Tour Scotland March Video Snow Falling River Tay Perthshire



Tour Scotland video shot this morning of snow falling by the River Tay by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Balfron Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Balfron located 18 miles West of Stirling, Scotland. The name means " village of mourning " in Gaelic. This originates from a legend that the village was attacked by wolves, which stole children out of their homes.





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Old Photographs Leslie Scotland

Old photograph of Leslie, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish village bears the name of the Leslie family area descended from Bartolf or Bartholomew who was a Hungarian or maybe Flemish tradesman, who according to legend arrived in Scotland with Queen Margaret, the sister of Edgar the Ætheling in 1057.



Old photograph of Leslie, Fife, Scotland.

Old photograph of Leslie, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Innellan Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses and people in Innellan on the Firth of Clyde 4 miles south of the town of Dunoon, Scotland. This Scottish village was developed as a holiday destination in Victorian times on the site of a smaller and older farming settlement, and the first steamboat pier was built in 1851.



Old photograph of Innellan on the Firth of Clyde 4 miles south of the town of Dunoon, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Another Time Sculpture Maggie's Dundee




Tour Scotland video of the Another Time sculpture by Antony Gormley on visit to the garden at Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre and Garden in Dundee, Scotland. Maggie's Dundee is located at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee. Antony Mark David Gormley, OBE, RA best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, around Madison Square in New York City, in 2010 and in São Paulo, in 2012.

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Tour Scotland Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre Dundee



Tour Scotland video of Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre and Garden in Dundee, Scotland. Maggie's Dundee is located at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee. Anyone with cancer, their family and their friends are welcome to drop in to the Centre for a cup of tea and a chat with one of their information and support specialists.

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Old Photograph Crofters Knitting And Carrying Peat Isle Of Lewis

Old photograph of Crofters knitting and carrying Peat on the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Within crofting townships, individual crofts were established on the best land, and a large area of lesser quality hill ground was shared by all the crofters of the township for grazing. Crofters also harvested Peat which was an important source of fuel. The women often spun and dyed wool as well as hand knitting and weaving. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Roots in Scotland.



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Old Photograph Charlestown Scotland

Old photograph of Charlestown, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish village 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. Shipbuilding was carried on at Charlestown in the 19th century, as well as ship breaking. Some of the German Imperial Fleet were brought here from Scapa Flow after World War I to be broken up.



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Tour Scotland Video Peter Pan Statue Garden Kirriemuir



Tour Scotland video of the Peter Pan statue in the garden at the birthplace of J. M. Barrie in Kirriemuir, Scotland. Peter Pan first appeared as part of a story within a story in Barrie’s 1902 novel The Little White Bird.

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Tour Scotland Video Birthplace J. M. Barrie Kirriemuir



Tour Scotland video of the birthplace of J. M. Barrie in Kirriemuir, Scotland. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM, born 9th of May 1860 was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. Barrie died of pneumonia on 19th of June 1937 and is buried at Kirriemuir next to his parents and two of his siblings. He left the bulk of his estate, excluding the Peter Pan works, which he had previously given to Great Ormond Street Hospital, to his secretary Cynthia Asquith. His birthplace at 4 Brechin Road in Kirriemuir is maintained as a museum.

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Tour Scotland Video J. M. Barrie Memorial Fountain Kirriemuir



Tour Scotland video of the J. M. Barrie memorial fountain in Kirriemuir, Scotland. This fountain which is no longer used as such is decorated with motifs drawn from the works of J. M. Barrie including Mary Rose, Peter Pan, The Boy David and the Window in Thrums. The Boy David holds a sling in one hand and a heavy sword in the other. Peter Pan is also given a sword. The inscription reads, " In memory of James M. Barrie, novelist and playwright, 1860 to 1937.

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Old Photographs Dunderave Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Dunderave Castle, Loch Fyne, Scotland. An L-plan Scottish castle built in the 16th century as the Scottish seat of the MacNaughton clan. Clan Macnaghten, sometimes spelt as MacNachten or MacNaughton. is a Scottish clan. The Clan Macnaghten are amongst the Scottish clans who claim descent from the early Pictish rulers of the Mormaer of Moray. The name Nectan means pure or clear and was popular in at least one Pictish royal branch. Three brothers are recorded in the thirteenth century: Gilchrist, Athe and Gilbert, all sons of Malcolm Macnachten. In 1297 Gilchrist received a charter from King Alexander III of Scotland which granted to him the keepership of a castle warding the narrow Pass of Brander, which was the gateway to the west.



Old photograph of Dunderave Castle, Loch Fyne, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Jougs Meikleour Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the Jougs in Meikleour in Perthshire, Scotland. A Joug was an iron ring, fastened by a chain to a wall, post, or tree, in which an offender was held by the neck: common in Scotland from the 16th to 18th century. The tron, to which jougs are still attached, stands in the centre of Meikleour. The tron is a rusticated obelisk with a hole near its pointed top, surmounted by a tall spike usually with a weather vane. The jougs are attached to its South face. The obelisk stands on a flat-topped mound.



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Old Photograph Old Course St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Old Golf Course in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Kinghorn Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland. A seaside resort with two beaches, Kinghorn Beach and Pettycur Bay, plus a fishing port, it stands on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, opposite Edinburgh. Kinghorn is where King Alexander III of Scotland died.



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Old Photographs Golf Course Turnberry Scotland

Old photograph of a golf course in Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland. A Scottish golf resort on the coast of the outer Firth of Clyde in South Ayrshire on the rugged coast, it now comprises three links golf courses, a golf academy, a five-star hotel, designed by James Miller and completed in 1906.

Old photograph of a golf course in Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Culross Scotland

Old photograph of West Green Culross, Fife, Scotland. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the town was a centre of the coal mining industry. Sir George Bruce of Carnock, established at Culross, the first coal mine in the world to extend under the sea, in 1575.



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Tour Scotland March Video Setting Sun River Tay Perthshire



Tour Scotland video shot this evening of the sun setting below Friarton Bridge over River Tay by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Fingask Castle Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Fingask Castle, Carse Of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The Bruce family owned the lands of Rait, including Fingask, from the 15th century. The castle itself is dated 1592, and was built around a 12th century structure. In 1672, Sir Patrick Threipland, 1st Baronet, purchased the estate, which was erected into a barony the same year. Sir Patrick renovated the building and laid out the gardens. He died a prisoner at Stirling Castle for adherence to the ousted King James VII, in 1689. His son David, 2nd Baronet, joined the Jacobite rising of 1715, and fought against the government at the Battle of Sheriffmuir. He was attainted when the rising failed, and his forfeited estates were purchased by the York Buildings Company, an English waterworks company which had begun to specialise in forfeited land. Fingask Castle was badly damaged in 1745 by government troops, as the Threiplands once more supported the Jacobites in the second Jacobite rising. and in 1783, it was bought back by the Threiplands, in the person of Dr. Stuart Threipland, physician. Between 1828 and 1840 additions were made to the south and west of the castle. Sir Patrick Threipland, 4th Baronet (1762-1837) laid out the park, and his son planted the topiary gardens and installed statuary. The castle passed out of the Threipland family again in 1917, when it was bought by whisky merchant Sir John Henderson Stewart, 1st Baronet. The estate was bought by H. B. Gilroy of Ballumbie in 1925, who removed many of the 19th century additions, and since 1969 has once more been the home of the Threipland family. The castle is a listed building, and the estate is included on the Inventory of Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes, the national register of significant gardens. Tour Scottish Castles, Abbeys, Houses, Towers.

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Tour Scotland Video Pilot Boat River Tay Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of a Pilot Boat on the River Tay returning to the harbour in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The River Tay is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh longest in the United Kingdom. The Tay originates in western Scotland on the slopes of Ben Lui, then flows easterly across the Highlands, through Loch Dochart, Loch Iubhair and Loch Tay, then continues east through Strathtay, in the centre of Scotland, then south easterly through Perth, where it becomes tidal, to its mouth at the Firth of Tay, south of Dundee.

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Old Photograph Walkers Perth Scotland

Old photograph of walkers in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Springburn Scotland

Old photograph of Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland. Springburn developed from a small rural hamlet at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Its industrial expansion began with the establishment of a chemical works by Charles Tennant on the newly opened Monkland Canal at nearby St. Rollox in 1799. Later in the 19th century the construction of railway lines through the area led to the establishment of Railway works and the village became a parish in its own right. The Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway first opened in 1831 to supply the St. Rollox Chemical Works and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was opened in 1842. Later, the City Union Line was extended to Springburn in 1871 and the Hamiltonhill Branch Line opened in 1894. Initially located outwith the Glasgow boundary, the area was eventually absorbed by the City of Glasgow Corporation in 1872.



Old photograph of Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Lismore Church Scotland

Old photograph of the Church on Lismore and island situated in Loch Linnhe, by Fort William, Scotland. Saint Moluag founded a monastery on Lismore. The island was a major centre of Celtic Christianity, and the seat of the later medieval bishopric of Argyll or the Isles.



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Old Photograph Symbister Scotland

Old photograph of the lighthouse at Symbister, Whalsay, Shetland Islands, Scotland. This lighthouse was was built by David A. and Charles Stevenson. Fishing has been the mainstay of the island of Whalsay and its harbour housed the fishing community. During the earlier centuries herring was the main fishing focus with catches peaking in 1834. However, this industry suffered due to drastic decline of yield within a few years. Fishing picked up again in the late 1800s and in the mid 1900s.



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Old Photograph Rooing Sheep Scotland

Old photograph of rooing sheep on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Rooing is the process of removing the fleece from the sheep by hand plucking the wool.



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Old Photograph Fish Market Aberdeen Scotland

Old photograph of a boat from Granton at the Fish Market in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Balbithan Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Balbithan Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle was sacked by Covenanters in 1640, and the Marquis of Montrose made the castle a rendezvous during the wars with the Covenanters in the 1640's. It provided a refuge for Jacobites after the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The house had passed to the Hay family in 1690, but it was acquired by the Gordons early in the 18th Century, then Keith Earls of Kintore in 1859.



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Old Photograph Cottage Wester Ross Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottage near Plockton, Wester Ross, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Snow Covered Lomond Hills Fife



Tour Scotland video of the snow covered Lomond Hills in Fife, Scotland. The Lomond Hills have a rich and varied history. From the Iron Age are the remains of several hill forts, which can be found around the summits of both East and West Lomond as well as at Maiden Castle, a grassy knoll that lies between the two.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Horse And Rider Pictish Symbol Stone Meigle

Tour Scotland photograph of a horse and rider Pictish Symbol stone in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Dunnichen Pictish Symbol Stone Angus

Tour Scotland photograph of the Dunnichen Pictish Symbol Stone in Angus, Scotland. The exact location at which the stone was found is unknown, but thought to be in a field in the East Mains of Dunnichen, on the SE slope of Dunnichen Hill.

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Old Photographs Maeshowe Orkney Scotland

Old photograph of Maeshowe, Orkney Islands, Scotland. A Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland, Orkney.



Old photograph of Maeshowe, Orkney Islands, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Skara Brae Orkney Scotland

Old photograph of Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland. A stone built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago.



Old photograph of Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland.

Old photograph of Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland.

Old photograph of Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland.

Old photograph of Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Kettletoft Orkney Scotland

Old photograph of Kettletoft, Sanday, Orkney Islands, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland March Photographs Videos Snow Single Track Roads Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph shot today of snow on a single track road not far from Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph shot today of snow on a single track road not far from Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph shot today of snow on a single track road not far from Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph shot today of snow on a single track road not far from Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video shot today of snow on a single track road not far from Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video shot today of snow on a single track road not far from Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Scrabster Scotland

Old photograph of Scrabster near Caithness, Scotland. Scrabster Harbour is an important port for the Scottish fishing industry.

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Tour Scotland March Photographs Video Friarton Bridge Perth

Tour Scotland photograph shot this morning of Friarton Bridge and River Tay just outside Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video shot this morning of Friarton Bridge and River Tay just outside Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph shot this morning of a vehicle on Friarton Bridge and River Tay just outside Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland March Photograph Video Snow Tay Valley Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph shot this morning of snow on the hills above the Tay Valley by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video shot this morning of snow on the hills above the Tay Valley by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland March Photograph Video Millais Viewpoint Perth

Tour Scotland photograph shot this morning of snow at the Millais Viewpoint by the River Tay, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video shot this morning of snow at the Millais Viewpoint by the River Tay, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This unique sculpture by Timothy Shutter, 1997, can be found on looking west across the Tay from the Perth Sculpture Trail. One of Millais' famous pictures is "Autumn Leaves" and these form part of the frame. The cut corners refer to immortality and are reminders of Effie Gray, Millais' wife. John Everett Millais painted many of his famous works in Perth.

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Old Photograph Loch Fada Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of Loch Fada on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Walk In Snow Stone Of Destiny



Tour Scotland video of a walk in the snow to the Stone of Destiny on Moot Hill, Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Moot Hill mound was said to have been created by pilgrims each carrying a bootful of soil to the site in a gesture of fealty to the king. A replica of the Stone of Scone sits on Moot Hill, where coronations occurred.

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Tour Scotland Video Snow Falling Fergusson Galley Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video shot today of snow falling on a sculpture outside of the Fergusson Gallery in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Fergusson Gallery celebrates the life and work of the great pioneers of modern art and dance, John Duncan Fergusson and Margaret Morris.

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Tour Scotland Video Walk In The Snow By Snowdrops



Tour Scotland video of a walk in the snow by snowdrops on the grounds of Fingask Castle, Carse Of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Fingask is perched 200 feet above Rait, three miles north-east of Errol, in the Braes of the Carse, on the fringes of the Sidlaw Hills. Thus it overlooks both the Carse of Gowrie and the Firth of Tay and beyond into the Kingdom of Fife. Fingask was once an explicitly holy place, a convenient and numinous stop-off between the abbeys at Falkirk and Scone. In the eighteenth century it was a nest of Jacobites. The Bruce family owned the lands of Rait, including Fingask, from the 15th century. The castle itself is dated 1592, and was built around a 12th century structure. In 1672, Sir Patrick Threipland, 1st Baronet, purchased the estate, which was erected into a barony the same year. Sir Patrick renovated the building and laid out the gardens. He died a prisoner at Stirling Castle for adherence to the ousted King James VII, in 1689. His son David, 2nd Baronet, joined the Jacobite rising of 1715, and fought against the government at the Battle of Sheriffmuir. He was attainted when the rising failed, and his forfeited estates were purchased by the York Buildings Company, an English waterworks company which had begun to specialise in forfeited land. Fingask Castle was badly damaged in 1745 by government troops, as the Threiplands once more supported the Jacobites in the second Jacobite rising. and in 1783, it was bought back by the Threiplands, in the person of Dr. Stuart Threipland, physician. Between 1828 and 1840 additions were made to the south and west of the castle. Sir Patrick Threipland, 4th Baronet (1762-1837) laid out the park, and his son planted the topiary gardens and installed statuary. The castle passed out of the Threipland family again in 1917, when it was bought by whisky merchant Sir John Henderson Stewart, 1st Baronet. The estate was bought by H. B. Gilroy of Ballumbie in 1925, who removed many of the 19th century additions, and since 1969 has once more been the home of the Threipland family. The castle is a listed building, and the estate is included on the Inventory of Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes, the national register of significant gardens. Tour Scottish Castles, Abbeys, Houses, Towers.

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