Tour Scotland Video Brass Band Farmers Market Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of a brass band playing at the Farmers Market in the city centre on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Movie star Ewan McGregor says he would love to sit in with Perthshire Brass one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Fire And Rescue Service South Methven Street Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of the Scottish Fire And Rescue Service in South Methven Street on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Firefighters responding to falling masonry from the roof a building on this street. Many of these buildings are more than 200 years old and falling masonry can be a hazard to pedestrians walking on the pavement below.

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Old Photographs Railway Station Oban Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Oban, Scotland. Oban station opened on 1 July 1880. It is the terminus of one branch of the highly scenic West Highland Line 100 miles north of Glasgow Queen Street. It was originally the terminus of the Callander and Oban Railway.



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Tour Scotland Video Squirrels Eating Peanuts In Pittencrieff Glen Fife



Tour Scotland video of squirrels eating peanuts in Pittencrieff Glen on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Haymarket Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Haymarket in Edinburgh, Scotland. The station opened in 1842 as the original terminus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, before the line was extended in 1846 through the Haymarket tunnels and Princes Street Gardens to what is now Waverley station. It is now a major commuter and long distance destination, located near the city centre, in the West End. Trains from the station serve much of Scotland, including Fife and Glasgow, as well as suburban lines to the east, and the East Coast Main Line through to London. It is now the fifth busiest railway station in Scotland.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Ayr Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Ayr, Scotland. The station was opened on 12 January 1886 by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. This was the third station to be named Ayr in the town: the original station, located on the former Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway, opened in 1839. When the Ayr and Dalmellington Railway was opened in 1856, a station called Ayr Townhead was opened on the south side of the town. When the original Ayr station was closed on 1 July 1857, Townhead station was renamed Ayr, however this second station closed the same day the current station opened. The current station was built just 300 yards south of the previous station. The Glasgow and South Western Railway became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways during the nationalisation of 1948.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Blair Atholl Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Blair Atholl by Blair Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Perth to Inverness main line of the former Highland Railway was opened as Blair Athole station by the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway on 9 September 1863. It was renamed Blair Atholl station on 7 September 1893, and remains in regular use by passenger trains.




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Old Photographs Carmunnock Scotland

Old photograph of Carmunnock within the boundary of Glasgow, Scotland. This ancient settlement which is associated with the early Christian missionary Saint Cadoc, has a medieval street plan set within the lands of an estate held by variously the Morays of Bothwell, the Earls of Douglas and eventually to the Lords, Marquesses and Dukes of Hamilton until 1700 when it passed to the Stuarts of Castlemilk.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Banff Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Banff, Scotland. The line from Tillynaught opened in 1859 and a temporary terminus opened on 30 July 1859. A permanent station opened the following year. As originally built there was a single platform and a goods line through to the quayside at Banff harbour but this was cutback prior to 1900 when a second platform line was constructed. The Great North of Scotland Railway took over the line in 1867 and operated it until grouping in 1923. Passing into British Railways ownership in 1948, the line was, like the rest of the lines along the Moray coast, considered for closure as part of the Beeching report and closure notices were issued in 1963. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1964 and the entire line, including Banff station finally closed in 1968.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Oyne Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Oyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Aberdeen to Inverness main line of the former Highland and Great North of Scotland Railways, subsequently grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway was opened by the latter company on 20 September 1854. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 May 1968; the line itself remains in use. The village has limited local resources. It has a daily bus service to Inverurie 8 miles away and to Huntly. The area is popular with commuters to Inverurie, Huntly and Aberdeen, a journey of around 30 minutes. The area has a number of large private houses such as Westhall House, which was a small hotel until the 1990s. The Horn family were lairds of Westhall.

The Huntly surname of English and Scots origin, from places so called in Gloucestershire, England, and Berwick, and Aberdeen in Scotland. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century " hunta ", a hunter, and " leah ", a wood or clearing in a wood.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Pinwherry Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Pinwherry, Ayrshire, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Glasgow, Ayr, Girvan, Stranraer main line of the former Glasgow and South Western Railway was opened by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway on 5 October 1877. It closed on 7 February 1882, reopened on 16 February 1882, closed again on 12 April 1886, reopened again on 14 June 1886, and finally closed on 6 September 1965. The line itself remains open to regular passenger traffic.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Cardrona Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Cardrona near Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. This intermediate station on the Peebles to Galshiels branch of the former North British Railway was opened by the Innerleithen and Galashiels Railway on 10 October 1864. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 5 February 1962.




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Old Photograph Railway Station Gordon Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland. Gordon was once on a branch line of the Berwickshire Railway.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Luncarty Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Luncarty located Norh of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Perth, Kinnaber Junction main Strathmore line of the former Caledonian Railway was opened by the Scottish Central, Scottish Midland Junction, railway. on 2 August 1848 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 18 June 1951. The portion of the line between Perth and Stanley Junction remains in use by Perth to Inverness trains.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Laurencekirk Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The station was opened on 1 November 1849 by the Aberdeen Railway, which ran from Aberdeen in the north to Guthrie, just outside Arbroath, to the south. The line joined the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway north of Montrose at Kinnaber Junction and Arbroath and Forfar Railway at the triangular junctions at Friockheim and Guthrie. The station was closed in September 1967.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Shawhill Annan Scotland

Old photograph of Shawhill railway station in Annan, near Dumfries, Scotland. Annan Shawhill station was on the long disuded Solway Junction Railway which ran from Kirtlebridge on the current West Coast Main Line through the east side of Annan, across the Solway Firth and on to Maryport in Cumbria in North West England.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Strathpeffer Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Strathpeffer, Scotland. The first station to serve Strathpeffer was opened on 19 August 1870 by the Highland Railway and was located two miles to the north of the town on the Dingwall and Skye Railways line to Kyle of Lochalsh. It was renamed Achterneed railway station on 3 June 1885 and was closed on 7 December 1965.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Bonar Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Bonar Bridge, Sutherland, Scotland. Ardgay railway station Opened on 1 October 1874 as Bonar Bridge by the Inverness and Junction Railway. The station joined the Highland Railway, later becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923; it then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was renamed Ardgay on 2 May 1977.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Lybster Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Lybster, Caithness, Scotland. The station was opened as part of the Wick and Lybster Railway on 1 July 1903. As with the other stations on the line, the station was closed on 3 April 1944. The station building now serves as the clubhouse for the Lybster golf course.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Pitlochry Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. The railway line linking Pitlochry with Dunkeld was opened in 1863.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Crianlarich Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Crianlarich, Scotland. Crianlarich station opened concurrently with the West Highland Railway in 1894, doubling the number of railway stations in the village. The routes to Fort William, Mallaig and Oban diverge after this station.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Patterton Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Patterton, Scotland. The station was originally opened as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway on 1 May 1903. It closed on 1 January 1917 due to wartime economy, and reopened on 1 February 1919 as Patterton for Darnley Rifle Range. It was renamed back to Patterton by British Rail. It serves the Patterton, Crookfur and Greenlaw areas of the town of Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire and the Deaconsbank and Jennylind areas of the City of Glasgow.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Blackford Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Blackford located five miles from Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. The Scottish Central Railway opened its line between Stirling and Perth, including a station at Blackford, in 1848. A station was also opened in 1851 for curling matches in the nearby loch at Carsebreck, this was used 25 times and eventually closed in 1935, the final match attracting some 2576 competitors.







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Old Photographs Railway Station Larbert Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Larbert located two and half miles from Falkirk, Scotland. The station was built by the Scottish Central Railway, opening on 1 March 1848. It is located on the main line from Glasgow Queen Street to Stirling and Perth near to the triangular junction with the line to Falkirk Grahamston and Edinburgh Waverley.



Old photograph of the railway station in Larbert located two and half miles from Falkirk, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Port Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Port Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. Port Glasgow railway station is on the Inverclyde Line, serving the town of Port Glasgow. It is located in the town centre with the main entrance at the junction of Princes Street and John Wood Street. It is an interchange station for Inverclyde services to Wemyss Bay and Gourock.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Currie Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Currie located South West of the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. This station lies on the Shotts Line, which runs from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley by way of Shotts. Curriehill is a reopened station. The original Curriehill, called Currie, opened on 15 February 1848, and was closed by British Railways on 31 March 1951. The present station, which occupies the site of the old station) opened on 5 October 1987.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Kinbuck Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Kinbuck village located four miles North of Dunblane, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Stirling to Perth, Perthshire, portion of the Glasgow to Kinnaber Junction Strathmore line of the former Caledonian Railway was opened by the Scottish Central Railway on 22 May 1848. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 11 June 1956, the line itself remaining in use.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Arbroath Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Arbroath, Scotland. There have been three stations called Arbroath, two of which closed in 1848. One, Arbroath Catherine Street, served the Arbroath and Forfar Railway; the other, Arbroath Lady Loan or Arbroath West, was on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. The current station was originally opened by the Dundee and Arbroath Railway on 1 February 1848 as a link station to connect the Arbroath and Forfar Railway with the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. On 1 October 1880 the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway opened north towards Montrose. These days there are generally two or three trains per hour between westbound to Dundee and eastbound to Aberdeen, with hourly services onwards from Dundee towards Edinburgh and Glasgow Queen Street. Some East Coast Main Line services to London Kings Cross and CrossCountry routes towards England also stop at Arbroath. Jointly run by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway after the Grouping of 1923, the station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.



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Old Photograph Duncow Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office in Duncow in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village is located in Kirkmahoe parish which is a civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway. The parish contains the settlements Kirkton, where the parish church is located, Dalswinton and Duncow. It is bounded by the parishes of Dumfries to the south, Holywood and Dunscore to the west, and Kirkmichael and Tinwald to the East.



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Old Photograph Crosshouse Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, people and Post Office in Crosshouse located two miles West of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. A tributary of River Irvine, the Carmel Water, flows through the centre of the village. The River Irvine and its tributaries have many leisure uses. Fishing is a very popular pursuit and many angling clubs maintain the river and its banks, monitor fish stocks, report on pollution and carry out conservation measures. It was recorded as early as 1604, that salmon were plentiful in the River Irvine. The river contains, amongst others, brown trout, sea trout, salmon, eels, minnows, and sticklebacks.



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Old Photograph Eskdalemuir Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office in Eskdalemuir in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village is located around 10 miles North West of Langholm and 10 miles North East of Lockerbie.



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Old Photograph Forglen House Scotland

Old photograph of Forglen House near Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Sir Robert Abercromby, 5th Baronet commissioned the Aberdeen City Architect, John Smith to design the house in 1839. Robert John Abercromby was born 14 June 1850 in London, England, and became the seventh Abercromby baronet on the death of his father at the end of 1872. His inheritance included the family estates of Birkenbog and Forglen as well as land in Ireland. The main family seat was Forglen House situated to the north west of Turriff in Aberdeenshire. He was Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire and Banffshire and was also a Justice of the Peace in both counties. Commissioner of Supply was another role he fulfilled. He was the son of George Samuel Abercromby, born 1824, died 1872, and Agnes Georgina, who was the daughter of John Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Kilmaine. The couple had three other sons, George Cosmo, Cavendish Douglas and Douglas Charles. They also had two daughters.



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Old Photograph Easter Elchies House Scotland

Old photograph of Easter Elchies house in Moray, Scotland. Lord Elchies, a distinguished Scottish judge, was born in this parish, and occasionally resided in the house of Easter Elchies. He was a distinguished judge and a Senator of the College of Justice and appears to have rebuilt the house in the Jacobean style. The house is now the Headquarters and museum of Macallan Whisky Distillery, and is the spiritual homeland of the company, bearing witness to its past, present and future.



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Old Photograph Auchindoun Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Auchindoun Castle near Dufftown in the heart of Speyside, Scotland. While there is evidence of prehistoric, probably Pictish earthworks in the grounds of the castle, the remains most visible today are of the castle constructed in the middle of 15th century by Thomas Cochran, later to become an Earl of Mar, born 1458, died, 1479. It was passed to the Clan Ogilvy in 1489 and from them to the Clan Gordon in 1535. An extension is known to have been added in the 16th century by the Gordons before the Ogilvys reclaimed it in 1594, it having been destroyed by the Clan MacKintosh in 1592 in retaliation for the 6th Earl George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly's killing of The Bonny Earl O'Moray, their ally. Following the Restoration of Charles II, the castle was again awarded to the Marquis of Huntly.



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Tour Scotland Video Train Ride From Perth To Visit Gleneagles Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of a train ride West from Perth to visit Gleneagles in Perthshire, Scotland. Gleneagles is on the main London to Inverness railway line, National Express East Coast Railway services stop at Gleneagles Railway Station. New lifts, waiting rooms, toilets, wi-fi access and an improved car park have been installed at the station.

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Old Photograph Pier Fearnan Scotland

Old photograph of a ship approaching the pier in Fearnan village by Loch Tay, Perthshire, Scotland. The land around the village has at various times in history belonged to both the Clan Robertsons of Struan and the Clan Campbells.



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Old Photograph Loch Nan Uamh Viaduct Scotland

Old photograph of a steam engine on Loch Nan Uamh Viaduct located three miles West of Lochailort between Fort William, and Mallaig in Scotland. This monument to concrete engineering earned for its contractor Robert McAlpine the nickname Concrete Bob. The viaduct was built to carry the West Highland railway across the valley of the Beasdale Burn at the head of Loch nan Uamh.



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Old Photograph Lochailort Scotland

Old photograph of Lochailort located between Fort William, and Mallaig in Scotland. A sea loch in Morar, Lochaber in the Highlands, it is a shallow V shaped loch, with the small Ardnish Peninsula on the north side, and the large South West facing Moidart Peninsula to the south. It is is bounded in the North East by the village of the same name, Lochailort and in the west, opening out into the Sound of Arisaig. To the north of the loch lies Loch Nan Uamh.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Castle Douglas Scotland

Old photograph of people at the railway station at Castle Douglas near Threave Castle, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway was incorporated on 21 July 1856; the act was obtained by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. It opened on 7 November 1859 and was substantially closed around 14 June 1965. In 1861 the Portpatrick Railway completed a connection from Castle Douglas to Portpatrick and Stranraer.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Whistlefield Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Whistlefield near, Dunoon, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Glasgow, Helensburgh, Crianlarich, Fort William route on the West Highland line, of the former North British Railway. was opened by the West Highland Railway on 1 May 1896. It was renamed Whistlefield Halt on 13 June 1960 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 15 June 1964.





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Old Photograph Cottages Arnisdale Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Arnisdale on the north shore of Loch Hourn, around 10 miles down a single track road from Glenelg near the Isle of Skye, Scotland. This Scottish village is most famous as the closest settlement to Camusfeàrna, the house in which Gavin Maxwell wrote the auto-biographical story of his secluded life with his pet otters, Ring of Bright Water. It was also the departure point during the summer months for the ferry to the Barrisdale on Knoydart, across Loch Hourn, until the ferry stopped operating in 2011. Walkers often come to Arnisdale to climb Beinn Sgritheall.



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Old Photograph Ferry Corrie Island Of Arran Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and the ferry at Corrie located six miles North of Brodick, Island Of Arran, Scotland. This Scottish village used to be a regular stop for steamers circumnavigating the island, passengers embarking by way of a rowing boat from the ferry rock. The ferry rock is located midway between the village's two quays. The southernmost quay is known as the sandstone quay. This harbour and quay used to be the location where sandstone blocks from the nearby quarry were shipped to the mainland. The sheep bollards on the quay walls were moved to Corrie after they were used in the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival. The northernmost quay is Corrie port and was also used for shipping products to other locations on the island, the mainland and other islands. Small coastal cargo vessels of a type known as the Clyde puffer were a common sight in the port and the sandstone quay during their heyday.





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Tour Scotland Video Armed Forces Day Parade Stirling



Tour Scotland video of the Armed Forces Day Parade on ancestry visit to to Stirling, Scotland. The parade started at Stirling Castle and marched through the town to the Albert Halls, before making their way to the Royal Parklands. Representatives of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Cadets and more than 1,000 Veterans took part led by various Pipe Bands and Brass Bands.

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Tour Scotland Video Motorbikes Parade Armed Forces Day Stirling



Tour Scotland video of a parade of motorbikes on Armed Forces Day on ancestry visit to to Stirling, Scotland. Armed Forces Day, formerly Veterans' Day, in the United Kingdom is an annual event celebrated in late June to commemorate the service of men and women in the British Armed Forces. Veterans' Day was first observed in 2006. Although an official event, it is not a public holiday in the UK. The name was changed to Armed Forces Day in 2009. Armed Forces Day has so far been observed on the last Saturday of June.

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Tour Scotland Video Pipe Band Armed Forces Day Stirling



Tour Scotland video of Queen Victoria School Pipe band on Armed Forces Day on ancestry visit to to Stirling, Scotland. Queen Victoria School is a boarding school in Dunblane, Scotland, funded by the MOD to provide education and boarding for children of UK Armed Forces.

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Tour Scotland Video Drummers Armed Forces Day Stirling



Tour Scotland video of drummers from Queen Victoria School Pipe band on Armed Forces Day on ancestry visit to to Stirling, Scotland. Queen Victoria School is a boarding school in Dunblane, Scotland, funded by the MOD to provide education and boarding for children of UK Armed Forces.

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Old Photograph War Memorial Contin Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and the war memorial in Contin near Garve located West of Inverness, Scotland. This memorial is a circular castellated tower set on two circular steps, constructed of rustic blocks of local stone.



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Old Photograph Parish Church Fetlar Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of the parish church on Fetlar Island one of the Northern Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The present church was erected in 1790 and recast 1860; medieval masonry remains under the foundations. Traditional hall church of rectangular plan and harled walls. Coloured glass windows, restored 2009. Walled burial grounds include Cheyne and Nicholson families. The oldest memorial is set in the wall of the vestry: Andrew Bruce, died 1717.



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Old Photograph Bedlay Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Bedlay Castle in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle is located between Chryston and Moodiesburn. The castle is just off the A80 road, around 8 miles to the north east of Glasgow. In 1580, James Boyd of Trochrig, then the titular Protestant Archbishop of Glasgow, granted the lands to his kinsman, Robert Boyd, 4th Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock. He built the original Bedlay Castle soon after, on the end of a volcanic crag above the Bothlyn Burn. The Boyds held the castle until 1642, when James, 9th Lord Boyd sold it to the advocate James Roberton, grandson of John Roberton, 9th Laird of Earnock, later Lord Bedlay. The Robertons extended the castle, and held the property until 1786. Since then the castle has been owned by a number of people, including the Campbells of Petershill.



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Old Photograph Ardrossan Castle Scotland

Old photograph of the castle in Ardrossan located in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The original castle, owned by Clan Barclay, was partly destroyed during the Wars of Scottish Independence. This event, in which the English garrison were slaughtered, became known as Wallace's Larder, a name which is still applied to the remaining vaults. Rebuilt by Clan Montgomery in the 15th century, Ardrossan later fell into disuse and was partially demolished by the soldiers of Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century who used the stones to help construct the Ayr Citadel. The ruins of this castle still stand, but are in hazardous condition. The castle is said to be haunted by the ghost of William Wallace, who is said to wander the ruins on stormy nights.



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Old Photographs Montrose Aerodrome Scotland

Old photograph of the aerodrome in Montrose, Scotland. RAF Montrose was a Royal Air Force station in Forfarshire, now called Angus. On 26 February 1913, it became the first operational military aerodrome to be established in the United Kingdom.




Old photograph of the aerodrome in Montrose, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Newtonmore Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Newtonmore, Scotland. The station was opened by the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway on 9 September 1863. The original station buildings were constructed of wood and destroyed in a fire in April 1893. A replacement station building in stone was erected in 1893. A serious accident occurred on 2 August 1894 when the morning passenger train from Perth to Inverness collided with a goods train. One passenger was killed and several were badly injured. On 13 September 1900, James Ormiston, a brakesman was killed in a shunting accident at the station.



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Old Photograph Sparrow Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Sparrow Castle at the South end of Cockburnspath near Cove, Scotland. Cove is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, close to Cockburnspath, Dunglass, Innerwick, Oldhamstocks, Bilsdean, and, further afield, Dunbar and Eyemouth. The old manor house known locally as Sparrow Castle consists in reality of two old houses, one partially abutting on the end of the other and at right angles to it. The windows of the southernmost house are surrounded with a bead-and-hollow moulding, and three large corbels project on the W face of the wall-head. The N house is entered at first floor level by an outside stair. It has a vaulted basement.



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