Old Photograph Newtonhill Scotland

Old photograph of Newtonhill village located six miles South of Aberdeen, Scotland. Newtonhill is situated about half a mile east of the ancient Causey Mounth road, which was built on high ground to make passable this only available medieval route from coastal points north to Aberdeen. This ancient passage specifically connected the Bridge of Dee via Portlethen Moss, Muchalls Castle and Stonehaven to the south. The route was that taken by William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and the Duke of Montrose when they led a Covenanter army of 9000 men in the first battle of the First Bishop's War in 1639.



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Old Photograph Butterstone Scotland

Old photograph of the Post Office cottage in Butterstone, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located on the A923 road from Dunkeld to Blairgowrie, 3 miles north east of Dunkeld. It stands to the north of the small Loch of Butterstone. The New School here was founded by Baroness Linklater of Butterstone, as a boarding school for children with special needs. Baroness Linklater remained Chairman of the Board of Governors of The New School until 2004 with the School being her central occupation and concern, as well as the wider issues of catering for children who find it impossible to cope in mainstream education but for whom special schools are not appropriate.



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Tour Scotland Video Kilduncan Pictish Stone St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Kilduncan Pictish Stone on visit to the museum in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Kil is a common Latinised version of the Gaelic Cil, and means a church. This may have been the gravestone of Donnchad, or Dunnichen, a saint of Iona in the eighth century AD. This was the most significant Pictish discovery in Scotland for over a century.

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Tour Scotland Video Royal Burgh Coat of Arms St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of a wood carving of the Royal Burgh Coat of Arms on visit to the museum in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. These arms date from the 14th century. The arms show the local patron saint, St. Andrew of Scotland. The boar and oak tree recall the ancient history of the town, which was Muckross, meaning Headland of the boars. The motto means While I breathe I hope.

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Old Photograph Curling Blair Atholl Perthshire Scotland

Old Winter photograph of Curling in Blair Atholl by Blair Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. One of the world's oldest team sports, curling originated in the 16th century in Scotland, where games were played during winter on frozen ponds and lochs. The earliest-known curling stones came from the Scottish regions of Stirling and Perth and date from 1511.



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Tour Scotland January Video Storm Waves Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland January video of storm waves on visit to Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Originally founded as a fishing village, Anstruther is home to the Scottish Fisheries Museum. Its main industry is now tourism. This is the town in which I was raised in Scotland.

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Tour Scotland January Video Storm Waves St Monans East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland January video of storm waves on ancestry visit to St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. St Monans, whose inhabitants formerly made their living mainly from fishing, is now a tourist destination situated on the Fife Coastal Path. The former burgh rests on a hill overlooking the Firth of Forth, with views to North Berwick, the Bass Rock and the Isle of May.

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Tour Scotland January Video Storm Waves Flooding Car Park Riverside Drive Dundee

Tour Scotland January video of storm waves and flooding at a car park by Riverside Drive road on visit to Dundee, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland January Video Flooding Bridgeview Station Restaurant Dundee

Tour Scotland January video of storm flooding by Bridgeview Station Cafe and Restaurant on Riverside Drive road on visit to Dundee, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland January Video Storm Waves Flooding Riverside Drive Dundee

Tour Scotland January video of storm waves and flooding on a drive along Riverside Drive road on visit to Dundee, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland January Video St Monans East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland January video of an ancestry visit to in St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This is where scenes were shot for The Railway Man film starring Colin Firth as Eric Lomax and Nicole Kidman as his wife Patti. The wedding scene was filmed at St Monans Kirk by the Fife Coastal Path. The film tells the story of Lomax's struggle to come to terms with his experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Burma.

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Old Photographs Stroma Scotland

Old photograph of Stroma, an island the Pentland Firth between the Orkney Islands and Caithness, Scotland. The low lying island was inhabited from prehistoric times to 1962, when the last of its permanent inhabitants abandoned it for new homes on the mainland. Ancient stone structures on the islands testify to its earliest occupants. Most of the islanders had been fishermen and crofters, with some also working as maritime pilots to guide vessels through the treacherous waters of the Pentland Firth.

Old photograph of Stroma, an island the Pentland Firth between the Orkney Islands and Caithness, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Railway Station St Fillans Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in St Fillans, Perthshire, Scotland. The line to St Fillans was authorised in 1897 and finally opened on the 1st of October 1901. Following the take over by the Caledonian Railway on the 1st of August 1902, the line was completed to the renamed Balquhidder station on 1st of May 1905. The line was officially closed on 1 October 1951. A short section of the line between Balquhidder station and Lochearnhead has been converted into part of the Rob Roy Way; a cycle path that runs between Drymen and Pitlochry.



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Old Photographs Railway Station St Monans Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Thornton Junction, Leven, Crail, Leuchars Junction Fife coast line of the former North British Railway was opened as St Monance station by the Leven and East of Fife Regionon on 1st of September 1863. It was renamed St Monan's Station by the same company in October 1875 but resumed the original name in February 1936. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 6th of September 1965.

Old photograph of the railway station in St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph East Kilbride Scotland

Old photograph of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish town is enclosed by the White Cart River to the west and the Rotten Calder to the east, the latter flowing northwards to join the River Clyde near Cambuslang. This area was previously the site of the small village of East Kilbride, prior to its post-war development. The modern settlement serves as a dormitory town for the city of Glasgow. East Kilbride takes its name from an Irish saint named St Bride or Brigit, who founded a monastery for nuns and monks in Kildare, Ireland in the 6th century. Irish monks introduced her order to Scotland. Kil, from the Gaelic cill, means church or burial place.



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Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve Piper Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve video of a Scottish bagpiper on visit to Newburgh Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Hogmanay New Year's Eve Fireworks Display Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the Hogmanay New Year's Eve Fireworks Display on visit to Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland New Year's Day Video Walk Beach St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland New Year's Day video of a walk on a beach by the West Sands on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland New Year's Day Video Coast And Castle St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland New Year's Day video of the coast and castle on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve Video Scottish Dance Music

Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve video of the Can You Reel It Ceilidh Band playing Scottish dance music on visit to Kinnears Inn in Scone by Perth, Scotland. The dance is Strip the Willow with sets of 4 couples, men on the right and ladies on the left as viewed from the band.

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Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve Video Can You Reel It Ceilidh Band

Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve video of the Can You Reel It Ceilidh Band on visit to Kinnears Inn in Scone by Perth, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Bakehouse Close Scotland

Old photograph of Bakehouse Close in Edinburgh, Scotland. This area housed the quarters of the bakers and hammermen, metalsmiths, in addition to Huntly House owned by the Acheson family who were the household staff to King James VI and Charles I.

Old photograph of Bakehouse Close in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve Video Oddfellows Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve of the start of the Oddfellows event on visit to Newburgh Fife, Scotland. The Caledonian Lodge of Oddfellows based in Newburgh is the only Lodge of Oddfellows left in Scotland

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Tour Scotland Hogmany New Year's Eve Video Wemyss Whisky St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland Hogmanay afternoon video of of Doug Clement a Founding Director of the Kingsbarns Distillery talking about Wemyss Malts on a Hogmanay visit to Luvians Whisky Shop and wishing you a Happy New Year on on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve Video Luvians Whisky Shop St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland Hogmanay afternoon video of Archie McDiarmid talking about Luvians Whisky Shop and wishing you a Happy New Year on on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Hogmanay New Year's Eve Old Golf Course St Andrews

Tour Scotland Hogmanay afternoon video of golfers on the 18th green of the Old Golf Course in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Bonhill Scotland

Old photograph of Bonhill, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The textile finishing industry came to Bonhill with a print works, the Dalmonach Works which started in 1786. It burnt down in 1812, and was rebuilt by Henry Bell. A second textile works opened in 1793, and two more works had begun by 1840. Some closed shortly afterwards, but one lasted to 1936. The Dalmonach Works itself featured a school outside the main gates, serving children from the area as well as children employed in the works. After the works closed in 1929, its buildings were used an army barracks during World War II.



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Old Photograph Sinclairtown Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses, people and Tram in Sinclairtown, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish village was at one time in the Parish of Dysart and is now incorporated into the Royal burgh of Kirkcaldy.



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Tour Scotland Winter Video Of Loch Nah Achlaise Glencoe

Tour Scotland Winter video of Loch Nah Achlaise on visit to Glencoe, Scotland. Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands was the location of the infamous massacre of the Macdonalds by the Campbells. It has been associated with the mighty Clan Donald since the 14th century, when Angus Og McDonald of Islay bestowed the Glencoe lands on his son Iain Abrach, the ancestor of the Glencoe McDonalds. The McDonalds of Glencoe held their lands under the feudal superiority of Stewart of Appin, and later the Campbells of Argyll.

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Old Photograph Arniston House Scotland

Old photograph of Arniston House located near Temple village, Midlothian, Scotland. This Georgian mansion was designed by William Adam in 1726 for Robert Dundas, of Arniston, the elder, the Lord President of the Court of Session. The Arniston Estate lands were a royal hunting park in the Middle Ages, and later owned by the Knights Templar, who gave the village of Temple its name. The estate came into the Dundas family in 1571, when they were bought by George Dundas of Dundas Castle. He left the estate to a younger son, James, who built a house and a walled garden here around 1620. The estate was expanded, and improvements were made by James' grandson Robert Dundas in the late 17th century. His son Robert, later the Lord President, continued the improvements, and built the present house.





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Old Photograph Winton House Scotland

Old photograph of Winton House located between Pencaitland and Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland. The Seton family were granted lands in East Lothian, including Winton, by King David I of Scotland in 1150. In the ensuing years the estate has passed through the hands of several eminent families. The origins of the house date from 1480 when George, 4th Lord Seton, commenced the building of Wintoun Castle, a tower standing 4 stories high, surrounded by a defensive curtain wall. During the War of the Rough Wooing in 1544, Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, all but destroyed the original Wintoun Castle after bombardment and burning.





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