Tour Scotland Video Supercars Broxden Services Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland travel video of Supercars leaving Broxden Services on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. A cavalcade of cars including makes such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Mercedes, Porsche, Bentley and others departing from Perth on their way to Tyndrum and then onwards to Glencoe and Mallaig. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Old Photograph Blacksboat Scotland

Old photograph of Blacksboat located on the right bank of the River Spey in Moray, Scotland. As can be seen there used to be a ferry crossing here.



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Old Photograph Cottages Bankend Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Bankend village located six miles South East of Dumfries, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Balruddery House Scotland

Old photograph of Balruddery House which was located nine miles West North west of Dundee, Scotland. This Scottish mansion was designed by David Neave for James Webster in 1820. The house was altered and extended by Charles Edward and Thomas Saunders Robertson in 1880. The house was rebuilt after a fire in 1889 by Sidney Mitchell and demolished in early 1962.



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Tour Scotland Video Brough of Birsay Pictish Symbol Stone



Tour Scotland video of Brough of Birsay Pictish Symbol Stone from Orkney Islands in the National Museum on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. Carved into the face of the stone are symbols of a mirror and a crescent and V-rod. Beneath these is a fine example of the eagle symbol. Then, at the base of the stone are armed Pictish warriors. Originally over six feet tall, the Birsay stone was found in fragments during the 1935 excavation of a later Christian cemetery on the Brough.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Warrior Pictish Symbol Stone




Tour Scotland video of a Warrior Pictish Symbol Stone in the National Museum on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. Pictish sculptured stone showing horsemen and warriors, from Dull, Perthshire. As a matter of interest the village of Dull has now twinned with Dull in Oregon, USA.

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Tour Scotland Video Papil Pictish Symbol Stone



Tour Scotland video of the Papil Pictish Symbol Stone in the National Museum on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. This stone was found in the churchyard to the south of Papil Kirk, Burra, Shetland Islands, in 1877. On this side of the cross there are monks depicted in their typical hooded garments and below a Pictish lion. Near the base of the stone there are two " bird men. " This stone is dated to the 8th century.

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Tour Scotland Video Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Stone



Tour Scotland video of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Stone in the National Museum on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. This stone was discovered at Hilton of Cadboll, on the East coast of the Tarbat Peninsula in Easter Ross. It is one of the most magnificent of all Pictish cross-slabs. On the seaward-facing side is a Christian cross, and on the landward facing side shown in the video are secular depictions. The latter are carved below the Pictish symbols of crescent and v-rod and double disc and Z-rod: a hunting scene including a woman wearing a large penannular brooch riding side-saddle. Like other similar stones, it can be dated to about 800 AD.

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Tour Scotland Video Iron Treasure Chest Museum Edinburgh



Tour Scotland video of an iron treasure chest in the National Museum on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. The lid of the this money chest has an elaborate lock covering the whole inner surface. The chest contained money for the colonization project that became known as the Darien Scheme or Darien Disaster which was an unsuccessful attempt by the Kingdom of Scotland to become a world trading nation by establishing a colony called Caledonia on the Isthmus of Panama in the late 1690s.

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Old Photograph Ruthwell Cross Scotland

Old photograph of Ruthwell Cross located in Ruthwell village on the Solway Firth, Scotland. In 1818, Reverend Henry Duncan, a local Minister, restored the Ruthwell Cross, one of the finest Anglo-Saxon crosses in the United Kingdom, now in Ruthwell church, which had been broken up in the Scottish Reformation. This cross is remarkable for its sculpture and inscriptions in Latin and Old English, some in Anglo-Saxon runes, which include excerpts from The Dream of the Rood, an Old English poem.



Old photograph of Ruthwell Chursch located in Ruthwell village on the Solway Firth, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Gravir Scotland

Old photograph of Gravir, a village on the shore of Loch Odhairn, Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Most of the plots of land used to be used for crofting, but this has declined in the last 50 years. The road leading to the village is the B8060, and continues on to Orinsay and Lemreway.



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Old Photographs Burghead Scotland

Old photograph of Burghead located eight miles North West of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. The present town was built between 1805 and 1809, destroying in the process more than half of the site of an important Pictish hill fort. This fort was probably a major Pictish centre and was where carved slabs depicting bulls were found; they are known as the " Burghead Bulls. " The town is mainly built on a peninsula that projects north-westward into the Moray Firth, meaning that most of the town has sea on three sides.

Old photograph of Burghead located eight miles North West of Elgin, Moray, Scotland.

Old photograph of Burghead located eight miles North West of Elgin, Moray, Scotland.

Old photograph of Burghead located eight miles North West of Elgin, Moray, Scotland.

Old photograph of Burghead located eight miles North West of Elgin, Moray, Scotland.

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Old Photograph St Duthus's Church Scotland

Old photograph of St Duthus's Church, Tain in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. The now ruined Collegiate Church of Tain, dedicated to Saint Duthus, is said to have been built by William, Earl of Ross, who died in 1371. In 1487, James III had it converted into a Collegiate Church. King James IV and V made pilgrimages to it.



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Old Photographs St Fillans Scotland

Old photograph of St Fillans, Perthshire, Scotland. The pre-Reformation church, St Fillan's Chapel, whose churchyard is the traditional burial place of the Stewarts of Ardvorlich, lies to the south of the River Earn, between St Fillans and the Iron Age Pictish hill fort of Dundurn. It is believed that the Irish missionary Saint Fillan lived on this hill. Not far from the foot of the hill is the Allt Ghoinean burn which is claimed to be the Gonan or Monan of Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake.

Old photograph of St Fillans, Perthshire, Scotland.



Old photograph of St Fillans, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Helmsdale Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Helmsdale on the east coast of Sutherland, Scotland. The modern village was planned in 1814 to resettle communities that had been removed from the surrounding straths and valleys as part of the Highland Clearances. Helmsdale Castle, the remains of which were demolished in order to build the new A9 road bridge, was the location of the murder of the 11th Earl of Sutherland in 1567. The Earl and his Countess Marie Seton were poisoned by Isobel Sinclair.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Brochel Castle Island Of Raasay

Tour Scotland photograph of Brochel Castle on Isle of Raasay across from, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. A late 15th or early 16th century, now ruined, castle occupied until 1671. The castle stands on the north eastern shore of the Isle of Raasay. According to tradition it was built by Raasay's first Macleod chief Calum MacGillechaluim. It provided a strategic base for a dynasty of reiving seadogs to control their mainland possessions and the Inner Sound.

Tour Scotland photograph of Brochel Castle on Isle of Raasay across from Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Brochel Castle on Isle of Raasay across from Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Brochel Castle on Isle of Raasay across from Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Brochel Castle on Isle of Raasay across from Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Armadale Isle Of Skye




Tour Scotland video of photographs of Armadale on ancestry visit to the Sleat Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Clan Donald has a visitor centre situated next to the ruins of Armadale Castle and surrounded by large gardens. The village is also a small port, and has a regular Caledonian MacBrayne ferry service to Mallaig.

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Old Photograph Stone Of Destiny Arbroath Abbey Scotland

Old photograph of the Stone of Destiny at the Abbey on ancestry visit to Arbroath, Angus, Scotland. King Edward I of England took the stone on which Scotland's kings were traditionally crowned from Scone in 1296 and placed it under the throne at Westminster Abbey in London. In 1950, a group of Scottish students took it from Westminster and, on April 11, 1951, the missing stone was found lying on the site of the altar at Arbroath Abbey.



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Old Photograph Binnend Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Binnend, an abandoned industrial village near Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish village built in the early 1880s to house workers at the nearby shale oil extraction works. Production did not last long, and the mines closed in 1894. In 1891, the population was about 760 but it declined quickly; many people had left by the time that the mines closed, but the last inhabitant, George Hood, remained until 1954.



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Old Photograph Paddle Steamer Glencoe Scotland

Old photograph of the paddle steamer Glencoe on Loch Scavaig, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. The Glencoe was built in 1846 by Tod and MacGregor for Sir James Matheson and was initially named Mary Jane, after the owner's wife. The vessel was renamed Glencoe after being modernised in 1875 and was subsequently lengthened and converted to a saloon steamer, sailing on a number of different West Coast routes for David Hutcheson and Company, followed by MacBraynes.



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Old Photographs Rosehearty Scotland


Old photograph of Rosehearty located four miles West of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Scottish village which is now named Rosehearty was founded by a group of shipwrecked sailors from Denmark in the 14th century. In 1424 the Fraser family built Pitsligo Castle a few hundred yards inland which was then later enlarged by the Forbes family in 1570. The remains of the Castle are visible from the village. Rosehearty didn't officially exist until it was granted a charter in the 1680s by King Charles II. Sir Walter Murdoch, born 1876, died 1970, was an Australian academic and essayist; Murdoch University in Western Australia is named after him; Walter Murdoch was born in Rosehearty and spend the first 10 years of his life there, the youngest of 14 siblings, before emigrating with his family to Melbourne in 1886; his father James Murdoch was the Free Kirk minister at Rosehearty.




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Old Photographs Reston Scotland

Old photograph of Reston, Berwickshire, Scotland. This Scottish village lies on the western bank of the Eye Water.



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Old Photograph Hutton Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Hutton, Berwickshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located one mile west of Paxton and two miles west of the border with Northumberland. Its closest market towns are Duns and Berwick-upon-Tweed. When the false warning of Napoleon's invasion in 1804 was sent out from the beacon station at Hume Castle, the volunteers from the area made Hutton their rallying point, and spent a night under arms in the old church. In more recent history it became popular with Polish soldiers after they were posted in nearby Winfield in World War II, after which some stayed to live in the village.



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Old Photographs Working Horses Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of working horses in Perthshire, Scotland.



Old photograph of working horses in Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of working horses in Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of working horses in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Bruichladdich Islay Scotland

Old photograph of Bruichladdich, Islay, Scotland. Bruichladdich whisky distillery was begun in 1881 by the Harvey brothers on the shore of Loch Indaal, on the Rinns of Islay, the westernmost part of the island. The Harveys were a dynastic whisky family that had owned two Glasgow distilleries since 1770. All the distillery’s whiskies are sold as single malts, with those designated Bruichladdich being unpeated, those designated Port Charlotte being heavily peated and those designated Octomore being super heavily peated. Octomore is considered to be the most heavily peated single malt whisky in the world.




Old photograph of Bruichladdich, Islay, Scotland.


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Old Photograph Seggie House Scotland

Old photograph of Seggie House in Guardbridge near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The house originally belonged to William Haig who founded the Seggie Whisky Distillery in the village of Guardbridge. It was subsequently bought by the Adamsons who owned Guardbridge Paper Mill as well as most of the houses in the village and the surrounding farmland.



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Old Photograph Hamilton Scotland

Old photograph of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This is the fifth largest Scottish town, excluding cities, after Paisley, East Kilbride, Livingston and Cumbernauld. It is located twelve miles south east of Glasgow, and thirty five miles south west of Edinburgh on the south bank of the River Clyde at its confluence with the Avon Water. Hamilton was the county town of Lanarkshire. Hamilton Palace was the largest non royal residence in the Western world, located in the north east of the town. A former seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, it was built in 1695, subsequently much enlarged, and demolished in 1921 due to ground subsidence. It is widely acknowledged as having been one of the grandest houses in Scotland, was visited and admired by Queen Victoria, and was written about by Daniel Defoe. David Livingstone, the missionary explorer, lived in Hamilton from 1862 until his death on 1 May 1873. His house still stands on 17 Burnbank Road and has a plaque about him living there.



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Tour Scotland Video Dunbarney Parish Church Bridge of Earn Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of photographs of the interior of Dunbarney Parish Church in Bridge of Earn by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Prior to 1684, Dunbarney parish church stood a mile to the west in the burial ground cemetery near the mansion of Dunbarney. In 1684 a church was erected a few yards from the present building. The present rectangular plan church was built in 1787. Pedimented bellcote added, interior recast and other alterations 1880. The pipe organ, built by John Miller, Dundee, was installed in 1929.

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Old Photographs Foula Scotland

Old photograph of the island of Foula located in the Atlantic ocean twenty miles west of Walls on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. In 1720, a smallpox epidemic struck the two hundred people living on Foula. Because the islanders were so isolated from the rest of the world, they had no immunity to smallpox, unlike most North European peoples at that time, and nine out of ten of the island's population died in the epidemic.


Old photograph of the island of Foula located in the Atlantic ocean twenty miles west of Walls on the Shetland Islands, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Scalpay Scotland

Old photograph of cottages on the island of Scalpay near Island Of Harris, Scotland. Scalpay is home to many Gaelic singers and psalm presenters. The island used to have more than 10 shops over 30 years ago but due to lack of people and work, the last shop closed in 2007. There also used to be a salmon factory which was a major local employer from 2001 until its closure in 2005. In the spring of 2009, local newspapers reported that the factory was to reopen.





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Old Photograph Crofters Carrying Peat Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of crofters carrying Peat back to their cottages on Isle of Skye, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Kirn Scotland

Old photograph of Kirn by Dunoon, Scotland. This Scottish village on the Firth of Clyde had its own pier and was a regular stop for the Clyde steamer services.

Old photograph of Kirn by Dunoon, Scotland.

Old photograph of Kirn by Dunoon, Scotland.


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Old Photograph Lindores Village Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Lindores village near Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. The battle of Black Earnside at which William Wallace defeated Aymer de Valence, the 2nd Earl of Pembroke, was fought near the village.



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