Tour Scotland Photograph Torosay and Kinlochspelve Parish Church Craignure Isle Of Mull

Tour Scotland photograph of Torosay and Kinlochspelve Parish Church, Craignure, Isle of Mull, Scotland. This Scottish church was built in 1783 with repairs and alteration in 1828 and 1832.

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Tour Scotland Video Small Group Ancestry Tour Of Scotland 8

Tour Scotland wee video of photographs from a small group ancestry tour of Scotland. Includes visit to Castle Campbell, Croft Moraig Stone Circle, Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Dunkeld Cathedral in Perthshire, Dunnottar Castle, Dupplin Cross, Edzell Castle, Eilean Donan Castle, Elgol Isle Of Skye, Falkland Palace, Glamis Castle, Glamis Pictish Stone, Glen Quaich, Glencoe, Isle of Ornsay, Kilmuir Museum, Kyle Of Lochalsh, Loch Leven Castle, Loch Lomond, Loch Ness, Monikie Graveyard, Sligachan, St Andrews Old Golf Course, Stirling Castle, The Quiraing Skye, Uig

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Small Group Ancestry Visit Dunkeld Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland wee video of photographs from a small group ancestry visit to Dunkeld in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Located on on the banks of the River Tay this Scottish town was the first capital of Scotland. In 1809 the ferry across the River Tay between Dunkeld and Birnam was replaced by a bridge built by Thomas Telford. The centre of the town has many late 17th century houses alongside the ancient cathedral.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Small Group Ancestry Visit Parish Church Glendevon Perthshire

Tour Scotland wee video of photographs from a small group ancestry visit to the Parish Church in Glendevon, Perthshire, Scotland. Plain white washed church of 1803. Large stained glass window by Alf Webster of Glasgow 1913 and small stained glass window in memory of Reverend Alexander Taylor 1872-1949. Many memorial plaques. Pulpit and Communion table and chair carved by Mr Philips of Tormaukin. Many Sinclair gravestones in the graveyard

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Old Photograph Cantick Head Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Cantick Head Lighthouse situated on the South East Coast of the Island of Hoy, Orkney Islands, Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse was completed in 1858 by engineer Alan Stevenson. He was a member of the famous Stevenson family of engineers, eldest son of Robert Stevenson, and brother of David and Thomas Stevenson, between 1843 and 1853 he built thirteen lighthouses in and around Scotland. The writer Robert Louis Stevenson was the son of Thomas and thus the nephew of Alan Stevenson.



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Old Photograph Maryculter House Scotland

Old photograph of Maryculter House, Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A hotel these days, this building is erected on the site where Knights Templar trained circa 1227 AD. Close by to the north is where Roman soldiers on the Elsick Mounth emerged from their march from Raedykes to cross the River Dee, on the northern bank of which the Normandykes Roman Camp stands. About the year 1618, the Lands of Maryculter were purchased by John Menzies of Pitfodels. The Menzies family, who had been tenants of Maryculter since 1548, were closely associated with the civic life of Aberdeen. In 1426, Gilbert Menzies was Provost of the city and thereafter a Menzies occupied the civic chair so frequently that in the following two hundred years, the combined provost-ships of the Menzies family amounted to 112 years. In 1811, Maryculter was acquired by General the Hon. William Gordon of Fyvie, a son of the second Earl of Aberdeen. The Gordons remained at Maryculter until 1935.



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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Small Group Ancestry Visit Braco Castle

Tour Scotland wee video of photographs from a small group ancestry visit to Braco Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. A rectangular tower, probably late 16th century, now forming the north-west corner of the building, was extended by Sir William Graham, 2nd son of the 3rd Earl of Montrose. He was uncle to the famous 1st Marquis of Montrose and was created Nova Scotia Baronet of Braco in 1625. General David Graeme, equerry to King George III and MP for Perthshire, added the enormous extension of the same height and general style to the east in the late 18th century to impress his royal master and to enhance his own dignity. Unfortunately the King never came. Finally the U-shaped building was filled in with a lower castellated portion in the Victorian time, probably by George Kellie McCallum. After 1894 Sir William Rennie Watson added to the Victorian service wings to the north east and was also responsible for building the water reservoir further up the hill.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Small Group Ancestry Visit Parish Church Dollar

Tour Scotland wee video of photographs from a small group ancestry visit to the Parish Church in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Designed by Tite of London and built 1842 to replace an older Kirk. Triple stained glass window in memory of Rev Angus Gunn. Rushworth and Dreaper organ. Reredos tapestry based on Ardchattan Cross designed by Adam Robson. Dollar is a small town in Clackmannanshire. It is one of the Hillfoots Villages, situated between the Ochil Hills range to the north and the River Devon to the south. Dollar is on the A91 road, which runs from Stirling to St Andrews, Fife. The town is around 3 miles east of Tillicoultry.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Small Group Ancestry Visit Balcarres Chapel Fife

Tour Scotland wee video of photographs from a small group ancestry visit to Balcarres Chapel, Colinsburgh, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish chapel, in the east garden of Balcarres House, was built for David Lindsay, 1st Lord Balcarres in 1635. He is buried in the chapel.

The surname of Lindsay continued to be borne by the Earls of Balcarres and Earls of Crawford, down to the current holder of the title, Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, while the Earls of Lindsay have used the additional surname of Lindesay since its adoption by Reginald Lindesay-Bethune, 12th Earl of Lindsay in 1919. The names of John de Lindsay, died 1335, Ingram Lindsay, 15th century, David Lyndsay, born 1490, died 1555, and Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, born 1532, died 1580, are early examples of the name being used as surname by members of lower nobility in Scotland. Lindsay was used in the United Kingdom by younger sons of the Lindsay clan chiefs, acquiring the status of common surname in the course of the 19th century.

In the late 19th century, the surname gave rise to the given names Lindsay and Lindsey in the United States, at first as a masculine given name, and since the mid 20th century, increasingly as a feminine given name. Its popularity as a girls' name is due to actress Lindsay Wagner, who became famous in 1976 as The Bionic Woman. Lindsey was the 570th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2014, while Lindsay ranked 653rd. Both spellings ranked among the top 100 names for girls from 1980 through 1993, with Lindsey peaking at #35 in 1983 and 1984 and Lindsay peaking at #36 in the same years

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Small Group Ancestry Visit Parish Church Clackmannan

Tour Scotland wee video of photographs from a small group ancestry visit to the Parish Church in Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. There has been a church at Clackmannan since St Serf visited from Culross, Fife, in the 8th century. The present church was built in 1815 by James Gillespie Graham to replace a 13th century church.Graveyard has stones dating from the 17th century with several Bruce family memorials.

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Old Photograph Birkhill Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, horse and cart and children in Birkhill near Dundee, Scotland. This Scottish village is located right next to Templeton Woods, home to one of the largest populations of Red Squirrels in the UK. Many street names in Birkhill have been inspired by the local environment, for instance, Post Box Road has a post box on it and Wood Road leads to a wooded area. There are also streets named after the late John Huband who was a very famous accordion player from the village and also wrote a huge amount of music in his day. The streets are John Huband Drive and Accordion Way and are located just off Dronley Road.



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Tour Scotland Video Musician Singing The Loch Tay Boat Song Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a musician singing The Loch Tay Boat song in the Greyfriars Bar on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

When I've done the work of day
And I row my boat away
Down the waters of Loch Tay
When the evening light is falling
Then I look towards Ben Lawers
Where the after glories glow
And I dream on two bright eyes
With a merry mouth below

She's my beauteous nighean ruadh
She's my joy and sorrow too
Though I own she is not true
Ah, but I cannot live without her
For my heart's a boat in tow
And I'd give the world to know
If she means to let me go
As I sing hori horo

Nighean ruadh, your lovely hair
Has more beauty I declare
Than all the tresses fair
From Killin to Aberfeldy
Be they lint-white, gold or brown
Be they blacker than the sloe
They mean not as much to me
As a melting flake of snow

And her dance is like the gleam
Of the sunlight on the stream
And the songs the wee folk sing
They're the songs she sings at milking
But my heart is full of woe
For last night she bade me go
And the tears begin to flow
As I sing hori horo

When I've done the work of day
And I row my boat away
Down the waters of Loch Tay
When the evening light is falling
Then I look towards Ben Lawers
Where the after glories glow
And I dream on two bright eyes
With a merry mouth below

She's my beauteous nighean ruadh
She's my joy and sorrow too
Though I own she is not true
Ah, but I cannot live without her
For my heart's a boat in tow
And I'd give the world to know
If she means to let me go
As I sing hori horo

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Old Photograph Douglas Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Douglas Castle, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle was a stronghold of the Douglas family from medieval times to the 20th century. The first castle, erected in the 13th century, was destroyed and replaced several times until the 18th century when a large mansion house was built in its place. This too was demolished in 1938, and today only a single corner tower of the 17th century castle remains. The castle was the former family seat of the Prime Minister, Alec Douglas-Home. Douglas Castle was Castle Dangerous in the last of the novels published by Sir Walter Scott in his lifetime.

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Old Photograph Castle Craig Scotland

Old photograph of Castle Craig by Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. This Scottish castle was built over two hundred years ago by the Earl of Hyndford, the Chief of the Carmichael clan. It was first mentioned in 1170 when it was confirmed to Bishop Engelram of Glasgow by Pope Alexander III. The founders of Castle Craig Hospital, Peter McCann and Dr. Margaret Ann McCann, first founded a treatment centre at Clouds House in Wilshire, England, in 1983, before opening Castle Craig in 1988.



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Old Photograph Mining Shotts Scotland

Old photograph of mining in Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Shotts was known for its mining and ironworks. In the years leading up to World War II there were 22 coal mines in the area, but the last of these, Northfield Colliery, closed in the 1960s.



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Old Photograph Gavler's Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Gavler's Castle, Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The origins of this now ruined Scottish are obscure, but it is believed to have been built around 1350 by the Bairds, on a bend of the Powmillon Burn. Later the castle passed to the Sinclairs and then to the Earls of Douglas. After the suppression of the Earls of Douglas by James II in 1455, the castle was sacked and slighted. Little or nothing of the early castle remains. In 1457 Strathaven was granted to Sir Andrew Stewart, an illegitimate grandson of Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany. Stewart, who later became Lord Avondale, either rebuilt the earlier castle, or built a new castle on the same site. In 1534 it passed to Sir James Hamilton of Finnart, who expanded the buildings. A letter of 1559 mentions that it was here, that Master Patrick Buchanan, brother of George Buchanan, taught the children of Regent Arran.It changed hands one last time in 1611, when the castle was sold to James, Marquis of Hamilton. The last occupant was Anne, Duchess of Hamilton, born 1632, died 1716, whose main residence was Hamilton Palace. The castle was abandoned in 1717.



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Tour Scotland Video Musician Singing Smile In Your Sleep Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a musician singing a cover version of Smile In Your Sleep by Jim McLean in the Greyfriars Bar on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Hush, hush, time to be sleeping
Hush, hush, dreams come a creeping
Dreams of peace and of freedom
So smile in your sleep, bonny baby

Once our valleys were ringing
With songs of our children singing
But now sheep bleat till the evening
And shielings lie empty and broken

We stood with heads bowed in prayer,
While factors laid our cottages bare,
The flames licked the clear mountain air,
And many were dead by the morning.

Where is our proud highland mettle
Our troops once so fierce in battle
Now stand, cowed, huddled like cattle
And wait to be shipped o'er the ocean

No use pleading or praying
For gone, gone is all hope of staying
Hush, hush, the anchor's a-weighing
Don't cry in your sleep, bonny baby

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Tour Scotland Video Musician Singing Pittenweem Jo Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a musician singing a cover version of Pittenweem Jo by John Watt in the Greyfriars Bar on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

I'm goin' wi' a lassie fae Pittenweem,
She's every fisher laddie's dream.
She guts the herrin' doon by the quay,
And saves her kisses just for me.

Well, last July it come tae pass
I met this bonnie fisher lass,
Wi' her e'en sae blue, and black was her hair.
I met her doon by the village fair.

Oh, Pittenweem, Pittenweem,
She's every fisher laddie's dream.
She guts the herrin' doon by the quay,
And saves her kisses just for me.

So I says tae her, "Can I see ye hame?"
She says, "Och fine, but I ken yer game.
But ne'er the less, ye're awfy kind.
In fact, a widnae really mind."

So I took her hame that Saterday nicht.
The moon was shinin' oh sae bricht.
And as we sat there on the grass,
I said, "Hey, Jo, will ye be ma lass?"

Well, she's ma lass noo, and weel I ken
She disnae gang wi' other men:
'Cause I was fast but they were slow,
And that's how I won my Pittenweem Jo.

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Old Photograph Sandbraes Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages at Sandbraes by Whiting Bay, Isle of Arran, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Laggan House Scotland

Old photograph of Laggan House, Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish house was built around 1868 by Charles MacGibbon, whose son David was a noted architect and historian of his day. During the Second World War, the house, now rebuilt, was the base for the WW11 Light Scout Car Secret Unit and was visited by Churchill himself on several occasions. It was also used as a field hospital during the War.

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Old Photograph Belfield House Scotland

Old photograph of Belfield House, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish house was the residence of Misses Margaret, Jane, and Elizabeth Buchanan, daughters of George Buchanan of Woodlands, Glasgow, who died in the order of seniority, the youngest on the 23rd April, 1875. During their lifetime they jointly executed a will, and although subject to the alternation of the last survivor it substantially remained as agreed upon, and conferred a large sum of money to the Merchants’ House of Glasgow.

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Old Photograph Loretto School House Scotland

Old photograph of Loretto School house in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. Musselburgh is the largest settlement in East Lothian, Scotland, on the coast of the Firth of Forth, six miles east of Edinburgh city centre. This is the oldest Scottish boarding school, founded by the Reverend Thomas Langhorne in 1827. Langhorne came from Crosby Ravensworth, near Kirkby Stephen. The school was later taken over by his son, also Thomas Langhorne. The last link with the Langhorne family was John Langhorne, who was master at Loretto from 1890 to 1897 and later headmaster at the John Watson's Institution. Loretto was the under the headmastership of Dr Hely Hutchinson Almond, a distant relative of Thomas Langhorne. The school's name derives from Loretto House, in which Langhorne was living at the time he started the school, which in turn was based on the dedication of a chapel to Our Lady of Loreto, which can traced back to the 12th century on the site of the school.



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Old Photographs Ardwell House Scotland

Old photograph of Ardwell House, Rhins of Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland. On the grounds of this Scottish mansion house, on a ridge above the road, are the remains of a medieval motte; the castle bailey may have stood to the north. In addition, south of the church are the ruins of Killaser Castle, the ancestral home of the McCullochs, who formerly held Ardwell,Stoneykirk, Rhinns, Wigtownshire. Near High Ardwell, on the other side of the peninsula, are the remains of Doon Castle, the best example of an Iron Age broch in Dumfries and Galloway. Ardwell used to hold the Leek Fair, where plants were sold.

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Old Photograph Milton Lockhart House Scotland

Old photograph of Milton Lockhart House by Carluke, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1987 the remains of Milton Lockhart House were transported to Japan by a famous Japanese film star and director Masahiko Tsugawa, and re-erected at Takayama-murain the unma-Ken region of Japan. The new owners renamed the castle Lockheart Castle. The Castle is now designated a Lover's Sacred Ground where couples marry and ring a bell on the top floor of the tower to bring eternal love and leave their names written on a heart shaped shell.

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Old Photograph Boquhan House Scotland

Old photograph of Boquhan House located a mile East of Kippen, near Stirling, Scotland. The original house on this site dating from the 18th century was a property of the Campbells.

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Old Photograph Kettins Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Kettins, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located about 14 miles northeast of Perth and 11 miles northwest of Dundee. It is 1 mile from Coupar Angus, north of the A923 road.



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Old Photograph Bridge Crocketford Scotland

Old photograph of the bridge at Crocketford located on the A75 road around 9 miles west of Dumfries, Scotland. This Scottish village also known as Nine Mile Bar, is one of only two settlements that are not bypassed by the A75 ( along with Springholm which is around 2 miles to the south west ).



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Old Photographs Scarinish Scotland

Old photograph of house and cottages in Scarinish, the main village on the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. There is a ferry service from here to Oban on the Scottish mainland.



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Old Photographs Kintra Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages in Kintra village on the North Western coast of Ross of Mull in the south of the Isle of Mull, Scotland.

Old photograph of cottages in Kintra village on the North Western coast of Ross of Mull in the south of the Isle of Mull, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Newton Of Balcormo Scotland

Old photograph of field and farm worker cottages in Newton Of Balcormo near Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Dulnain Bridge Village Scotland

Old photograph of Dulnain Bridge village located three miles South West of Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland. This Scottish village lies near to the A95, in the Cairngorms National park. The village comprises two communities. Dulnain Bridge itself is centred to the north of the bridge over River Dulnain, and this particular part of the village lies in Morayshire. The crofting community of Skye-of-Curr stretches for a mile to the south, and this is in Inverness-shire.

Old photograph of Dulnain Bridge village located three miles South West of Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Thundergay Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Thundergay by Pirnmill, Isle of Arran, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Standing Stone Bressay Scotland

Old photograph of a standing stone on the Island of Bressay, Shetland Islands, Scotland. The Bressay Stone is an outstanding example of Pictish art. The slender sides are engraved with ogham, and the two faces with various examples of knotwork, and imagery. The top of each face has a cross. On one side, there is an engraving of two men with crosiers, as well as various animals including horses, pigs, and what appears to be someone in the process of being swallowed by two sea monsters. It has been suggested that this is Jonah.



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Old Photograph Candacraig House Scotland

Old photograph of Candacraig House in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish house built in 1835 by architect John Smith, was for may years the home of comedian Billy Connolly and his wife, Pamela Stephenson.



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Old Photographs Levenhall Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and Tram in Levenhall, Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Orchestra Carlingnose Barracks Scotland

Old photograph of an orchestra from Carlingnose Barracks in North Queensferry in Fife, Scotland. The coast battery on Carlingnose Point was built between May 1899 and July 1901. In a large scale revision of the defences of the Forth it was decided that the two 6 inch guns and Gunners should be moved to the new battery at Pettycur, Kinghorn, and the guns were transferred in November 1916.



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Tour Scotland Video Sheep On The Road Near Auchterarder Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of sheep on the road near Auchterarder in Perthshire, Scotland. Rush hour on a narrow Scottish road.

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Old Photographs Pitkeathly Wells Scotland

Old photograph of Pitkeathly Wells located two miles from Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, Scotland. Wells in this area produced the Pitkeathly mineral waters, which were drunk and used as baths from 1785 to 1949. A Dr. Horsley once recommended their use in curing hiccups, cancer, cholera, and epilepsy. The mineral spa flourished all through the Victorian era, with baths, tea rooms, and lawns for tennis, bowls and croquet. During this time, nearby Bridge of Earn served as a spa town for the wells. The water, sold in jars, could be purchased as far away as London. Schweppes took over the springs in 1910 and bottled the water in a plant employing thirty people. In 1927, a disastrous fire ended the bottling operation. The mineral spa was closed in 1949. A kind of Scottish bannock is also named after the village.

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Old Photograph Muir Of Fowlis Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and Post Office in Muir Of Fowlis by Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Sheepdog Herding Ducks Kirriemuir

Tour Scotland video of a sheepdog herding ducks on visit to the Agricultural Show in Kirriemuir, Scotland. The show has been running since 1877 and has survived two world wars, two foot and mouth epidemics and the Scottish Weather.

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