Tour Scotland Video Anstruther Inshore Lifeboat Crew Swimming Outer Harbour East Neuk Of Fife June 16th

Tour Scotland travel video of crew from the Anstruther Inshore Lifeboat in Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. A cold, wet and windy day on the East Coast of Scotland. It takes more than bad weather though to deter these fine men from having a wee swim in the outer harbour.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Sea Queen St Monans East Neuk of Fife June 16th

Tour Scotland photograph shot today of the Sea Queen in St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The new Sea Queen with an African Spotted Eagle Owl. Heavy rain today in St Monans meant that events were not held at the harbour, but in a village hall. The new Sea Queens was a wee bit shy, but once I got here to hold the owl, she began to relax. A lovely lass.

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Old Photographs Dumbarton Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Dumbarton Castle which overlooks the town of Dumbarton, Scotland. This Scottish castle has the longest recorded history of any stronghold in Great Britain. It is located on a plug of volcanic basalt known as Dumbarton Rock. At least as far back as the Iron Age, this has been the site of a strategically important settlement. Its early residents were known to have traded with the Romans. The presence of a settlement is first recorded in a letter Saint Patrick wrote to King Ceretic of Alt Clut in the late 5th century. Mary Queen of Scots sailed to France from here as a child in 1548.

Old photograph of Dumbarton Castle which overlooks the town of Dumbarton, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Highland Cows Loch Ness Scotland

Old photograph of Highland Cows by Loch Ness, Scotland. Loch Ness is the second largest Scottish loch by surface area after Loch Lomond, but due to its great depth, it is the largest by volume in the British Isles. It contains more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined, and is the largest body of water in the Great Glen, which runs from Inverness in the Highlands to Fort William in the South. Loch Ness is thought by some to be the home of the Loch Ness Monster, also known as Nessie, a cryptid, reputedly a large unknown animal. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere, though its description varies from one account to the next. Popular interest and belief in the animal's existence has varied since it was first brought to the world's attention in 1933.



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Tour Scotland Video Dougie MacLean Olympic Torch Run Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Dougie MacLean at the Olympic Torch Relay Run on the grounds of Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Dougie MacLean is a Scottish singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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Old Photograph Port Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Port Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. The town was formed as port for nearby of Glasgow in 1668 and became Port Glasgow in 1775. Port Glasgow was home to dry docks and shipbuilding beginning in 1762. Port Glasgow became a burgh in 1833, but around this time, the River Clyde up to Glasgow was deepened and new road and rail links meant that the town was no longer needed much as a port. The shipbuilding industry then took over as the main source of employment and prosperity. Port Glasgow has been responsible for about a quarter of the total tonnage of ships launched on the Clyde. However like the rest of Inverclyde this industry has all but gone.





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Old Photograph Rubha nan Gall Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of lighthouse keepers cottages and Rubha nan Gall Lighthouse, Isle of Mull, Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse was the work of the engineers David Stevenson, born 1815, died 1886, and Thomas Stevenson, born 1818, died 1887, the latter of whom was the father of the famous author, Robert Louis Stevenson. The lighthouse was first lit in 1857, and became automated in 1960.



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Tour Haunted Dunrobin Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Dunrobin Castle, Scotland. The ghost who haunts this Scottish castle was a daughter of the fourteenth Earl of Sutherland. In the 1600's Margaret fell in love with someone considered not at all suitable, and strongly resisted her father's attempts to marry her off to the favoured suitor. Foiled in an attempt to elope, Margaret was locked up in the attic. Her maid was allowed to tend her however, and she offered to act as a go-between. On a set night she arranged for Margaret's lover to be at the foot of the wall with horses at the ready, while she smuggled in a rope for the get-away. But the Earl had always suspected that his daughter might try something like this and had set his own servant to spy. Just as Margaret was climbing out the window her father burst into the room. Terrified, Margaret lost her grip and plunged to her death. Her lover put a curse on the Earl and Margaret still haunts the upper corridors of the castle, sobbing and wailing for her lost love and her life' brought to such an untimely end.

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The mysteries of Haunted Scotland. Collected over many years, the author retells stories that have evolved through the mists of time, while others he recounts are based on interviews with those who claim to have experienced real life paranormal encounters. Divided into geographical chapters covering the Borders, the South West, Strathclyde, the South East, the Central Belt and Trossachs, the Eastern Highlands, the Kingdom of Fife, the Western Highlands, the North, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Inverness, Roddy Martine examines stories of paranormal activity and the legends and folklore of haunted Scotland. Haunted Scotland.

Old Photographs Crathes Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Crathes Castle, Scotland. Built in the second half of the sixteenth century by the Burnetts of Leys its grounds are equally as famous, being a series of gardens divided by yew hedges planted about 1702. Tour Scottish Castles.



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Old Photographs Kildonan Scotland

Old photograph of cottages at Kildonan, Island of Arran, Scotland. The name Kildonan derives from Saint Donan who is reputedly buried in the village. Early life in the village revolved around the now ruined Kildonan Castle. Once a royal seat, the castle passed hands between various Scottish nobles, before latterly belonging to the Hamilton family in 1544, by which time they were the Earls of Arran. The Tower was later sacked and burnt by the Earl of Sussex around 1558. Ruined remains of the building are still in existence.



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Old Photograph Cottages Lower Largo Scotland

Old photograph of houses, cottages and harbour in Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish coastal village has gained fame as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Alexander Selkirk, born 1676, died 13 December 1721, was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent more than four years as a castaway, from 1704 to 1709, after being marooned by his captain on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. He survived that ordeal, but succumbed to tropical illness a dozen years later while serving aboard HMS Weymouth off West Africa.



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Old Photograph Loch Gruinart Islay Scotland

Old photograph of a Crofters cottage at Loch Gruinart, Islay, Scotland. Islay Whisky. Loch Gruinart is a sea loch on the northern coast of isle of Islay. The Battle of Traigh Ghruinneart was fought on the sands at the south end of the loch on 5 August 1598 between a force from Mull led by Sir Lachlan Mor MacLean of Duart and the Islay men led by Sir James MacDonald, son of Angus MacDonald of Dunyvaig and the Glens, in which Macleans were defeated and all killed including Sir Lachlan save one whom survived by swimming to Nave Island. The pìobaireachd Lament for Sir Lachlan Mor harks back to this battle which was also remembered in Islay folklore.



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Old Photographs Sandbank Scotland

Old photograph of Sandbank on the coast two miles North of Dunoon, Scotland. Sandbank is located on the southern shore of the Holy Loch, branching off the Firth of Clyde. Sandbank was the site of the shore facilities of the US Navy submarine base in the Holy Loch from 1961 to 1992.

Old photograph of the War Memorial in Sandbank on the coast two miles North of Dunoon, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Cardross Scotland

Old photograph of Cardross located halfway between Dumbarton, and Helensburgh, Scotland. Cardross is also the name of the historic Parish where King Robert the Bruce once lived. King Robert the Bruce purchased the portions of lands of Pillanflatt from the Earl of Lennox, lying in the parish of Cardross in 1326. He died at his manorial house that he built there in 1329, a field called the Mains of Cardross is thought to have been his Royal Manor's location.



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Old Photograph Bunnahabhain Distillery Islay Scotland

Old photograph of Bunnahabhain Distillery, Islay, Scotland. Islay Whisky. This Scottish village was established in 1881 to house the distillery's workers, and the whisky distillery still employs the majority of the village's workers. The Bunnahabhain is one of the milder single malt Islay whiskies available and its taste varies greatly from other spirits to be found on the island of Islay, off the west coast of Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Wheel Cross Stone With Twelve Flower Petals Pictish Stone

Tour Scotland video of a Wheel Cross Stone With Twelve Flower Petals at Abercorn in West Lothian, Scotland. Fragments of a wheel cross stone of the 12th century in the museum at Abercorn Churchyard: with flower of twelve petals in low relief. the cross-stone is believed to have been originally a cover stone for a burial casket.

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Old Photograph Man Bicycle St Andrews Scotland

Old photograph of a man with his bicycle in St Andrews, Scotland.

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The Book of St Andrews. Its ecclesiastical significance dates as far back as the fourth century, when St Regulus is claimed to have brought the relics of the saint there; its cultural importance dates from the early fifteenth century, when the world-famous university was founded there. More recently, since the seventeenth century, it has been well known as a centre for golf. This selection of short stories and essays is a wonderful literary celebration of this historic and venerable city which explore the multiple facets of its life and history It includes contributions from a wide range of authors, including A.L. Kennedy, Robert Fergusson, Alastair Reid, Ian Rankin, Samuel Johnson, Robert Burns, Don Paterson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edwin Morgan, Hugh MacDiarmid, Willa Muir, Douglas Dunn, Anna Crowe, Meagan Delahunt, Seamus Heaney, Rudyard Kipling, Kathleen Jamie, Liz Lochhead, J.M. Barrie, Meg Bateman and Homer. The Book of St Andrews.

Tour Scotland Video Forth Road Bridge Firth Of Forth June 13th

Tour Scotland video shot today of the Forth Road Bridge over the Firth of Forth by South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland. As I was filming this, cyclist Mark Beaumont carried the Olympic flame across the bridge, that is why there was a helicopter hovering over the bridge. I would have shot a video of Mark, but, I had to get on this boat that was arriving to the pier.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Video Forth Railway Bridge June 13th

Tour Scotland photograph shot today of the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth of Forth by South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland. A supply boat heading under the bridge and a diesel passenger train on the bridge.



Tour Scotland video shot today of the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth of Forth by South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland.


Tour Scotland photograph shot today of the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth of Forth by South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland.


Tour Scotland photograph shot today of the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth of Forth by South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland.


Tour Scotland photograph shot today of the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth of Forth by South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Vintage Cars Loch Ness Scotland

Old photograph of a vintage car at Loch Ness, Scotland.


Old photograph of a vintage car at Loch Ness, Scotland.


Old photograph of a vintage car at Loch Ness, Scotland.

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The Guide to Mysterious Loch Ness and the Inverness Area. This is a guide to everything supernatural, paranormal, folkloric, eccentric and, above all, mysterious that has occurred on the dark waters of the enigmatic Loch Ness and the surrounding area of Inverness. Containing Celtic gods and martyrs, telepathy, exorcism and magic, mermaids, demons and saints, and based on texts both ancient and modern, it is a fascinating introduction to the heritage of the area. This is a guide that the armchair adventurer or the on location visitor can revel in. Comprehensive entries covering Inverness tombstones, simulacra, standing stones, gargoyles, ruins, churches and archaeological curiosities are complemented by more than 100 photographs. The book also includes notes and cross-references to enable the reader to follow up the sources. The Guide to Mysterious Loch Ness and the Inverness Area (Mysterious Scotland) (Mysterious Scotland).

Old Photographs Vintage Sports Cars Loch Ness Scotland

Old photograph of a vintage Sports Car at Loch Ness, Scotland.


Old photograph of a vintage Sports Car at Loch Ness, Scotland.


Old photograph of a vintage Sports Car at Loch Ness, Scotland.

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The Guide to Mysterious Loch Ness and the Inverness Area. This is a guide to everything supernatural, paranormal, folkloric, eccentric and, above all, mysterious that has occurred on the dark waters of the enigmatic Loch Ness and the surrounding area of Inverness. Containing Celtic gods and martyrs, telepathy, exorcism and magic, mermaids, demons and saints, and based on texts both ancient and modern, it is a fascinating introduction to the heritage of the area. This is a guide that the armchair adventurer or the on location visitor can revel in. Comprehensive entries covering Inverness tombstones, simulacra, standing stones, gargoyles, ruins, churches and archaeological curiosities are complemented by more than 100 photographs. The book also includes notes and cross-references to enable the reader to follow up the sources. The Guide to Mysterious Loch Ness and the Inverness Area (Mysterious Scotland) (Mysterious Scotland).

Tour Scotland Photographs Video Church and Graveyard Ratho

Tour Scotland photograph of the church and graveyard cemetery in Ratho in West Lothian, Scotland. An interesting medieval cruciform church, with later aisles. The east aisle dated 1683, the south 1830. To the west of the south aisle is a 12th-century doorway, partially visible, with scalloped capitals and decorated hoodmould. Twentieth-century refurbishment in 1932 revealed a Celtic cross stone which might suggest early worship on this site. In the south porch is a 13th-century tomb slab belonging to one of the Knights Templar who owned Ratho in the Middle Ages. In the graveyard are several interesting headstones and a panelled coffin formed of a single stone



Tour Scotland video of the church and graveyard at Ratho in West Lothian, Scotland. Ratho Parish Church dates back to 1243 when it was dedicated to St. Mary.


Tour Scotland photograph of Ann Mercer Craig gravestone in the graveyard at Ratho in West Lothian, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video of Ann Mercer Craig gravestone in the graveyard at Ratho in West Lothian, Scotland.


Tour Scotland photograph of the church and graveyard at Ratho in West Lothian, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Church and Graveyard Kirkliston

Tour Scotland video of the old church and graveyard cemetery at Kirkliston in West Lothian, Scotland. Parts of this Scottish church, the oldest surviving building in Kirkliston, are over 800 years of age. Originally belonging to the order of Knights Templar, the village of Kirkliston was historically called Temple Liston.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Video Church and Graveyard Abercorn

Tour Scotland photograph of the church and graveyard at Abercorn in West Lothian, Scotland. The church of Abercorn was founded in the eighth century as a monastery and seat of a bishopric for the Picts by the king of Northumbria, but went into decline following the defeat and death of King Ecgfrith at the Battle of Dunnichen in 685. The church's current form dates back to 1893.


Tour Scotland photograph of a skull and crossbones gravestone in the graveyard at Abercorn in West Lothian, Scotland.


Tour Scotland photograph of the church and graveyard at Abercorn in West Lothian, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video of the church and graveyard at Abercorn in West Lothian, Scotland.


Tour Scotland photograph of the church at Abercorn in West Lothian, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Olympic Torch Relay Run Perth Perthshire June 12th 2012

Tour Scotland video shot today of the Olympic Torch Relay Run over the old bridge over the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Torchbearers changing torches on the old bridge over the River Tay. In this video the torch is handed over to 20 year old Kevin Stewart from Dundee, Tayside. He was selected because of his commitment and dedication to his sport of cycling and inspiring his peers through the coaching and mentoring he carries out in his community. Kevin is an athlete on the Bank of Scotland Local Heroes programme which in partnership with SportsAid, supports future stars of Team GB and ParalympicsGB on their journey to London 2012 and beyond.

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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).

Tour Scotland Video Olympic Torch Run Scone Palace Perthshire June 12th 2012

Tour Scotland video shot today of the Olympic Torch Relay Run on the grounds of Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. In this video the torch is being carried by Louise Fox from Dundee, Tayside. She is a Youth Legacy Ambassadors for Dundee. She enjoys various sports, especially swimming where she has achieved national level for both school and club, Menziehill whitehall swimming and waterpolo club and Menziehill High School. The piper heading the torchbearer into the grounds of Scone Palace was from Perth and District Pipe Band.

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Tour Scotland Photographs James McIntosh Patrick Garden Dundee

Tour Scotland photograph of James McIntosh Patrick garden in Dundee, Scotland. James McIntosh Patrick, RSA, born 1907, died 7 April 1998, was a Scottish painter, celebrated for his finely observed paintings of the Angus landscape and Dundee, Scotland, where he was based for most of his life.


Tour Scotland photograph of James McIntosh Patrick garden in Dundee, Scotland.



Tour Scotland photograph of James McIntosh Patrick garden in Dundee, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of James McIntosh Patrick house in Dundee, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Scottish Piper Glencoe Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish Piper in Glencoe, Scotland. " You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy. " This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions and was the beginning of the destruction of the Highlanders.



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Tour Haunted Brodick Castle Scotland

Tour haunted Brodick Castle on visit to Island of Arran, Scotland. Brodick Castle was the seat of Dukes of Hamilton. The older part of this Scottish castle is said to be haunted by a Grey Lady who starved to death in the dungeons of the castle because she had the plague. A man has been reportedly seen sitting in the library and a White Deer is reputedly seen in the grounds of the castle whenever a chief of the Hamiltons is close to death.

Tour haunted Brodick Castle, Island of Arran, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Blair Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Blair Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. Blair Castle stands in its own grounds near the village of Blair Atholl, just North of Pitlochry. It is the ancestral home of the Clan Murray.



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Old Photographs Tarbert Harris Scotland

Old photograph of Tarbert on Island Of Harris, Scotland. Tarbert is the main community on Harris in the Western Isles of Scotland. It is also a car ferry terminal to Uig on Skye. Its name means "isthmus".



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Old Photograph Renfield Street Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Renfield Street, Glasgow, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Galashiels Scotland

Old photograph of Market Square in Galashiels, Scottish Borders of Scotland. The town's coat of arms shows two foxes reaching up to eat plums from a tree, and the motto is Sour Plums pronounced in Scots as soor plooms. It is a reference to an incident in 1337 when a raiding party of English soldiers were picking wild plums close to the town and were caught by Scots who came across them by chance and slaughtered them all



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