Tour Scotland Video Ae Fond Kiss Fiddle Music Burns Night Supper Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of Ae Fond Kiss fiddle music at a Burns Night Supper on visit to the Wheel Inn in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Ae Fond Kiss by Robert Burns.

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, alas, for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,
While the star of hope she leaves him?
Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me;
Dark despair around benights me.

I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy,
Naething could resist my Nancy:
But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met-or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.

Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest!
Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest!
Thine be ilka joy and treasure,
Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
Ae fareweeli alas, for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Fiddle Music Burns Supper Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of Scottish fiddle music at a Burns Night Supper on visit to the Wheel Inn in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Traditional Scottish Music Burns Night Supper Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of traditional Scottish fiddle music at a Burns Night Supper on visit to the Wheel Inn in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Including The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen, I Belong To Glasgow, A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Cranachan Music Burns Night Supper Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of traditional Scottish Cranachan and music at a Burns Night Supper on visit to the Wheel Inn in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish dessert is perfect for rounding off a Robert Burns night. The recipe combines traditional Scottish produce including oatmeal, double cream, fresh raspberries and whisky.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Haggis Neeps Tatties Whisky Music Burns Night Supper Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of traditional Scottish haggis, neeps, tatties, whisky and music at a Burns Night Supper on visit to the Wheel Inn in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish, considered the national dish of Scotland as a result of Robert Burns poem Address to a Haggis of 1787. Haggis is traditionally served with neeps and tatties, Scots for turnip and potato, boiled and mashed separately and a dram, a glass of Scotch whisky, especially as the main course of a Burns supper.

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Tour Scotland Video Leek and Tattie Soup Burns Night Supper Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of traditional Scottish leek and tattie soup at a Burns Night Supper on visit to the Wheel Inn in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Musicians Busking Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of musicians busking on the High Street on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Music Video Recommendation Duncan Chisholm Farewell To Uist



Tour Scotland music video recommendation of Duncan Chisholm playing Farewell To Uist. Duncan Chisholm is a Scottish fiddler and a founder member of the folk rock group Wolfstone.

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Tour Scotland Video Abbotsford House By Galashiels Near Melrose Roxburghshire Scottish Borders




Tour Scotland video of Abbotsford House by Galashiels near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Abbotsford is the house built and lived in by Sir Walter Scott, the 19th century novelist, and author of timeless classics such as Waverley, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and The Lady of the Lake. The garden is compact, fragrant, colourful and detailed. It is contained within high walls, with the facades of the house setting a scene which could be straight out of one of Scott’s historical romance.

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Tour Scotland Video Boat Trip Under Forth Railway Bridge Firth Of Forth




Tour Scotland video of a boat trip under the Forth Railway Bridge returning to South Queensferry near Edinburgh ,Scotland. Returning to Hawes Pier in South Queensferry after an ancestry visit to Inchcolm Island. This Scottish bridge, which connects Edinburgh with Fife, has been nominated for World Heritage site status. If successful the site would join the likes of the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China, and the Grand Canyon on the existing list of Unesco sites. The cantilever bridge was designed by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker and built by Sir William Arrol & Co, a Glasgow based company.

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Old Photographs Waverly Paddle Steamer Scotland

Old photograph of The Waverly paddle steamer in Scotland. This is the last seagoing passenger carrying paddle steamer in the world. Built in 1946, she sailed from Craigendoran on the Firth of Clyde to Arrochar on Loch Long until 1973. Bought by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society, she has been restored to her 1947 appearance and now operates passenger excursions around the British coast. Since 2003 Waverley has been listed in the British National Register of Historic Ships core collection as "a vessel of national importance". She appeared in the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. She was built in 1946 to replace a PS Waverley that was built in 1899, served in the Second World War as a minesweeper and was sunk in 1940 while helping to evacuate troops from Dunkirk. Shipbuilders A. & J. Inglis of Glasgow launched the new 693 tonne steamer in October 1946.


Old photograph of The Waverly paddle steamer in Scotland.


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Old Photograph Mid Clyth Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Mid Clyth located between Wick, and Lybster, Scotland. The station was opened as part of the Wick and Lybster Railway on 1st of July 1903. As with the other stations on the line, the station was closed on 3rd of April 1944. The Wick and Lybster Light Railway was a light railway opened in 1903, with the intention of opening up the fishing port of Lybster, in Caithness, Scotland, to the railway network at Wick. Its construction was heavily supported financially by local government and the Treasury. It was worked by the Highland Railway.



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Old Photograph Hill of Fearn Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Hill Of Fearn near Tain in Easter Ross, Scotland. This Scottish train station is situated on the Far North Line and is also the nearest station to Balintore, Hilton and Shandwick, Portmahomack and the Nigg Bay area of Easter Ross. The railway through Fearn station is single track, the nearest passing loops being at Invergordon to the south and Tain to the west. Hill of Fearn was the birthplace of the New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser. He received a basic education in Scotland, but had to leave school due to his family's poor financial state. Though apprenticed to a carpenter, he eventually abandoned this trade due to extremely poor eyesight, later in life, faced with difficulty reading official documents, he would insist on spoken reports rather than written ones. At the age of 26, after unsuccessfully seeking employment in London, England, Fraser decided to move to New Zealand, having apparently chosen the country in the belief that it possessed a strong progressive spirit.



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Old Photographs Newbridge Scotland

Old photograph of Newbridge located near Kirkliston ten miles from Edinburgh in West Lothian, Scotland.




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Old Photograph Cottage Bank Ruthwell Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Bank in Ruthwell village on the Solway Firth, Scotland. Ruthwell's most famous inhabitant was the Reverend Dr. Henry Duncan. He was a minister, author, antiquarian, geologist, publisher, philanthropist, artist and businessman. In 1810, Dr. Duncan opened the world's first commercial savings bank, paying interest on its investors' modest savings. Duncan was born in 1774 at Lochrutton, Kirkcudbrightshire, where his father, George Duncan, was minister. As a boy he met the poet Robert Burns, who visited Lochrutton Manse. Duncan was educated in Dumfries at the Academy. After studying for two sessions at St. Andrews University he was sent to Liverpool to begin commercial life, and under the patronage of his relative, Dr. Currie, the biographer of Burns, his prospects of success were very fair; but his heart was not in business, and he soon left Liverpool to study at Edinburgh and Glasgow for the ministry of the church of Scotland. In 1798 he was ordained as minister of the Church of Scotland and became Minister at Ruthwell in Dumfriesshire in 1799, where he spent the rest of his life. In 1823 Duncan received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of St. Andrews, Fife. The stroke of paralysis that ended his life on 19 February 1846 fell on him while conducting a religious service in the cottage of an elder.



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Old Photographs Hermitage Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Hermitage Castle in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish Castle was built by Nicholas de Soulis around 1240, in a typical Norman Motte and Bailey pattern. It stayed in his family until approximately 1320, when his descendant, William de Soulis forfeited it because of suspected witchcraft and the attempted regicide of King Robert I of Scotland. Legend has it that Soulis' tenantry, having suffered unbearable depredations, arrested him, and at the nearby Ninestane Rig, a megalithic circle, had him boiled to death in molten lead. In actuality, he died, a prisoner, in Dumbarton Castle.



Old photograph of Hermitage Castle in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.

Old photograph of Hermitage Castle in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.

Old photograph of Hermitage Castle in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Railway Station Crail East Neuk of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish railway station was opened on the 1st September 1883 closed on the 6th of September 1965. It was an intermediate station on the Thornton Junction to St Andrews to Leuchars Junction, Fife coast, secondary line of the former North British Railway.




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Tour Scotland Video Dunnottar Castle Medieval Fortress North East Coast




Tour Scotland video of Dunnottar Castle, Scotland. The ruined medieval fortress situated upon a rocky headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, about two miles south of Stonehaven. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th to 16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been an early fortress of the Dark Ages. Dunnottar played a strategic role in the history of Scotland from the Middle Ages through to the Enlightenment, because of the location: it overlooked the shipping lanes to northern Scotland; and is situated on a narrow coastal terrace that controlled land access to the coastal south via Portlethen Moss to Aberdeen during the medieval period. Both the Jacobites and Hanoverians used Dunnottar Fortress. In 1689 during Viscount Dundee's campaign, fourteen suspected Jacobites from Aberdeen were held in the fortress for approximately a year, including George Liddel, professor of mathematics. In 1715 the Dunnottar cannons were utilized by the Jacobites; following this uprising all the possessions of the Earl Mariscal were forfeit, and the fortress was dismantled three years later. Dunnottar Castle was the runaway winner in an 8th Wonder of the World competition. Elsinore Castle in the film Hamlet was in part Dunnottar Castle.

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Tour Scotland Video Blues Music Dunkeld Highland Perthshire




Tour Scotland compilation video of Blues Music Sessions at the Taybank Pub in Dunkeld, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. The Taybank has regular music sessions, including Jazz, Blues and Folk music. I visit as often as I can throughout the year.

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Old Photograph Shop Blackshiels Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage shop in Blackshiels in Midlothian, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Pollok House Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Pollok House located in Pollok Country Park, Glasgow, Scotland. This is the ancestral home of the Maxwell family. The Palladian house, built in 1752 and designed by William Adam, was gifted to the City of Glasgow in 1966 by Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald, whose family ancestry had owned the estate for almost 700 years. It is now managed by the National Trust for Scotland and is open to the public. Displayed within the Pollok House is a large, private collection of Spanish paintings, including works by El Greco, Francisco Goya and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. There are also paintings by William Blake, as well as glass, silverware, porcelain and antique furniture. The house also features servants' quarters downstairs. The house also has an extensive garden, boasting a collection of over 1,000 species of rhododendrons.



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Tour Scotland Video Jazz Music Dunkeld Highland Perthshire




Tour Scotland compilation video of Jazz Music Sessions at the Taybank Pub in Dunkeld, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. The Taybank has regular music sessions, including Jazz, Blues and Folk music. I visit as often as I can throughout the year. These musicians are friends of mine from Perth.

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Old Photograph Barracks Cupar Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Barracks in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. This building housed the former jail built in 1842. Converted to barracks and drill around 1890 for Scottish Yeomanry. In 1914 the building was the base for "A" Squadron Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and base for " E " Company, the battalion Black Watch. In the later 20th century the building and site is the Territorial Army base in Fife. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry was an Armoured Yeomanry Regiment of the British Territorial Army from 1793 to 1956 when it was amalgamated with the Scottish Horse. It was raised to counter the threat of invasion by France in the late 18th Century but first saw service in the Boer War. The Regiment saw heavy fighting in both the Great War and World War II.



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Old Photograph Scotscraig Golf Course Tayport Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Scotscraig Golf Course in Tayport, Fife, across from Dundee, Scotland. This Scottish golf course, the 13th oldest golf club in the world, is used as an Open final qualifying course when the Open is played at St Andrews.



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Tour Scotland Video Edmonton Youth Pipe Band Highland Games Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Edmonton Youth Pipe Band on visit to the Scottish Highland Games in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Formed in 1929, by Pipe Major John Robertson, EBPB, Edmonton Boys' Pipe Band, is the oldest pipe band in the City of Edmonton. It has operated continuously under the sponsorship of the Edmonton Boys' Pipe Band Association, a non-profit organization, which is registered with the Companies Branch of the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs of the Government of Alberta, Canada.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Stobo Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Stobo, East of Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Stobo station was opened in 1864. The Tinto Express was run by along this line from Peebles to Edinburgh to compete with the North British Railway's Peebles-shire Express which ran via Leadburn. The Caledonian route was longer and the company countered by emphasising the quality of their service. The passenger station closed in 1950.



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Old Photograph The Martyrs Graves Wigtown Scotland

Old photograph of The Martyrs Graves in the old Parish church churchyard in Wigtown, Scotland. The graves of Covenanters, Margaret McLachlan of Kirkinner and Margaret Wilson who were drowned for their beliefs, and Willam Johnston, George Walker and John Milroy from Penninghame who were hanged for their beliefs on 11th of May 1685.

Transcription of above: " HERE LYSE WILLIAM JOHNSTON JOHN MILROY GEORGE WALKER WHO WAS WITHOUT SENTENCE OF LAW HANGED BY MAJOR WINRAM FOR THEIR ADHERANCE TO SCOTLANDS REFORMATION COVENANTS NATIONAL AND SOLAM LEAGWE 1685 "

" HERE LYSE MARGRAT LACHLANE WHO WAS BY UNJUST LAW SENTENCED TO DIE BY LAGG STRACHANE WINRAME AND GRAHAME AND TYED TO A STAKE "

" HERE LYSE MARGRAT WILSON DOUGHTER TO GILBERT WILSON IN GLENVERNOCH WHO WAS DROUNED ANNO 1685 AGED 18 "

" LET EARTH AND STONE STILL WITNES BEARE THERE LYSE A VIRGINE MARTYRE HERE MURTERD FOR OUNING CHRIST SUPREAME HEAD OF HIS CHURCH AND NO MORE CRIME BUT NOT ABJURING PRESBYTRY AND HER NOT OUNING PRELACY THEY HER CONDEM'D BY UNJUST LAW, OF HEAVEN NOR HELL THEY STOOD NO A.... WITHIN THE SEA TYD TO A STAKE SHE SUFFERED FOR CHRIST JESUS SAKE THE ACTORS OF THIS CRUEL CRIME WAS LAGG STRACHAN WINRAM AND GRAHAME NEITHER YOUNG YEARES NOR YET OLD AGE COULD STOP THE FURY OF THERE RAGE ... "

The Covenanter movement to maintain the reforms of the Scottish Reformation came to the fore with signing of the National Covenant of 1638 in opposition to royal control of the church, promoting Presbyterianism as a form of church government instead of an Episcopal polity governed by bishops appointed by the Crown. The dispute led to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the overthrow of the monarchy. With the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 the Covenants were declared treasonable and Episcopacy was restored. Particularly in the south-west of Scotland, ministers refused to submit. Barred from their churches, they held open air field assemblies called conventicles which the authorities suppressed using military force. Failure to take a test of allegiance to the king, which required renouncing the Covenant, met with the death penalty.

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Old Photograph Coatdyke Scotland

Old photograph of Coatdyke village located one mile East of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. North Lanarkshire is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders onto the north east of the City of Glasgow and contains much of Glasgow's suburbs and commuter towns and villages. It also borders East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Stirling, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian. The council covers parts of the traditional counties of Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire and Stirlingshire. The area was formed in 1996, largely made up from the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Motherwell and parts from the former Monklands District Council as well as significant elements of Strathclyde Regional Council.



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Old Photograph Inverugie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Inverugie Castle located two miles from Peterhead, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The castle of Inverugie was first raised by the Cheynne family in the 12th century. By the mid 14th century the estate of Inverugie had passed to the Keith Earl Marischals who had their main seat at the coastal fortress of Dunnottar Castle. They built the current, now ruined, stone castle of Inverugie south of the original wooden motte in around 1660. In the 19th century an oak heraldry shield was found in a local cottage with the arms of William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and its date was carved as 1660. The Keith lands were forfeited after the Jacobite Rebellion and some time after 1745 the Inverugie estate passed from the Keiths to one James Ferguson the third Laird of Pitfour who kept the building in a perfect state until he died in 1820. By 1890, the Castle was in poor condition and the ruins were eventually blown up. William Burnes or William Burness the father of Robert Burns the poet, was born at Clochnahill Farm, Dunnottar, and trained as a gardener at Inverugie Castle, before moving to Ayrshire.



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Tour Scotland Video Waterfall Edradour Burn Pitlochry Highland Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of The Black Spout waterfall which falls high on the Edradour Burn above the whisky distillery on visit to Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Black Spout Wood is located to the south of the Highland Perthshire town of Pitlochry. Burn is a Scots word for stream or small river.

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Old Photographs Laurieston Scotland

Old photograph of Laurieston located two miles East of Falkirk, Scotland. The course of the Antonine Wall runs through this Scottish village. Located on the main street is Hawthorn Cottage, a nineteenth century stone dwelling that was once owned by Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prizes after his death. Nobel lived there while managing an explosives factory near the nearby villages of Redding and Westquarter.



Old photograph of Laurieston located two miles East of Falkirk, Scotland.

Old photograph of Laurieston located two miles East of Falkirk, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Railway Station Kyle of Lochalsh Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station at Kyle of Lochalsh, across from Isle of Skye, Scotland. The station is connected to Inverness by the Kyle of Lochalsh railway line, built in 1897 to improve public transport to the north-west of Scotland. The line ends on the water's edge, near where the ferry connection used to run.



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Old Photograph Colonsay House Scotland

Old photograph of Colonsay House, a Georgian country house on the Island of Colonsay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The central part of the house, was first built by the McNeill family in 1722. It was extended twice between 1722 and the early 20th century. Since 1904 the house has been the property of the island's owners, the Barons Strathcona, and is currently occupied by the present baron's eldest son, Alexander Howard and his family. The house has a public rhododendron and woodland garden covering some 30 acres. This informal woodland garden is famous for the outstanding collection of species and hybrid rhododendrons, and for unusual trees and shrubs sourced from all over the world from the 1930s. It is considered to be one of the finest rhododendron gardens in Scotland.



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