Tour Scotland Video Merry Christmas Singers Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Merry Christmas singers in the city centre on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. A wonderful group of singers raising funds for Perth Amateur Operatic Society. In this video they are singing Hark The Herald Angels Sing, a Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems, having been written by Charles Wesley.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Merry Christmas Musicians Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Merry Christmas musicians on the High Street in the city centre on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. In this video a Santa answers the phone, aye, he must busy with phone calls at this time of year.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video The Royal Society Of Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of The Royal Society Of Edinburgh building, at the junction of George Street and Hanover Street in the New Town in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Royal Society of Edinburgh established in 1783, is Scotland's national academy of science and letters.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Christmas Trees Parish Church of St Andrew and St George Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a festival of Christmas trees in the Parish Church of St Andrew and St George on ancestry visit to George Street, New Town in Edinburgh, Scotland. St Andrew's and St George's West Church serves Edinburgh's New Town. It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The parish today constitutes the whole of the First New Town of Edinburgh and a small part of the early 19th century Second New Town of Edinburgh. The church building was completed in 1784. The church was the setting for the Disruption of 1843, one of the most significant events in 19th century Scotland. Due to increasing concern and resentment about the Civil Courts' infringements on the liberties of the Church of Scotland, around one third of the ministers present at the annual church's General Assembly walked out, cheered by onlookers outside, and constituted the Free Church of Scotland.

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Old Photograph Lochgoilhead Scotland

Old photograph of Lochgoilhead, Argyll, Scotland. The mountains above this Scottish village, located at the head of Loch Goil, were used for the scene in the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love in which Bond, played by Sean Connery, eliminated two villains in a helicopter by firing gunshots at them. A few miles north of Lochgoilhead, is a junction which on the left goes through Hell's Glen, Loch Fyne, Dunoon, Inverary, Lochawe, Oban, Tyndrum, Glencoe and Fort William. On the right it goes to Glen Croe, Loch Long, Arrochar and Tarbet, Loch Lomond, Glasgow and Crianlarich with the options of travelling to either Inverary and Lochawe, Oban and Fort William, Lochearnhead and Killin.



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Old Photograph Dalmuir Scotland

Old photograph of shops and houses in Dalmuir, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Before being annexed to the growing shipbuilding town of Clydebank, early Dalmuir was a town in its own right and host to Richard Collins paper mill, which opened in 1747 on the banks of the Duntocher Burn.



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Old Photographs Barrhill Scotland

Old photograph of Barrhill in South Ayrshire, Scotland. In 1665, by the side of Cross Water in Barrhill, John Murchie and Daniel Mieklewrick were found by soldiers to be in possession of Bibles and assumed to be Covenanters and shot to death. They were buried on the spot, and a memorial was built, known as The Martyrs' Tomb.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Walk Around The Kiss Sculpture National Gallery Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a walk around The Kiss sculpture on ancestry visit to the National Gallery below the castle on Princess Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. The Kiss by Auguste Rodin depicts the passionate adulterous embrace of Paolo Malatesta and his brother's wife Francesca da Rimini, characters in Dante's The Divine Comedy. The French sculptor, illustrator, graphic artist, and painter François Auguste René Rodin was born on November 12, 1840 in Paris. He is considered to be the founder of Impressionist style in the art of the sculpture.

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Tour Scotland Video Treasure Island Book Sculpture National Library Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the Treasure Island book sculpture on ancestry visit to the National Library in Edinburgh, Scotland. Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850 to Thomas Stevenson, a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife Margaret Isabella, née Balfour. He was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. At about age 18, Stevenson was to change the spelling of " Lewis " to " Louis ", and in 1873 he dropped " Balfour ". His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses.

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Tour Scotland Video Whisky Galore Book Sculpture National Library Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the Whisky Galore book sculpture on ancestry visit to the National Library in Edinburgh, Scotland. Whisky Galore is a novel written by Compton Mackenzie, published in 1947. The story was based on a real life incident that occurred in 1941 on the Hebridean island of Eriskay when the S.S. Politician ran aground. The famous tale of how a group of local Scottish islanders raided a shipwreck for its consignment of whisky has grown into a legend. Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool, County Durham, England, into a theatrical family of Mackenzies, many of whose members used Compton as their stage surname, starting with his grandfather Henry Compton, a well known Shakespearean actor of the Victorian era. His father, Edward Compton, and mother, Virginia Bateman, were actors and theatre company managers; his sister, Fay Compton, starred in many of J. M. Barrie's plays, including Peter Pan. He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in modern history.

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Tour Scotland Video Tam o' Shanter Book Sculpture National Library Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the Tam o' Shanter book sculpture on ancestry visit to the National Library in Edinburgh, Scotland. First published in 1791, it is one of the longer poems by Robert Burns, which includes a mixture of Scots and English language. It tells the story of Tam, a farmer who gets drunk with his friends in a public house and then rides home on his horse Meg. On the way he sees the local haunted church lit up with witches and warlocks dancing and the devil playing the bagpipes. He creeps into the churchyard to watch and on seeing a pretty witch in a short dress he shouts,` Weel done, cutty-sark ! ' ( cutty-sark meaning: short shirt ). Having drawn attention to himself the dancing stops abruptly and the witches chase him and Meg to the River Doon. The witches cannot cross the water but they come so close to catching Tam and Meg that they pull Meg's tail off just as she reaches the bridge over the Doon.

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Old Photograph Altnabreac Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Altnabreac located fourty one miles West of Wick, Scotland. The station was built by the Sutherland and Caithness Railway, opening the line on the 28th of July, 1874. One of the most isolated stations in Britain, it is a request stop used almost solely by walkers and those who enjoy visiting obscure locations. The Sutherland and Caithness Railway was a railway worked by, and later absorbed by the Highland Railway running through Sutherland and Caithness, Scotland. Caithness and Sutherland are former counties, and former districts of the Highland region.



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Old Photograph Croy Brae Scotland

Old photograph of Croy Brae located South of Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland. Croy Brae also known as the Electric Brae is a gravity hill in Ayrshire, where cars appear to be drawn uphill by some mysterious attraction. The Lowland Scots word brae means a hill, slope or brow, and the " electric " name was given when electricity was a new technology associated with strange forces. Though the road appears to be running uphill, a suitably free running vehicle will slowly move off from a standstill. It was widely believed that vehicles were being propelled uphill by a mysterious magnetic force, but the road's apparently uphill slope is an optical illusion. During the Second World War, the brae was visited by many American personnel from the airbase at Prestwick, and General Dwight D Eisenhower, who had a flat at nearby Culzean Castle, took visitors to see the phenomenon.



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Old Photograph Brig o' Turk Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Brig o' Turk, Trossachs, Scotland. In the mid nineteenth century this Scottish village was the location of a famous Victorian love triangle involving John Ruskin, his wife Effie Gray, and protégé John Everett Millais. Euphemia Chalmers " Effie " Millais, Lady Millais née Gray, born 7 May 1828, died December 1897, was the wife of the critic John Ruskin, but she left her husband without the marriage being consummated. She later married his protégé, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. This famous Victorian " love triangle " has been dramatised in plays, films and an opera.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video City Plumbing Supplies Singing For Teenage Cancer Trust Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of City Plumbing Supplies managers from across the country singing a Christmas Carol to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. Teenage Cancer Trust is a wonderful charity that brings young people together so they can be treated together, by teenage cancer experts, in the best place for them.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Scottish Piper Princess Street Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish Piper playing in front of the castle on Princess Street during the lead up to Christmas on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Merry Christmas Tree The Dome Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the wonderful Merry Christmas lights in the interior of The Dome Bar and Restaurant on visit to George Street, New Town in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Dome is a building on George Street in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. It currently functions as a bar, restaurant and nightclub, although it was first built as the headquarters of the Commercial Bank of Scotland in 1847.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Merry Christmas Lights The Dome Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the wonderful Merry Christmas lights on the exterior of The Dome Bar and Restaurant on visit to George Street, New Town in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Dome is a building on George Street in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. It currently functions as a bar, restaurant and nightclub, although it was first built as the headquarters of the Commercial Bank of Scotland in 1847.

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Tour Scotland Video Royal High School KT Choir St Andrews Square Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of members of Royal High School KT Choir singing a carol during the lead up to Christmas on visit to St Andrews Square in Edinburgh, Scotland. These fine young folks raise money for charity by singing Christmas carols. Today they were raising funds for Waverley Care which is Scotland's leading charity providing care and support to people living with HIV or Hepatitis C. As part of our work we also strive to raise awareness of these conditions and their prevention.

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Tour Scotland Video Christmas Tree Kinross Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Christmas tree and lights by the War Memorial on Muirs Road on ancestry visit to Kinross by Loch Leven, Perthshire, Scotland. This ancestry tour followed in the footsteps of Mary Queen of Scots who escaped from the Lochleven Castle in a boat rowed by a castle page boy and she was met on the shore by loyal supporters who escorted her to safety. Many royals were guests, as opposed to prisoners, at Lochleven Castle, including King Robert Bruce.

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Tour Scotland Video Christmas Tree South Street St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of a Christmas tree and lights on South Street outside the Holy Trinity Parish Church on ancestry visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Merry Christmas From Dundee

Tour Scotland video of Merry Christmas From Dundee City lights above Reform Street on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Christmas Video Desperate Dan Statue Dundee

Tour Scotland Christmas travel video of the Desperate Dan statue at the junction of the High Street and Reform Street on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Desperate Dan is a wild west character in the British comic The Dandy. He first appeared in its first issue, dated 4 December 1937. He is apparently the world's strongest man, able to lift a cow with one hand. Even his beard is so tough he has to shave with a blowtorch.

Tour Scotland photograph of the Desperate Dan statue in Dundee, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Christmas Walk In St Giles Cathedral Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of a Christmas walk in St Giles Cathedral on ancestry visit to the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Hundreds And Thousands Doughnuts Christmas Food Market Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of doughnuts covered with hundreds and thousands at a Christmas Food Market in Princes Street Gardens below Edinburgh Castle on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. Each doughnut is covered with Sprinkles which are very small pieces of confectionery used as a decoration or to add texture to desserts, usually cupcakes, cookies, doughnuts, ice cream, frozen yogurt, and some puddings.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Chocolate Eclairs Christmas Food Market Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of chocolate éclairs at a Christmas Food Market in Princes Street Gardens below Edinburgh Castle on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. An eclair is an oblong pastry made with choux dough filled with a cream and topped with icing.

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Old Photographs Harthill Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses and people in Harthill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Elizabeth Burns, born 1784, died, 1817, was the illegitimate daughter of Robert Burns poet. She married John Bishop, overseer at the Polkemmet estate by Harthill, and lived at the Polkemmet estate half way house on the existing main road B7066. Buried in Whitburn Parish Church graveyard. White headstone still in place.

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Old Photographs Orchardton Tower Scotland

Old photograph of Orchardton Tower located four miles South of Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Cairns family, who built Orchardton, were associated with the area from the early 15th century. Alexander Cairns was Provost of Lincluden, now an area of Dumfries, until his death in 1422. His brother, John Cairns, was Custumar, or customs officer, in Linlithgow. John Cairns was also a military engineer, and was responsible for designing the impressive King David's Tower at Edinburgh Castle, which was destroyed in 1573.

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Old Photographs Bunessan Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Bunessan village on the Ross of Mull in the south of the Isle of Mull, Scotland. Bunessan lends its name to a hymn tune, originally associated with the Christmas carol, Child in the Manger.Mary M. Macdonald, born 1789, died 1872, who lived in the nearby crofting community of Ardtun and who spoke only Gaelic, wrote her hymn Leanabh an Aigh to a traditional melody. When the words were later translated into English, the melody was named after the village by the translator, Lachlan Macbean. A monument to Mary Macdonald can be seen near the village, on the road towards Craignure, just after the Knockan crossroads. The ruins of the house she lived in are also nearby. Sometime before 1927 Alexander Fraser heard the melody in the Scottish Highlands and wrote it down so that it came to the attention of Percy Dearmer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Martin Shaw. In turn, these editors of the hymnbook Songs of Praise requested Eleanor Farjeon to write a further hymn text to the tune. This was Morning Has Broken and since 1931 the tune has become most familiarly identified with this hymn.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Jam And Coconut Slice And Banana Bread Cafe Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of a jam and coconut slice and banana bread on visit to a cafe in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Renaissance Hand Loom Weaving Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of an example of Renaissance hand loom weaving on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The Union of the Crowns ended the town's royal connections when James VI relocated the Scottish Court to London in 1603. The Reformation of 1560 had previously meant a loss of the Dunfermline's ecclesiastical importance. On 25 May 1624, a fire engulfed around three-quarters of the medieval-renaissance burgh. Some of the surviving buildings of the fire were the palace, the abbey and the Abbot's House. The decline in the fortunes of Dunfermline lasted until the introduction of a linen industry in the early 18th century. One reason for which the town became a centre for linen was there was enough water to power the mills and nearby ports along the Fife Coast. These ports also did trade with the Baltic and Low Countries.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Renaissance Tailoring Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of an example of Renaissance tailoring using a lucet on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. A lucet is a wooden tool used in cord making or braiding which is believed to date back to the Viking and Medieval periods, when it was used to create cords that were used on clothing, or to hang items from the belt. Lucet cord could be used for decorative edging, draw-strings, lacing, and any other use where a strong cord was needed.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Walk To The Kelpies Forth And Clyde Canal

Tour Scotland video of part of a walk to visit the building of The Kelpies horse head sculptures by the Forth and Clyde Canal between Falkirk, and Grangemouth, Scotland. The kelpie is a supernatural water horse from Celtic folklore that is believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland and Ireland. These Kelpies represent the lineage of the heavy horse of Scottish industry and economy, pulling the wagons, ploughs, barges and coalships that shaped the geographical layout of the Falkirk area

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Old Photograph Kinbrace Scotland

Old photograph of Kinbrace located seventeen miles from Helmsdale in Sutherland, Scotland. This Scottish villages has a railway station on the Far North Line. The Far North Line north south single track railway line was extended through Sutherland by the Highland Railway between 1868 and 1871. It enters Sutherland near Invershin and runs along the east coast as far as possible, but an inland diversion was necessary from Helmsdale along the Strath of Kildonan. The line exits to the east of Forsinard.



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Old Photograph Allanfearn Scotland

Old photograph of Allanfearn located by Culloden Battlefied, one mile East of Inverness, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Lilliesleaf Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, horse and cart and people in Lilliesleaf village near Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland. To the north of Lilliesleaf is the Ale Water which runs east to west. The wetland named "The Moss" is to the south of Lilliesleaf. Other places nearby include Ancrum, Ashkirk, Belses, Hassendean, Midlem, Minto House, Old Belses, St Boswells, and Woll.

Old photograph of cottages in Lilliesleaf village near Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Cambusbarron Scotland

Old photograph of a shop, houses, cottages and people in Cambusbarron village by Stirling, Scotland. There is evidence of settlement at this location since the Bronze Age, and several forts dating from the Iron Age have been found near the village. One such fort is located at Gillies Hill, a large semi-natural ancient woodland area with a range of unusual wildlife, thought to be the site of the camp of Robert the Bruce shortly before the Battle of Bannockburn.



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Old Photograph St Catherines Scotland

Old photograph of St Catherines village on the banks of Loch Fyne, in Argyll, Scotland. Loch Fyne, meaning Loch of the Vine or Wine, is a sea loch on the west coast of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It extends 40 miles inland from the Sound of Bute, making it the longest of the sea lochs. It is connected to the Sound of Jura by the Crinan Canal. Loch Fyne is a popular area for sport diving and fishing. It is also a popular tourist destination with attractions such as Inveraray Castle and the nearby ruins of Castle MacEwen and Old Castle Lachlan.



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