Tour Scotland Video Charity Hairdressing Show City Centre Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity hairdressing show on visit to the St John's Shopping Centre in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Breakthrough Breast Cancer is the leading charity in the UK dedicated to stopping women dying from breast cancer.

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Tour Scotland Video Charity Fashion Show City Centre Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity fashion show on visit to the St John's Shopping Centre in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Breakthrough Breast Cancer is the leading charity in the UK dedicated to stopping women dying from breast cancer.

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Old Photographs New Luce Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in New Luce in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village is located in the traditional county of Wigtownshire. The coast to coast walk, the Southern Upland Way, passes close to the village. The Covenanter Alexander Peden spent time preaching in the village. Peden was born at Auchincloich Farm near Sorn, Ayrshire, about 1626, and was educated at the University of Glasgow. He was a teacher at Tarbolton and then ordained minister of New Luce in Galloway in 1660. In June 1673 while holding a conventicle at Knockdow near Ballantrae, Ayrshire, he was captured by Major William Cockburn, and condemned by the Privy Council to four years and three months imprisonment on the Bass Rock and a further fifteen months in the Edinburgh Tolbooth. In December 1678 he, along with 60 others, was sentenced to banishment to the American plantations. They were transported by ship to London, where they were supposed to be transferred to an American ship, however the American captain on hearing the reason for their banishment released them. Peden made his way north again to divide the remaining years of his life between his own country and the north of Ireland. His last days were spent in a cave on the River Lugar in the parish of Sorn, near his birthplace and his brother's farm in Auchinleck, and there he died in 1686, worn out by hardship and privation.

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Old Photograph Stichill House Scotland

Old photograph of Stichill House located two miles North of Kelso, Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish house is located in the historic territory of the Pringles, a notorious Riding family of Border Reivers. The Pringles of Stichill are a cadet branch of the Pringles of Smailholm. Robert Pringle of Bartingbush purchased the lands of Stichill in 1628, and his grandson, another Robert Pringle, was created 1st Pringle Baronet of Stichill, in the Baronetcy of Nova Scotia, in 1683. The present laird is Lt-Gen Sir Steuart Robert Pringle, KCB, 10th Baronet.



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Old Photograph Kilmory Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Kilmory Castle, also known as Kilmory House, located just to the south of Lochgilphead, Argyll, Scotland. A house may have stood here as early as the 14th century. The Campbells built a house, or extended the existing one, between 1816 and 1820. Eliza Campbell, the eldest daughter and co-heir of Peter Campbell, married Sir John Orde, 2nd Baronet in 1824. He purchased the estates following the death of his father in law in 1828 and of his wife in 1829. Orde demolished the modest old Campbell house and replaced it with the grand Gothic style mansion designed by architect Joseph Gordon Davis.



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Old Photograph Lanfine House Scotland

Old photograph of Lanfine House by Galston, East Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was built for John Brown, born 1729, died 1802, a successful textile manufacturer and banker. He was also a bailie in the city of Glasgow. The building work was undertaken by James Armour of Mauchline, who was to become the father-in-law of Robert Burns. Lanfine House was completed in 1772. On the death of John Brown in 1802, his son Nicol Brown took over as Laird of Lanfine and Waterhaughs. After the death of Nicol Brown in 1829, the estate was inherited by his cousin Thomas Brown, a physician in Glasgow, and for a time, Professor of Botany at Glasgow University.



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Old Photograph Swanbister House Scotland

Old photograph of Swanbister House in Orphir on mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Built for Archer Fortescue who bought estate from Thomas Halcro Sands 1844. He was born on 12th of December 1819. He died on the 7th of February 1907. Archer Irvine-Fortescue was baptised with the name of Archer Fortescue. He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Orkney.He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Kincardineshire. He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Kincardineshire. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Orkney. In 1875 his name was legally changed to Archer Irvine Fortescue under the terms of the will of his wfe's uncle, John Irvine-Boswell. He lived at Swanbister, Orkney Islands, and he lived at Kingscausie, Kincardineshire.



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Old Photograph Abbey Fort Augustus Scotland

Old photograph of the Abbey in Fort Augustus, Highland, Scotland. This Scottish abbey owed its inception to the desire of John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, for the restoration of monasticism in Scotland. The site at Fort Augustus was given by Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat. It comprised the buildings of a dismantled fort, built in 1729 and originally erected for the suppression of Highland Jacobites. It had been purchased from the Government by the Lovat family, in 1867.The monastic buildings begun in 1876 were completed in 1880.



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Tour Scotland April Video Drive From Meigle To Alyth Perthshire

Tour Scotland April video of part of the drive on the road from Meigle on ancestry visit to Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland April Video Drive From St Andrews To Tayport Fife

Tour Scotland April video of part of the drive on the B945 road from St Andrews on ancestry visit to Tayport, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Doune Burn Scotland

Old photographs of cottages and people in Doune Burn by Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland. South Ayrshire borders onto Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire.



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Old Photograph St Andrew's Church Tongue Scotland

Old photograph of St Andrew's Church in Tongue, Northern Sutherland, Scotland. This Scottish church was rebuilt by Donald Mackay, Master of Reay, in 1680 following the Reay family's conversion to Protestantism. The site was that of the ancient Celtic and latterly Roman Catholic Church, St Peter's Chapel. During a renovation in 1729 a vault was built covering the graves of earlier members of the MacKay family. Lord Reay, of Reay in the County of Caithness, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. Lord Reay is the hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Mackay, whose lands in Strathnaver and north west Sutherland were known as the Reay Country. The land was sold to the Earls of Sutherland in the 18th century.



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Old Photograph Duntulm Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Duntulm Castle on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. This Scottish castle stands ruined on the north coast of Trotternish, on the Isle of Skye, near the hamlet of Duntulm. During the 17th century it was the seat of the chiefs of Clan MacDonald of Sleat. The castle was built in the 14th and 15th centuries, when the area was subject to feuds between the rival MacLeod and Macdonald clans. The defences were improved in the 16th century, and by the early 17th century the MacDonald's had finally gained the upper hand in the area. Around 1732 the castle was abandoned, when Sir Alexander MacDonald built a new residence, Monkstadt House, 5 miles to the south, robbing much of the castle's stone as building material.



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Old Photograph Waterbeck Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Waterbeck near Ecclefechan, Scotland. This Scottish village in Annandale is located to the West of the Kirtle Water. Waterbeck is now a small, rural village in the south-west of Scotland. It has not always been that way. In the early medieval period when the area was close to the Debatable Lands, the Bell family, known as the 'bloody Bells', were involved in the Border feuds, marauding and killing. During the eighteenth century, Waterbeck grew to be a thriving village supporting numerous trades, as well as being surrounded by working farms and other settlements. In its time it rose to become one of the most important centres for bacon curing and agricultural seed production in Scotland, due to the enterprise of the Carlyle family.



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Old Photographs Inveresk Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses, shop and people in Inveresk located to the South of Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. James Wedderburn lived in this part of Scotland. He made his fortune as a slave owning sugar plantation owner in Jamaica. When his son by one of his slaves, Robert Wedderburn, travelled to Inveresk to claim his kinship he was insultingly rejected by his father who gave him some small beer and a broken or bent sixpence. This experience turned Robert Wedderburn to radicalism.

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Old Photograph Cove Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Cove located South of Aberdeen road in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The village sprung up around the fishing industry, with the boats berthed on a shingle beach, a gap in the rocks that afforded a natural harbour. During this time, it is estimated that approximately 300 people lived in the area. In the mid 19th century the fishing was at its height, which, over years, has included cod, haddock, salmon, herring and shellfish. The piers and breakwater were constructed in 1878. At the end of World War I the fishing began to decline.



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Old Photograph Cults Scotland

Old photograph of shops, tram, houses, and people in Cults a suburb on the western edge of Aberdeen road in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Cults, known for its historic granite housing, sits approximately six miles from the coast of the North Sea. The name is a corruption of Coilltean, the Scottish Gaelic word for Woods.

Anna Shepherd, Scottish novelist and poet, was born on 11 February 1893 in Peterculter to John and Jane Shepherd. Her family moved to Cults shortly after Nan was born, to the house where she lived for most of her life. She attended Aberdeen High School for Girls and graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1915, subsequently lecturing for the Aberdeen College of Education. She died in Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen in 1981.



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Old Photograph Tornaveen Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Tornaveen located on the Tarland to Aberdeen road in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Its most notable historical event apart from being near the place of the death of Macbeth was the landing of a German balloon in the late 19th century. The balloon had been blown across the North Sea during a storm and landed near Claydykes Farm on the B9119 road through Tornaveen. It had been in the air for 18 hours. Originally the tour had been planned just for a trip from Bitterfeld near Leipzig to Hanover. But then more and more wind came up and drove the balloon across the Netherlands towards the North Sea. Different attempts to land failed because of several reasons and so the three men crossed the North Sea within 12 hours. Finally they landed in a tree and stayed alive.



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Old Photographs Kintore Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and children in Kintore near Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Established in the ninth century AD as a royal burgh, Kintore had its royal charter renewed by King James IV in 1506. But the area has clearly been a popular settlement since prehistoric times. Nearby are the remains of Hallforest Castle, former stronghold of the Earls of Kintore. Its Town House dates back to 1747. Kintore is the site of Deers Den Roman Camp and is thought to relate to Agricola's campaigns into Scotland.



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Old Photograph Knockbrex House Scotland

Old photograph of Knockbrex House, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. A plain neo Georgian manor house built in 1900 for the Manchester businessman James Brown and remodelled early 19th century. Although he lived in Manchester and ran his business there, he had family roots in south-west Scotland.

Brown is an English language surname in origin chiefly descriptive of a person with brown hair, complexion or clothing. It is one of the most common surnames in English speaking countries. It is the second most common surname in Canada and Scotland, third most common in Australia and fourth most common in England and the United States. It is particularly clustered in southern Scotland.



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Old Photograph St James's Church Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of St James's Church in Paisley, Scotland. This Scottish church is early French Gothic style to a design by Hippolyte Blanc, largely gifted by Sir Peter Coats in 1884. He was a Scottish thread manufacturer and philanthropist of note. He was co founder of the firm J & P Coats which later evolved into Coats Group. He was born on 18 July 1808 in Paisley and is deeply associated with that town. He attended Paisley Grammar School and then the University of Glasgow, at first intending to study for as a minister. However he decided to follow his father, James Coats, as a thread manufacturer, largely in partnership with his younger brother Thomas Coats. He died in the Mustapha Superieur quarter of Algiers on 9 March 1890 aged 81. His body was returned to Paisley for burial in Woodside Cemetery, west of the town centre.



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Old Photograph Machermore Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Machermore Castle by Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. James Cleland Burns, 3rd Baron Inverclyde married on 2nd of April 1891, Charlotte Mary Emily, youngest daughter of Mr. Nugent-Dunbar of Machermore Castle, Newton Stewart, and had two daughters, Emily and Muriel, and a son, John Alan Burns, who succeeded him. James Burns was born in Glasgow in 1864, and educated at Repton. He was the principal Director of the shipping business of Messrs. G. & J. Burns, Limited, and took a strong interest in everything connected with shipping. He was President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom in 1899. In 1900 he became Chairman of the Glasgow Shipowners' Association, and was an Honorary Member of the Advisory Committee on New Lighthouse Works to the Board of Trade. He was a Director of the Cunard Steamship Co., Ltd., and of the Clydesdale Bank Ltd. He was a member of the Glasgow Committee of Lloyd's Register, a representative of Glasgow on the London General Committee of Lloyds' Register, and a Director of the Clyde Steamship Owners' Association. He was an Associate of the Institute of Naval Architects and of the Scottish Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders. He was also involved in the religious and philanthropic life of the city.



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Tour Scotland Easter Monday Video Scottish Pipers Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Easter Monday video of Scottish bagpipers playing on the parkland on ancestry visit to Scone Palace by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Easter Video Doocot Glamis Castle Angus

Tour Scotland Easter Sunday video of the Doocot on ancestry visit to Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland. An early 17th century Dovecot on the castle grounds; repaired in 1976. A dovecote or doocot is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. Double chamber, rectangular-plan, lectern dovecot. Roughly coursed rubble with squared rubble quoins, some dressed. Part base course, stepped alighting ledge/rat course, crowstepped flanks with moulded skewputts, back parapet carried up to form gable. Angus stone slates.

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Tour Scotland Easter Sunday Video Drive To Glamis Castle Angus

Tour Scotland Easter Sunday video of part of a drive to visit Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland. There was a castle on this site in 1376, when it was granted by Robert I to John Lyon, Lord Glamis, who reconstructed the castle at that time. A beautiful Easter Sunday at Glamis Castle.

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