warper in a cotton mill and later started a building business. He married Anna Prentice in 1884 and the Mawsons made their family home in Windermere, Westmorland in 1885. Mawson designed gardens in various parts of Britain, and in Europe and Canada.



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Old Photograph Field Gun Practice Barry Buddon Scotland

Old photograph of Field Gun practice at Barry Buddon by Carnoustie, Scotland. Barry Buddon Training Area is a Ministry of Defence owned rifle ranges and training area. It dates back to around 1850 when the area was used by the Forfarshire Rifle Volunteers, the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry the Panmure Battery of the Forfarshire Artillery Brigade, and a Royal Naval Reserve Battery. In 1897 the Earl of Dalhousie sold the site to the War Office for use as a military training area. The ranges were also used in the 1986 Commonwealth Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.



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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Bagpiper Playing Music On The Mound In Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish bagpiper playing music on the Mound on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. The Mound is an artificial hill in central Edinburgh, Scotland, which connects Edinburgh's New Town and Old Town. Some of Edinburgh's most notable buildings and institutions have their premises on The Mound, including the National Gallery of Scotland, the Royal Scottish Academy, the spires of New College, the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland, the elegant domed Headquarters of the Bank of Scotland, and its museum, Museum on the Mound.

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Old Photograph Robert Burns Statue Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of the Robert Burns statue in Paisley by Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish statue was erected in 1896 to mark the centenary of the death of Robert Burns, Scotland’s National Bard. It was funded mainly by open air concerts given by the Tannahill Choir, who were working girls of Paisley; mill girls along with a few male singers, who were led by a succession of local conductors, usually local music teachers. The statue was designed by Frederick William Pomeroy, who was a prolific British sculptor of architectural and monumental works. Pomeroy's other architectural sculpture includes: Sheffield Town Hall, the figures of Truth, Fortitude and the Recording Angel at the Old Bailey, London, England, City Hall, Cardiff, Wales, Paisley Town Hall, the pediment of the City Hall in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London, extensive work at Liverpool John Moores University.



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Old Photograph Stanely Castle Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of Stanely Castle located in the waters of Stanely Reservoir, to the south of Paisley by Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish castle at the foot of the Gleniffer Braes was probably built in the early 15th century, on an island within a marsh. The castle is now a ruin. Since 1837 it has been partially submerged by the reservoir. Stanely was the ancient seat of the Danzielstons. In the early 15th century the estate passed to the Maxwells of Calderwood, who sold it on in 1629 to Lady Ross of Hawhead. In the 18th century, it passed to the Boyle Earls of Glasgow.



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Old Photograph Golfers On Golf Course Aberdour Fife Scotland

Old photograph of golfers on the golf course in Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. Aberdour Golf Club is located 30 miles south of St. Andrews, on the shores of the River Forth. Aberdour was founded in 1896 but didn't start developing a golf course at its current location until 1905.



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Old Photographs Nethergate Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of shops and people in the Nethergate in Dundee, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Marshall Place Perth Scotland

Old photograph of people, houses and church on Marshall Place by South inch Park in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This classical terrace was designed by Sir Robert Reid in 1801, and still under construction in early 1820. Robert Reid was born in Edinburgh on 8th November 1774 he was the principal Government architect in Scotland in the first half of the 19th Century. His career began with a design for the law Courts in Edinburgh in 1803. Eventually Robert Reid was given the title of King’s Architect and Surveyor in Scotland. Reid retired in 1839 and went to live at Lowood near Melrose in the Scottish Borders. He died in Edinburgh. His works include: St. George’s Church, Edinburgh; Law Courts, Parliament Square; the exterior shell of the Signet and Advocates’ Libraries, Edinburgh; Bank of Scotland, The Mound, Edinburgh; restoration work at Holyrood Palace; Custom House at Leith; Numbers. 33 to 46 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh; Perth Prison; Perth Academy in Rose Terrace; Numbers. 1 to 28 Marshall Place, Perth.

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Old Photograph Pier Master Cottage Port Appin Scotland

Old photograph of the Pier Master cottage at the harbour in Port Appin village in Argyll, Scotland. The Pier Master was responsible for overseeing the cargo and passenger traffic waiting to board the numerous steam vessels that travelled up and down Loch Linnhe, stopping off en route between Oban and Fort William. In the background you can see Shuna Island is one of the Slate Islands lying east of Luing on the west coast of Scotland.



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Old Photograph Crofters Cottage And Barn Shetland Islands Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter cottage and barn by a coastal inlet on of the Shetland Islands, Scotland.



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Old Photograph St Martins Abbey Scotland

Old photograph of St Martins Abbey mansion near Balbeggie, Perthshire, Scotland. Located 5 miles North of Perth, this was the home of William Macdonald, born in 1822, the only son of General Farquharson, who held 22,600 acres of land in Perthshire and 2801 in Forfarshire, and who claimed the chieftainship of the Clan Colquhoun. The estate, originally called the Kirklands, was purchased by William Macdonald of Ranachan, born 1732, died 1814, a founder of the Highland and Agricultural Society; and the mansion was built for him.



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Old Photograph Glen Strathfarrar Scotland

Old photograph of the head of Glen Strathfarrar near Loch Ness, Scotland. There are a number of mountains on either side of the glen, many of which have always been popular with walkers. These include the Munros of Sgùrr a' Choire Ghlais, Sgurr Fhuar-thuill, Càrn nan Gobhar and Sgurr na Ruaidhe to the north, as well as Sgurr na Lapaich, another Càrn nan Gobhar, An Riabhachan and An Socach to the south. There are also two Corbetts, Beinn a' Bha'ach Ard and Sgorr na Dìollaid. The River Farrar begins at the confluence of the Uisge Misgeach and the Garbh-uisge, which flows out of Loch Monar. The river flows along Glen Strathfarrar, through Loch a' Mhuillidh and Loch Beannacharan.



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Old Photographs Royal Visit To Dunblane Scotland

Old photograph of the visit of King Edward VII to Dunblane, Scotland. Edward VII visited on 28 th September 1908. Edward was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward was related to royalty throughout Europe. Before his accession to the throne, he served as heir apparent and held the title of Prince of Wales for longer than any of his predecessors.

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Old Photograph Fish Market Stornoway Scotland

Old photograph of the fish market by the harbour in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. The Old Fish Mart in Stornoway opened for business in 1894. The architect was the civil engineer Alexander MacDonald. Situated 30 miles off the north west coast of Scotland the Port of Stornoway is the main seaport of the Hebridean Island chain and provides a vital link to mainland Britain.





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Old Winter Photograph Of Snow On St Kilda Scotland

Old Winter photograph of cottages in snow on St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Crofters Thatched Cottages Boust Isle of Coll Scotland

Old photograph of crofters thatched cottages in Boust on the Isle of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. John McLean, son of Julia and Hugh McLean; husband of Mary McLean, of 197, Weir St., Glasgow, who was born at Boust, was drowned, as a result of an attack by an enemy submarine on 13-03-1918, age 47. He was Second Mate, Mercantile Marine, on the S.S. Tweed.







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Old Photograph Breachacha Castle Isle Of Coll Scotland

Old photograph of Breachacha Castle on the Isle of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. Breachacha Castle is either of two structures on the shore of Loch Breachacha. The earlier castle, also called Old Breachacha Castle, is a 15th century tower house that was a stronghold of the Macleans of Coll, the island having been granted to John Maclean in 1431. This castle was superseded by a new dwelling in 1750 before falling into a ruinous state only in the mid 19th century. The newer Breachacha Castle, also known as Breachacha House, was built in the mid 18th century northwest of the old castle. It was in this house that Samuel Johnson and James Boswell stayed on their tour of the Hebrides.



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Old Photograph Shipping Cattle Isle of Coll Scotland

Old photograph of shipping cattle from the harbour on the Isle of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Laurieston Hall Scotland

Old photograph of Laurieston Hall in Castle Douglas near Threave Castle, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This is a large rambling Scottish country house of several building periods from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, which was built up and extended in 1893 by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, architects.

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Old Photographs Harbour Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old photograph of ships in the harbour in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish harbour was acknowledged for having " a sheltered cove round the East Burn ", thus giving easy accessibility for boats. By the early 16th century the vessels of the harbour had begun to engage in trade with the Baltic; later dealing with the import of grain in 1618 and continental beer in 1625. A shipbuilding trade also existed on the site until this was phased out temporarily in 1645. As Kirkcaldy entered into the 19th century the harbour was catering for the growing trade of imports of flax, timber and hemp and exports of coal, salt and linen cloth, when a decision was made to build a new wet dock and pier from 1843 to 1846. The subsequent demands for linoleum and coal led to a further extension from 1906 to 1908 in the form of an inner dock.



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Tour Scotland Scottish Cooking Demonstration Food Market Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of part of a Scottish Cooking Demonstration at the food market on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Roast rump of lamb on thyme roasted potatoes with a Rosemary Jus

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Old Photograph James Hogg Monument Scotland

Old photograph of the James Hogg monument by St Mary's Loch in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. James Hogg, born 1770, died 21 November 1835, was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He was a friend of many of the great writers of his day, including Sir Walter Scott, of whom he later wrote an unauthorized biography. He became widely known as the Ettrick Shepherd, a nickname under which some of his works were published. His father, Robert Hogg, born 1729, died 1820, was a tenant farmer while his mother, Margaret Hogg, née Laidlaw, born 1730, died 1813, was noted for collecting native Scottish ballads. Margaret Laidlaw's father, known as Will o' Phawhope, was said to have been the last man in the Border country to speak with the fairies. James was the second eldest of four brothers, his siblings being William, David, and Robert. Robert and David later emigrated to the USA, while James and William remained in Scotland for their entire lives.



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Old Photograph Glen Lean Scotland

Old photograph of Glen Lean in Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish glen spans the boundary between the parishes of Dunoon and Kilmun, and Inverchaolain. In this glen was one of four large black gunpowder works which operated in Argyll in the 19th century, attracted to the area by its lack of sizeable settlements, its accessibility by sea, and the availability of wood suitable for making charcoal. The works was operated by Curtis's and Harvey, which became part of Nobel's Explosives Company Ltd. Later on it made sporting powder. It closed in 1892.



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Old Photograph Lochindorb Scotland

Old photograph of Lochindorb and castle north of Grantown on Spey, Scotland. This Scottish freshwater loch is named from the Scottish Gaelic: Loch nan Doirb meaning loch of the minnows. This loch is home to the ruins of Lochindorb Castle, a former stronghold of the Clan Comyn and is built on what now is said to be an artificially created island. The castle is first recorded during the Wars of Independence when Sir John, the Black, Comyn died there in 1300. By 1455 the castle was in the hands of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray, The next year, after Douglas's defeat and death at Arkinholm, Lochindorb was again forfeited to the Crown and this time ordered to be slighted, the work of dismantling its defences being entrusted to the Thane of Cawdor. Since then, it has been left as a ruin.



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Old Photographs Loch Achray Scotland

Old photograph of Loch Achray, a small freshwater loch located west of Callander, Trossachs, Scotland. This Scottish loch was for a time the home of James " Beag " Stewart, born 1410, died 1470, of Baldorran, the son of James Mor Stewart, known as " James the Fat ", who fled into exile in Ireland when his father Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany was executed for treason by King James I of Scotland in 1425. James the Fat would never return to Scotland, and he was unable to inherit the Albany estates, but James " Beag " Stewart was able to secure a royal pardon and return to Scotland. He is the ancestor of the Stewarts of Ardvorlich on Lochearnside in old Perthshire.

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Old Photograph Loch Callater Scotland

Old photograph of Loch Callater near Braemar, Royal Deeside, Scotland. This a loch high in the mountains.

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Old Photograph Caprington Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Caprington Castle in East Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle was originally a Tower House in the early 15th Century built for Adam Cunningham. The present building was erected about 1820 by Sir William Cuninghame. The tower which forms the South West part of the building is said to be of 15th century date, with 17th, 18th and 19th century alterations. Caprington Castle remains the private residence of the Cunningham Family.



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Old Photograph Kirkhill Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Kirkhill Castle in Colmonell located ten miles from Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland. This is small Scottish fortalice of the late 16th century. It has been long roofless, but the walls, of mortared rubble are fairly complete although the interior is ruinous. It bears the date 1589 with the arms and initials of Thomas Kennedy and his wife Janet, by whom it was erected. Formerly known as Glebelands, the property came into the possession of the Kennedys before the Reformation and was held by Gilbert, third son of Alexander Kennedy, third Lord Kennedy of Bargany, and remained in the possession of the Dunure family till 1843. Its was then bought by Col Barton of Ballaird, a hero of Waterloo. At his death it became the property of his nephew, J. Farquhar Gray, Esq. of Glentig.



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Old Photographs Cloncaird Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Cloncaird Castle near Kirkmichael in Ayrshire, Scotland. A modernised 16th century Scottish mansion to which a new front was build in 1814. Over the entrance to the courtyard is an armorial panel dated 1585. It was built around a 16th century core in 1814 for Henry Ritchie Craiton. Ritchie was succeeded by his second son William Wallace in 1843 and it remained in the Wallace family until sold in 1905 to Mrs Dubs, the widow of an industrialist. Colonel Wallace, who had sold the castle to Mrs Dubs, went on to marry her in 1908, reinstating himself as a result.

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Old Photographs Milton Tower Keith Scotland

Old photograph of Milton Tower in Keith, Moray, Scotland. This Scottish tower, part of Milton Keith Castle, was built by George Ogilvie around 1480. It was repaired in 1601 and destroyed in 1829. It was the home of Royalist Ogilvie family for 200 years. John Ogilvie of Miltoun was slain at Battle of Alford 1645. Blessed John Ogilvie, Jesuit priest was martyred at Glasgow Cross in 1615. The castle then passed by marriage to Jacobite Oliphant family in 1707. The blessed John Ogilvie was canonised in 1976 by Pope Paul VI in Rome, Italy.

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Old Photographs Birgham Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Birgham in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish village is in the parish of Eccles, near Coldstream and the River Tweed, close to Ednam, Kelso, Lempitlaw, Leitholm and Sprouston as well as Carham and Wark, in Northumberland, England. The Treaty of Birgham, also known as the Treaty of Salisbury, was two treaties intended to secure the independence of Scotland after Alexander III died without issue in 1286. Guaranteed by England's King Edward I, the purpose of the treaty was to put to rest the competing claims of the House of Balliol and the House of Bruce. The treaties were drawn up in Salisbury in 1289 and Birgham, Berwickshire, in 1290. They were negotiated and signed by the Guardians of Scotland, who were ruling in the Maid of Norway's absence due to her age. Under the condition that the heiress of Scotland, Margaret, the Maid of Norway, would marry Edward's son, Scotland was to remain " separate and divided from England according to its rightful boundaries, free in itself and without subjection. " The treaty specified that even though a wife's possessions should become the husbands upon marriage, in this case it would not. It stated upon Margaret, the Maid of Norway and Edward's marriage that the Churches of Scotland and England were to be made separate, that the owner of lands in Scotland shall not have them disinherited. It made sure the both the parliaments of England and Scotland were to remain separate and not be held outside of their respective country. The treaty proved ineffectual, both because Margaret died en route to Scotland in 1290, and because English negotiators had included enough reservations to render the independence clauses useless. In 1291 Edward summoned the Scottish nobles to meet him at Norham on Tweed and styled himself overlord of Scotland, Lord Paramount of Scotland, and challenged claimants to the Scottish throne to recognise himself as a feudal superior.

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Birgham in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland.

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