Old Photograph Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery Scotland

Old photograph of Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery on Hoy, Orkney Islands, Scotland. This Scottish cemetery was begun in 1915 when Scapa Flow was the base of the Grand Fleet. Lyness remained as a Royal Naval base until July 1946 and the cemetery contains graves from both wars.



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Tour Scotland Video Suitcase Guitar Player Royal Mile Festival Fringe Edinburgh



Tour Scotland video of a suitcase guitar player. playing music at the Festival Fringe on The Royal Mile on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Maryhill Barracks Gates Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the gates to Maryhill Barracks in Glasgow, Scotland. These Scottish barracks were opened as Garrioch Barracks in 1872. Built to accommodate an infantry regiment, a squadron of cavalry and a battery of field artillery, it dominated the area which is now the Wyndford housing estate. The barracks replaced the previous Infantry Barracks at Duke Street in the East End of the city, which dated from 1795. Maryhill Barracks became the depot of the Highland Light Infantry, City of Glasgow regiment after the Childers Reforms of 1881. During the 1919 general strike in Glasgow, the soldiers at Maryhill Barracks were deemed to be unreliable and were confined to barracks while troops from elsewhere were brought in to impose order. It was in 1919 that Maryhill Barracks was used as a marshalling place for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders before embarking for India. It was also home to the Scots Greys and famously held Adolf Hitler's second-in-command Rudolf Hess during World War II after his supposed Peace flight to the UK in 1941, at a time when it was used as a prisoner of war camp. In 1942, the Free French leader, General Charles de Gaulle, visited French troops there. The Barracks were decommissioned and largely demolished in the early 1960s.



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Old Photograph West Sandwick Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages on West Sandwick on the Isle of Yell, Shetland Islands, Scotland. This is one of the few settlements in the west of the island. The area south of Southladie Flo is an important feeding area for locally breeding Red throated Divers. As recently as the 1800s, the behaviour of the red throated bird was used to forecast the weather; according to the conventional wisdom of the time, birds flying inland or giving short cries predicted good weather, while those flying out to sea or giving long, wailing cries predicted rain. In the Orkney and Shetland islands of Scotland, the species is still known as the " rain goose " in deference to its supposed weather predicting capabilities. The people of the nearby Faroe Islands believed that if the red throated bird sounded like a cat, then rain was imminent, while a call of gaa-gaa-gaa or turkatrae-turkatrae predicted fine weather.





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Tour Scotland Video Walk Through The Festival Fringe On The Royal Mile In Edinburgh



Tour Scotland video of a walk through the Festival Fringe on The Royal Mile on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video M71 Passenger Bus Drive From Kinross To Milnathort Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of an M71 passenger bus drive from Kinross to Milnathort in Perthshire, Scotland. A passenger bus drive from Kinross Park and Ride to Milnathort village in Perthshire. Kinross Park and Ride is west of the town centre, from Kinross express coach services operate south to Edinburgh and north through Milnathort to Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness in the Scottish Highlands

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Tour Scotland Video M71 Passenger Bus Drive From Halbeath Fife To Kinross Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of an M71 passenger bus drive from Halbeath Park and Ride by Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. A passenger bus drive from Halbeath Park and Ride in Fife, North to Kinross Park and Ride in Perthshire. Halbeath Park and Ride is a bus park and ride located just off the M90, to the east of Dunfermline, in Fife, for commuting journeys most commonly to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dunfermline and Perth. Kinross Park and Ride is west of the town centre, from Kinross express coach services operate south to Edinburgh and north to Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness in the Scottish Highlands

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Old Photographs Railway Station Bearsden Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Bearsden, Glasgow, Scotland. The naming of the town is unusual, in that the current title of the town, which was originally New Kilpatrick, was taken from the station name, rather than the town giving its name to the station. These days trains to Glasgow operate on a regular schedule, with a departure once every 15 minutes from Monday to Saturday during the daytime. Two trains per hour go via Glasgow Central on the Argyle Line, and on to Motherwell, while the other two travel via Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley on the North Clyde Line.





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Old Photograph Inveramsay Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Inveramsay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction Railway connected the Aberdeenshire town of Turriff with the Great North of Scotland Railway's main line at Inveramsay. A separate company, the Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension Railway, built extension to a station called Banff and Macduff. The junction railway, together with the junction station at Inveramsay, opened on 5 September 1857 and the extension opened on 4 June 1860. Both railways were absorbed by the Great North of Scotland Railway on 1 August 1866, and the line was extended to a new Macduff station in 1872. Following the grouping in 1923, the line became part of London and North Eastern Railway and was nationalised, becoming part of British Railways. The Macduff branch closed to passengers on 1 October 1951, completely to the north of Turiff on 1 August 1961 and the remaining line on 3 January 1966.



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Old Photograph Muckairn Church Scotland

Old photograph of Muckairn Church by Taynuilt, Argyll, Scotland. The modern parish church of Muckairn was built in 1829, but immediately south of it are the fragmentary remains of its medieval predecessor, which served the former parish of Muckairn or Kilespikeral. A number of medieval stone slabs or blocks with weathered decoration may be seen in the churchyard, while two medieval carved stones, probably from the earlier church, are built into the outer face of the south wall of the modern church.





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Old Photograph Mertoun Parish Church Scotland

Old photograph of Mertoun Parish Church near St Boswells in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. The original church of 1241, not on this site, was dedicated to St Ninian. The present church was built 1652, renovated 1820 and enlarged 1898 with the addition of the north aisle and vestry. Saint Ninian is a Christian saint first mentioned in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland. For this reason he is known as the Apostle to the Southern Picts, and there are numerous dedications to him in those parts of Scotland with a Pictish heritage, throughout the Scottish Lowlands, and in parts of Northern England with a Northumbrian heritage. In Scotland, Ninian is also known as Ringan, and as Trynnian in Northern England.



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Old Photograph Barjarg House Scotland

Old photograph of Barjarg house located four miles south east of Penpont which is two miles west of Thornhill north of Dumfries, Scotland. The original L-planned tower, dates from the late 16th century, and is said to have been given by the Earl of Morton to Thomas Grierson in 1587. Subsequent owners included the judge Lord Tinwald and the minister Andrew Hunter.



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Old Photograph St Drostan's Episcopal Church Tarfside Scotland

Old photograph of St Drostan's Episcopal Church by Tarfside in Glenesk, Angus, Scotland. This Scottish church was built in 1879 by Lord Forbes in memory of his brother Alexander Penrose Forbes who was Bishop of Brechin.



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Old Photograph Milltimber Scotland

Old photograph of Milltimber now a suburb to the west of Aberdeen, Scotland. Along with the nearby settlements of Cults and Bieldside, it is now home to some of the most wealthy residents of Aberdeen.



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Old Photograph Cadder House Scotland

Old photograph of Cadder House by Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, Scotland. In antiquity, Cadder was the site of a Roman fort on the route of the Antonine Wall. Cadder House was a property held by the Stirling family for generations. Cadder is located five miles north of Glasgow city centre.



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Tour Scotland Video Atholl Street Dunkeld Highland Perthshire



Tour Scotland video Atholl Street just over the bridge on ancestry visit to Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. Atholl Street on the A923 North road is the main street in Dunkeld. The alignment of the town was radically altered in 1809 by the building of a new stone bridge over the River Tay by Thomas Telford at the east end of the town, and the laying out of Atholl Street at right angles to the old alignment. This street, which retains much of its Georgian appearance, was part of the main route north to Inverness in the Highlands, until Dunkeld was bypassed in 1977, along with Birnam, by the A9.

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Tour Scotland Video Thomas Telford Bridge Over River Tay In Dunkeld Highland Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of the Thomas Telford Bridge which spans the River Tay on ancestry visit to Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish bridge is considered to be one of the greatest civil engineering feats of the 19th century. Thomas Telford, born 9 August 1757, died 2 September 1834, was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, England. he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels. Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed The Colossus of Roads, and, reflecting his command of all types of civil engineering in the early 19th century, he was elected as the first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a post he retained for 14 years until his death.

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