Tour Scotland Video Train Perth Perthshire


Tour Scotland video of a train arriving in Perth, Scotland, and the first view the passengers see of the city.

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August 13th Video River Tay Scotland


August 13th video of the River Tay in Perth, Scotland.

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August 13th Photograph River Tay Scotland


August 13th photograph of the River Tay in Perth, Scotland. The River Tay originates in the Scottish Highlands and flows down through Strathtay, in the centre of Scotland, through Perth and into the Firth of Tay, south of Dundee. It is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh longest in the United Kingdom. It is the largest river in the UK by volume of discharge.


August 13th photograph of the River Tay in Perth, Scotland.


August 13th photograph of the River Tay in Perth, Scotland.

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Perthshire is at the very heart of Scotland and one of the most popular regions for visitors, offering a variety of Highland and Lowland landscapes with some of the most scenic and accessible countryside for shorter walks as well as evidence of its rich history at every turn. Perthshire 40 Town and Country Walks features traditional tourist hubs, such as Pitlochry, Dunkeld and Killin, with its historical connections to the county, as well as countryside around Blairgowrie, Crieff and Aberfeldy, finishing up at the Fair City of Perth and nearby Kinross. Perthshire: 40 Town and Country Walks (Pocket Mountains).

August 12th Photograph Sunset Scotland


August 12th photograph of sunset in Scotland. Not a spectacular sunset tonight, but the sky was quite interesting.


August 12th photograph of sunset in Scotland.


August 12th video of sunset in Scotland

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Tour Scotland Massed Pipes And Drums Video


Tour Scotland Massed Pipes and Drums video. A wee video of the massed pipes and drums at the 2010 Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland.

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August 12th Tour Scotland Fishing Video


Tour Scotland Fishing video. A sunny period today day at Willowgate Trout and Salmon Fishery on the banks of the River Tay , two miles from city centre of Perth, Scotland. August 12th, 2010.

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Old Photograph Straits Of Luss Scotland


Old photograph of the Straits Of Luss, Loch Lomond, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Balloch Scotland


Old photograph of the River Leven at Balloch, Loch Lomond, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Ravenscraig Castle Peterhead Scotland


Old photograph of Ravenscraig Castle by Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Ravenscraig Castle, previously the Craig of Inverugie, is a ruined L-shaped Scottish tower house, for which a licence was granted in May 1491. It is situated on the precipitous banks of the Ugie, defended by a moat.



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Old Photograph West Highland Line Scotland


Old photograph of the West Highland Railway Line in Scotland.


Old photograph of the West Highland Railway Line in Scotland.

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Old Photograph Cross of Sacrifice Scotland


Old photograph of the Cross of Sacrifice, Dryburgh Abbey, Scotland.
This Cross of Sacrifice is identical with those which stand above the dead of Lord Haig's Armies in France and Flanders.

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Old Photograph Flying Scotsman Scotland


Old photograph of the Flying Scotsman in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Perth Scotland


Old photograph of the railway station in Perth, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Princes Street Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland.



Old photograph of Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland.


Old photograph of Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Old photograph of Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Hopetoun House Scotland


Old photograph of Hopetoun House, Scotland. Hopetoun House is the traditional residence of the Earl of Hopetoun, later the Marquess of Linlithgow. It was built in 1699 and was designed by William Bruce, and extended in 1721 by William Adam. The house is located near South Queensferry to the west of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Railway Station Gleneagles Scotland


Old photograph of the Railway Station at Gleneagles, Perthshire, Scotland. Gleneagles railway station serves the town of Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The station was opened by the Caledonian Railway in 1919 following their takeover of the Scottish Central Railway. The Caledonian Railway built the nearby Gleneagles Hotel, which opened in 1925.




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Old Photograph Garve Scotland


Old photograph of Garve, Scotland. Garve railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Garve in the north of Scotland. Garve is located at the eastern edge of Loch Garve. From Monday to Saturday, there are four daily services to Kyle of Lochalsh, and four daily services in the opposite direction to Inverness. There is one service in each direction on Sundays.



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Old Photograph Achnasheen Scotland


Old photograph of Achnasheen, Scotland. A small village in Ross-shire in the Highland council area of Scotland. Despite the size of the village, Achnasheen is also the name of a postal district which covers several much larger communities. This dates from the time when the village railway station was an important stop on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving a large area of Wester Ross. The railway still operates but all freight and mail, and most passengers, now travel by road.



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Old Photographs Dingwall Scotland

Old photograph of Dingwall, Scotland. In 1411 the Battle of Dingwall is said to have taken place between the Clan Mackay and the Clan Donald.

Old photograph of Dingwall, Scotland.


Old photograph of Dingwall, Scotland. Dingwall railway station has lain on what is now called the Far North Line since around 1865. It also serves the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, with the junction between the two lines being located within the town.

Old photograph of Dingwall, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Rose Street Inverness Scotland


Old photograph of Rose Street, Inverness, Scotland. A railway line ran between Rose Street Junction on the Far North Line and Welsh's Bridge Junction on the Aberdeen to Perth, Perthshire, line.

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Old Photograph Achterneed Scotland


Old photograph of Achterneed, Scotland. Achterneed railway station was a railway station serving Strathpeffer on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, in Wester Ross, Scotland. Opened in 1870, the station was sited to the north of Strathpeffer between Dingwall and Garve. It was initially called Strathpeffer but the name was changed when the branch line to that town from Dingwall opened in 1885. The station was opened by the Dingwall and Skye Railway, but operated from the outset by the Highland Railway. Taken into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, the line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was closed by the British Railways Board in 1965.

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Tour Scotland Fishing In The Rain Video


Tour Scotland Fishing in the rain video. A rainy day at Willowgate Trout and Salmon Fishery on the banks of the River Tay , two miles from city centre of Perth, Scotland. August 12th, 2010.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Loch Garry


Tour Scotland photograph of Loch Garry and Glen Garry, near Fort Augustus, Scotland. Loch Garry is much photographed from the A87 for its romantic setting and also because a quirk of perspective makes it appear like a map of Scotland. The Glen used to be home of the Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry, but since the Highland Clearances the population has been reduced to a handful of estates. The main activities are deerstalking and forestry, with little tourism apart from munro baggers seeking some spectacularly remote mountains at the head of the glen. The lonely road along the north side of Loch Garry continues past Loch Quoich to Kinlochhourn from where a footpath continues to Knoydart.



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Tour Scotland World Pipe Band Championships 2010 Video


Tour Scotland World Pipe Band Championships 2010 Video. Williamwood Pipe Band are from the south side of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band Video


Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band in George Square, Glasgow, Scotland. This pipe band is in Scotland for the World Pipe Band Championship 2010 which runs from August 9th to August 15th, 2010. The Los Angeles Scottish Pipe Band, known more commonly as the LA Scots, is a competitive Grade One pipe band based in Orange County, California


Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band drummers in George Square, Glasgow, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland August 11th Video Perth Bridge Scotland


Tour Scotland August 11th video of Old Perth Bridge, Perth, Scotland. Perth Bridge, also known as Smeaton's Bridge and, locally, the Old Bridge, is a toll free bridge in the town of Perth, Scotland. It spans the River Tay, connecting Perth, on the eastern side of the river, to Bridgend, on its western side, carrying both automotive and pedestrian traffic of West Bridge Street.

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Tour Scotland Video Murray Tomb Scone Palace



Tour Scotland video of the Murray Tomb by Scone Palace near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The ornate tomb of David Murray, the first Lord Scone, stands adjacent to Scone Palace, right on the top of Moot Hill. Sir David Murray saved King James VI from an attack by the Earl Gowrie in 1600 and was made Cup-bearer, then Master of the Horse and finally Captain of the Guard to King James VI. The King made him Lord Scone in 1605, awarding him the lands of Scone which had been forfeited by the Earl of Gowrie. By this time, James was on the throne of the United Kingdom and living in London. In 1621, Murray rose further in the rankings of the noblemen by being made Viscount Stormont. His descendants rose still further, becoming the Earls of Mansfield.

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August 10th Photograph Ships Wheel RRS Discovery Scotland


August 10th photograph of the ships wheel of the RRS Discovery in Dundee, Scotland. Originally the wheel was positioned to the rear of the ship, making the helmsman’s work less strenuous. He would navigate using one of two compasses housed in binnacles.


August 10th photograph of the ships wheel of the RRS Discovery in Dundee, Scotland.

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August 10th Photograph Compass RRS Discovery Scotland


August 10th photograph of the compass of the RRS Discovery in Dundee, Scotland.

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August 10th Photograph The Galley RRS Discovery Scotland


August 10th photograph of The Galley of the RRS Discovery in Dundee, Scotland. Three meals a day were cooked here along with fresh bread.

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August 10th Photograph RRS Discovery Scotland


August 10th photograph of the RRS Discovery in Dundee, Scotland. The RRS Discovery was the last wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain. Designed for Antarctic research, she was launched in 1901. Her first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition, carrying Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their first, successful journey to the Antarctic, known as the Discovery Expedition. She is now the centre piece of visitor attraction in her home, Dundee.

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August 10th Photograph River Tay Scotland


August 10th photograph of the River Tay, Dundee, Scotland.

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Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal composed his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the poem about Britain's worst-ever civil engineering disaster. Over 80 people lost their lives in the fall of the Tay Bridge, but how did it happen? The accident reports say that high wind and poor construction were to blame, but Peter Lewis, an Open University engineering professor, tells the real story of how the bridge so spectacularly collapsed in December 1879. The Tay Bridge disaster of December 28th 1879 shocked and horrified Victorian society. It came at the end of a terrible year for the British Empire. They had lost a whole army brigade in the Zulu War in January, and the Consul in Afghanistan had been butchered in September. The country was suffering a severe economic depression, partly because the rail network had opened up the country to products from abroad, such as cheap grain from the American prairies. And then the longest bridge in the world (approved by the Government) collapsed in a storm. This book describes the reinvestigation of the disaster from the original witness evidence and the set of photographs of the remains now held in Dundee City Library. It confirms everything concluded at the time: the bridge was badly designed, built and maintained. However, it is likely that metal fatigue helped bring the structure down that fateful night. Enlargements of the court pictures shows all the terrible design! Defects in the high girders section of the bridge, which brought it down. Warnings of the deteriorating state of the structure were ignored or concealed, and a whole train with at least 75 passengers and crew were lost that night. Never before (or since) has such an event occurred. The forensic re-investigation also shows why engineers had to convince the travelling public that they could build safely, the new bridge being the first result. However, it was the Firth of Forth bridge which came to symbolise that effort, a bridge which has become an icon to structural integrity. The book reveals that other engineers could build safe brisges from iron, especially Gustave Eiffel, whose iron pipe bridges still survive and carry trains in the Massif Centrale in France. His bridges predate the old Tay bridge by 10 years. And it his methods which have resulted in the brand new Millau road bridge in the same region. Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879 (Revealing History).

August 9th Photograph Sunset Scotland


August 9th photograph of sunset in Scotland. Shot these photographs at 9pm tonight from the village of Scone, Perthshire.


August 9th photograph of sunset in Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Duart Castle


Tour Scotland photograph of Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The castle dates back to the 13th century and was the seat of Clan MacLean. In 1350 Lachlan Lubanach Maclean of Duart, the 5th Clan Chief, married Mary, daughter of the John of Islay, Lord of the Isles and she was given Duart as her dowry. In 1647, Duart Castle was attacked and laid siege to by the Argyll government troops of Clan Campbell, but they were defeated and driven off by the Royalist troops of Clan MacLean. In September 1653, a Cromwellian task force of six ships anchored off the castle, but the Macleans had already fled to Tiree. A storm blew up on the 13 September and three ships were lost, including HMS Swan. In 1678, Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, son of the Marquess of Argyll, successfully invaded the Clan MacLean lands on the Isle of Mull and Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet fled the castle and withdrew to Cairnbulg Castle, and afterward to Kintail under the protection of the Earl of Seaforth. In 1691 Duart Castle was surrendered by Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet to Argyll. The Campbell clan kept a garrison there, but soon after the that defeat, the Campbells also demolished the stone house of Torloisk, and after loading the furnishings, the door and window sills, joists and slates from the house aboard a galley, they carried away their loot. The stones from the walls they scattered over the moor. Donald Maclean, 5th Laird of Torloisk used some of the stones to build a cottage for his family close to the site of the castle from some of these stones. In 1751 the castle was abandoned. Descendants of Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll sold the castle in 1801, to MacQuarrie, who in turn parted with it to Campbell of Fossil, who later on sold it to A. C. Guthrie in 1865, and on September 11, 1911, the castle was bought by Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean, the 26th Chief of the Clan MacLean and restored.



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Old Photograph The Brig o' Doon Scotland


Old photograph of The Brig o' Doon, near Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. A late medieval bridge used as the setting for the final verse of the Robert Burns's poem Tam o' Shanter. In this scene Tam is on horseback and is being chased by the Nannie the witch. He is just able to escape her by crossing the bridge, over a running stream, narrowly avoiding her attack as she is only able to grab the horse's tail which comes away in her hands. The bridge is located near Alloway in South Ayrshire and crosses the River Doon. It was rebuilt in the 18th century. The Burns monument is nearby. The bridge is allegedly the inspiration for the name of the musical 1947 Brigadoon. Today, the bridge features on the 2007 series of £5 notes issued by the Bank of Scotland, alongside the statue to Robert Burns which is located in Dumfries.



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August 9th Photograph Of Summer In Scotland


August 9th photograph of Summer in Scotland.

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Old Photograph Roswell Scotland


Old photograph of people outside a cottage shop in Roswell, Scotland. Located three miles north east of Penicuik, the village was established in the last half of the 19th century as a place where the men mining Whitehill Colliery could stay with their families.

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Old Photograph House of Binns Scotland


Old photograph of the House of Binns, Linlithgow, Scotland. A historic Scottish house near Linlithgow in Scotland, and seat of the Dalyell family. It dates from the early 17th Century. The house contains a collection of porcelain, furniture, and portraits tracing the family's lives and interests through the centuries.

Dalziel, Dalzell or Dalyell is a Scottish Lowland surname. The name originates from the former barony of Dalzell in Lanarkshire, in the area now occupied by Motherwell. The name Dalzell is first recorded in 1259, and Thomas de Dalzell fought at Bannockburn. The Dalzell lands were forfeited later in the 14th century, but regained through marriage in the 15th. Sir Robert Dalzell was created Lord Dalzell in 1628, and his son was further elevated in the peerage as Earl of Carnwath, in 1639. In 1645 the Dalzell estates were sold to the Hamiltons of Orbiston, who held them until the 20th century.

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Old Photograph Cinema Dunfermline Fife Scotland


Old photograph of the Cinema in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Lighthouse Bass Rock Scotland


Old photograph of the lighthouse on the Bass Rock, Scotland. The rock is currently uninhabited, but historically has been settled by an early Christian hermit, and later was the site of an important castle, which was, after the Commonwealth, used as a prison. The island was in the ownership of the Lauder family for almost six centuries, and now belongs to Sir Hew Fleetwood Hamilton-Dalrymple. A lighthouse was constructed on the rock in 1902, and the remains of a chapel are located there. The Bass Rock features in numerous works of fiction, including Robert Stevenson's Catriona. The island is located in the outer part of the Firth of Forth, 3 miles north east of North Berwick.

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Old Photograph King's Stables Culloden Scotland


Old photograph of King's Stables, Culloden, Scotland. A granite stone inscribed " Kings Stables. Station of English Cavalry after the Battle of Culloden. " King's Stable Cottage was so named following the stabling of Hanoverian horse nearby in the aftermath of the battle. The original cottage was likely to have been built before the 1746 battle, perhaps having been built in the early part of the 18th century. The cottage may also be that described in 1748: '12 wounded men [Jacobites] were carried out of this house and shot in a hollow...'

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Old Photographs Forres Scotland


Old photograph of the High Street, Forres, Moray, Scotland. On 23 June 1496 King James IV of Scotland issued a Royal Charter laying down the rights and privileges that the town's people are believed to have held by an earlier charter since the reign of King David I some 300 years earlier. Shakespeare's play Macbeth locates Duncan's castle in Forres, and the Three Witches meet on a heath near the town in the third scene of the drama. 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 Photographs Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of Campbeltown, Scotland. Campbeltown is one of five areas in Scotland categorised as a distinct malt whisky producing region, and is home to the Campbeltown single malts. At one point it had over 30 distilleries and proclaimed itself " the whisky capital of the world ". However, a focus on quantity rather than quality, and the combination of prohibition and the Great Depression in the United States, led to most distilleries going out of business, Hugh Henry Brackenridge was born in 1748, near Campbeltown. He was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A frontier citizen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, he founded both the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, still operating today as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Brackenridge died June 25, 1816 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Duncan McNab McEachran was born on 27 October 1841 in Campbeltown. He was a Canadian veterinarian and academic. He was the son of David McEachran and Jean Blackney, McEachran graduated from the Edinburgh Veterinary College in 1861 and received his license to practice from Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. In 1862, he emigrated to Canada West, settling in Woodstock. In 1863, he helped set up, along with primary founder Andrew Smith, the Upper Canada Veterinary School, later the Ontario Veterinary College. McEachran was a staff member but he considered the admission standards and academic requirements to be inadequate. He left after three years, moving to Montreal. In 1867, Smith and McEachran again joined forces to publish the first veterinary textbook in Canada for farmers, The Canadian horse and his diseases. He died on 13 October 1924.



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Old Photographs Darnick Scotland


Old photograph of a shop, houses and people in Darnick, Scotland. A village near Melrose in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Roxburghshire. Places nearby include Abbotsford, Buckholm, Eildon, the Gala Water, Galashiels, Gattonside, Lindean and Newtown St. Boswells. The village's name was first recorded in 1124, and its name has changed from Dernewic, Dernwick and Darnwick to the present Darnick. Darnick Tower was built in ca. 1425, and another tower house, Fisher's Tower, is still recognisable by its remains; however there is no trace of the third tower.

Skirmish Hill by Darnick is the site of a battle which took place on July 18th, 1526, by the Scotts, the Kerrs and the Elliots, trying to intercept King James V who was then under the guardianship of the Douglas clan.

John Smith of Darnick created the Wallace Statue at Bemersyde House. His family were builders and masons during the first half of the 19th century, and they have to their credit an extension to Abbotsford, Dryburgh Abbey House, Eckford Church, Gattonside House, Hawick North Bridge, the bridge over the Hermitage Water, Melrose Parish Church, and Yetholm Parish Church.




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