Tour Scotland Summer Video Golfers Old Course St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland Summer video of golfers on the 18th green of the 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 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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Tour Scotland Video Tullibole Castle Crook Of Devon Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of photographs of Tullibole Castle by Crook Of Devon, Perthshire, Scotland. A classic example of a 17th century Scottish tower house. In the beautiful castle grounds are a 9th century Celtic graveyard, an old doocot, and a Witches Knowe from the time of the Crook of Devon Witch Trials. A small selection of my personal photographs shot on small group tours of Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video The Old Man Of Storr Isle Of Skye

Tour Scotland video of photographs of the Old Man Of Storr, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. The Storr is a rocky hill on the Trotternish peninsula. The hill presents a steep rocky eastern face overlooking the Sound of Raasay, contrasting with gentler grassy slopes to the west. The area in front of the cliffs of the Storr is known as the Sanctuary. This has a number of weirdly shaped rock pinnacles, the remnants of ancient landslips. The most famous of these, and by far the largest and most apparent when approaching from the south, is known as the Old Man of Storr, in gaelic, Bod an Stòir, meaning literally The Penis of Storr. A small selection of my personal photographs shot on small group tours of Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Sandwood Bay Sutherland

Tour Scotland video of photographs of Sandwood Bay in Sutherland, Scotland. On the North West coast of the Scottish Highlands. This area is best known for its mile long beach and Am Buachaille, a sea stack, and lies about 5 miles south of Cape Wrath. A small selection of my personal photographs shot on small group tours of Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Creag Mhor Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland video of photographs of Creag Mhor seven miles North of Tyndrum in the Highlands of Scotland. This Scottish mountain stands in the ancient Forest of Mamlorn deer forest, it is located 7 miles north east of Tyndrum. A small selection of my personal photographs shot on small group tours of Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Strome Castle

Tour Scotland photograph of Strome Castle located three miles West of Lochcarron, Wester Ross, Scotland. Originally built by the Macdonald Earls of Ross. Later in 1472 the castle was owned by the Clan MacDonald of Lochalsh and Alan MacDonald Dubh, 12th Chief of the Clan Cameron was constable on behalf of the MacDonalds of Lochalsh. In 1539 King James V of Scotland granted the castle to the Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry and Hector Munro, chief of the Clan Munro was constable of the castle for the MacDonalds of Glengarry. Later in 1602 the castle was besieged by Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, chief of the Clan Mackenzie, assisted by their allies the Clan Matheson. After the MacDonalds surrendered it was demolished and blown up. The MacDonnells of Glengarry built a new castle called Invergarry Castle.



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Tour Scotland Photographs of Blackwater Dam

Tour Scotland photograph of Blackwater Dam above Kinlochleven, Scotland. Blackwater Reservoir is a reservoir created behind a dam in the mountains above Kinlochleven. The dam was built using hand tools, without the benefit of mechanical earth moving machinery, and has been described as the last major creation of the traditional navvy whose activities in the construction of canals and railways left an indelible mark on the British countryside. Navvy is a shorter form of the word navigator, and was used to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects. The term was coined in the late 18th century in Great Britain when numerous canals were being built.

Tour Scotland photograph of Blackwater Dam above Kinlochleven, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Blackwater Dam above Kinlochleven, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Old Parish Church Peebles Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of photographs of the Old Parish Church on ancestry visit to Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. The church was constructed between 1885 and 1887. It includes some features from an earlier parish church built on the site in 1784. The architect was William Young of London who designed the church in a Gothic style.

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Tour Scotland Video Eurofighter Typhoon Jet Fighter Landing Leuchars Fife

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

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Tour Scotland Video Lobster Boat Chaters St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of the lobster boat Chaters leaving 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 Walk East Sands Beach St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of a walk on the East Sands beach on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.This beach is located on the south side of the old harbour close to the East Sands Leisure Centre.

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Old Photographs Badachro Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Badachro located three miles South of Gairloch, Scotland. Approximately 2 miles to the SE are located the Fairy Lochs, the site of a 1945 plane crash which is now a designated war grave. The crash site has been preserved as a memorial to the USAAF servicemen who lost their lives in the accident, and is accessible by a rough track near the Shieldaig Lodge Hotel.

Old photograph of the ferry at Badachro located three miles South of Gairloch, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Ploughing Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of ploughing on the Shetland Islands, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Well Of The Dead Culloden Scotland

Old photograph of the Well Of The Dead on the battlefield at Culloden, near Inverness, Scotland. This is the spot where many of the wounded Clansmen crawled to die.

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Old Photographs Inverey Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Inverey, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. John Lamont a highly regarded astronomer was born at Corriemulzie near Inverey the son of Robert Lamont, forester to James, 2nd Earl Fife, and his wife Elizabeth Ewan. In 1798, Inverey was added to Mar Estate by James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife.

Old photograph of Inverey, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Blacklunans Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage in Blacklunans near Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Auchencrow Scotland

Old photograph of houses and cottages in Auchencrow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. James Hutton, the founder of modern geology, farmed two miles to the west of this Scottish village. James, born 3 June 1726, died 26 March 1797, was a Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist. He originated the theory of uniformitarianism, a fundamental principle of geology, which explains the features of the Earth's crust by means of natural processes over geologic time.



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Old Photograph Bridge of Gairn Scotland

Old photograph of Bridge of Gairn near Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Bracora Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Bracora, Loch Morar, Lochaber, Scotland. During the period of the Highland Clearances, many residents Scots emigrated to Canada. Boats left in 1790, 1802, and 1826, carrying people to Quebec, Glengarry in Ontario, and the Strait of Canso in Nova Scotia, Canada, respectively. In common with Loch Ness, occasional reports of large unidentified creatures in the loch's waters are made. The monster has been dubbed Morag. Loch Morar's fishing population is believed to be limited to Atlantic Salmon, brown trout and sea trout, Arctic char, eel, stickleback, and minnow.



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Old Photograph Currie Scotland

Old photograph of Currie located South West of the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. There has been a Christian community in this area for more than 1,000 years. In 1018, the archdeacons of Lothian set up their headquarters in the area. John Bartholomew's Civic and Ecclesiastical maps of the 13th century do not show Currie, but the Index of Charters 1309 to 1413 records Currie as being favourite hunting grounds for the Lords and Knights of Edinburgh Castle.

Old photograph of Currie located South West of the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photographs St Boswells Scotland

Old photograph of St Boswells in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish village is known for being on the route of St Cuthbert's Way, a long distance footpath linking Melrose Abbey to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne off the Northumberland coast in north east England. The name commemorates Saint Boisil, an Abbot of Melrose. The village has an annual gypsy fair, originally a focus for the trade of horses. This fair once attracted Gypsies from most parts of Scotland, northern England and Ireland.



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Tour Scotland Video Mylnefield Lilies Parkhead Gardens Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Mylnefield Lilies on visit to Parkhead Gardens in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. These lilies were developed by Christopher North, who died aged 87, and who was head of plant breeding at the Scottish Horticultural Research Institute, at Mylnefield, Dundee. Parkhead Gardens in Perth are most definitely worth a visit, and can be viewed only by prior arrangement.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Parkhead Gardens Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of photographs of visit to Parkhead Gardens in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Interesting plants and shrubs and a rare national collection of the Mylnefield Lilies. Parkhead Gardens in Perth are most definitely worth a visit, and can be viewed only by prior arrangement.

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Old Photographs Walkerburn Scotland

Old photograph of houses in Walkerburn in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish village was founded in 1854 around the mill to house the workers. The village is now home to the Scottish Museum of Textiles.

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Old Photograph Kirkbean Scotland

Old photograph of Kirkbean near the Solway Firth in, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Among its most famous sons was John Paul Jones, the founder of the United States Navy, who was born in Arbigland, Kirkbean on July 6th, 1747. The Kirbean cemetery is the burial place of Jean Thurot, born 1755, died 1833, son of the famous Francois Thurot, French Naval Commodore and Privateer. Kirkbean is also the birthplace of another great seafarer, John Campbell, who was born in 1720 and who went on to become a British naval officer, navigational expert and colonial governor of Newfoundland in Canada. The parish was also the departure point for thousands of Scots seeking a better life in the American and Australian colonies during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Convicts were also transported to Australia from here, making the parish a rich source of genealogy history with many hundreds of thousands of people worldwide having a connection to this beautiful part of Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Highland Dancing Kirriemuir Angus

Tour Scotland video of Scottish Highland dancing on visit to the Agricultural Show in Kirriemuir, Scotland. Highland dance or Highland dancing is a style of competitive solo dancing developed in the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the context of competitions at public events such as the Highland games, where it is often performed to the accompaniment of Highland bagpipe music. It is now seen at nearly every modern day Highland games event.

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Tour Scotland Video Sheep Shearing Kirriemuir Angus

Tour Scotland video of Sheep Shearing on visit to the Agricultural Show in Kirriemuir, Scotland. Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a shearer. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year, a sheep may be said to have been " shorn " or " sheared ", depending upon the local dialect. The annual shearing most often occurs in a shearing shed, a facility especially designed to process often hundreds and sometimes more than 3,000 sheep per day.

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Tour Scotland Video Strathmore Pipe Band Kirriemuir Angus

Tour Scotland video of Strathmore Pipe Band on visit to the Agricultural Show in Kirriemuir, Scotland. The band practice on Tuesdays evenings and offers tuition in piping, snare drumming and tenor drumming at East and Old Church Hall, Chapel Street, Forfar.

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