Photograph Ceres Highland Games Field Fife Scotland


Photograph of the Ceres Highland Games field in Ceres, Fife, Scotland.

Photograph Grindstones Fife Folk Museum Ceres Scotland


Photograph of old grindstones, Fife Folk Museum, Ceres, Scotland.

Photograph Methil Pipe Band Ceres Highland Games Fife Scotland


Photograph Methil Pipe Band at Ceres Highland Games, Fife, Scotland.


Photograph Methil Pipe Band at Ceres Highland Games, Fife, Scotland.


Photograph Methil Pipe Band at Ceres Highland Games, Fife, Scotland.


Photograph Methil Pipe Band at Ceres Highland Games, Fife, Scotland.


Photograph Methil Pipe Band at Ceres Highland Games, Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland Photograph Red Deer Stag North Fife


Tour Scotland photograph of a Red Deer Stage in North Fife, Scotland. Red deer, Cervus elaphus, are the largest native land animal in the UK and are found mainly in northern Scotland. Stags, males, are larger in size than females, and have magnificent branched antlers that can reach up to one metre in width. In summer, its coat is a deep reddish brown colour, giving the deer its name. In winter, the coat becomes longer, thicker and darker. Males and females stay in separate groups for most of the year; stags group into unrelated 'bachelor herds', while females, hinds, live in groups consisting of a dominant female and her daughters. They are active throughout the day but tend to be most active in the evening and at night. Their diet consists of shrubs, tree browse, grasses and heather. The Monarch of the Glen painting of a red deer stag completed in 1851 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer, which was commissioned as part of a series of three panels to hang in the Palace of Westminster in London, was one of the most popular paintings throughout the 19th century, and reproductions in steel engraving sold very widely, and the painting itself was finally bought by companies to use in advertising.



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Photograph Opening Ceremony Ceres Highland Games Fife Scotland


Photograph of the opening ceremony at Ceres Highland Games, Fife, Scotland. Menzies Campbell, far right in the photograph, performed the opening of the Ceres Highland Games. Sir Walter Menzies Campbell CBE QC, commonly known as Ming Campbell, is a British politician, advocate and retired sprinter. He is Member of Parliament for North East Fife and was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2 March 2006 until 15 October 2007.

Photograph Otter North Fife Scotland


Photograph of an Otter in North Fife, Scotland.

Photograph Ceres Highland Games Pipe Band Parade Scotland


Photograph of Ceres Highland Games Pipe Band Parade, North Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland Photograph Junior Highland Dancing Ceres Highland Games Fife


Tour Scotland photograph of Junior Highland Dancing at the Highland Games in Ceres, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Junior Highland Dancers Ceres Fife


Tour Scotland photograph of Junior Highland Dancers at the Highland Games in Ceres, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Red Deer North Fife


Tour Scotland photograph of Red Deer in North Fife, Scotland. Red deer are a native species having migrated to Britain from Europe 11,000 years ago. They were used extensively by Mesolithic man as a source of food, skins and tools, bones and antlers. However, the development of agriculture by Neolithic man cleared swathes of forest to make way for fields and this loss of forest encouraged the decline of red deer populations, which became confined to the Scottish Highlands, south west England and a few other small, scattered populations.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Barn Owl Fife


Tour Scotland photograph of a Barn Owl in North Fife, Scotland. Perhaps the most familiar owl, the barn owl will often hunt during the daytime and can be seen 'quartering' over fields and grasslands looking for its next small mammal meal. However, barn owls are also perfectly adapted to hunt in darkness with deadly precision: their silent flight and heart-shaped face which directs high-frequency sounds, help them to find mice and voles in the vegetation.


Photograph of a Barn Owl in North Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Weigh House Scales Ceres Fife


Tour Scotland photograph of a stone carving of scales above the door of the Weigh House at the Folk Museum in Ceres. Fife. Scotland. The old weigh house is where grain was weighed at a tron on market days. The building also served as a tolbooth for locking up minor offenders.



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Photograph The Fife Folk Museum Scotland


Photograph of The Fife Folk Museum, Ceres, Scotland. This museum looks at the most important aspect of life in the Kingdom of Fife, its people. Spanning two centuries, the collection comprises many farming objects, fine art, documents and costumes illustrating the working and social lives of the people of Fife. The museum is centrally located within the small historic burgh of Ceres. Displays cover the life and work of local people in the past.

Tour Scotland Photograph Box Type Farm Cart


Tour Scotland photograph of a box type farm cart at the Fife Folk Museum, Ceres, Fife, Scotland. Whilst farm waggons predominated in the lowland farming regions, it was the cart which was found to be more useful in the hilly districts, especially in the Highlands. As with waggons the local tradition was a major factor in design.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Provost Ceres Fife


Tour Scotland photograph of The Provost in Ceres, Fife, Scotland. The statue known as The Provost with a 17th century fireplace with frieze as the base is thought to depict the Reverend Thomas Buchanan, related to the 17th century theologian George Buchanan, who became the last church provost of Ceres in 1578. The figure portrays him as a toby jug and is probably satirical. The sculptor, a local stonemason named James Howie, also carved a panel below the figure depicting the Battle of Bannockburn.



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June Photograph The Would Be King Scotland


June photograph of The Would Be King of Scotland. On Friday 26th June, at Scone Palace, Perthshire, Scotland, as part of a series of events developed jointly with Historic Scotland, the National Trust for Scotland and the Historic Houses Association, Living History Scotland presented " Edward Bruce, The Would Be King. " The actor portraying Edward Bruce, gave a talk about the clothing, armour, weaponry and tactics that were used in 14th century Scotland. Edward the Bruce or Edward of Bruce, was a younger brother of King Robert I of Scotland, who supported his brother in the struggle for the crown of Scotland, then pursued his own claim in Ireland. He was proclaimed High King of Ireland, but was eventually defeated and killed in battle. He also held the Scottish title of Earl of Carrick.

Old Photograph Torphins Scotland


An old photograph of a shop and cottages on Williams Street in Torphins, Scotland. A village in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, about twenty miles west of Aberdeen. It is about six miles north west of Banchory, and was once served by the Great North of Scotland Railway.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Parish Church Kirkton of Kingoldrum


Tour Scotland photograph of the Parish Church, Kirkton of Kingoldrum, Angus, Scotland. Kirkton of Kingoldrum lies at the foot of Kirkton Hill on the Crombie Burn, four miles west of Kirriemuir. The parish church was built in 1840.





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Tour Scotland Photographs George Murray Doig Gravestone Kirkton of Kingoldrum Angus


Tour Scotland photograph of the George Murray Doig gravestone in the cemetery in Kirkton of Kingoldrum, Angus, Scotland. Scottish Millwright. Died 1st January 1932, aged 65.

Doig is an anglicized form of the Olde Scots Gaelic name Mac Gille Doig, " mac " meaning " son of ", " gille " meaning a servant, plus the personal name Doig, a short form of Cadog. The name therefore translates as " son of St. Cadog's servant ". In Scotland, the name appears most often on record in places where St. Cadog was commemorated. In the 15th century, the name was spelt Dog. Other modern variants of the name are Doag, Doeg, Doak, and Doidge. One Alexander Dog was cannon of Inchmahome in Menteith in 1491. The spelling Doig appears in the sixteen hundreds. Thomas Doig held land in Craigmakerone in 1644. On June 10th 1682, Barbara, daughter of John and Margaret Doig, was christened at Edinburgh parish church, Edinburgh, Midlothian and Walter, son of Henrie and Christian Doig was christened at the same place on October 10th, 1690. Dr. David Doig, born 1719, died 1800, was rector of Stirling Grammar School whom Robert Burns met on his Highland tour. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Alexander Doge, vicar of Dunnychtyne, which was dated 1372, during the reign of King Robert 11 of Scotland, born 1371, died 1390. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax


Photograph of the George Murray Doig gravestone, Kirkton of Kingoldrum, Angus, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Farquharson Of Baldovie Sepulchre Kirkton of Kingoldrum Angus


Tour Scotland photograph of the Farquharson Of Baldovie Sepulchre in the cemetery in Kirkton of Kingoldrum, Angus, Scotland. Captain Thomas Farquharson of Baldovie, a Deputy Lieutenant, 1798, Angus, purchased the estate of Balfour Castle, Kingoldrums, from David Jobson, Esquire, Dundee. Doctor Ogilvy of Baldovie, who died unmarried, had a sister wedded to a Ramsay, who had issue three daughters and a son who was set aside. Dr. Ogilvy gifted Baldovie to his eldest niece and her husband John Farquharson, son of Alexander Farquharson, farmer of Inzion, brother or cousin of William Farquharson of Broughdarg, and West Mill of Glenisla.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Charles Adam Gravestone Kirkton of Kingoldrum Angus


Tour Scotland photograph of the Charles Adam gravestone in the cemetery in Kirkton of Kingoldrum, Angus, Scotland. Erected by Janet Thom in memory of her husband. The mortal remains of Charles Adam, the Miller of Kingoldrum, who died 10th January, 1837. Kirkton of Kingoldrum is a village in Angus, located approximately four miles west of Kirriemuir.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Old Churchyard Kirkton of Kingoldrum Angus


Tour Scotland photograph of the old churchyard, Kirkton of Kingoldrum, Angus, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Highland Cows Kirkton of Kingoldrum Angus


Tour Scotland photograph of Highland Cows near Kirkton of Kingoldrum, Angus, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Pictish Stone Kirkton of Kingoldrum Angus


Tour Scotland photograph of a Pictish Stone at Kirkton of Kingoldrum, Angus, Scotland. The most enduring and distinctive legacy of the Picts are stone slabs decorated in a unique art style. At a time when the rest of Britain used the Roman alphabet for memorials, the Picts preferred graphic symbols.


Photograph of a Pictish Stone at Kirkton of Kingoldrum, Angus, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Thomas Loucher Gravestone Kirkton of Kingoldrum Angus


Tour Scotland photograph of the Thomas Loucher gravestone, Kirkton of Kingoldrum, Angus, Scotland. Erected by Margaret Finlay in memory of her husband who died in 1779, aged 49.



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Tour Scotland Photograph John Fenton Gravestone Kirkton of Kingoldrum Angus


Tour Scotland photograph of the John Fenton gravestone in the cemetery in Kirkton of Kingoldrum, Angus, Scotland. Late of His Majesty's 72nd Regiment of Foot. Served his King and Country in all quarters of the World for 24 years. The 72nd Highlanders, Formerly 78th Highlanders, was a British Army Highland Infantry Regiment of the Line raised in the late 18th century in Scotland for service against the French. In 1881 the regiment was linked with the 78th Highlanders Regiment to form the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Seaforth Highlanders.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Thomas Falconer Gravestone Kirkton of Kingoldrum Angus


Tour Scotland photograph of the Thomas Falconer gravestone in the cemetery in Kirkton of Kingoldrum, Angus, Scotland. This surname has two distinct possible sources, the first and most likely being from an Old French occupational name for a keeper or trainer of hawks. The hawk trainer was held in high esteem in medieval times as it was his responsibility to supply hunting hawks to his overlord or the lord of the castle.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Balfour Castle


Tour Scotland photograph of Balfour Castle, Angus, Scotland. Four miles to the west of Kirriemuir and just south of Kirkton of Kingoldrum village stand the ruins of Balfour Castle, a former stronghold of the Ogilvies of Balfour said to have been erected in the 16th Century by Cardinal Beaton for his mistress, Marion Ogilvy, and their children. In 1540 the lands of Balfour and Kirkton of Kingoldrum, by Arbroath Abbey to James Ogilvy of Cookston and his wife Marjory Durie.



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Tour Scotland Photographs St Athernase Church Leuchars


Tour Scotland photograph of St Athernase Church, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. The 12th century St Athernase Church is one of the finest surviving examples of an unaisled Romanesque parish church in Scotland, or indeed Britain as a whole, with two levels of blind arcading in the Norman style running round the exterior, surmounted by a corbel table with heads of various designs. The interior has elaborate chancel and apse arches, and a series of powerful beast-heads on the corbels supporting the ribs of the internal vaults. The nave has unfortunately been rebuilt. The apse roof is crowned by a small bell-tower added in the 17th century.





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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Old Churchyard Cemetery St Athernase Church Leuchars


Tour Scotland photograph of the old churchyard cemetery at St Athernase Church, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. Athernase may be an anglicised form of the name Itharnán, found also in Fife at Kilrenny, and on the Isle of May, an Irish missionary who died among the Picts in 669 according to the Annals of Ulster.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Bell Tower St Athernase Church Leuchars


Tour Scotland photograph of the Bell Tower on St Athernase Church in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. The belltower was added to the church in 1700. It consists of a rounded tower and an octagonal bellcote with a domed roof. The tower has a blind arch to the north and south and a blank frame to the east. The bellcote has deeply splayed arches in every face and is topped by a weathervane.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Old Cottages Leuchars


Tour Scotland photograph of old cottages in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. The town is nearly 2 miles the north of the village of Guardbridge, which lies on the north bank of the River Eden where it widens to the Edenmouth estuary before joining the North Sea at St Andrews Bay. Leuchars is 7 miles north east of Cupar and 6 miles north west from the university town of St Andrews. The city of Dundee is 7 miles to the north, across the rail and road bridges that span the Firth of Tay.

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Photograph War Memorial Leuchars Scotland


Photograph of the War Memorial, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland Photograph William Taylor Gravestone Leuchars


Tour Scotland photograph of the William Taylor gravestone in the old churchyard, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. A shoemaker in Leuchars.

Taylor is a sept or branch of Clan Cameron, a Scottish clan. Present day members of the Taylor sept hold the Scottish surname Taylor. Some members of the Taylor sept are descendants of Donald Cameron, who lived in the Scottish Highlands Lochaber area in the middle of the 16th century. Others are simply descended from those with an occupational surname meaning tailor.



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Tour Scotland Photograph John Strachan Gravestone Leuchars


Tour Scotland photograph of the John Strachan gravestone in the old churchyard, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. Erected by William Strachan, Saddler in Leuchars, in memory of his son, John Strachan, who died October 6th, 1835, aged 24.

Famous Strachans from Scotland include:

Archibald Strachan, died 1652, who was a Scottish soldier who fought in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, reaching the rank of Colonel. Archibald was born in Musselburgh near Edinburgh, the son of a craftsman.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Robert Johnstone Gravestone Leuchars


Tour Scotland photograph of the Reverend Robert Johnstone gravestone in the old churchyard in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland.

Famous Johnstones from Scotland include:

John Johnstone the 32nd Mayor of New York City from 1714 to 1719. An friend of George Scot of Pitlochie, he was a druggist from Edinburgh and emigrated to the United States in 1685 aboard the Henry and Francis. Johnstone married Scot's daughter, Euphame in 1686. Scot himself died on board ship. Between 1710 and 1714 Johnstone represented Perth Amboy in the New Jersey General Assembly. By 1714 he was mayor of New York City, in which office he served until 1716.

William Johnstone, 2nd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, 1st Marquess of Annandale, born 17 February 1664, died 14 January 1721, was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell and Henrietta Douglas. He succeeded to the Earldom of Annandale and Hartfell on the death of his father in 1672.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Robert Forrester Gravestone Leuchars


Tour Scotland photograph of the Robert Forrester gravestone in the old churchyard in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. Erected by John Forrester, shoemaker in Leuchars, in memory of his son Robert Forrester, who died March 10th, 1842, aged 10 years.

Clan Forrester is an ancient Scottish clan of the Scottish Lowlands. The clan took their name from their ancient role as guardians of the royal forest around Edinburgh. The Forresters had significant holdings in Lothian, and Stirlingshire. During the Wars of Scottish Independence Forresters fought at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333. They also fought at the Battle of Sauchieburn in the 15th century. Sir John Forrester of Niddry died at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.
Sir James Forrester, seventh chief of Clan Forrester was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547, as was Sir David Forrester, 4th of the Torwood branch of the clan.



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Tour Scotland Photograph John Dandie Gravestone Leuchars Fife


Tour Scotland photograph of the John Dandie gravestone in the old churchyard in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. Erected by Robert Dandie in memory of his son John Dandie who died 6th August 1872, aged 23.

Although the variant forms Dand, Dandie and Dandy are usually thought of as Scottish, the earliest recordings are all from English locations, the earliest Scottish instance being that of Andrew Kerr, son of the eighth Lord of Ferniehurst, who was known as " Dand Kerr " and died in 1499. The marriage of Esbell Dand and John Bukler was recorded at St. Oswald's in Durham on the 17th June 1554. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard Dande, which was dated 1279, in the Huntingdonshire Hundred Rolls, during the reign of King Edward 1, known as The Hammer of the Scots. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Janet Hair Gravestone Leuchars Fife


Tour Scotland photograph of the Janet Hair gravestone in the old churchyard cemetery in, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland.

In Scotland and Ireland when the Hair name is not imported from England, it is an anglicized spelling of the surname " O'hir ", a nickname meaning the descendant of the fierce one. The surname first appears in Scotland in 1366, William Hare being a burgess of Edinburgh,



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