Tour Scotland Video Fiona Ritchie Doug Orr The Wayfaring Stranger Book Launch Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr at the Scottish book launch of Wayfaring Stranger at the Norrie Miller Studio in Perth Concert Hall on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Fiona Karen Ritchie MBE is a Scottish radio broadcaster best known as the producer and host of The Thistle & Shamrock, an hour long Celtic music program that airs weekly throughout the United States on National Public Radio. Doug Orr is president emeritus of Warren Wilson College, where he founded the Swannanoa Gathering music workshops. Wayfaring Strangers; The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. In Wayfaring Strangers, Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.

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Tour Scotland Video Eliza Lynn Singing Parting Glass Song Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Eliza Lynn singing Parting Glass song on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Eliza was playing and singing at the Scottish launch of the Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr book, Wayfaring Stranger at the Norrie Miller Studio in Perth Concert Hall

Of all the money that e'er I had
I've spent it in good company
And all the harm that e'er I've done
Alas it was to none but me
And all I've done for want of wit
To memory now I can't recall
So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be with you all

Of all the comrades that e'er I had
They are sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts that e'er I had
They would wish me one more day to stay
But since it falls unto my lot
That I should rise and you should not
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call
Good night and joy be with you all

A man may drink and not be drunk
A man may fight and not be slain
A man may court a pretty girl
And perhaps be welcomed back again
But since it has so ought to be
By a time to rise and a time to fall
Come fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be with you all
Good night and joy be with you all

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Tour Scotland Video Eliza Lynn Singing Gypsy Davey Song Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Eliza Lynn singing Gypsy Davey song on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Eliza was playing and singing at the Scottish launch of the Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr book, Wayfaring Stranger at the Norrie Miller Studio in Perth Concert Hall

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Tour Scotland Video Eliza Lynn Singing The Wayfaring Stranger Song Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Eliza Lynn singing The Wayfaring Stranger song on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Eliza was playing and singing at the Scottish launch of the Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr book, Wayfaring Stranger at the Norrie Miller Studio in Perth Concert Hall

I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger
I'm traveling through this world of woe
Yet there's no sickness, toil nor danger
In that bright land to which I go
I'm going there to see my father
I'm going there no more to roam
I'm just a-going over Jordan
I'm just a-going over home

I know dark clouds will gather 'round me
I know my way is rough and steep
Yet golden fields lie just before me
Where the redeemed shall ever sleep
I'm going there to see my mother
She said she'd meet me when I come
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home

I want to wear a crown of glory
When I get home to that good land
I want to shout salvation's story
In concert with the blood-washed band

I'm going there to meet my Saviour
To sing his praise forever more
I'm just a-going over Jordan
I'm just a-going over home

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Old Photograph East End Princes Street Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of cars, trams, people and buildings on the East End of Princes Street in Edinburgh, Scotland. Princes Street was originally to have been called St Giles Street after the patron saint of Edinburgh. However, King George III rejected the name, St Giles being also the patron saint of lepers and the name of a notorious rookery of slums in London, England. The street is named after King George's two eldest sons, the Prince George, Duke of Rothesay, later King George IV, and the Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. It was laid out according to formal plans for Edinburgh's New Town, now known as the First New Town. These were devised by the architect James Craig and building began around 1770. Princes Street represented a critical part of the plan, being the outer edge, facing Edinburgh Castle and the original city. Originally all buildings had the same format: set back from the street with stairs down to a basement and stairs up to the ground floor with two storeys and an attic above. Of this original format only one such property remains in its original form. Through the 19th century most buildings were redeveloped at a larger scale and the street evolved from residential to mainly retail uses.



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Old Photograph Stirling Street Alva Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses, people and car on Stirling Street in Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Low Street Banff Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses, people and fountain on Low Street in Banff, Scotland. Sir James Milne Wilson was born in Banff on 29 February 1812, the third son of John Wilson, a shipowner, and his wife, Barbara Gray; maternal grandson of Alexander Gray and wife, Jean Bean. He was Educated at Banff and Edinburgh, he then emigrated to Tasmania in 1829, studied practical engineering and afterwards became a ship's officer. He was connected with the Cascade Brewery for 14 years and became its manager. He entered politics in October 1859 as member for Hobart in the legislative council, and in January 1863 joined the Whyte cabinet as minister without portfolio. In 1868, at the time of the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, Wilson was Mayor of Hobart and on 4 August 1869 became Premier and colonial secretary in a ministry which lasted until November 1872. In 1847, he married Deborah Hope, daughter of Peter Degraves. He was elected President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, and held this position until his death on 29 February 1880, on his " 17th " birthday aged 68. He achieved the extremely rare feat of being both born on 29 February, making him a leapling, and dying on the same date at the age of 68.



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Old Photographs Buccleuch Street Dumfries Scotland

Old photograph of people, shops, houses and horse and cart on Buccleuch Street in Dumfries, Scotland. A market town and former royal burgh within Dumfries and Galloway. It is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries was the hometown of Robert Burns from 1791 until his death in 1796. The poet is now buried in St. Michael's Churchyard in the Burns Mausoleum. Burns was born in Ayrshire and spent many years there before moving to Dumfriesshire.




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Old Photograph Rosefield Mills Dumfries Scotland

Old photograph of Rosefield Mills in Dumfries, Scotland. Rosefield Woollen Mill was built between 1886 and 1894 for Charteris Spence and Company, the architect was Alan Crombie.



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Old Photographs War Memorial Dingwall Scotland


Old photograph of the War Memorial in Dingwall, Scotland.

World War I Roll of Honour

Private, Henry Bain, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Driver, John Beattie, Ross Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
Private, William Bethune, 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
Private, Frederick Bireman, 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
Driver, John McSwayde Brown, Ross Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
Bombardier, John Brown, Ross Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
Lieutenant, Charles T Cameron, 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
Private, Donald Campbell, 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
Sergeant, William Campbell, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Lieutenant, James G Coe, 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
Private, George Crighton, Gordon Highlanders
Private, Robert Crombie, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Lieutenant, A J Davidson, 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
Bombardier, Charles A Dempster, Royal Horse Artillery
Private, John Dempster, Royal Scots Greys
DEY , William , Private , Canadian Expeditionary Force
DINGWALL , Thomas , Private , South African Forces
DOUGLAS , George , Private , Australian Imperial Force
FINLAYSON , Alexander , Bombardier , Royal Field Artillery
FINLAYSON , Duncan , Private , Canadian Expeditionary Force
FOWLER , Alexander George , Captain , South African Forces
FRASER , Daniel T , Corporal , 2nd Bn Seaforth Highlanders
FRASER , Donald M , Quartermaster Sergeant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
FRASER , James , Private , 7th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
FRASER , William , Private , Canadian Expeditionary Force
FRASER , William , Lance Corporal , Scots Guards
GORDON , Kenneth J , Private , 2nd Bn Seaforth Highlanders
GORDON , Kenneth , Private , Tank Corps
GRAY , John D , Private , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
GRAY , Donald B.M. , Private , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
HAY , George A , Private , Canadian Expeditionary Force
KEMP , James W , Private , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
LUKE , William , Private , Training Reserve
MACASKILL , John , Driver , Ross Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
MACDONALD , Roderick , 2nd Lieutenant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACDONALD , Donald , Sergeant , 2nd Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACDONALD , Donald , Quartermaster Sergeant , 2nd Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACDONALD , Ray , Captain D.S.O. , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACDONALD , Roderick , Private , Canadian Expeditionary Force
MACDONALD , William , Lance Corporal , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACGILLIVRAY , Alexander , Sergeant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACGILLIVRAY , William R , Private , Royal Defence Corps
MACGILLIVRAY , Donald , Sergeant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACGREGOR , William , Lance Corporal , 7th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
MACIVER , William , Private , Canadian Expeditionary Force
MACKAY , Donald , Private , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACKAY , Kenneth , Sergeant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACKENZIE , William , Private , Highland Light Infantry
MACKENZIE , Thomson , Mechanic , Royal Air Force
MACKENZIE , Murdoch , Private , Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
MCKENZIE , Donald , Private , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACKENZIE , Alistair , Sergeant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACKENZIE , Alexander , Private , 1st Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACKINNON , Lauchlan , Private , Royal Scots Fusiliers
MACKINTOSH , Angus , Private , Scots Guards
MACKINTOSH , David , Lance Sergeant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACKINTOSH , David B , Corporal , Canadian Expeditionary Force
MACLEAN , Alick , Private , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACLEAN , Daniel A , Sergeant Major , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACLEAN , John , Lance Corporal , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACLEAN , Thomas , Sapper , Canadian Expeditionary Force
MACLEAY , Alexander , Lance Corporal , Royal Scots Fusiliers
MACLENNAN , Donald , Private , 7th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
MACLENNAN , Duncan , Private , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACLENNAN , John , Private , Canadian Expeditionary Force
MACLENNAN , Kenneth , Seaman , Royal Navy
M'MAHON , William , Driver , Ross Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
MACMILLAN , John , Lieutenant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACMILLAN , William G , Private , Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
MACPHERSON , Robert D M , 2nd Lieutenant , 7th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
MACPHERSON , Hugh , Sergeant , 2nd Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACRAE , George , Sergeant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACRAE , George Alexander , Sergeant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MACRAE , Alexander , Private , Royal Scots Fusiliers
MACWILLIAM , Frank , 2nd Lieutenant , Border Regiment
MELLIS , Alexander C , Sapper , Royal Engineers
MILTON , John , Private , 8th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
MOODIE , Ralph W , Captain , Gordon Highlanders
MORRISON , Alexander J , Private , 2nd Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MUNRO , A , Corporal , 7th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
MUNRO , Duncan , Private , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MURDOCH , George M , Private , Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
NICOL , Charles , Lieutenant D.C.M. M.M. , Canadian Expeditionary Force
RENNIE , James , Sergeant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
ROSS , Alister J R , Corporal , Australian Imperial Force
ROSS , Kenneth , Private , 1st Bn Seaforth Highlanders
ROSS , Peter W , Sergeant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
SINCLAIR , William , Private , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
SKINNER , Alexander , Sergeant , Gordon Highlanders
STEWART , Donald , Sergeant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
SUTHERLAND , Hugh , Driver , Ross Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
SUTHERLAND , Donald , Sergeant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
SUTHERLAND , William , Sergeant , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
SWEETON , F Campbell , Private , Canadian Expeditionary Force
URQUHART , Donald R , Private , 6th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
WASSELL , William S , Sapper , Royal Engineers
WATT , Edward , Lance Corporal , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
WILLIAMSON , Thomas , Private , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders

World War 2 Roll of Honour

CAMERON , I , Corporal , Canadian Field Ambulance
CLARK , A G , Bombardier , Royal Artillery
CRAN , D H , Lieutenant , 2nd Bn Royal Scots Fusiliers
DEWAR , A S , Sergeant (Air Gunner) , Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
FLETCHER , J A M , Private , 4th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
FRASER , J C , Private , 4th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
GIBSON , J W , Private , 4th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
GRAY , C D , Private , 7th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
HARROWER , A G , Gunner , Royal Artillery
LOCKHART , J , Able Seaman , Royal Navy
MANN , J , Private , 4th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
McALLISTER , T , Corporal , 4th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
McALLISTER , W , Private , 2nd Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
McDONALD , A , Gunner , Royal Artillery
McDONALD , D , Flying Officer , Royal Air Force
McDONALD , E C , Radio Officer , Merchant Navy
McKAY , J , Battery Sergeant Major , Royal Artillery
McKENZIE , D , Private , 2nd Bn Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
McKENZIE , R D W , Flight Lieutenant , Royal Air Force
McLARTY , W C C , Corporal , Royal Air Force
McLEAN , D , Corporal , Royla Auatralian Air Force
McLEAN , J C , Lance Bombardier , Royal Artillery
McLEOD , I ,C.M.P.
MEIKLE , G , Private , 4th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
REID , R C , Sergeant , Royal Air Force
RHIND , Charles William , Private , Seaforth Highlanders of Canada attach R.C.A.M.C. , 1943
ROSS , D , Corporal , 4th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
URQUHART , A , Private , 2nd Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
WHITE , A , Private , 4th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
WHITE , Henry , Boy 1st Class , Royal Navy, HMS 'Neptune' , 1941
WHITE , W , Sub Lieutenant , Royal Navy
WILLIAMSON , A , Private , 4th Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
WILLS , H E F , Able Seaman , Royal Navy

Dingwall is 180 miles by road from Glasgow and Paisley



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Old Photograph 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders War Memorial Dingwall Scotland

Old photograph of the 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders War Memorial in Dingwall, Scotland.

Died For Their Country, 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
Honour to the men who left this village for the Battle of Cambrai 1917
This cross was brought home from France in 1934 in memory of their beloved dead 1914 to 1918
No Burdens Yonder
All Sorrows Past
Home At Last

In memory of the following officers, N.C.O. and men of 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
Who were killed in action at Fontaine Notre Dame on 21st and 22nd November 1917

Captain, A. M. MACDONALD D.S.O.
Lieutenant, E. A. MACKINTOSH M.C.
Lieutenant, N. SUTHERLAND
2nd Lieutenant, S. McMONNIES
Private, T. MACDONALD
Private, T. SHARP
Private, D. GRIERSON
Private, J. MACKENZIE
Private, M. HARGREAVES
Private, J. HJOSSACK
Private, G. BROWN
Private, P. MARTIN
Private, W. PENNINGTON
Private, P. McARNEY
Private, J. SMITH
Private, A. BLUE
Private, W. ROACH
Private, R. STEVENSON
Private, T. MOWATT
Private, A. GRANT
Private, W. C. REID
Private, J. GRAY
Corporal, N. BURNETT
Corporal, A. FRIDGE
Corporal, A. SINCLAIR
Corporal, J. CALDER
Private, J. McGRAVEL
Private, T. DIAMOND
Private, W. DOWNES
Private, T. DORANS
Private, A. CAMPBELL
Private, J. ADAMSON
Private, D. HARVEY
Private, D. M. ROGERS
Private, H. PACEY
Private, W. STEVENSON
Private, W. BAIN
Private, J. GERVAISE
Private, H. BOWERS

Dingwall is 180 miles by road from Glasgow and Paisley



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Tour Haunted Cortachy Castle Scotland


Tour Haunted Cortachy Castle on visit to Angus, Scotland. Caught having an affair with the wife of the castle's owner, a drummer was placed in his own drum and rolled out from a tower. On the verge of dying he cursed all future generations who would live at the castle. His ghostly drum can be heard beating before a death in the family.



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Tour Haunted Comlongon Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Comlongon Castle on visit near Dumfries, Scotland. This Scottish castle is reportedly haunted by the ghost of Lady Marion Carruthers who took her own life by leaping from the lookout tower rather than spend any more time with her husband.

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Tour Haunted Closeburn Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Closeburn Castle on visit near Thornhill north of Dumfries, Scotland. Prior to death in the Kirkpatrick family, swans once brought peace and happiness here, until one was killed by a family member. Now, family death is heralded when a swan appears with a red stained breast.

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Tour Haunted Claypotts Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Claypotts Castle on visit to West Ferry in Dundee, Scotland. This Scottish castle is haunted by a White Lady seen at a window in the castle each 29 May. She is reputed to be the ghost of Marion Ogilvie, the mistress of Cardinal Beaton who was murdered in St Andrews, Fife, on 29 May 1546. Appearing upset, the ghost of a white woman frantically waves from a high window once every year. In life she was a mistress of Cardinal Beaton.

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Tour Haunted Cessnock Castle Ayrshire Scotland

Tour Haunted Cessnock Castle on visit to East Ayrshire, Scotland. Mary Queen of Scots is said to have come to the castle after her defeat at the battle of Langside, the site of which is also said to be haunted. One of her ladies in waiting died during her brief stay and she is said to haunt the castle. The ghost of John Knox is also said to wander the castle preaching sermons. The ghost of John Knox also walks around the castle grounds, quoting religious texts.



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Tour Haunted Cawdor Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Cawdor Castle on visit to Nairn, Moray, Scotland. This Scottish castle became part of the Campbell empire when Muriel Calder, heiress to the castle, was kidnapped at the age of 12 and married to the Earl of Argyll's son, Sir John Campbell in 1511. A ghost wearing a blue velvet dress has been reported in the castle and she is believed to be the ghost of Muriel Calder.
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Tour Haunted Cardoness Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Cardoness Castle on visit to Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. After a curse was placed on the castle three owners went bankrupt. The forth and his family were drowned in the nearby loch when the ice cracked while they skated on it.

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Tour Haunted Carbisdale Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Carbisdale Castle on visit to Sutherland, Scotland. A Lady in white haunts this Scottish castle, thought to be the ghost of the Duchess Blair.

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Tour Haunted Brodie Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Brodie Castle on visit near Forres, Moray, Scotland. The night that Brodie of Brodie died on 20 September 1889 hundreds of miles away in Switzerland, the sounds of moaning and loud moving noises could be heard coming from his locked office in the castle.

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Tour Haunted Braemar Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Braemar Castle on visit to Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A newly married lord went hunting early one morning without informing his recent bride. Convinced that he must have abandoned her, she leapt off the battlements to her death. Her ghost now appears to others, not wanting them to make the same mistake.

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Tour Haunted Borthwick Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Borthwick Castle on a visit to Midlothian, Scotland. Mary Queen of Scots visited the castle after her marriage on 15 May 1567 to the Earl of Bothwell. The castle was besieged and she escaped by disguising herself as a page boy. After her death an apparition of Mary, dressed as a page boy, was seen at the castle and she returns every year.

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Tour Haunted Blackness Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Blackness Castle on visit to the Firth of Forth, Scotland. This Scottish castle is haunted by the ghost of an angry Knight. This vexed spirit chased a female witness out of the castle during a sightseeing tour. Banging sounds have also been reported, with no source ever being found.



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Tour Haunted Bedlay Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Bedlay Castle on a visit to North Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle is haunted by Bishop Cameron
who is just as likely to be heard stomping around as he is to be seen, the Bishop's ghost is said to date back almost seven hundred years, from when he was discovered floating face down in a large pond that was on the site.

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Tour Haunted Castle Of Mey Scotland

Tour Haunted Castle of Mey on a visit to Caithness, on the north coast of Scotland. Lady Fanny Sinclair eloped from home to marry a member of the working classes, Lady Fanny's family tracked her down and brought her home, she was killed jumping out of a tower window while trying to escape again.

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Tour Haunted Barcaldine Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Barcaldine Castle on a visit near Oban, Scotland. Sir Donald Campbell was murdered on the castle grounds, and his ghost has been seen at the castle. It is believed that he is wandering in search of his killer. Donald's ghost is said to be full of loathing and hate.

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Tour Haunted Balnagown Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Balnagown Castle on a visit to Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. Black Andrew of the castle terrorised the neighbourhood, raping women and murdering men. The local community decided to act against the laird. They stormed his castle and hanged him by the neck from the highest window. Now his ghost remains within the walls of the castle, continuing to harass visiting women.

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Tour Haunted Balmoral Castle Scotland


Tour Haunted Balmoral Castle, on a visit to Royal Deeside Scotland. The ghost of John Brown a servant to Queen Victoria is often seen walking the corridors, usually wearing a kilt. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Tour Haunted Ballindalloch Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Ballindalloch Castle on a visit to Banffshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle is haunted by a former lord, seen walking towards his wine cellar. Extensions were added to the castle in 1770 by General James Grant of the American Wars of Independence whose ghost is also said to haunt the castle.

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Tour Haunted Balgonie Castle Fife Scotland

Tour Haunted Balgonie Castle on a visit to Fife, Scotland. Several hauntings have been reported within this Scottish castle. One spectre, nicknamed Green Jeanie, is said to be the ghost of one of the Lundie occupants. A 17th century soldier, a dog, and a hooded man have also been claimed to be seen. A skeleton was found in the floor of the great hall, during works in 1912.

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Tour Haunted Balcomie Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Balcomie Castle on a visit near Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Locked in a dungeon and forgotten about, a young man, some say a child, starved to death. He can be seen around the castle, and is sometimes heard whistling, the crime for which he was cast into the dungeon.



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Tour Haunted Ashintully Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Ashintully Castle on a visit near Kirkmichael, north of Blairgowrie, in Strathardle, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle is thought to be haunted by the ghost of a tinker, hanged for trespassing by one of the Spalding Barons. He cursed the family, warning that the family line would soon come to an end, the prophecy being fulfilled a short time after his death. He is said to haunt the spot near where he was hanged, by an avenue of tall trees. The Spalding family must have had something of a reputation for cruelty, as the other ghost said to haunt the grounds is that of a misshapen servant, murdered by another member of the family. He is known as Crooked Davie on the account of his hunched back.

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Tour Haunted Ardvreck Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Ardvreck Castle on a visit to Sutherland, Scotland. The Scottish castle is said to be haunted by two ghosts, one a tall man dressed in grey who is supposed to be related to the betrayal of Montrose and may even be Montrose himself. The second ghost is that of a young girl. The story tells that the MacLeods procured the help of Clootie, a Scottish name for the Devil, deriving from cloot, meaning one division of a cleft hoof, to build the castle and in return the daughter of one of the Clan MacLeod chieftains was betrothed to him as payment. In despair of her situation, the girl threw herself from one of the towers and was killed.



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Tour Haunted Aldourie Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Aldourie Castle on the east shore of Loch Ness on visit to the Scottish Highlands, Scotland. This Scottish castle is is haunted by a ghost known as the Gray Lady.

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Old Photograph Road By Loch Earn Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage by the road by Loch Earn Scotland. Loch Earn is a freshwater loch in the central highlands of Scotland, in the districts of Perthshire and Stirling. The name is thought to mean Loch of Ireland, and it is thought that this might derive from the time when the Gaels were expanding their kingdom of Dál Riata eastwards into Pictland.



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Old Photographs Burnside Road Fettercairn Scotland

Old photograph of shop, cottages and houses on Burnside Road in Fettercairn located North West of Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Black Watch Memorial Home Broughty Ferry Scotland

Old photograph of the Black Watch Memorial Home in Broughty Ferry by Dundee, Scotland. Broughty Ferry, Scottish Gaelic: Bruach Tatha; Scots: Brochtie, a suburb of Dundee it is situated four miles east of the city centre on the north bank of the Firth of Tay. Broughty Castle sits imposingly at the mouth of the River Tay. Built in 1496 on a rocky promontory, it has faced many sieges and battles. Formerly a prosperous fishing and whaling village, in the 19th century Broughty Ferry became a haven for wealthy jute barons, who built their luxury villas in the suburb. As a result, Broughty Ferry was referred to at the time as the " richest square mile in Europe. The area was a separate burgh from 1864 until 1913, when it was incorporated into Dundee. Hugh Malcolm was born in Broughty Ferry on 2 May 1917, and educated at Craigflower Preparatory School near Dunfermline and Glenalmond College in Perthshire. He entered the Royal Air Force College Cranwell on 9 January 1936. In January 1938, Malcolm joined 26, Army Co-operation, squadron at Catterick. In May 1939, he suffered a serious head injury in a Westland Lysander crash. By the end of 1941 he had risen to the rank of squadron leader and joined No 18 Squadron as a flight commander, flying the Bristol Blenheim and based in Suffolk, England. Malcolm was a 25 year old Wing Commander commanding 18 Squadron, Royal Air Force when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 4 December, he led a thirteen strong attack on an enemy fighter airfield near Chougui, Tunisia. On reaching the target, however, and starting the attack, the squadron was intercepted by an overwhelming force of enemy fighters from I and II. Gruppen JG 53, and 11 Staffel, JG 2. One by one, all his bombers were shot down, until he himself was shot down in flames. Malcolm's aircraft crashed in flames some 15 miles west of the target. An infantry officer and two other men who arrived at the scene of the crash minutes later retrieved the body of navigator Pilot Officer James Robb. Malcolm, with Robb and gunner Pilot Officer James Grant DFC, were buried in the Beja War Cemetery in a collective grave. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross on 27 April 1943. His was the first Royal Air Force Victoria Cross to be won in North Africa. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.




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Old Photograph Cordon Island Of Arran Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Cordon village near Lamlash on the Island of Arran, Scotland.



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Old Photograph War Memorial Boat of Garten Scotland


Old photograph of the war memorial in Boat of Garten in Badenoch And Strathspey, Scotland.

World War I Roll of Honour

Private, D Cameron, Gordon Highlanders
Private, A Clarke, Cameron Highlanders
Private G, Dow, Seaforth Highlanders
Lieutenant, K.J. Fraser, Durham Light Infantry
Private, W. Geddes, Gordon Highlanders
Lance Corporal, L. Grant, Cameron Highlanders
Signaller, R, Lamont, Royal Field Arillery
Lieutenant, A.H. Leslie, Australians, A.I.F.
Private, T. long, Cameron Highlanders
Corporal, A MacDonald, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, A. MacKenzie, Cameron Highlanders
Private, A. Macpherson, 8th London Regiment
Private, G. Martin, Cameron Highlanders
Private, J.P. McBean, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, D. Pearson, Cameron Highlanders

World War 2 Roll of Honour

Squadron Leader, Robert C. Sharp Granr, Royal Air Force.
Sergeant Air Gunner, Angus Macpherson, Royal Air Force



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Old Photograph War Memorial Swinton Scotland

Old photograph of the war memorial in Swinton village located five miles South East of Duns in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.

World War I Roll of Honour

Captain, George Ainslie,M.C. 6th Battalion, Kings Owns Scottish Borderers.
Private, John Bookless , B Company, 9th Battalion, Cameronians Scottish Rifles
Private, William Bookless, Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Private, Thomas Cockburn, Cameronians Scottish Rifles
Private, Thomas Cockburn, Cameronians Scottish Rifles
Corporal, William Dods, Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Private, John Gibson, Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Private, Thomas Graham, 1st Battalion, Black Watch
Private, Robert Halliday, 6th Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Major, Walter G. Home, 6th Dragoon Guards Carabineers
Private, John S. Jamieson, 7th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
Shoeing Smith Corporal, W. Y. Landels, 33rd Reserve Battery, Royal Field Artillery
Gunner, Daniel G. Mckenzie, 109th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Private, Alexander Paton, 11th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Private, Andrew Paxton, 6th Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Gunner, Alexander Ross, 10th Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
Private, Peter Simpson, 13th Battalion, Royal Scots
Private, Kenneth Thyne, 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, William McIntosh Trotter, 3rd Battalion, 1st Canadians
Private, Thomas Turnbull, Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Private, George Watson, Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Corporal, John Wilson, 8 Platoon, B Company 14th Battalion, London Regiment London Scottish

World War 2 Roll of Honour
Lance Corporal, Henry G Dearden, Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Sergeant, Robert Paterson, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

The distance from Glasgow and Paisley to Swinton is 94 miles



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Old Photograph War Memorial Brodick Scotland

Old photograph of the war memorial in Brodick on the Isle of Arran, Scotland.

World War I Roll Of Honour

Private, James Barbour, age 21, Highland Light Infantry, son of James and Mary Barbour, of 7, Douglas Row, Brodick, Isle of Arran.
John Currie, R. A, V. D.
Private, Angus Dewar, Cameron Highanders
Sergeant, George Coldthorpe, Black Watch
Sergeant, John Joyce, 12th Scots
Trooper, Simon Lawson, Guards
Trooper, John Mitchell, Lovat Scouts
Private, John McAllister, Black Watch
Private, William McIntyre, Black watch
Private, Angus McNicol, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Private, Hugh Reid, Royal Scots Fusiliers
Corporal, George Reside, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Corporal, William Watson, Canadians

The distance from Brodick to Glasgow and Paisley is 48 miles



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Old Photograph Stainrigg House Scotland

Old photograph of Stainrigg House, Eccles, Berwickshire, Scotland. Stainrigg, or Stoneridge House, has been in existence since at least the seventeenth century. The present house results from extensive remodelling carried out in the nineteenth century. The original Stainrigg was a three-storeyed harled structure, built along simple classical lines. A date panel on the north-east wall records the date of construction as 1631. In 1880, the architects Kinnear and Peddie carried out extensive work, which gave the house a very different, Scots Baronial, appearance.



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Old Photograph Carstairs House Scotland

Old photograph of Carstairs House in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish house was built by the Edinburgh architect William Burn between 1820 and 1823 for Henry Monteith MP. It replaced the previous building on the site. It then passed to his son Robert Monteith, and on his death to Joseph Monteith who built a hydroelectric plant at nearby Jarviswood, and the Carstairs House Tramway to transport guests and family to and from Carstairs railway station. In 1899 it was purchased by Sir James King, 1st Baronet who had been Lord Provost of Glasgow between 1886 and 1889. In 1924 Carstairs House was sold to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow and renamed as the St. Charles Institution. The children moved here in 1925. The St Charles Certified Institution for mentally defective Catholic children was opened in June 1916 at Marham House, Broomhill, Glasgow. The Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul staffed the institution and there was provision for 63 children. St Charles' institution closed in 1983.



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Old Photographs High Street Dunfermline Fife Scotland

Old photograph of shops, buildings, people and cars on the High Street in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Priory Lane Dunfermline Scotland

Old photograph of children, cottages, houses and Fish, Fruit, and confectionery shop on Priory Lane in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Dunfermline's most famous son is the entrepreneur and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie who was born in the town in 1835. Among the gifts he gave to his home town, include a free library and public swimming baths. Most important of all, was the donation of the Pittencrieff Estate which he had purchased in 1903 to be converted into Pittencrieff Park. In 1888, two Dunfermline men, John Reid and Robert Lockhart, first demonstrated golf in the US by setting up a hole in an orchard, before Reid set up America's first golf club the same year, St. Andrews Golf Club in Yonkers, New York, with Andrew Carnegie one of the first members.



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Old Photograph Arrol Johnston Motor Car Factory Scotland

Old photograph of the Arrol Johnston Motor Car Factory at Heathhall just outside Dumfries, Scotland. Arrol-Johnston, later known as Arrol-Aster, was an early Scottish manufacturer of automobiles, which operated from 1896 to 1931 and produced the first automobile manufactured in Britain. The company also developed the world's first " off-road " vehicle for the Egyptian government, and another designed to travel on ice and snow for Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole. George Johnston was by training a locomotive engineer from Neilson, Reid and Company Limited of Springburn, Glasgow. Johnston was commissioned by Glasgow Corporation Tramways in 1894 to build an experimental steam-powered tramcar to replace their fleet of horse drawn trams. In 1895 Johnston formed a joint venture with Sir William Arrol, an engineer of the Forth Bridge to form the Mo-Car Syndicate Limited, which was to produce his car. Sir William was Chairman and Johnston was Managing Director, and the Syndicate included a Mr. Archibald Coats, and a Mr. Millar of Paisley, while Norman Fulton was Works Manager. Sir William's main interest in the business was as the financial backer. The first Arrol-Johnston car was a six-seater " Dogcart " a vehicle with two transverse seats placed back to back, which went into production at a factory at Camlachie, in the East End of Glasgow. The company's Camlachie premises were destroyed by fire in 1901, and production was moved to Paisley. In 1913 Arrol Johnston bought land at Heathhall, just outside Dumfries, and commissioned an American firm to build a factory. This is said to be the first factory in Britain to use ferro-concrete, concrete reinforced with metal bars, and was designed by Albert Kahn, architect of the Ford factory at Highland Park, Michigan, USA, where the Model T was produced.



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Old Photograph Orkneyman's Cave Bressay Scotland

Old photograph of the Orkneyman's Cave and cliffs on the Island of Bressay, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Bressay lies due south of Whalsay, west of Noss, and north of Mousa. At 11 square miles, it is the fifth largest island in Shetland. The population is around 360 people, concentrated in the middle of the west coast, around Glebe and Fullaburn. The island is made up of Old Red Sandstone with some basaltic intrusions. Bressay was quarried extensively for building materials, used all over Shetland, especially in nearby Lerwick. There are a number of sea caves and arches.





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Old Photograph Skene House Scotland

Old photograph of Skene House in Aberdeen, Scotland. Provost George Skene lived in the house in the 17th century and is thought to have commissioned the carved plaster ceilings when he made some structural alterations to the building in 1676. In the 18th century, the Duke of Cumberland commandeered the house for his troops on their march north to Culloden. After this, it was known as 'Cumberland House', a name which survived into the 20th century, when the building, which had hitherto housed the famous and wealthy, became a public lodging house for the city's poor. In the 1930s, when adjacent houses in this formerly grand but now very run-down area of the city were demolished, a campaign was launched to save Provost Skene's House and an extensive programme of refurbishment began. In 1953, the house was opened to the public.



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Old Photograph Links Road Lundin Links Fife Scotland

Old photograph of children, the Bremner grocers shop, cottage and houses on Links Road in Lundin Links by Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Bremner surname is of Scottish origin which dates back to the early 15th Century. Variations in the idiom of the spelling include Brimner, Bremner, Brymner, etc., Church records include one William, son of Robert and Catherine Bremner, who was christened, at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London, England on December 10th 1736, John Bremner who married Margaret Donaldson at St. Dunstan in the East, London, on September 11th 1763 and Margaret Bremner who was christened in Edinburgh on April 29th 1773. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Walter Brabounare held a tenement in Irvine, which was dated 1418, Documents of the Royal burgh of Irvine, Scotland, during the reign of King James 1 of Scotland.



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Old Photograph Borthwick Hall Scotland

Old photograph of Borthwick Hall, Heriot, Midlothian, Scotland. Dating from 1852, the present house, the site of which was originally a hunting lodge for the Earls of Borthwick, was designed in the Baronial style by John Henderson, who also originated a number of Gothic Churches for the Scottish Episcopal Church. The first owner was the famous Seedsman and Nurseryman Sir Charles Lawson after whom Lawson Cypress was named. He served as Edinburgh’s Lord Provost from 1862 to 1865. From 1872 until 1926 it was owned by David Macfie whose crest may be seen in the Billiard Room fireplace. It was bought in 1926 by the eminent Edinburgh lawyer William Blair.



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Old Photograph Spey Bridge Newtonmore Scotland

Old photograph of the Spey Bridge outside Newtonmore, Scotland. This Scottish bridge was built to carry the A9 across the river Spey in the 1920s. It was one of eight bridges designed by the Engineer Sir Owen Williams and the Architect Maxwell Ayrton.



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Old Photograph Tweed Vineyards Clovenfords Scotland

Old photograph of Tweed Vineyards in Clovenfords near Galashiels, Scottish Borders of Scotland. Tweed Vineyards was created by William Thomson in 1869, choosing Clovenfords, Vine Street, because it had its own railway station, essential for delivering the many tons of coke required to heat the large complex of hothouses and because his brother-in-law was a builder and contractor living in Galashiels. The Tweed Vineyards of Scotland became the creme de la creme of the grapevine producing six tons of Muscat and Gros Colman grapes per year, then delivered by rail as far south as Covent Gardens and Harrods of London. For 90 years the Tweed Vineyards flourished under four generations of the Thomson family until the price of grapes fell dramatically. They sold the business in 1959, to Robert Affleck, a market gardener. Time took its toll and the once famous vineries fell into a state beyond repair.



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Old Photograph Malleny Bridge Balerno Scotland

Old photograph of Malleny Bridge by Balerno by Edinburgh, Scotland.



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