Old Photograph Isle of Mingulay Scotland

Old photograph of the Isle of Mingulay located twelve miles South of Island of Barra, Scotland. This Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides is known for its important seabird populations, including puffins, Black-legged Kittiwakes, and razorbills, which nest in the sea-cliffs, some of the highest in the British Isles. Between the 15th and 19th centuries Mingulay was part of the lands of Clan MacNeil of Barra, but subsequently suffered at the hands of absentee landlords. Islanders subsisted through a combination of fishing, hunting seabirds, weaving and crofting until most of the population of about 140 left between 1910 and 1912.



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Old Photograph Killantringan Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Killantringan lighthouse located on the coast two miles North West of Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse was built in 1900 by David A Stevenson. MV Craigantlet, a German owned, Cyprus registered container ship, ran aground on 26 February 1982 at Killantringan Lighthouse in Portamaggie Bay, Wigtownshire in southwestern Scotland. The 800 ton cargo ship was bound to Liverpool from Belfast at the time. The lighthouse keeper raised the alarm, and Craigantlet's crew was rescued via airlift by a Sea King from 819 Squadron based at the stone frigate HMS Gannet at Glasgow Prestwick International Airport.



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Old Photograph Hoxa Head Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Hoxa Head lighthouse located above Scarf Skerry, overlooking Scapa Flow, West of St Margaret's Hope on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse on South Ronaldsay, was built in 1901 by the brothers Charles and David Stevenson.



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Tour Scotland March Video Snow Falling On Scottish Snowdrops Parkland Scone Palace Perth Perthshire




Tour Scotland March video of snow falling on Scottish snowdrops on visit to the parkland at Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Fiery Cross Stained Glass Window Abbey Church Culross Fife




Tour Scotland video of the Fiery Cross stained glass window in the Abbey Church in Culross, Fife, Scotland. In Scotland a s fiery cross, or cross of shame, was used to rally clan members to arms. The practice is described in the novels and poetry of Sir Walter Scott. A small burning cross or charred piece of wood would be carried from town to town. A widely known use was in 1745, during the Jacobite rising although it was used more recently in Canada, among Scottish settlers during the War of 1812, and among Clan Grant in 1820. In 1820, over 800 fighting men of Clan Grant were gathered, by the passing of the Fiery Cross, to come to the aid of their Clan Lord and his sister in the village of Elgin.

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Old Photograph Makerstoun Scotland

Old photograph of Makerstoun located four miles West of Kelso, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Built in 1808, the Makerstoun church, bell tower on the south wall, recently repaired, has 1808 inscribed on it.



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Old Photographs Port Appin Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Port Appin fishing village in Argyll, Scotland. Elizabeth Macquarie, maiden name Campbell, wife of the fifth governor of New South Wales, Australia, was born in the area. During his term the governor named the towns of Appin and Airds after his wife's birthplace and her family's estate respectively. The Appin Murder occurred on 14 May 1752 near Appin in the west of Scotland, and it resulted in what is often held to be a notorious miscarriage of justice. It occurred in the tumultuous aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The murder inspired events in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped. On 14 May 1752, Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure, 44, the government-appointed Factor to the forfeited estates of the Stewart Clan in North Argyll, Scotland, was shot in the back by a marksman in the wood of Lettermore near Ballachulish. The search for the killer targeted the local Clan, the Jacobite Stewarts of Appin, who had recently suffered evictions on Campbell's orders. James Stewart was arrested for the crime and tried for the murder. Although it was clear at the trial that James was not directly involved in the assassination, he had a solid alibi, he was found guilty as an accessory; an aider and abetter, by a jury consisting of people from the locality where the crime occurred. The presiding judge was pro Hanoverian Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Chief of Clan Campbell. Eleven Campbell clansmen were on the 15 man jury. James Stewart was hanged on 8 November 1752 on a specially commissioned gibbet above the narrows at Ballachulish, now near the south entrance to the Ballachulish Bridge. He died protesting his innocence and recited the 35th Psalm before mounting the scaffold. To this day in the Highlands, it remains known as " The Psalm of James of the Glens. "





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Tour Scotland Video Sandy Stirton The Times They Are A Changin Greyfriars Bar Perth Perth Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of Sandy Stirton singing a cover version of The Times They Are A Changin by Bob Dylan in a Pub on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

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Old Photograph Crofter Dyeing Wool Portnalong Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter dyeing wool in her cottage at Portnalong by Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Crofter Spinning Wool Portnalong Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter spinning wool outside her cottage at Portnalong by Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Crofter Portnalong Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter packing wool at Portnalong by Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Auchencairn Scotland

Old photograph of children, shops, houses and cottages in Auchencairn village located on the coast of the Solway Firth at the head of Auchencairn Bay and on the A711 road between the town of Dalbeattie to the east and Kirkcudbright to the west in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. At the top end of the village stands a dead tree; it is all that remains of a farm called the Ringcroft of Stocking, the site of the Mackie Poltergeis' incident in 1695. Over a period of several months, the inhabitants, a farmer Andrew Mackie and his family, reported mysterious occurrences such as stones being thrown at them, cattle being moved and buildings being set alight. The family and others also reported a ghost taking form and speaking. Several clergymen came to pray at the site, but no change was immediately evident; in the next few months the strange occurrences stopped but the farm was eventually abandoned due to the incident. The incident was made known when the details were published by the Reverend Telfair a year later with the support of 14 eyewitnesses.



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Tour Scotland Video Neolithic Skara Brae Orkney Islands




Tour Scotland video of the Neolithic village on visit to Skara Brae located on Bay of Skaill on the West Coast of the mainland Orkney Islands, Scotland. Older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids, it has been called the Scottish Pompei" because of its excellent preservation. In the winter of 1850, a severe storm hit Scotland, causing widespread damage and over 200 deaths. In the Bay of Skaill, the storm stripped the earth from a large irregular knoll known as " Skerrabra ". When the storm cleared, local villagers found the outline of a village, consisting of a number of small houses without roofs. William Watt of Skaill, the local laird, began an amateur excavation of the site, but after four houses were uncovered, the work was abandoned in 1868. The site remained undisturbed until 1913, when during a single weekend the site was plundered by a party with shovels who took away an unknown quantity of artefacts. In 1924, another storm swept away part of one of the houses and it was determined the site should be made secure and more seriously investigated. The job was given to University of Edinburgh's Professor Vere Gordon Childe who travelled to Skara Brae for the first time in mid 1927.

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Old Photographs Balvenie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Balvenie Castle located near Dufftown, in the heart of Speyside, Scotland. This Scottish castle was originally known as Mortlach, it was built in the 12th century by a branch of the powerful Comyn family, the Black Comyns, and extended and altered in the 15th and 16th centuries. The castle fell out of use in the early 14th century when the Comyns were reduced by Robert the Bruce. At some point in the 14th century the castle and the lordship of Balvenie passed into the earldom of Douglas. Nothing is documented as to how the Black Douglases first acquired the castle but the most likely account is that it came with the marriage of the heiress Joanna Murray to Archibald 'the Grim' , 3rd Earl of Douglas in 1362. His son and successor Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas granted his younger brother James 'the Gross' the lordship of Balvenie in 1408. James's main residence was at Abercorn Castle, a coastal fortress to the west of Edinburgh and Balvenie Castle's use was as temporary accommodation when the need arose.



Old photograph of Balvenie Castle located near Dufftown, in the heart of Speyside, Scotland.

Old photograph of Balvenie Castle located near Dufftown, in the heart of Speyside, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Carnasserie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Carnasserie Castle located one mile North of Kilmartin village in Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built by reforming churchman John Carswell, who was Rector of Kilmartin, Chancellor of the Chapel Royal at Stirling, and later titular Bishop of the Isles. Carswell published the first book to be printed in Scottish Gaelic, a translation of John Knox's Book of Common Order. Construction began in 1565 using masons brought from Stirling. Although the castle was notionally built for Carswell's patron, the Earl of Argyll, he intended it as a personal residence for himself. On Carswell's death in 1572, the castle passed to his patron, the Earl of Argyll. Later, in 1643, the 8th Earl of Argyll sold Carnasserie to Sir Dugald Campbell, 3rd Baronet of Auchinbreck. Following the 9th Earl's failed uprising in support of the Monmouth Rebellion, against King James VII in 1685, the castle was blown up by Royalist forces. Although the outer walls remain largely undamaged, the ruins were never repaired. In the 19th century the estate was sold to the Malcolms of Poltalloch, who also own nearby Duntrune Castle.



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Old Photographs Lochnell Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Lochnell Castle near Benderloch, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish castle incorporates work of four main periods ranging in date from about the end of the 17th century to about the end of the 19th century.




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Old Photograph Keiss Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Keiss Castle located near Wick, Scotland. This partially ruined Scottish castle on sheer cliffs, overlooking the bay is located on the site of an earlier fort of the late 16th early 17th century by George 5th Earl of Caithness, born 1582, died 1643. It appears the castle was in existence in 1623 when James I commissioned Sir Robert Gordon to enter Caithness with an armed force. The 7th Earl died in the castle in 1698 but it is reported that the castle was ruinous in 1700 and was repaired in 1726. The estate was purchased by Sir William Sinclair 2nd Baronet of Dunbeath early in the 18th century and in 1752 Keiss became his family seat. The current house was built about 1755 but had to be sold in 1765 because of financial difficulties to the Sinclairs of Ulbster.



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Tour Scotland Video Broch Of Gurness Orkney Islands



Tour Scotland video of Broch of Gurness, Orkney Islands, Scotland. The Broch of Gurness is an Iron Age broch village on the northwest coast of Mainland Orkney overlooking Eynhallow Sound. Pieces of a Roman amphora dating to before 60 AD were found here, lending weight to the record that a " King of Orkney " submitted to Emperor Claudius at Colchester in 43 AD.

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Tour Scotland March Video Drive Single Track Road To Pearsie Angus




Tour Scotland March video of a drive on a single track road on ancestry visit to Pearsie in the glens of Angus, North of Kirriemuir, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Coilacriech Scotland

Old photograph of Coilacriech Inn by Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Glenorchy Parish Church Scotland

Old photograph of Glenorchy Parish Church by Dalmally, Scotland. This Scottish church constructed in 1810 on the site of at least two earlier churches, is a rare example of an octagonal plan with adjoining tower.




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Old Photograph Strath Gairloch Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages in Strath village by Gairloch, Scotland. Gairloch is a loosely defined area of settlement along the shores of Loch Gairloch, but primarily comprises three main clusters of shops, houses and amenities: the Harbour area, including Charlestown on the south side of the harbour, Achtercairn and Strath. The lands around Gairloch have been mostly in the ownership of the Mackenzies of Gairloch since the 15th century, when they were acquired by Hector Roy Mackenzie, died 1528, with a family house in the sheltered Glen of Flowerdale. The Mackenzies were clan leaders in the traditional sense and were known for their attachment to their tenants. During the 19th century, Sir Hector Mackenzie and his sons Sir Francis and Dr John Mackenzie refused to evict a single tenant during the clearances, despite the estate running at a loss. Clan MacKenzie.



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Old Photographs Blairmore Scotland

Old photograph of Blairmore located one mile North of Strone near Dunoon, Scotland. This Scottish village is located on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute. It is situated on the western shore of Loch Long. It was largely built during the Victorian era and has a small wooden pier which dates to 1855.




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Old Travel Blog Photograph Jamestown Scotland


Old travel Blog photograph of Jamestown in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. This Scottish village grew up around the junction of the southern road to Balloch Ferry or Boat, from the Dumbarton to Stirling road, or more accurately track, until it was built up into a military road around 1755. This road down to the Ferry over the Leven is now called Dalvait Road, and indeed has been called that for at least 250 years. References to the land of Dalvait go back to at least the 16th century and its Gaelic derivation from the “ field of boats ” indicate that the area was used by fishermen who fished for salmon in the River Leven at designated places or “ shots ”.



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Tour Scotland March Video Drive On Narrow Scottish Road To St Martins Perthshire




Tour Scotland March video of a drive on a narrow Scottish road on ancestry visit to St Martins village North of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Local legend states that Macbeth after his elevation to the throne lived at Carnbeddie in the Parish of St Martin. During this time witchcraft was prevalent in Scotland, and two of the most famous Scottish witches lived in this area.

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Old Photograph Drummochy Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Drummochy by Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Carsluith Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Carsluith in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Bentpath Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Bentpath village located five miles North West of Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village is located on the River Esk, also called the Border Esk, that flows into the Solway Firth. It also flows for a small way through the English county of Cumbria before entering the Solway. The river rises in the hills to the east of Moffat and its two main tributaries, the Black Esk and the White Esk, merge at the southern end of Castle O'er Forest. It flows south east through Eskdale past Langholm before merging with Liddel Water, which defines the border between Scotland and England. Before passing Longtown the river enters England and merges with the River Lyne and enters the Solway Firth near the mouth of the River Eden.



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Tour Scotland Video Aaron Fyfe Wicked Game Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of singer, songwriter, Aaron Fyfe singing a cover version of Wicked Game by Chris Isaak in the Greyfriars Bar on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you.
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.
I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you.
And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you.

No, I don't want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I don't want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)
With you (This world is only gonna break your heart)

What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way.
What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you.
What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way.
What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you and,

I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)
With you.

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you.
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.
I never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you.
And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you,

No, I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)
With you (This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I... (This world is only gonna break your heart)
(This world is only gonna break your heart)

Nobody loves no one.

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Tour Scotland Video Aaron Fyfe Free Falling Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire




Tour Scotland video of singer, songwriter, Aaron Fyfe singing a cover version of Free Falling by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in a Pub on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

She's a good girl, loves her mama
Loves Jesus and America too
She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis
Loves horses and her boyfriend too

It's a long day livin' in Reseda
There's a freeway runnin' through the yard
And I'm a bad boy, 'cause I don't even miss her
I'm a bad boy for breakin' her heart

And I'm free, I'm free fallin'

All the vampires walkin' through the valley
Move west down Ventura Blvd
And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows
All the good girls are home with broken hearts

And I'm free, I'm free fallin'

I wanna glide down over Mulholland
I wanna write her name in the sky
I wanna free fall out into nothin'
Gonna leave this world for awhile

And I'm free, I'm free fallin'

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