Tour Scotland Photograph West Lighthouse Tayport

Tour Scotland photograph of the West Lighthouse, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Located on the south shore of the Firth of Tay, opposite Dundee, and north west of Tayport, the the white tower which comprises the West Lighthouse, also known as the High Light, was built in 1823 by noted lighthouse engineer Robert Stevenson, born 1772, died 1850.



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Photograph Old Parish Church Tulliallan Scotland

Photograph of the Old Parish Church Tulliallan, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish church was built in 1675, as a successor to the even older parish church, and was itself replaced about 1825 when a new church was built. Now roofless, it is rectangular, with a North transept, a square tower at the West end, and an old graveyard.

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Old Photograph Kisimul Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Kisimul Castle, Island of Barra, Scotland. The earliest documentary record of Kisimul Castle dates from the mid 16th century. As Kisimul is completely surrounded by the sea, it can only be reached by boat making the fortification impregnable but it has its own fresh water wells. Kisimul was abandoned in 1838 when the island was sold, and the castle's condition deteriorated. Some of its stone was used as ballast for fishing vessels, and some even ended up as paving in Glasgow. The remains of the castle, along with most of the island of Barra, were purchased by the chief of Clan MacNeill in 1937, who made efforts at restoration. In 2001 the castle was leased by the chief of Clan MacNeil to Historic Scotland for 1000 years for the annual sum of £1 and a bottle of whisky.

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Old Photographs Auchtermuchty Scotland

Old photograph of Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland.


Old photograph of Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland.

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The Weather Today In Scotland

The Weather Today In Scotland.

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Old Photographs Scrabster Scotland

Old photograph of Scrabster, located on Thurso Bay, Caithness, Scotland.

Old photograph of Scrabster Lighthouse, located on Thurso Bay, Caithness, Scotland.


Old photograph of Scrabster, located on Thurso Bay, Caithness, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Strachur Scotland

Old photograph of Strachur village, Argyll, Scotland. By tradition, Strachur has been held as one of the original strongholds of Clan Campbell, and in 1870 the principal landowners of the parish were Campbell of Strachur and McLachlan of that Ilk.



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Old Photograph Ackergill Tower Scotland

Old photograph of Ackergill Tower, Caithness, Scotland. Built in the 1400s by Clan Keith, Ackergill Tower is a five storey oblong tower house. The Keith clan, under John Keith, took the lands at Ackergill in 1354, and Ackergill Tower was probably built by his son. This tower has several historically famous things, but one which is often forgotten is the fate of a young woman by the name of Helen Gunn. In her story, the young woman is abducted by John Keith because he wanted her for her amazing beauty. She flung herself, or fell, from the highest tower to escape her abductors advances. Supposedly her ghost is still seen, wearing a long red rustling ball gown and a tall head of black hair. This was in the late 14th or early 15th century and is said to have been the true beginning for all Feuding between the Gunns and Keiths. It led to the Battle of Champions in either 1478 or 1464, a massacre of the Gunns by the Keiths at the chapel of St Tear (Tayre) just east of the village. In 1547, the Sinclairs of Sinclair and Girnigoe Castle attacked and seized the castle. Mary the Regent granted the Sinclairs remission for this, and returned Ackergill Tower to the Keiths, and later installed Lord Oliphant as keeper of Ackergill in 1549. The Sinclairs again captured the castle in 1556, for which they were again granted remission. In 1593, Robert Keith, brother to the William Keith, 6th Earl Marischal, who rightfully owned the tower, seized Ackergill by force, for which he was declared a rebel, and the castle returned to the Earl. In 1598, another Keith, one John Keith of Subster, attacked the tower in the dead of night, taking its occupants by surprise and capturing the place. In 1612, the Sinclairs acquired Ackergill Tower once again, but through legal means, when it was sold to the Earl of Caithness by the Earl Marischal. However, by 1623 it was under assault once more, when it was besieged by Sir Robert Gordon during his feud with George Sinclair, 5th Earl of Caithness, but the Sinclairs surrendered the castle before any assault took place. In 1651, Oliver Cromwell may have used Ackergill Castle to garrison his troops during his siege of the Keith's Dunnottar Castle, as he was hunting for the Honours of Scotland. In 1676, John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland took possession of Ackergill Tower in repayment of debts owed by the Sinclairs.

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Old Photographs Dunbeath Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Dunbeath Castle, Caithness, Scotland. A castle is first recorded on the rocky peninsula at Dunbeath in 1428, when the lands belonged to the Earl of Caithness. The first recorded laird was Alexander Sutherland. It later became the property of the Clan Sinclair through the marriage of the daughter of Alexander Sutherland to William Sinclair (1410–1484), the first Sinclair Earl of Caithness. The Sinclairs replaced the earlier structure with a four-storey tower house in 1620. In March 1650, Dunbeath was attacked by the Royalist forces of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Sir John Sinclair rode to Edinburgh to warn of Montrose's arrival, leaving his wife to defend Dunbeath against Sir John Hurry. She soon surrendered, and a Royalist garrison was installed. Montrose was defeated in April at the Battle of Carbisdale, and the opposition forces, under David Leslie, recaptured the castle. The castle was extensively remodelled in the 17th century by Sir William Sinclair, and again in 1853 and 1881, when David Bryce was the architect. From 1894 to 1945, the castle was owned by Vice-Admiral Sir Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair. In that year, after 325 years of occupation by the Sinclair Family, the castle was sold to Bertram Currie. In 1967 it was sold again to Harry Blythe and Helen (Sinclaire) Blythe. The castle remained in their possession until 1976 when it was sold to Ray Stanton Avery. In 1997 the castle was sold to the current owner, Stuart Wyndham Murray-Threipland. The castle remains a private residence today and is not open to the public.

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Old Photograph Little Glenshee Scotland

Old photograph of a farm house in Little Glenshee, North of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Kyle of Lochalsh Scotland

Old Photograph of Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland. Kyle of Lochalsh railway station is connected to Inverness by the Kyle of Lochalsh railway line, built in 1897 to improve public transport to the north west of Scotland. The line ends on the water's edge, near where the ferry connection used to run.



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Old Photograph Waterloo Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, house and children in the hamlet of Waterloo, North of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Bankfoot Scotland

Old photograph of houses, cottages and people in Bankfoot, Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of Waterloo by Bankfoot, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Raining Again In Scotland

Raining again in Scotland. Perfect time for a shower.

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Photograph Kilted Busker Scotland

Photograph of a kilted busker in Pitlochry, Scotland.

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Photograph Kilt Shop Blairgowrie Scotland

Photograph of two of my tour guests in kilts in Blairgowrie, Scotland.

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Photograph Extra Long Kilt Scotland

Photograph of an extra long kilt in Scotland.

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Photograph Kilted Bryan Adams Scotland

Photograph of Bryan Adams wearing a kilt at the Scottish Exhibition Centre, in Glasgow, Scotland. Photographic Print of Bryan Adams from MirrorPrintStore.

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Photograph Kilted Muhammad Ali Scotland

Photograph of Muhammad Ali dressed in a kilt in Scotland. Photographic Print of Muhammad Ali from MirrorPrintStore.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Ruins Culross Abbey

Tour Scotland Photograph of the ruins of Culross Abbey in Culross, Fife, Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1217 by Malcolm I, Mormaer or Earl of Fife, and was first colonised by monks from Kinloss Abbey. Culross may have been chosen to establish an abbey because this was the birth place of Saint Mungo. It is evident that the abbey was built over the earlier Pictish church supposedly founded by Saint Serf in the 6th century, as witnessed by the presence in the ruined Cistercian church of early medieval carved stones and from a ninth-century reference to a church of St Serf at Culross. The original 13th century abbey was cruciform in plan, without aisles. By the late 15th century the lay brothers had left, and the abbey community consisted of only choir monks. The western half of the abbey was therefore abandoned, and the nave was demolished around 1500. In 1633 the east choir of the abbey was taken over for use as a parish church, while the adjoining buildings show above fell into decay.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Stewart McPherson Gravestone Culross

Tour Scotland photograph of the Stewart McPherson Gravestone in Culross, Fife, Scotland. Stewart McPherson VC, born in Culross in 1819, died 7th December 1892, he was a Scottish soldier in India and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth military forces. His citation reads: For daring gallantry in the Lucknow Residency on the 26th September, 1857, in having rescued, at great personal risk, a wounded Private of his Company, who was lying in a most exposed situation, under a very heavy fire. Colour-Sergjeant McPherson was also distinguished on many occasions by his coolness and gallantry in action.



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Photograph James Virtue Gravestone Scotland

Photograph of the James Virtue Gravestone in Culross, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Charlestown Harbour

Tour Scotland photograph of a fishing boat in the harbour at Charlestown, Fife, Scotland. Charlestown was established in 1770 by Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin. The planned village is laid out in the shape of a letter E for Elgin. It was established as a harbour town for the shipment of coal mined on Lord Elgin's Fife estates, and for the production of lime. The harbour's outer basin was built around 1840. Shipbuilding was carried on at Charlestown in the 19th century, as well as shipbreaking. Some of the German Imperial Fleet were brought here from Scapa Flow after World War I to be broken up.



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Street View West Braes Pittenweem Scotland

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Street view of West Braes, Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This is an excellent spot for shooting photographs of Pittenweem foreshore.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Pantile Roofs Culross

Tour Scotland photograph of houses with pantile roofs in Culross, Fife, Scotland. Pantiles initially appeared in eastern coastal areas of Scotland during the 17th century, being brought at first from Holland as ballast in trading ships. A legend states that when the British princess, and future Saint, Teneu, daughter of the king of Lothian, became pregnant before marriage, her family threw her from a cliff. She survived the fall unharmed, and was soon met by an unmanned boat. She knew she had no home to go to, so she got into the boat; it sailed her across the Firth of Forth to land at Culross where she was cared for by Saint Serf; he became foster-father of her son, Saint Kentigern or Mungo.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Culross Palace Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of Culross Palace, Fife, Scotland. This Palace is a late 16th, to early 17th century merchant's house. The palace, or "Great Lodging", was constructed by Sir George Bruce, the Laird of Carnock. Bruce was a successful merchant who had a flourishing trade with other Forth ports, the Low Countries and the Baltic countries. He had interests in coal mining and salt production, and is credited with sinking the world's first coal mine to extend under the sea. Although never a royal residence, James VI visited the Palace in 1617.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Auchinbaird Windmill

Tour Scotland photograph of Auchinbaird Windmill, New Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. A late 17th century vaulted tower grain mill. Before 1860 the top of tower was castellated, later on the brick dome was added and tower converted into a doocot. New Sauchie is a relatively modern settlement developed around the Holton Village area to house miners working in the Earl of Mar's colliery at the Holton mine.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Sauchie Tower

Tour Scotland photograph of Sauchie Tower, Scotland. Sauchie is a village in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The name means the place or field of the willows. The land originally belonged to Clan Campbell, being mentioned in connection with Cailean Mór and Gilleasbaig of Menstrie. In 1321 Robert the Bruce granted the lands of Sauchie to Henry de Annand, former Sherriff of Clackmannan. A tower was built in 1335, and the present Sauchie Tower is on the same site. The extant tower was built before 1431 when Mary de Annand, the co-heiress to the estate, married Sir James Schaw of Greenock. The tower is all that remains of the village which developed within its protective radius. In the early 1700's the Schaw family moved from the tower to the more comfortable Newtonschaw.



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April 4th Photograph Daffodils Scotland

April 4th photograph of a few daffodils in Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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April 4th Photograph After The Rain Scotland

April 4th photograph shot after the rain in Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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April 4th Photograph Pittenweem Scotland

April 4th photograph of Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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April 4th Photograph Rocky Shoreline Scotland

April 4th photograph of the rocky shoreline at St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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April 4th Photograph White House Scotland

April 4th photograph of a white house by the harbour at St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Houses Harbour St Monans

Tour Scotland photograph of houses by the harbour in St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The village takes its name from St Monance who was killed by invading Danes in about 875. St Adrian was killed on the Isle of May in the same raid and 6,000 Fife Christians are said to have died. Like other small East Neuk fishing villages, St Monans is rich in vernacular fisher and merchant houses of the 17th to early 19th centuries, with characteristic old Scots features, e.g. forestairs, crow-stepped gables, datestones, pantiled roofs etc.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Stained Glass Window Culross Abbey

Tour Scotland photograph of a stained glass window in the Abbey Church in Culross, Fife, Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1217 by Malcolm I, Mormaer or Earl of Fife, and was first colonised by monks from Kinloss Abbey. Culross may have been chosen to establish an abbey because this was the birthplace of Saint Mungo.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Thomas Cochrane Memorial Culross

Tour Scotland photograph of the Thomas Cochrane Memorial in Culross, Fife, Scotland. Thomas Cochrane was born December 14, 1775 at Annsfield, Scotland. The son of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald and Anna Gilchrist, he spent the majority of his early years at the family's estate in Culross. Under the practice of the day his uncle, Alexander Cochrane, an officer in the Royal Navy, had his name entered on the books of naval vessels at age five. Though technically illegal, this practice reduced the amount of time Cochrane would need to serve before becoming an officer if he elected to pursue a naval career. In 1793, with the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, Cochrane joined the Royal Navy. Initially assigned to his uncle's ship HMS Hind, he soon followed the elder Cochrane to HMS Thetis. Learning his trade on the North American station, he was appointed an acting lieutenant in 1795, before passing his lieutenant's exams the following year. Following several assignments in America, he was made eighth lieutenant on Lord Keith's flagship HMS Barfleur in 1798. Serving in the Mediterranean.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Town House Culross

Tour Scotland photograph of the Town House in Culross, Fife, Scotland. The Town House was built in 1626 and was the administrative centre of Culross with a tollbooth and witches' prison. The front of the building was altered, and the forestair and clock and bell tower were added in 1783.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Mercat Cross Culross

Tour Scotland photograph of the Mercat Cross in Culross, Fife, Scotland. The Mercat Cross has a unicorn on top. The cross was the symbol of a burgh's right to trade and was located in the market place of Culross. A mercat cross is a market cross found in Scottish cities and towns where trade and commerce was a part of economic life. It was originally a place where merchants would gather, and later became the focal point of many town events such as executions, announcements and proclamations.



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Tour Scotland Photograph The Study Culross

Tour Scotland photograph of the 16th century building called The Study in Culross, Fife, Scotland. The study at the top of the stair tower, from which the house takes its name, was possibly also a look out. It is also said to have been used by Bishop Leighton of Dunblane in the late 17th century who reputedly stayed in Mid Causeway.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Cobblestoned Street Culross

Tour Scotland photograph of a cobblestoned Street in Culross, Fife, Scotland. In 1490 Culross was made a Burgh of Barony by King James IV. In 1575 the local abbey sold the lease of its disused colliery to George Bruce, who exploited the coal and developed the salt panning industry to create a large and profitable business. He was influential in getting James VI to grant Culross the royal burgh status in the late 16th century, so that he could trade abroad and enjoyed 50 years of prosperous trading in coal and salt. Iron baking girdles were a famous Culross product and Culross had the monopoly on their manufacture from the late 16th century until 1727. Much rebuilt in the 17th century, Culross retains many typical burgh features including the church, tolbooth and mercat cross.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Oban

Tour Scotland photograph of Oban, Scotland. In the eighteenth century, the land where Oban now stands supported very few households, sustaining only minor shipbuilding and quarrying. The modern town of Oban grew up around the distillery that was founded there in 1794. By the late nineteenth century, Oban was a busy port which shipped wool, whisky, slate and kelp to Liverpool and Glasgow. The arrival of the railways brought new prosperity to Oban, revitalising local industry and giving birth to local tourism. It was at this time that McCaig's Tower, a folly and prominent local landmark, was constructed.


Tour Scotland photograph of McCaig's Tower, Oban, Scotland.



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Street View St Fillans Parish Church

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Street view of St Fillans Parish Church, Killin, Scotland. St Fillans Parish Church, in Killin on Loch Tay, is known locally as the Grouse Chapel, it was built in 1876 from corrugated iron by the 7th Marquis of Breadalbane for members of his shooting parties. It is one of the few Victorian "tin tabernacles" still in active use, as both a Scottish Episcopal Church and also by the local Roman Catholic Congregation.

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April 2nd Photograph Perth Bridge Scotland

April 2nd photograph of Perth Bridge, Perth, Scotland.


April 2nd photograph of Perth Bridge, Perth, Scotland.

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