Tour Scotland Video Piobaireachd Competition Lochearnhead HIghland Games

Tour Scotland video of the Piobaireachd Competition at Balquhidder, Lochearnhead and Strathyre Highland Games in Lochearnhead, Scotland. The Druim a' Charraigh Quaich is presented annually by The Clan Gregor Society to the winner of the Piobaireachd Competition at Balquhidder, Lochearnhead and Strathyre Highland Games. This commemorates the MacGregor Piping School which flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries near the mouth of Glen Lyon. The word piobaireachd literally means pipe playing or pipe music, but is now used to describe the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe. Another name for it is Ceol Mor meaning the Big Music, which separates piobaireachd from all other forms of pipe music, for example; marches, reels, jigs etc; which are referred to as Ceol Beag, the Little Music.

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Old Photographs Birsay Orkney Scotland

Old photograph of Birsay Orkney Islands, Scotland. The ruins of the Earl's Palace are at the northern end of this village. The late sixteenth century Palace was built by Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney.

Old photograph of Birsay Orkney Islands, Scotland.

Old photograph of Birsay Orkney Islands, Scotland.

Old photograph of Birsay Orkney Islands, Scotland.

Old photograph of Birsay Orkney Islands, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Loch Leven Near Kinlochleven Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland photograph of Loch Leven near Kinlochleven, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Passenger Train Railway Bridge River Tay Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Passenger Train crossing the railway bridge over the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. I like the fact that train divers always wave to me when they see me on the bridge. That is nice. The previous bridge was built on a curve of 15 chain radius and was of predominantly timber construction. Problems with the foundations of the structure necessitated its replacement, the new bridge was designed by the engineers of the Caledonian Railway and was opened in 1863. It remains in regular use by passenger traffic.

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Tour Scotland Video Country Walk In The Rain Outside Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a walk in the rain on visit to a walking path outside Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Harvesting Kelp Isle Of Harris Outer Hebrides

Old photograph of harvesting kelp on Island Of Harris, Scotland. Seaweed was gathered and laid out to dry before being burned in a kelp kiln. Kelp making was the changing or conversion of seaweed into ash, which was used in many things, particularly the production of soda and iodine.



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Old Photograph Scottish Steam Train Hyndland Glasgow

Old photograph of Scottish Steam train at Hyndland, Glasgow, Scotland. Prior to development, Hyndland was an area of farmland called 'Hind Land' and belonged to the Bishops of Glasgow. The first tenements were built in 1885. On 13th March 1941, a parachute mine was dropped on Hyndland by the Luftwaffe, destroying three tenement buildings on Dudley Drive. Also, during the war a number of refugee children from Germany and Poland were educated at Hyndland School, many of whom achieved a higher in English. Hyndland railway station is on the North Clyde and Argyle lines, offering a direct link to central Glasgow in under ten minutes, and by a number of bus routes. The nearest Subway stations are Hillhead, Partick and Kelvinhall.



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Old Photograph Scottish Soldier Birnam Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish Soldier at a Military Camp outside Birnam, Perthshire, Scotland.

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The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War. On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In addition, Scots were a hugely important source of manpower for the colonies. Yet after the war, Scotland became an industrial and financial backwater. Emigration increased as morale slumped in the face of economic stagnation and decline. The country had paid a disproportionately high price in casualties, a result of huge numbers of volunteers and the use of Scottish battalions as shock troops in the fighting on the Western Front and Gallipoli - young men whom the novelist Ian Hay called 'the vanished generation'.In this book, Trevor Royle provides the first full account of how the war changed Scotland irrevocably by exploring a wide range of themes, the overwhelming response to the call for volunteers; the performance of Scottish military formations in 1915 and 1916; the militarization of the Scottish homeland; the resistance to war in Glasgow and the west of Scotland; and the boom in the heavy industries and the strengthening of women's role in society following on from wartime employment. The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War.

Old Photograph Scottish Soldier St Andrews Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish Soldier from St Andrews, Scotland.

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The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War. On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In addition, Scots were a hugely important source of manpower for the colonies. Yet after the war, Scotland became an industrial and financial backwater. Emigration increased as morale slumped in the face of economic stagnation and decline. The country had paid a disproportionately high price in casualties, a result of huge numbers of volunteers and the use of Scottish battalions as shock troops in the fighting on the Western Front and Gallipoli - young men whom the novelist Ian Hay called 'the vanished generation'.In this book, Trevor Royle provides the first full account of how the war changed Scotland irrevocably by exploring a wide range of themes, the overwhelming response to the call for volunteers; the performance of Scottish military formations in 1915 and 1916; the militarization of the Scottish homeland; the resistance to war in Glasgow and the west of Scotland; and the boom in the heavy industries and the strengthening of women's role in society following on from wartime employment. The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War.

Old Photographs Bagpipers Paisley Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of a Bagpiper in Paisley, Scotland.

Old photograph of a Bagpiper in Paisley, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Horse Drawn Tram Aberdeen

Old photograph of a Horse Drawn Tram in Aberdeen, Scotland. From the 1860s, the City of Aberdeen and its immediate suburbs were served by horse bus services including Market Street to Bieldside, the Mill Inn and Murtle, to Woodside, Bucksburn and Stoneywood, and from Queen's Cross to Old Aberdeen via Union Street and King Street. One of the best known of the horse bus operators was William Bain who operated for a time from the Old Waterhouse on Union Place. His buses served a number of districts including Gallowgate, Old Aberdeen, King Street, Rosemount, Skene Square, Carden Place, College Street and Marywell Street.



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Old Photograph Scottish Soldiers Dunkeld Scotland

Old photograph of Scottish Soldiers in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Cars Driving Through Flooding Road Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of cars driving through a flooded road just South of Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Rainy Day Perth Perthshire July 18th

Tour Scotland video shot today of the heavy rain in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Very heavy rain today in Perthshire. Shot these videos starting off with a morning walk by the River Tay.

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Old Photograph Harray Scotland

Old photograph of a Crofters cottage at Harray, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Harray has many mounds or howes from the Old Norse word Haugr meaning mound or hill. Excavations have revealed burial cist in the largest mound as well as a Bronze Age building nearby. Harray was merged with Birsay to form a united parish in the north west of Mainland. It has the unique distinction of being the only landlocked parish on the islands; however, it is next to the freshwater Loch of Harray.



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Old Photograph Farm Workers St Andrews Scotland

Old photograph of Farm Workers on Kinkell Braes, just South of St Andrews, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Navy Seaman From Methil Scotland

Old photograph of a Navy Seaman from Methil, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Cummertrees Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Cummertrees, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Lord Francis William Bouverie Douglas was born in Cummertrees on 8 February 1847. He was a novice British mountaineer. After sharing in the first ascent of the Matterhorn, he died on 14 July 1865 in a fall on the way down from the summit. He was the son of Archibald William Douglas, 8th Marquess of Queensberry and his wife Caroline, daughter of General Sir William Robert Clayton, Baronet, born 1786, died 1866, member of parliament for Great Marlow. He had an older sister, Lady Gertrude Georgiana Douglas, born 1842, died 1893; an older brother, John Sholto Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig, born 1844, died 1900, later the ninth Marquess of Queensberry; a younger brother, Lord Archibald Edward Douglas, born 1850, died 1938, who became a clergyman; and a younger brother and sister, the twins Lord James Douglas, died 1891 and Lady Florence Douglas, born 1855, died 1905, who married Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, 11th Baronet. He was an uncle of Oscar Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas, and a younger brother of John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.



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Old Photographs Kerrycroy Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and fishing boats by the coast in Kerrycroy, Isle of Bute, Scotland. This Scottish village was designed in 1803 as a model village by Maria North, the wife of the 2nd Marquess of Bute in the style of an English village. John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, born 10 August 1793, died 18 March 1848, styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1794 and 1814, was a wealthy aristocrat and industrialist in Georgian and early Victorian Britain. He developed the coal and iron industries across South Wales and built the Cardiff Docks. He married his first wife, Lady Maria North, in 1818, and together they lived a relatively secluded life in Mount Stuart House in Scotland, one of Bute's four seats. Bute was dour but industrious, with a flair for land management. He focused his daily routine around extensive correspondence with his estate managers, making biennial tours of his lands around the country. The couple did not conceive any children, and Maria died in 1841. Bute remarried four years later, to Lady Sophia Rawdon Hastings, and she gave birth to Bute's only child, John, in 1847.

Old photograph of Kerrycroy, Isle of Bute, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Croft Orkney Scotland

Old photograph of a Crofters cottage on the Orkney Islands, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Kilcreggan Scotland

Old photograph of Kilcreggan, Scotland. This village developed on the north shore of the of the Firth of Clyde at a time when Clyde steamers brought it within easy reach of Glasgow. Many Glasgow shipowners and merchants made their summer retreats or even permanent residences there.



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Old Photographs Leadhills Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Originally known as Waterhead, this is the second highest village in Scotland after Wanlockhead. Leadhills Golf Course is the highest in Scotland. This nine hole course offers considerable challenge as the winds can be high and unpredictable as they are channelled between the hills.

Old photograph of Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Stewarton Scotland

Old photograph of Stewarton in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Stewarton is on the Annick Water in a rural part of northern Ayrshire, about 6 miles to the North of Kilmarnock and to the East of Irvine. In the past, Stewarton served as a crossroads between the traditional routes from Kilmarnock, Irvine and Ayr to the city of Glasgow.



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Old Photographs Johnshaven Scotland

Old photograph of houses, cottages, harbour and fishing boats in Johnshaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A coastal Scottish fishing village. The flax industry, sailmaking and fishing were historically an integral part of Johnshaven life and economy.

Old photograph of Johnshaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Highland Games Pipe Band Parade Burntisland Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Scottish Highland Games parade in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. The 2nd oldest highland games in the world featuring highland dancing, pipe bands, heavyweights, races and piping. The earliest historical record of Burntisland was in the 12th century, when the monks of Dunfermline Abbey owned the harbour and neighbouring lands. The settlement was known as Wester Kinghorn and developed as a fishing hamlet to provide food for the inhabitants of Rossend Castle. The harbour was then sold to King James V by the abbots of Dunfermline Abbey in exchange for a parcel of land. The land was granted royal burgh status by James V in 1541. When the status was confirmed in 1586, the settlement gained independence from the barony of Kinghorn and was renamed Burntisland, possibly a nickname from the burning of fishermens' huts on an islet now incorporated into the dock.

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Old Photograph Children Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of children in Dunn Square, Paisley, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Crofter Casting Peats Orkney Scotland

Old photograph of a Crofter Casting Peats on the Orkney Islands, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Inverbervie Scotland

Old photograph of Inverbervie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A coastal Scottish town located South of Stonehaven. Inverbervie appears in written history at least as far back as the 12th century AD; in a document relating to Arbroath Abbey, Simon of Inverbervie is noted as having witnessed a charter transferring the lands of Balfeith to the Abbey. Inverbervie was formerly a royal burgh from 1342 to 1975 and a parliamentary burgh from 1708 to 1950, the former status being conferred by King David II of Scotland for hospitality he and his Queen received when shipwrecked there the previous year when returning from exile.



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Old Photograph Peat Stack Orkney Scotland

Old photograph of a Peat Stack on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Some Scotch whisky distilleries, such as those on Islay, use peat fires to dry malted barley. The drying process takes about 30 hours. This gives the whiskies a distinctive smoky flavour, often called " peatiness ". The peatiness, or degree of peat flavour, of a whisky, is calculated in ppm of phenol. Normal Highland whiskies have a peat level of up to 30 ppm, and the whiskies on Islay usually have up to 50 ppm. Scottish Ales can also use peat roasted malt, imparting a similar smoked flavour.



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Old Photographs Kingussie Scotland

Old photograph of Kingussie, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video George Arnot Labourer Gravestone Parish Church Graveyard Burntisland Fife

Tour Scotland video of the George Arnot gravestone in the cemetery in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. The grave of a man who died in 1850 and whose character has been captured in the following epitaph.

His Mind was weak his Body strong
His Answer ready with his Song
A Memory like him few could boast
But Suddenly his life he lost

From the carving of him barefooted and pushing a wheelbarrow, apparently filled with stones, he may have been a labourer.

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Old Photograph Crofters Cottages Staffin Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages at Staffin, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. The district of Staffin comprises 23 townships made up of, from South to North, Rigg, Tote, Lealt, Lonfearn, Grealin, Breackry, Cul-nan-cnoc, Bhaltos, Raiseburgh, Ellishader, Garafad, Clachan, Garros, Marrishader, Maligar, Stenscholl, Brogaig, Sartle, Glasphein, Digg, Dunan, Flodigarry and Greap.



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Old Photograph Cottages Uisken Bay Isle Of Mull Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages at Uisken Bay, Isle Of Mull, Scotland. Uisken, meaning water bay, is a settlement on a sandy bay on the Ross of Mull in the south of the Isle of Mull. Originally a series of small settlements before the Highland clearances it was developed as a fishing and crofting settlement with a small quay, known as Port Uisken, and road over to the steamer pier at Bunessan, the development being funded by the Duke of Argyll. The quay soon fell into disrepair but crofting continued with seven crofts being mentioned in the early 1920s and three crofts still being worked today.



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Old Photograph Dervaig Isle Of Mull Scotland

Old photograph of Dervaig, Isle Of Mull, Scotland. Dervaig is a small village on the Isle of Mull off the west coast of Scotland. The village is within the parish of Kilninian and Kilmore, and is situated on the B8073 road.

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Old Photographs Uig Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of Uig, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Uigg, Prince Edward Island, Canada was named by settlers from Uig. From its sheltered port, Caledonian MacBrayne ferries run to Tarbert on Harris and Lochmaddy on North Uist providing links with the Outer Hebrides. Uig Tower is a prominent local landmark associated with the Highland Clearances.

Old photograph of Uig, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

Old photograph of Uig, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

Old photograph of Crofters cottages at Uig, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

Old photograph of a Church in Uig, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

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