Tour Scotland Video Greyfriars Pipe Band Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of Greyfriars Pipe Band at the Pipe Band Competition in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. This band is is based within Barlanark Greyfriars Parish Church, Hallhill Roadd, Barlanark, Glasgow. Barlanark is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is east of the districts of Budhill, Shettleston and Springboig, north west of Baillieston, west of Springhill and Swinton and south of Easterhouse, Easthall and Wellhouse, separated by Edinburgh Road the A8. The name Barlanark is an apparently hybrid Gaelic Brythonic name suggesting the hill at the clearing from the Gaelic bàrr and Brythonic lanerc meaning clearing. Barlanark housing scheme was developed in response to the city's grave post war housing needs: In 1952 and 1953 over 2300 3/4-bedroom apartments were constructed and rented out as accommodation to Corporation tenants. There were also 5 apartment semi detached houses, and 3 apartment terraced houses built, next to the Estate of Barlanark House, which was constructed by David Hamilton in 1822, and demolished in 1954.

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Tour Scotland Video Bo'ness Pipe Band Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of Bo'ness Pipe Band at the Pipe Band Competition in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Bo’ness Federation pipe-band was formed in 1919. The first Pipe major was Willie McComb, after he was demobbed from the army at the end of the first World War he went back to working as a miner in Longriggend. Borrowstounness commonly known as Bo'ness is a coastal parish in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on a hillside on the south bank of the Firth of Forth within the Falkirk council area, 16.9 miles north west of Edinburgh and 6.7 miles east of Falkirk.

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Tour Scotland Video Peebles Ex-Servicemen's Pipe Band Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of Peebles Ex-Servicemen's Pipe Band at the Pipe Band Competition in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The first Peebles Pipe band was under the leadership of Pipe Sergeant John Sterricks, Ex-Royal Scots, and on Sunday the 16th June 1919 a procession headed by the Pipe band marched along the High Street to the Parish Church. Traditionally, a person born in Peebles was called a gutterbluid, although few people can now claim that distinction as Peebles no longer has a hospital. Most babies are now born in Edinburgh or Borders General Hospital at Melrose.

Notable Peebles people include;

Eric Bogle, folk musician resident in Australia, born in Peebles.
Scott Brash, olympic gold medallist.
John Buchan, author, practised law in Peebles, and his house, opposite the old Sheriff Court, bears a commemorative plaque.
Robert Chambers, publisher and author of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.
William Chambers, publisher, brother of Robert.
John Mathison, New Zealand MP was born in Peebles.
Mungo Park, practised medicine, and his house on the north of the Cuddy bears a commemorative plaque.

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Tour Scotland Video Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty Song Balhousie Castle Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of The Scottish Hydro Singers singing Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty, on ancestry visit to Balhousie Castle in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Jack Dunn, son of a gun, over in France today,
Keeps fit doing his bit up to his eyes in clay.
Each night after a fight to pass the time along,
He's got a little gramophone that plays this song:

Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there,
Drop me ANYWHERE,
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!

I should love to see my best girl,
Cuddling up again we soon should be,
WHOA!!!

Tiddley iddley ighty,
Hurry me home to Blighty,
Blighty is the place for me!

Bill Spry, started to fly, up in an aeroplane,
In France, taking a chance, wish'd he was down again.
Poor Bill, feeling so ill, yell'd out to Pilot Brown:
"Steady a bit, yer fool! we're turning upside down!"

Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there,
Drop me ANYWHERE,
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!

I should love to see my best girl,
Cuddling up again we soon should be,
WHOA!!!

Tiddley iddley ighty,
Hurry me home to Blighty,
Blighty is the place for me!

Jack Lee, having his tea, says to his pal MacFayne,
"Look, chum, apple and plum! it's apple and plum again!
Same stuff, isn't it rough? fed up with it I am!
Oh! for a pot of Aunt Eliza's raspb'ry jam!"

Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there,
Drop me ANYWHERE,
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!

I should love to see my best girl,
Cuddling up again we soon should be,
WHOA!!!

Tiddley iddley ighty,
Hurry me home to Blighty,
Blighty is the place for me!

One day Mickey O'Shea stood in a trench somewhere,
So brave, having a shave, and trying to part his hair.
Mick yells, dodging the shells and lumps of dynamite:
"Talk of the Crystal Palace on a Firework night!"

Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there,
Drop me ANYWHERE,
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!

I should love to see my best girl,
Cuddling up again we soon should be,
WHOA!!!

Tiddley iddley ighty,
Hurry me home to Blighty,
Blighty is the place for me!

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Tour Scotland Video Pack Up Your Troubles Song Balhousie Castle Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of The Scottish Hydro Singers singing Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile, on ancestry visit to Balhousie Castle in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The song is best remembered for its chorus:

Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile,
While you've a lucifer to light your fag,
Smile, boys, that's the style.
What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while, so
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Bride Arriving At St John's Kirk in Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish Bride arriving for her wedding in St John's Kirk on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. St John's Kirk located on South St John's Place is architecturally and historically one of the most significant buildings in Perth. The settlement of the original church dates back to the mid 12th century.

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Tour Scotland Video Lambs On The Road Eastern Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of lambs on the road on ancestry visit to Eastern Perthshire, Scotland. Stay alert when you drive on narrow Scottish roads, weather, animals and other drivers can make country roads unpredictable. Keep your wits about you.

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Tour Scotland Video May Morning Drive To Visit Littleton Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a May morning drive on ancestry visit to Littleton in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video May Morning Drive To Visit Knapp Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a May morning drive on ancestry visit to Knapp in Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located two miles North of Inchture and and around nine miles West of Dundee.

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Tour Scotland Video Of A May Morning Drive To Visit Abernyte Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a May morning drive on ancestry visit to Abernyte in Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located two miles North West of the former Inchture railway station, and around seven miles West of Dundee.

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Old Photographs Cleland Scotland

Old photographs of a horse and cart, shop and staff, and houses in Cleland near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish village has a strong coal mining heritage, and is a typical example of a working class village in North Lanarkshire and the Glasgow area.

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Old Photographs Ettrickbridge Scotland

Old photograph of cottage, houses, horse and cart, cyclist and people in Ettrickbridge located seven miles from Selkirk, Scottish Borders, Scotland. There have been settlements in the area for over a century, but in recent years the population has increased steadily. The village was known as Kirkhope until the late 1700s.

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office in Ettrickbridge located seven miles from Selkirk, Scottish Borders, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Elie Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Elie, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Thornton Junction to Crail, St Andrews and Leuchars Junction on the Fife coast of the former North British Railway was opened, by the Leven and East of Fife Railway, on 1 September 1863. It closed to regular passenger traffic, with the St Andrews to Leven portion of the line on on 6 Septmenber 1965.



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Old Photograph Appletreehall Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, horses and people in Appletreehall village located two miles North East of Hawick, Scotland. Tour Scottish Borders. This Scottish village is located in the historic county of Roxburghshire. Nearby are Branxholme, Broadhaugh, Roberton, Wilton and Wilton Dean. Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh is a historic county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire to the north west, and Berwickshire to the north. To the south east it borders Cumberland and Northumberland in England.

Robert Livingston the Elder was born on December 13, 1654, in the village of Ancrum, near Jedburgh, in Roxburghshire. He was a New York colonial official, fur trader, and businessman; he was granted a patent to 160,000 acres along the Hudson River, and became the first lord of Livingston Manor. In 1663, his father, John Livingston, was sent into exile due to his resistance to attempts to turn the Presbyterian national church into an Episcopalian institution. The exiled family settled in Rotterdam, in the Dutch Republic, where English merchants also worked. Robert became fluent in the Dutch language, which helped him greatly in his later career in New York and New Jersey, part of the former Dutch colony of New Netherland. Following the death of his father in 1673, Robert Livingston returned to Scotland for a time. He sailed for Boston to find his fortune in North America. Livingston's father was well known in Puritan Boston, and a merchant advanced the young son enough stock and credit to undertake a trading venture to Albany, New York. Livingston arrived in Albany in late 1674. With his business and language skills, in August 1675 he became secretary to Nicholas Van Rensselaer, director of Rensselaerswyck, who died a few years later in 1678. In 1686, he and his brother in law, Pieter Schuyler, persuaded Governor Thomas Dongan to grant Albany a municipal charter like that awarded to New York City a few months earlier. Appointed as clerk of the city and county of Albany, Livingston collected a fee for each legal document registered. With Pieter Schuyler, he led the opposition in Albany to Leisler's Rebellion. He served as Secretary for Indian Affairs from 1695 until his death. In 1679, Livingston married Alida Schuyler, born 1656, died 1727 widow. She was the daughter of Philip Pieterse Schuyler, vice director of Fort Orange, giving Livingston an important connection in the community. Robert Livingston amassed one of the largest fortunes in 17th century New York. They had nine children together: Johannes Livingston, Margaret Livingston, Joanna Philipina Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert Livingston, owner of the Clermont estate who married Margaret Howarden, Hubertus " Gilbert " Livingston, who married Cornelia Beekman, granddaughter of Wilhelmus Beekman, Mayor of New York[, William Livingston, Joanna Livingston and Catherine Livingston.



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Old Photograph Bridge of Gaur Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Bridge of Gaur in Rannoch, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. There was once a military barracks at Bridge of Gaur, the barracks were built in 1746 in response to the Jacobite uprisings, and to overawe the Robertson clan, though, by a strange quirk of fate, they would later become the residence of the chief. Following the defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746, " Butcher Cumberland ordered his troops to show no quarter to any remaining Jacobite rebels. The Hanoverian Army, known as Redcoats, then embarked upon the pacification of Jacobite areas of the Highlands. Numerous barracks were constructed throughout the Highlands to house the Government troops, including one at the head of Loch Rannoch at Braes of Rannoch which is now called Bridge of Gaur.



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Old Photographs Ampherlaw House Scotland

Old photograph of Ampherlaw House by Carnwath near Lanark, Scotland. This Scottish house was originally built some time in the early 16th century and the members of the Somerville family who held the Ampherlaw estate were cadets of the Lords Somerville of Carnwath and Linton. After the siege of Cowthally Castle in 1597, which later fell into ruins, three important stones were retained and erected at Ampherlaw. One is a marriage stone from 1569, another is of Dame Janet Maitland depicted as Charity and finally, there is a statue of Mary Queen of Scots, playing the lute. This is especially suitable, as the Somerville family were supporters of the cause and assisted in raising an army for her in 1568 at Hamilton. William Somerville Esq. of Ampherlaw, although the eldest son and born at Ampherlaw, was passed over for his younger brother, in the Scottish manner of succession to land and titles, and chose to emigrate to Tasmania with his wife and several children. Their ship was the ill-fated Catherine Sharer, which blew up in June 1855 in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel at night on its approach to Hobart. The unhappy emigrants were clad only in their nightclothes, so urgent was their escape. The ship was smuggling gunpowder, which was believed to have been ignited by a disaffected sailor.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Cup Winners St Johnstone Open Top Bus Parade Royal Hotel Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Scottish Cup Winners St Johnstone FC Open Top Bus Parade led by Perth and District Pipe Band arriving outside the Royal Hotel on Tay Street on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Fans lined the streets to celebrate the victory at Celtic Park against Dundee United which secured Saints their first major trophy in their 130 year history.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Cup Winners St Johnstone Open Top Bus Parade High Street Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Scottish Cup Winners St Johnstone FC Open Top Bus Parade coming down the High Street on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Thousands of fans lined the streets to celebrate the victory at Celtic Park against Dundee United which secured Saints their first major trophy in their 130 year history.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Cup Winners St Johnstone Open Top Bus Parade Charlotte Street Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Scottish Cup Winners St Johnstone FC Open Top Bus Parade coming down Charlotte Street to the old bridge on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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