Tour Scotland Video Linn Of Dee River Dee Near Braemar Aberdeenshire Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland video of Linn Of Dee on the River Dee near Braemar on ancestry visit to Aberdeenshire, Scotland. At Linn of Dee the river passes east through a 300 metre natural rock gorge. The River Dee rises at approximately 4,000 feet in elevation on the plateau of Braeriach in the Cairngorm Mountains, the highest source of any major river in the British Isles. Emerging in a number of pools called the Wells of Dee the young Dee then flows across the plateau to the cliff edge from where the Falls of Dee plunge into An Garbh Choire. The river is then joined by a tributary coming from the Pools of Dee in the Lairig Ghru and then flows south down the Lairig Ghru between Ben Macdui and Cairn Toul, tumbling over falls in the Chest of Dee on its way to White Bridge and the confluence with the Geldie Burn. At Linn of Dee the river passes east through a 300 metre natural rock gorge. Between there and Braemar, Lui Water, formed by Luibeg and Derry burns, and Quoich Water join the growing River Dee. The River Clunie enters the Dee at Braemar. The Dee is a popular salmon fishing river, having a succession of varied pools, intersected by sharp rapids.

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Old Photograph Deanston Mill Scotland

Old photograph of Deanston Cotton Mill on the south bank of the River Teith by Doune, Scotland. This Scottish Mill was built by the Buchanan brothers of Carston, Killearn near Glasgow, in 1785, and utilised the River Teith to power the mill. In 1808 James Finlay and Company bought the mill and developed it into the industrial leader of its time, which included the construction of a 1500 yard long Lade. James Smith, a manager of the mill, was a successful entrepreneur and inventor. He built unusually designed accommodation over four levels for his workforce, called the divisions, which was new in its day. At its peak, the mill had over 1000 workers and had the largest waterwheel in Europe, Hercules. The cotton mill closed in 1965. On the site, the Deanston Whisky Distillery opened in 1966.



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Old Photograph Polmood Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Polmood near Tweedsmuir in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. Polmood was for many centuries the centre of the Hunter family in the lowlands and the earliest record was a charter dated 1057 to Norman Hunter of Polmood. It was once a Peel tower, part of a chain of beacons running down the Tweed Valley. Polmood is commemorated in The Piper of Polmood a piece based on old Scottish folk tunes by Victor Babin.



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Old Photograph Auskerry Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of the lighthouse on Auskerry a small island in the eastern Orkney Islands, Scotland. Auskerry is located in the North Sea south of Stronsay. The lighthouse lights the north entrance to the Stronsay Firth. It was built in 1866 by engineers David and Thomas Stevenson. Thomas, born 22 July 1818, died 8 May 1887, was a pioneering Scottish lighthouse designer and meteorologist, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, as well as the Stevenson screen used in meteorology. His designs, celebrated as ground breaking, ushered in a new era of lighthouse creation. He served as president of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, as president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and was a co-founder of the Scottish Meteorological Society.



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Tour Scotland Video St Salvator's Chapel North Street St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of St Salvator's Chapel on North Street on ancestry visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. This is one of two collegiate chapels belonging to the University of St Andrews, the other being St Leonard's Chapel. It was founded in 1450, built in the Late Gothic architectural style, and refurbished in the 1680s, 1860s and throughout the 20th century. It is currently the chapel of the United college as well as being the major university chapel.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Music Wind Ensemble Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish music wind ensemble on ancestry visit to a church in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. A concert band, also called wind ensemble, symphonic band, wind symphony, wind orchestra, wind band, symphonic winds, symphony band, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, along with the double bass.

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Old Photograph Culcreuch Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Culcreuch Castle by Fintry near Loch Lomond, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built in 1296 by Maurice Galbraith. It was the clan seat of Clan Galbraith from 1320 to 1624, when it was sold to a cousin, Alexander Seton of Gargunnock, to settle a financial debt. In 1632, it was purchased by Robert Napier, a younger son of John Napier, the 8th Laird of Merchiston. The Napier family held the estate for five generations. The castle was used to garrison Oliver Cromwell’s troops in 1654. In 1796, the castle was sold to Alexander Spiers of Glasgow, who built a cotton mill and a whisky distillery in Fintry.



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Old Photograph Netherhall House Largs Scotland

Old photograph of Netherhall House by Largs in Ayrshire, Scotland. This was once the home of Lord Kelvin famous Glasgow scientist who was most well known for his Kelvin temperature scale based on absolute zero. He is buried in Westminster Abbey, London, England, beside Sir Isaac Newton.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Portgordon Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Portgordon near Buckie on the Moray Firth, Scotland. This intermediate station was opened, first as Port Gordon Station, on 1 May 1886. It was renamed Portgordon Station by the London and North Eastern Raliway before 1938 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 May 1968.



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Tour Scotland Video Highland Cathedral Agricultural Show Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video Perth and District Pipe Band playing Highland Cathedral on visit to the agricultural show in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The show is a two day event held on the South Inch Park in Perth.

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Tour Scotland Video Shetland Ponies With Riders Agricultural Show Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Shetland Ponies and riders on visit to the agricultural show in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The show is a two day event held on the South Inch Park in Perth. Shetland ponies originated in the Shetland Islands, located north east of mainland Scotland. Small horses have been kept on the Shetland Isles since the Bronze Age. were first used for pulling carts, carrying peat, coal and other items, and plowing farm land. Then, as the Industrial Revolution increased the need for coal in the middle of the 19th century, thousands of Shetland ponies traveled to mainland Britain to be pit ponies, working underground hauling coal, often for their entire, often short, lives. Coal mines in the eastern United States also imported some of these animals. The last pony mine in the United States closed in 1971.

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Tour Scotland Video Orange Sheep Listening To Bagpipes Agricultural Show Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of an orange sheep listening to bagpipe music on visit to the agricultural show in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The show is a two day event held on the South Inch Park in Perth.

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Tour Scotland Video Junior Show Jumping Perth Agricultural Show Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of junior show jumping on visit to the agricultural show in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The show is a two day event held on the South Inch Park in Perth.

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