Old Photographs Strathallan Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Strathallan Castle by Auchterarder in Perthshire, Scotland. An early Scottish 19th Century Baronial Castle within 1000 acres of picturesque policies and woodland. The estate has been the home of the Roberts family for the last 100 years. Strathallan Castle will provide the backdrop for the site of the T IN THE PARK festival from the Summer of 2015. The castle, was a World War I hospital and a girls’ school in World War II, is set in about 1000 acres of ­woodland.

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Tour Scotland Video Keep The Home Fires Burning Song Balhousie Castle Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of The Scottish Hydro Singers singing Keep the Home Fires Burning, on ancestry visit to Balhousie Castle in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The song was published first as Till the Boys Come Home on 8 October 1914 by Ascherberg, Hopwood, and Crew Ltd. in London. A new edition was printed in 1915 with the name Keep the Home Fires Burning. The song became very popular in the United Kingdom during World War I.

They were summoned from the hillside,
They were called in from the glen,
And the country found them ready
At the stirring call for men.
Let no tears add to their hardships
As the soldiers pass along,
And although your heart is breaking,
Make it sing this cheery song:
Keep the Home Fires Burning,
While your hearts are yearning.
Though your lads are far away
They dream of home.
There's a silver lining
Through the dark clouds shining,
Turn the dark cloud inside out
Till the boys come home.
Overseas there came a pleading,
"Help a nation in distress."
And we gave our glorious laddies -
Honour bade us do no less,
For no gallant son of Freedom
To a tyrant's yoke should bend,
And a noble heart must answer
To the sacred call of "Friend."
Keep the Home Fires Burning,
While your hearts are yearning.
Though your lads are far away
They dream of home.
There's a silver lining
Through the dark clouds shining,
Turn the dark cloud inside out
'Til the boys come home

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Tour Scotland Video Mariano Band Playing Music City Centre Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Mariano Band playing music in the city centre on visit to the city centre of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Street Band is from Romania. Romania is a republic in South East Europe which borders the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova. With 19.94 million inhabitants, the country is the seventh most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city, Bucharest, is the sixth largest city in the EU.

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Tour Scotland Video Bodhran Playing Taxi Driver Railway Station Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a taxi driver playing the bodhrán while waiting for passengers at the railway station on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The bodhrán is the heartbeat of Irish music. This ancient framedrum is traditionally made with a wooden body and a goat-skin head, and is played with a double-headed stick called a cipín, tipper, or beater.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Music The Dark Island Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a busker playing the the Scottish tune, The Dark Island, on visit to the city centre of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides is also known in Gaelic poetry as An t-Eilean Dorcha " the dark island ". The tune The Dark Island was written by accordionist Iain MacLachlan from Benbecula.

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Tour Scotland Video Pitcur Castle Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Pitcur Castle near Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland. The Castle of Pitcur is a high square tower, now in ruins. It was probably built in the early 16th century. The lands of Pitcur are on record in 1315; in 1432 they passed by marriage from the family of Chisholm to Halyburton. In 1680 the family moved to nearby Hallyburton House and the estate was sold to Graham Menzies, an Edinburgh whisky distiller.

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Old Photograph Dead Bell Ringer Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of a Dead Bell ringer in Glasgow, Scotland. A Dead bell or deid bell was a form of hand bell used in Scotland and northern England, in conjunction with deaths and funerals up until the 19th century. Belief in the supernatural was common in the Middle Ages and special protective powers were sometimes attributed to certain objects, including bells. The Church itself condoned the use of bells to frighten away evil spirits and this ensured the practice's survival and development. Bells were often baptised, and once baptised were believed by many to possess the power to ward off evil spells and spirits. The use of the dead bell was typical of this belief, rung for the recently deceased to keep evil spirits away from the body.



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Old Photograph Springhill Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in Springhill, Glasgow, Scotland. Springhill is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde on the eastern edge of the city. It can be accessed from the M8 motorway, using junctions 9 or 10.



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Old Photograph Duffus Moray Scotland

Old photograph of the cottage Post Office and church in Duffus, Moray, Scotland. Duffus was the base of the regionally powerful de Moravia family during the High Middle Ages. The family was probably of Flemish origin. Freskin de Moravia came north from his lands in Lothian as part of an army of King David I to put down another rebellion by the men of Moray. Freskin was one of several Flemings who had lands in Moray bestowed upon him; this seems to have been an attempt by the kings of Scotland to replace the native Gaelic nobility, who had resisted their rule and prevented them forming a cohesive kingdom, most notably in the 1130 uprising led by Angus, Earl of Moray. It is also quite possible that the house of Douglas descend from Freskin's family. Bricius de Douglas, son of William, Lord of Douglas, became Bishop of Moray in 1203. A man named Freskin of Kerdal is found amongst the benefactors of Spynie Cathedral.



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