Old Photograph Pitcaple Scotland

Old photograph of Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located on the River Urie 4 miles north west of Inverurie. Pitcaple is in Chapel-of-Garioch parish, Aberdeenshire.



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Old Photograph Udny Green Scotland

Old photograph of Udny Green, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The parish church here was built by John Smith in the early 1820s in a Todor Gothic style.



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Old Photographs Old Deer Scotland

Old photograph of Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Saint Columba and his nephew Drostan founded a monastery here in the 6th century, of which no trace remains. The Book of Deer is a most interesting relic of the monks, which was discovered in 1857 in the Cambridge University library by Henry Bradshaw. It was probably stolen during the Wars of Scottish Independence by English troops. It is a small manuscript of the Gospels in the Vulgate, fragments of the liturgy of the Celtic church, and notes, in the Gaelic script of the 12th century, referring to the charters of the ancient monastery, including a summary of that granted by David I of Scotland. These are among the oldest examples of Scottish Gaelic. The manuscript is also adorned with Gaelic designs. It had belonged to the monks of Deer and been in the possession of the University Library since 1715. It was edited by John Stuart for the Spalding Club, by whom it was published in 1869 under the title The Book of Deer (Leabhar Dhèir in Gaelic).

Old photograph of Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Oldmeldrum Scotland

Tour Scotland travel of old photography of Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire. commonly known as #Meldrum, a village and parish in #Formartine area of #Aberdeenshire. Each summer on the third Saturday in June the village is host to the popular Meldrum Sports, which began in 1930 and features highland games, highland dancing, piping, five-a-side football, displays, stalls and a beer tent. Home to one of the oldest whisky distilleries

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Old Photograph Oyne Scotland

Old photograph of Oyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The village has limited local resources. It once had a railway station, and now has a daily bus service to Inverurie 8 miles away and to Huntly. The area is popular with commuters to Inverurie, Huntly and Aberdeen, a journey of around 30 minutes. The area has a number of large private houses such as Westhall House, which was a small hotel until the 1990s. The Horn family were lairds of Westhall.

The Huntly surname of English and Scots origin, from places so called in Gloucestershire, England, and Berwick, and Aberdeen in Scotland. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century " hunta ", a hunter, and " leah ", a wood or clearing in a wood.



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Old Photograph Echt Scotland

Old photograph of Echt, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Echt has a number of prehistoric remains, including the so called Barmekin of Echt which is on a hill to the northwest. There is also the Cullerlie stone circle near Sunhoney Farm, which may date from the Bronze Age.



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Old Photograph New Byth Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in New Byth, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located a few miles northeast of Cuminestown and was built in the 18th century.



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Old Photographs Alford Scotland

Old photograph of Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish village gave its name to a battle of the Battle of Alford in 1645. It is also the home of the world popular Aberdeen Angus cattle breed. It is thought that the original breeding ground of the cattle was Buffal, located between Tough, Tulloch, and Craigievar nearby Alford.



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Tour Scotland Video July Day Tour East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of photographs of a July day along the coast on visit to the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Including; Elie beach, Earlsferry, St Monans harbour, St Monans Church, Crail harbour, Pittenweem, Isle of May, Cellardyke, Anstruther harbour.

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Tour Scotland Video Arched Screen Abbotsford House Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of a view from the South East of the arched screen at Abbotsford House near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Abbotsford is the house built and lived in by Sir Walter Scott, the 19th century novelist, and author of timeless classics such as Waverley, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and The Lady of the Lake.

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Tour Scotland Video South East View Abbotsford House Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of a view from the South East of Abbotsford House near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Abbotsford is the house built and lived in by Sir Walter Scott, the 19th century novelist, and author of timeless classics such as Waverley, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and The Lady of the Lake.

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Old Photographs Penpont Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Penpont two miles west of Thornhill which is located north of Dumfries, Scotland. Penpont is notable as the birthplace of Joseph Thomson, the geologist and explorer after whom Thomson's Gazelle is named.

Old photograph of Penpont two miles west of Thornhill which is located north of Dumfries, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Methlick Scotland

Old photograph of a car, houses and cottages in Methlick, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Haddo House, a stately home and arts venue with theatre and concert hall, lies two miles to the south east of Methlick. Gight Castle, ancestral home of Lord Byron, lies three miles to the west.

Old photograph of Methlick, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video East Sands And Harbour St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of photographs of the East Sands beach and harbour on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Railway Station Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Duart Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, Scotland. This Scottish castle dates back to the 13th century and is the seat of Clan MacLean. It is also featured in the Disney Pixar Movie Brave. 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. The castle was used as a location in the 1999 film Entrapment, starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The castle also features prominently in the 1971 film When Eight Bells Toll, starring Anthony Hopkins.



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Old Photographs St Margaret's Hope Scotland

Old photograph of St Margaret's Hope on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. This is the main village on South Ronaldsay, and is named either after Margaret, Maid of Norway, who may have died there, or Saint Margaret, Queen of Scotland, the wife of Malcolm III.



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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Eurofighter Typhoon Jet Fighter Landing RAF Leuchars

Tour Scotland video of photographs of a Eurofighter Typhoon Jet Fighter landing at RAF Leuchars on visit near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Eurofighter Typhoon Jet Fighter Landing At RAF Leuchars

Tour Scotland video of a Eurofighter Typhoon Jet Fighter landing at RAF Leuchars near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Unstan Chambered Cairn Scotland

Old photograph of Unstan Chambered Cairn on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. This tomb was built on a promontory that extends into the Loch of Stenness near the settlement of Howe and the town of Stromness. It's possible that Unstan was in use well into the second millennium BC; an arrowhead was discovered in the tomb that is characteristic of the Beaker People who lived from the Late Neolithic into the Bronze Age.



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Old Photographs Burning Kelp Scotland

Old photograph of crofters burning 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 Voe Scotland

Old photograph of whales on the shore in Voe, Shetland Islands, Scotland. The first evidence for whaling in Scotland is from Bronze Age settlements where whalebones were used for constructing and decorating dwelling places. Commercial whaling started in the Middle Ages, and by the 1750s most Scottish ports were whaling, with the Edinburgh Whale Fishing Company being founded in 1749. The last company still engaged in whaling was Christian Salvesen, which exited the industry in 1963. Although whaling in now considered to be a controversial trade, for many centuries it was a vital element of the Scottish economy.



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Old Photograph Royal Infirmary Perth Scotland

Old photograph of the Royal Infirmary in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The current Perth Royal Infirmary was built on a site on Glasgow Road between 1912 and 1914. An extension containing operating theatres and kitchens was added between 1934 and 1935.



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Tour Scotland Video Lobster Boat Artic Tern St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of the lobster boat Artic Tern returning to the harbour on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The earliest records of lobster fishing in Scotland date back to the 12th century when lobster was caught by hand using ‘crooks’ and hoop nets. With the development of baited traps, exploitation on a more commercial basis was developed, and today creel fishing for the European lobster ( Homarus gammarus ) supports very important local fisheries around the Scottish coast.

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Tour Scotland Video Lobster Boat Giselle St Andrews Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland video of the lobster boat Giselle leaving the harbour on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Lobster landings taken by Scottish fishing vessels have increased substantially in recent years, from 290 tonnes in 2001 to about 1,100 tonnes with a value of over £11.37 million in 2016. In recent years, the majority of lobster landings have come from the South East, Hebrides, Orkney and South Minch.

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Tour Scotland Video Golfers 17th Green Old Golf Course St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of golfers on the 17th green of the Old Golf Course in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The Old Course was pivotal to the development of how the game is played today. For instance, in 1764, the course had 22 holes. The members would play the same hole going out and in with the exception of the 11th and 22nd holes. The members decided that the first four and last four holes on the course were too short and should be combined into four total holes (two in and two out). St Andrews then had 18 holes and that was how the standard of 18 holes was created. Around 1863, Old Tom Morris had the 1st green separated from the 17th green, producing the current 18 hole layout with seven double greens. The famous Old Course is home of The Open Championship, the oldest of golf's major championships.

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Tour Scotland Video Golfers 18th Green Old Golf Course St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of golfers on the 18th green of the famous Old Golf Course in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The Old Course at St Andrews is considered by many to be the " home of golf " because the sport was first played on the Links at St Andrews in the early 1400s. Members played on what would become the Old Course, but because it was the only course St Andrews had, it was not yet known as the Old Course. Golf was becoming increasingly popular in Scotland until in 1457, when King James II of Scotland banned golf because he felt that young men were playing too much golf instead of practicing their archery. The ban was held by the following kings of Scotland until 1502, when King James IV became a golfer himself and decided to remove the ban on golf.

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Old Photograph Dunlossit House Islay Scotland

Old photograph of Dunlossit House, Port Askaig, Islay, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house is presently the home of the banker Bruno Schroder, one of the wealthiest men in the world and a generous sponsor of the Islay lifeboat.



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Old Photograph Sark Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of Sark Bridge near Gretna Green in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The original bridge built in 1814 by Thomas Telford carrying the road over the River Sark, which forms the border between England and Scotland just outside Gretna. Crossing this bridge became popular for runaway marriages of English couples following the passage of Lord Hardwicke's act in 1754. The act abolished irregular marriages in England but not Scotland. Once across the bridge, runaways from England could be married very quickly in accordance with 18th Century Scots law, which required neither banns nor a licence.



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Old Photograph Staerough Scotland

Old photograph of Staerough by Kirk Yetholm, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Staerough Hill overlooks Kirk Yetholm, which is situated a half a mile to the North, and Town Yetholm, one mile to the North West. Its summit reaches 1,085 feet and is the site of a small prehistoric burial cairn.



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Old Photographs Kirk Yetholm Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Kirk Yetholm, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Kirk Yetholm was for centuries the headquarters of the Romany Gypsies in Scotland. The last king of the Gypsies was crowned here in 1898. The first mention of its church was in the 13th century.

Old photograph of Kirk Yetholm, Scottish Borders, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Sundial Abbotsford House Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of a sundial outside Abbotsford House near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Known as the Haliburton dial, the sundial that is now in the South Courtyard of Abbotsford House was recorded first in the grounds of Dryburgh Abbey. Abbotsford is the house built and lived in by Sir Walter Scott, the 19th century novelist, and author of timeless classics such as Waverley, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and The Lady of the Lake.

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Tour Scotland Video Weapons Armoury Abbotsford House Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of weapons in the armoury room in Abbotsford House near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Abbotsford is the house built and lived in by Sir Walter Scott, the 19th century novelist, and author of timeless classics such as Waverley, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and The Lady of the Lake. It was intended at first to be for the use of Lady Scott, but George Bullock persuaded Scott to fit it up instead as an armoury for the display of his fine collections of arms and armour.

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Old Photograph Foss Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Foss, Perthshire, Scotland. This is Scottish village in the Parish of Dull by the banks of Loch Tummel.



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Old Photograph Ardgay Scotland

Old photograph of Ardgay, Sutherland, Scotland. A small Scottish village on the south west shore of the Dornoch Firth, Sutherland which lies at the entrance to Strathcarron, the valley of the River Carron.



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Old Photograph Lady Stair’s House Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of Lady Stair’s House in Edinburgh, Scotland. This Scottish house was built in 1622 for Sir Walter Gray of Pittendrum, but the interior has been converted since then. The building is named after the Gray's granddaughter, society beauty Lady Stair, Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Stair; née Elizabeth Dundas, the widow of John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, who purchased the building in 1719. It is now a museum presenting the lives of three of the foremost Scottish writers: Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.



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