Tour Scotland Video Bruce Window Parish Church Clackmannan



Tour Scotland video of the Bruce memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to the Parish Church in Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The gift of Victoria Bruce in memory of her sister, Jean Bruce, who served for twenty three years as Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Mary, at Buckingham Palace.

A lady-in-waiting or Court Lady is a female personal assistant at a court, royal or feudal, attending on a queen, either if she is the queen regent or the queen consort, a princess, or a high ranking noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman from a family in " good society ", but who was of lower rank than the woman on whom she attended. Although she may or may not have received compensation for the service she rendered, a lady-in-waiting was considered more of a companion to her mistress than a servant.

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Tour Scotland Video Buick Window Parish Church Clackmannan



Tour Scotland video of the Buick memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to the Parish Church in Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The gift of sisters Margaret and Mary Buick.

The Buick surname is of English locational origin, from a place named Bewick in either Northumberland or the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Bewick in Northumberland is recorded as Bowich in the Pipe Rolls of that county in 1167 and in the East Riding of Yorkshire as Biuuich in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name derives from the old English pre 7th Century " beo " meaning bee and " wic " a farm; hence a " bee farm ", apparently originally it was a station for the production of honey. Early recordings of the surname from All Saints church records, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland include; Annes Buick, daughter of Christopher Buick, christened on October 7th 1604; the marriage of Edward Buick and Margret Manwell on August 21st 1608 and the christening of Ellinor Buick, daughter of Robert Buick on August 22nd 1613. In the modern idiom, the name is found as Buick, Bowich, Bewick and Bewicke.

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Tour Scotland Video Ferguson Window Parish Church Clackmannan



Tour Scotland video of the Ferguson memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to the Parish Church in Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The gift of Miss Eliza Ferguson in memory of her parents, her father, Henry, who worked in the local wool mill, and Isabella, her mother, who was a seamstress.

Spinning and weaving went hand in hand with agriculture in Clackmannanshire. There would be little work carried on in the woollen mills during sowing or harvest time but after shearing, local farmers would bring in their fleeces to be processed and take them away as blankets and tweed cloth. Many communities had their own local district woollen mill, but the majority of these disappeared between the two World Wars.

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Old Photographs Newtyle Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Newtyle, Angus, Scotland. The original village of Newtyle was centred around the church and what are now Kirkton Road and Smiddy road. Hatton Castle to the south and Newbigging to the north lie within the parish boundary.



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Tour Scotland Video Athos Cargo Ship Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland travel video of Athos cargo ship docking at the harbour on visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. All the cargo ships arriving in Perth have to dock by this method, that is, by reversing into the harbour. Located at Friarton, opposite Moncreiffe Island, one mile South of the town centre, Perth Harbour is effectively the highest point of the River Tay navigable by sea going vessels, 30 miles inland from the North Sea. This modest harbour was built in the 1840s for Perth Harbour Commissioners to plans which had been drawn up by Robert Stevenson, born 1772, died 1850, and his son Alan, born 1807, died 1865. Stevenson's plan was not fully implemented due to financial difficulties; a permanent navigable channel in the River Tay was never completed and the harbour was smaller than intended. In part due to the coming of the railway, the Harbour Commissioners were bankrupted in 1854 and the harbour was taken over by Perth Town Council, whose successors still run it today in the form of Perth and Kinross Council. Quays were added in 1898 and 1939, which remain in use today, and significant improvements were carried out in 1955

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Old Photograph Abercrombie Scotland

Old photograph of Abercrombie located one mile North of St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The land around this Scottish village was formerly owned by the Sandilands family and Sir James Sandilands was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Abercrombie in 1647. Lord Abercrombie wasted his estates following the death of his father and had to sell his properties in Fife in 1649. The title became extinct on the death of the second Lord Abercrombie in 1681.



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Old Photograph St Peters Old Parish Kirk Scotland

Old photograph of St Peters Old Parish Kirk, Duffus, Moray, Scotland. This, now ruined, Scottish church was in existence in 1226, though the porch on the south side was built in 1524. The graveyard was formerly surrounded by a path made by a party of Cromwell's Ironsides. The Ironsides were troopers in the Parliamentarian cavalry formed by English political leader Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century, during the English Civil War. The name came from " Old Ironsides ", one of Cromwell's nicknames.



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Old Photograph Blackford Scotland

Old photograph of Blackford located five miles from Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. Blackford was first known as a ford over the Allan Water. There is a legend that a King Magnus lost his wife Queen Helen in a storm and she is buried on a nearby hill.



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Old Photograph Craichie Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in Craichie located three miles South East of Forfar, Scotland. This Scottish village was mentioned in 1329 in the " Registers of the Abbey of Arbroath ". The Registers recorded that they were owned by Walter de Tulloch in 1438, and Alexander of Sturrock in 1509.



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Old Photograph Beaton's Mill Scotland

Old photograph of Beaton's Mill near Bannockburn village located just South of Stirling, Scotland. This is where King James III of Scotland was murdered on the 11th of June 1488, following the Battle of Sauchieburn, itself fought near the south bank of the Bannock Burn. The Battle of Sauchieburn was fought on 11 June 1488, at the side of Sauchie Burn, a stream about two miles south of Stirling, Scotland. The battle was fought between the followers of King James III of Scotland and a large group of rebellious Scottish nobles including Alexander Home, 1st Lord Home, nominally led by the king's 15 year old son, Prince James, Duke of Rothesay.



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Old Photographs Bannockburn Village Scotland

Old photograph of Bannockburn village located just South of Stirling, Scotland. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the Wilson family, of Bannockburn, designed and wove tartans for the British army. Many of the so-called Clan tartans were created by the Wilsons in response to the needs of the Clan chiefs who, without their own authentic tartans, approached the Wilsons for suitable patterns. The visit of King George IV to Edinburgh in 1822, and his insistence that the Clan chiefs attend his banquets and levees in their Clan tartans, prompted this reaction. The Wilson family ceased business in 1924. Land in the vicinity of Bannockburn village, probably between the Pelstream and Bannock burns, was the site of the Battle of Bannockburn fought in 1314, one of the pivotal battles in the Wars of Independence between the kingdoms of Scotland and England.



Old photograph of Bannockburn village located just South of Stirling, Scotland.

Old photograph of Bannockburn village located just South of Stirling, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Battle of Pinkie Cleugh Scotland

Old photograph of the site of the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh near Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. This battle which took place on the 10th of September 1547, was part of the conflict known as the Rough Wooing. It was the last pitched battle between Scottish and English armies, and is seen as the first modern battle in the British Isles. It was a catastrophic defeat for Scotland, and became known there as Black Saturday.



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Old Photographs Moffat Scotland

Old photograph of Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish town is the ancestral seat of Clan Moffat. During the 17th century Moffat began to grow from a small village into a popular spa town. Moffat was also a notable market town in the wool trade, and this is commemorated with a statue of a ram by William Brodie in the town's marketplace. The ram was presented to the town by William Colvin, a local businessman, in 1875. Robert Burns visited for the waters and frequented the local bars.



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Old Photographs Corrie Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats in Corrie located six miles North of Brodick, Island Of Arran, Scotland. This Scottish village used to be a regular stop for steamers circumnavigating the island, passengers embarking by way of a rowing boat from the the ferry rock located midway between the village's two quays. The southernmost quay is known as the sandstone quay" This harbour and quay used to be the location where sandstone blocks from the nearby quarry were shipped to the mainland, and huge pieces of stone can still be seen. The northernmost quay is Corrie port and was also used for shipping products to other locations on the island, the mainland and other islands. Small coastal cargo vessels of a type known as the Clyde puffer were a common sight in the port and the sandstone quay during their heyday.



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Old Photographs Eastriggs Scotland

Old photograph of Eastriggs near Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The town of Eastriggs was created as a result of the shell and ammunition crisis of June 1915 which prompted the newly founded Ministry of Munitions to create a new cordite factory. Officially designated H.M. Factory Gretna, the factory was spread over a nine mile site stretching through Gretna to Longtown, Cumbria. This required a huge influx of labour, and 30,000 men and women came from all over the British Commonwealth to serve as construction and factory workers.



Old photograph of the Post Office in Eastriggs near Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Town Yetholm Scotland

Old photograph of Town Yetholm, Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish village is located in the valley of the Bowmont Water opposite Kirk Yetholm.



Old photograph of Town Yetholm, Scottish Borders, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Parish Church Kilfinan Scotland

Old photograph of the parish church in Kilfinan, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village and church have important links with the Clan Lamont and the Clan McEwen. The church has been a place of worship since 1235 and the foundations are from this date. The church was rebuilt in 1759. The church dates back to before the Reformation and houses the Lamont vault which contains an 11th century cross interred remains of the clan’s chiefs. It contains an 11th century cross inspired by the Iona Cross alongside burial stones and other fine pieces of early Christian stonework that date as far back as the ninth century. Although much altered, the church bears much of its original layout with its low ceilings and long and narrow aisle.



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Old Photograph Muckle Roe Scotland

Old photograph of Muckle Roe island in St Magnus Bay, Shetland, Scotland. In 1970 a bridge was built between Muckle Roe and the Shetland Mainland over Roe Sound, which was followed by a reversal in the population decline seen in the 19th and earlier 20th centuries.





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Old Photograph Urafirth Scotland

Old photograph of Urafirth, Shetland, Scotland. Urafirth is a small community in Northmavine, a peninsula of Shetland.



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Old Photographs Glasford Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Glasford, Isle of Luing, Firth of Lorn, fifteen miles South of Oban, Scotland. In the early part of the Christian era Luing would have formed part of the Gaelic kingdom of Dalriada. From the 9th to 13th centuries almost all of the Hebrides came under the control of Norse settlers and formed part of the Kingdom of the Isles. However, when Edgar of Scotland signed a treaty with Magnus Barefoot in 1098, formally acknowledged the existing situation by giving up Scottish claims to the Hebrides and Kintyre, Luing and Lismore were retained by the Scots.



Old photograph of Glasford, Isle of Luing, Firth of Lorn, fifteen miles South of Oban, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Ballochmyle Viaduct Scotland

Old photograph of Ballochmyle Viaduct near Mauchline, Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish viaduct over the River Ayr was designed by John Miller of Edinburgh for the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway. This railway was the northern part of the line from Glasgow to Carlisle via Kilmarnock. The stone bridge was begun in 1846 and was completed in less than two years though the railway itself was not completed until 1850.



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Old Photographs Southmuir Kirriemuir Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses and people in Southmuir, Kirriemuir, Scotland. In the 19th century this area had many workers involved in the home weaving industry.



Old photograph of Southmuir, Kirriemuir, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Mulben Scotland

Old photograph of Mulben located four miles West of Keith, Moray, Scotland. Upon the arrival of the railway in 1858 linking it with Keith in the east and Elgin to the west this Scottish village grew allowing the establishment of a primary school and a small number of services. Although the railway still remains, the station closed in 1964. Close by is the Glentauchers Whisky Distillery to the east which opened in 1898 and the Auchroisk distillery to the west which opened in 1974.



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Old Photograph Culbokie Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Culbokie located near Dingwall, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Dunphail Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Dunphail near Forres, Moray, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Robin Gray's Cottage Scotland

Old photograph of Robin Gray's Cottage near Elie, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This was the Scottish cottage made famous in a ballad by Lady Anne Lindsay. The ballad is is a sentimental tale of a young Scottish girl forced to marry an elderly gentleman for financial reasons when her lover is thought to have been lost at sea. The lover returns to claim his betrothed but discovers that she intends to remain loyal to her kind but aged husband. Lady Anne Barnard, born 12th December 1750, at Balcarres House, died 6th of May 1825, was the eldest daughter of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres. She was author of the ballad Auld Robin Gray and an accomplished travel writer, artist and socialite of the period. Her five year residence in Cape Town, South Africa, although brief, had a significant impact on the cultural and social life of the time. Reverend William Leeves revealed in 1812 that Auld Robin Gray had been written by her in 1772, and set to music by him. It was published anonymously in 1783, Lady Anne only acknowledging the authorship of the words two years before her death in a letter to Sir Walter Scott.



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Old Photograph Lochwinnoch Scotland

Old photograph of Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire near Glasgow, Scotland. In 1795, there were nine mills located in Lochwinnoch and the village was developed mainly to accommodate the workers. This Scottish village was largely a planned community, rather than one evolving over time. Furniture makers also established in the village in the 19th century, and Lochwinnoch made furniture was to be found on the great Clyde built liners such as the Lusitania, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and even the RMS Titanic. It is now chiefly a residential dormitory village serving nearby urban centres such as Glasgow and Paisley.



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Old Photograph Cairndow Scotland

Old photograph of cottage and hotel in Cairndow, Scotland. This Scottish village is located between the A83 road and the head of Loch Fyne.



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Old Photographs Drummore Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Drummore, Wigtownshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located where the Kildonan Burn runs out to the sea, a few miles north of the Mull of Galloway. It is the most southerly in Scotland, and further south than the English cities of Durham and Carlisle.



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Old Photographs Dornoch Scotland

Old photograph of Dornoch, Scotland. The name Dornoch is derived from the Gaelic for pebbly place, suggesting that the area contained pebbles the size of a fist, dorn, which could therefore be used as weapons. Dornoch has the thirteenth century Dornoch Cathedral, the Old Town Jail, and the previous Bishop's Palace which is now the well known hotel, Dornoch Castle and a notable golf course, the Royal Dornoch Golf Club.



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Old Photograph Gordon Scotland

Old photograph of Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland. The first Gordon on record is Richard of Gordon, previously of Swinton, said to have been the grandson of a famous knight who slew some monstrous animal in the Merse during the time of King Malcolm III of Scotland. This Richard was Lord of the Barony of Gordon in the Merse. The name is said to derive from the Gaelic ' Gor Dun' meaning great fort. The de Gordons held the lairdship of Gordon for over two centuries and were thought to have built a castle at the former hamlet of Huntly just to the north; they still held lands up to the 18th century. The Gordon family are the ancestors of the Dukes of Richmond and Gordon and of the Marquis of Huntly.



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Old Photographs Denny Scotland

Old photograph of Denny located seven miles West Falkirk, Scotland. Formerly in the county of Stirlingshire. It is situated 7 miles west of Falkirk, and 6 miles north east of Cumbernauld, adjacent to both the M80 and M876 motorways. Denny is separated from neighbouring village Dunipace by the River Carron. Until the early 1980s, Denny was a centre for heavy industry, including several iron foundries, brickworks, a coal mine and paper mills. Thomas Bain was born in Denny on December 14, 1834. He was a Canadian parliamentarian. He was the son of Walter Bain, and migrated to Canada with his family when he was three years old. They settled on a bush farm in Wentworth County near Hamilton, Ontario. He was elected to the County Council in the 1860s and became Warden. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1872 federal election as a Liberal. He was re-elected on six subsequent occasions, serving as a Member of Parliament for 28 years before retiring in 1900. In the House, he usually spoke on agricultural issues, and became Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Colonization in 1896. In 1874, he married Helen Weir. When the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, James David Edgar, died unexpectedly in July 1899, Wilfrid Laurier asked Bain to become the new Speaker for the remainder of Egar's term. Bain served as Speaker until the House was dissolved for the 1900 election in which he did not run. After retiring from politics, Bain became President of the Landed Banking and Loan Company and the Malcolm and Souter Furniture Company. He died in Dundas, on January 18, 1915, Ontario at age 80. Carl William Dunn Kirkwood was born on 30 April 1929 in Denny. He was the son of iron jobbing moulder William Kirkwood and his wife Ellen. He completed his schooling in Scotland and then served in the British Army in Malaya and Singapore from 1946 to 1948. He worked as a jobbing moulder, in Australia in 1955. He was soon active both in the Moulders' Union and the Labor Party's Preston branch. In 1970 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Preston. He became spokesman on local government immediately, adding lands from 1976 to 1977 and dropping his front bench role entirely in 1981. Kirkwood retired in 1988. The railway station opened in 1850 on the Caledonian railway branch line from Larbert, and closed to passengers in the 1930’s although it was still used as a freight line until the 1960’s. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Davidson's Mains Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Davidson's Mains by Cramond, Edinburgh, Scotland. The railway station is now closed and the village is currently served by three bus routes to Edinburgh.



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Old Photograph Knock Distillery Scotland

Old photograph of Knock Distillery, Banffshire, Scotland. This Scottish Whisky Distillery was founded in 1893 by John Morrison, who bought the land from the Duke of Fife to produce whisky for Haig's after several springs on the southern slope of Knock Hill were discovered. The site was also chosen for its proximity to the Knock Station on the Banff branch line of the Great North of Scotland Railway between Aberdeen and Elgin. Not only was the new location convenient to the railway but it was also within a few miles of a district noted both for its barley and inexhaustible source of excellent peat.



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Old Photographs Letham Fife Scotland

Old photograph of weavers cottages in Letham, Fife, Scotland. A small Scottish village located just off the A92, around five miles from Cupar.



Old photograph of Letham, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph The Trinity Temple Scotland

Old photograph of The Trinity Temple, Carinish, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Trinity Temple or Teampall na Trionad are the ruins of a 13th century church. It was thought to have been founded by Beathag, the daughter of the warrior Somerled. After being rebuilt around 1350 to 1390 by Ami Nic Ruari, wife of John, Lord of the Isles, it was enlarged in the 16th century, and restored in the 19th century, after it was destroyed as a result of the reformation.



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Old Photographs Kinnesswood Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Kinnesswood, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village was the birthplace in 1746 of the poet Michael Bruce who was born into a weaver's family and is remembered for his nature poetry in poems such as Ode To The Cuckoo which Edmund Burke described as “ the most beautiful lyric in our language. ” Bruce died from consumption at the early age of 21.





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Old Photograph Scotlandwell Scotland

Old photograph of horses and carts, houses and people in Scotlandwell, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is one of the great historic sites of old Kinross-shire. Named Fons Scotiae by the Romans who passed this way nearly 2,000 years ago, the curative waters that bubble up through the sandy ground were used by Red Friars who maintained a hospital in the village between 1250 and 1587. Thousands of pilgrims came to Scotlandwell to take the water, the most famous perhaps being King Robert the Bruce who is alleged to have found a cure for leprosy here.



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Old Photographs Strathmiglo Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish village is sometimes thought to have belonged to the Mormaers of Fife in early times. Before 1350 it had become the centre of the shire of Strathmigloshire. It became a burgh of barony in the 16th century, by which time it belonged to the Scotts of Balwearie. Prior to the Reformation it was the site of a Collegiate church. The economic life of the burgh in early times was linked to nearby Falkland Palace. In the 18th and 19th centuries the textile industry was important, as was boot-making in the 20th. The tollbooth of 1734 is a prominent landmark and there is a Pictish stone by the cemetery. Country music legend Johnny Cash traced his ancestry back to this area of Scotland. The clan Cash originated in this area and streets in Strathmiglo and Falkland still carry the name Cash, as do Easter Cash, Wester Cash and Cash Farms.





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Old Photographs Gateside Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in Gateside, Fife, Scotland. The River Eden runs through this Scottish village, which flows to St Andrews and then into the North Sea. The nearest large city is Perth, although Edinburgh is only half an hour away by car.





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Old Photographs Kames Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Kames by Tighnabruaich, Kyles of Bute, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village is just an hour and a half west of Glasgow.






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Old Photograph Levenhall Links Scotland

Old photograph of of golfers on Levenhall Links, Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. The Royal Musselburgh Golf Club originated at Levenhall Links before moving to Prestongrange House. Levenhall Links are now one of the most popular sites for birdwatching in the vicinity of Edinburgh. The ash lagoons have provided a roost site for gulls, shorebirds and terns; while the seawall provides excellent views of the flocks of sea ducks such as Common Eider, Velvet Scoter, Red-breasted Merganser, Long-tailed Duck and Common Goldeneye. Many rare visitors have been seen over the years including Wilson's Phalarope, Western Sandpiper, Marsh Sandpiper, Franklin's Gull and Citrine Wagtail. It has hosted three terns which had their first occurrences for Scotland here; namely Forster's Tern, Lesser Crested Tern and Royal Tern. It is also the most regular site in Scotland for the Mediterranean Gull.



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Tour Scotland Video Harvesting Barley Strathearn Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of harvesting barley on visit to Strathearn, just South of Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland.

Barley, Hordeum vulgare, a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains, particularly in Eurasia as early as 13,000 years ago. Barley has also been used as animal fodder, as a source of fermentable material for beer and certain distilled whisky beverages, and as a component of various health foods. It is used in soups and stews, and in barley bread of various cultures. Barley grains are commonly made into malt in a traditional and ancient method of preparation.

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Old Photographs Canty Bay Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and house by Canty Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. This former fishing hamlet has been immortalised by William McGonagall in his poem Beautiful North Berwick and its surroundings. The Canty Bay Inn offered hospitality to the many tourists who came to see the Bass Rock.




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