Tour Scotland Video John Robertson From Atlanta Singing Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of John Robertson from Atlanta, Georgia, USA, singing a cover version of Viva La Vida by Coldplay in the High Street during a visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

This surname is especially common in Scotland, where Robert was a popular personal name and the name of three kings of Scotland, including King Robert the Bruce, born 1274, died 1329. Donnachaidh Reamhair, otherwise Duncan, a descendant of the Royal House of Duncan through the Celtic earls of Atholl, was the ancestor of the Clan Robertson which came to prominence in 1306 when Robert the Bruce was defeated at the Battle of Methven, near Perth, and fled into Atholl for protection. The Clan fought at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, and Duncan's son was called Robert after the King. It is from him that the Robertson surname originates.

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Tour Scotland Video Big Screen Concert Hall Plaza Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of the big screen in the Concert Hall Plaza on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Big Screen broadcasts the action from Gleneagles so that fans of golf can watch The Ryder Cup 2014.

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Old Photograph Law Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Law Castle in West Kilbride, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built in the 15th century for King James III's sister Mary as a wedding gift upon her marriage to Thomas Boyd, the Earl of Arran.



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Old Photograph Nigel Tranter Scotland

Old photograph of Nigel Tranter who was born on 23 November 1909 in Glasgow, Scotland. Nigel was and educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. He trained as an accountant and worked in Scottish National Insurance Company, founded by his uncle. In 1933 he married May Jean Campbell Grieve and had two children, Frances May and Philip. He joined the Royal Artillery and served in East Anglia in the Second World War. Nigel had a great interest in castles and their associated history. As a result, in 1935, at age 25, he published his first book, The Fortalices and Early Mansions of Southern Scotland. Between 1962 and 1971 he published the landmark series The Fortified House in Scotland, in five volumes. He died on 9 January 2000 at the age of 90 after contracting flu.



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Old Photograph John Muir Scotland

Old photograph of John Muir who was born on April 21, 1838 in Dunbar, Scotland. John was Scottish American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization. The John Muir Trail, a hiking trail in the Sierra Nevada, was named in his honor. Other such places include Muir Woods National Monument, Muir Beach, John Muir College, Mount Muir, Camp Muir and Muir Glacier. John Muir died at California Hospital in Los Angeles on December 24, 1914.



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Old Photograph William Black Scotland

Old photograph of William Black who was born on 13 November 1841 in Glasgow, Scotland. William was born to James Black and his second wife Caroline Conning. He was educated to be a landscape painter, a training that influenced his literary life, and as a writer he became celebrated for the detailed and atmospheric descriptions of landscapes and seascapes in novels such as White Wings and A Yachting Romance. From 1879 until his death on 10 December 1898, he lived at 1 Paston Place, Brighton, England.



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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Passenger Train To Ladybank Fife



Tour Scotland video of cloudy day ride on a diesel passenger train on ancestry visit to Ladybank, Fife, Scotland. Ladybank railway station was opened in 1847 by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway on their line from Burntisland, being the point at which the line divided into two branches to Cupar and Lindores. The latter branch was subsequently extended to Hilton Junction, near Perth, Perthshire, the following year. On 6 June 1857, the Fife and Kinross Railway opened, providing a link to Kinross. This line was closed to passengers on 6 June 1950, with the line between Auchtermuchty and Ladybank closing to freight on 29 January 1957. These days the station is served by two trains per hour to and from Edinburgh, one of these is the hourly service to Dundee and the other runs to Perth.

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Tour Scotland Video Loch Coruisk Isle Of Skye



Tour Scotland video of Loch Coruisk Isle of Skye, Scotland. Loch Coruisk, in Scottish Gaelic, Coire Uisg, the Cauldron of Waters, is a loch, located at the foot of the Black Cuillin in the Isle of Skye, in the Scottish Highlands. It is reputed to be the home of a water horse.

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Old Photograph Limekilns Church Scotland

Old photograph of the church in Limekilns, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish church was reconstructed in 1826, from an earlier church which was built in 1785. Before 1785 residents of Charlestown and Limekilns were required to travel to church at Dunfermline. During the summer of 1824 when the current church was being built, the minister Revd Johnston is said to have held services in a tent in a field beside the village.



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Old Photograph Garth House Scotland

Old photograph of Garth House in Glen Lyon Perthshire, Scotland. Garth estate was bought in 1832 By Sir Archibald Campbell. He pulled down the old house and built a new Garth House, made a new garden and planted the estate. He sold the estate in 1842. Sir Donald Currie, a famous Victorian shipping magnate who bought Garth Estate in 1880 added to and modernised Garth House. In 1951 this Scottish mansion house was given to the Scottish Youth Hostels Association by the Mrs MacKenzie Anderson mother of Lieut Ian Mackenzie Anderson who died when HM submarine Odin was sunk by enemy action in Tarranton Bay on June 13.



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Old Photograph Amisfield House Scotland

Old photograph of Amisfield House by Haddington, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was built for Francis Charteris born 31 January 1749, died 20 January 1808. He was the only son of the Honourable Francis Charteris, second son of James Wemyss, 5th Earl of Wemyss. The fifth Earl's eldest son David Wemyss, Lord Elcho had been attainted for his part in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 so after the Earl's death in 1756 the earldom became forfeit. He was elected to Parliament for the Haddington district of burghs in 1780. From 1784 he was in opposition to the government of William Pitt the Younger. In 1787 Charteris' uncle Lord Elcho, who but for his attainder would have been 6th Earl of Wemyss, died. As Charteris' father had not been attainted himself, he assumed the title as 7th Earl of Wemyss, with Charteris assuming the title Lord Elcho. At the time eldest sons of Scottish peers were not allowed to represent Scottish constituencies in Parliament, and after a debate on the matter Charteris had to vacate his seat. Although it was later established that the Earldom of Wemyss remained forfeit and his father was not after all a Scottish peer, Charteris did not attempt to re-enter Parliament. Charteris died on 20 January 1808 at Amisfield House, East Lothian, and was interred at St Mary's Collegiate Church, Haddington.



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Old Photograph John Fraser Scotland

Old photograph of John Fraser who was born on 18 March 1931 in Glasgow, Scotland. John is a Scottish born actor and writer. One of his earliest roles was as Inigo Jollifant in the second film version of J.B. Priestley's The Good Companions. He went on to have starring roles in films such as El Cid, The Trials of Oscar Wilde, playing Lord Alfred Douglas, and Roman Polanski's Repulsion. He made appearances on television series including Danger Man, Columbo, Doctor Who, and The Bill.



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Old Photograph Donald Meek Scotland

Old photograph of Donald Meek who was born on July 14 in 1878 in Glasgow, Scotland. Donald was a Scottish American character actor. He first worked as a stage actor and later became a film actor, starring in several movies including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Little Miss Broadway, and State Fair. Before becoming an actor, he fought in the Spanish American War and contracted yellow fever which caused him to lose his hair. He was cast as timid, worrisome characters in many of his films, and is perhaps best known for his roles as Mr. Poppins in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You and as whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock in John Ford's Stagecoach. He died on Monday, 18 November 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.



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Old Photograph Gordon Jackson Scotland

Old photograph of Gordon Jackson who was born on 19 December 1923 in Glasgow, Scotland. Gordon Cameron Jackson was a Scottish Emmy Award winning actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and as George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals. He was the youngest of five children. He attended Hillhead High School, and in his youth he took part in BBC radio shows including Children's Hour. He left school aged 15 and became a draughtsman for Rolls-Royce. His film career started in 1942, when producers from Ealing Studios were looking for a young Scot to act in The Foreman Went to France and he was suggested for the part. After this, he returned to his job at Rolls-Royce, but he was soon asked to do more films, and he made the decision to make acting his career. He soon appeared in other Ealing films, including Millions Like Us, San Demetrio London, The Captive Heart, Eureka Stockade and Whisky Galore a 1949 Ealing comedy film from the novel Whisky Galore by Compton MacKenzie. Both the film and the novel are based on the real life 1941 shipwreck of the S.S. Politician near the island of Eriskay and the unauthorised taking of its cargo of whisky. In the early years of his career, Jackson also worked in rep in Glasgow, Worthing, England, and Perth, Perthshire. He died 1989, aged 66, in London, England. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.



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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Pipe Band Kirkgate Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Perth and District Pipe Band playing traditional Scottish music in the Kirkgate outside St John's Kirk during the 2014 Ryder Cup Golf celebrations on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Pipe Band High Street Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Perth and District Pipe Band playing traditional Scottish music on the High Street during the 2014 Ryder Cup Golf celebrations on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Yarn Bombing Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Yarn Bombing outside the Old Ship Inn on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Local Scottish knitters went around the city to brighten up the city centre. Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, kniffiti, urban knitting or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk. While yarn installations, called yarn bombs or yarnstorms, may last for years, they are considered non permanent, and, unlike other forms of graffiti, can be easily removed if necessary. Nonetheless, the practice is still technically illegal in some jurisdictions, though it is not often prosecuted vigorously. The practice is believed to have originated in the America with Texas knitters trying to find a creative way to use their leftover and unfinished knitting projects, but it has since spread worldwide.

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Old Photograph Comlongon Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Comlongon Castle near Dumfries, Scotland. Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray granted the lands of Comlongon, in the early 14th century, to his nephew William de Moravia, ancestor of the Murrays of Cockpool. His descendant Cuthbert of Cockpool built Comlongon Castle in the later part of the 15th century, to replace the Murrays earlier castle of Cockpool, of which only earthworks remain at Cockpool Farm, to the south west of Comlongon. His son John Murray was created Baron Cockpool in 1508. Descendants of the Murrays were later created Viscounts Stormont in 1621, and Earls of Mansfield in 1776, and Comlongon was part of the Earl's estate until 1984. The castle is reportedly haunted by the ghost of Lady Marion Carruthers who took her own life by leaping from the lookout tower.



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Old Photograph Edwin Scrymgeour Scotland

Old photograph of Edwin Scrymgeour who was born on 28 July 1866 in Dundee, Scotland. Edwin was was a Member of Parliament for Dundee. He is the only person ever elected to the House of Commons on a prohibitionist ticket, as the candidate of the Scottish Prohibition Party. He was educated at West End Academy. He was a pioneer of the Scottish temperance movement and established his party in 1901 to further this aim. He served on Dundee City Council and began contesting elections in the 1908 Dundee by election which saw Winston Churchill first elected for Dundee and continued to fight at every election thereafter, increasing his vote. In part this was because of his popularity, general left-wing sympathies and history with the labour movement. Churchill's stance against suffragettes may have had an impact in a city where many women were breadwinners, while many men were " kettle boilers." In the 1922 election, Scrymgeour and Labour candidate E. D. Morel jointly ousted Winston Churchill, who had represented the city as a Liberal. Scrymgeour remained a Member of Parliament for Dundee until the 1931 general election, when he was ousted by Florence Horsbrugh. Out of Parliament Scrymgeour worked as an evangelical Chaplain at East House and Maryfield Hospital in Dundee. He died on 1 February 1947.

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Old Photograph Altyre House Scotland

Old photograph of Altyre House located South of Forres, Moray, Scotland. Altyre Estate is the family home of the Gordon Cummings, the sole descendants of the great family of Comyn. Altyre House, which was renovated by Sir William Gordon Cumming at the end of the 19th Century with John Kinross as its architect, was demolished in 1962. At the centre of the estate is Blairs House, designed by W.L. Carruthers in 1895, and an Italianate farm steading, possibly the work of Archibald Simpson, is nearby. Altyre also gives its name to woodlands and the surrounding parish which united with Rafford in 1651. The remains of Altyre Kirk date from the 13th century.



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Old Photograph Town Hall Dingwall Scotland

Old photograph of the town hall in Dingwall, Scotland. This building is located on the north side of Dingwall High Street and was originally the site of the tolbooth. The earliest parts of the building date from the 17th century but there was extensive remodelling carried out in 1732 and 1782, as well as in 1905 and 1925. The jail was declared unfit for prisoners in 1830.



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Tour Scotland Video James VI Mural Lodge Scoon and Perth No 3 Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of the King James VI Mural in Lodge Scoon and Perth No 3 on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. On a wall of the lodge hall used by Lodge Scoon and Perth No. 3 can be found a mural depicting James VI kneeling at their altar at his initiation. The oldest existing record of the Lodge, called " The Mutual Agreement " of 24 December, 1658, records that James was " entered Freemason and Fellowcraft of the Lodge of Scoon " on 15 April, 1601.

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Tour Scotland Video Coronation Robert The Bruce Window Scoon and Perth No 3 Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of the Coronation of the King Robert The Bruce stained glass window in Lodge Scoon and Perth No 3 on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This window window shows the coronation of King Robert the Bruce in Scone, for the second time, on March 29 1306. The explanation for the two coronations is that, following the murder of Red Comyn in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce came north as quickly as possible and was crowned in Scone by Bishop Lamberton of St Andrews on March 27. Two days later, however, Isabella, the Countess of Buchan, shown in the panel holding the circlet of gold, appeared in Scone, claiming the hereditary right to crown the King of Scots. She was not a woman to be ignored and so, as most of Bruce’s party were still in Scone, the ritual was performed again on March 29. Isabella paid dearly for her devotion. After the defeat of Bruce at Methven a few weeks later, she was captured and imprisoned in a cage in Berwick Castle for four years. The window was by artist David Gauld, born 1863, died 1936, one of the highly regarded Glasgow Boys.

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Old Photograph Waygateshaw House Scotland

Old photograph of Waygateshaw House by Carluke, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The Estate here was owned by the Lockhart family from 1539 until 1720. This Scottish house was a property of the Murrays of Touchadam, though passed to by marriage to Alexander Lockhart in 1539. Stephen Lockhart was indicted in the murder of Henry Lord Darnley in 1572. The family forfeited the Estate for taking part in the Pentland Rising of 1666, but later regained the Estate. It was then sold to the Weirs in 1720, and then passed to the Steel family.



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Old Photographs Drimsynie House Scotland

Old photograph of Drimsynie House near Lochgoilhead, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish house is located on the North West edge of Loch Goil. Drimsynie was home to the Dempster family in the late 19th and early 20th century. John Dempster built a golf course below the house and used to moor his yacht Vol au Vent below the golf course on the Loch. The Dempsters were still at Drimsynie until around 1905 when they moved to Methven Castle near Perth, Perthshire. John Dempster was the son of Robert Dempster and Elizabeth Bonello. He married Mary Emma Walker. He lived at Methven Castle and before that he lived at Drimsynie House in Argyllshire, and at Keele Hall, Staffordshire, England. He was decorated with the award of the Kaiser Cup, with his yacht Vol au Vent for the Heligoland Yacht Race. The Cup was presented by Kaiser Wilhelm II.




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Old Photograph Fullarton House Scotland

Old photograph of Fullarton House near Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish house was built by William Fullarton of that Ilk in 1745 and altered by his son. The Fullarton name is thought to come from the office of " Fowler to the King ", the purpose of which was to supply wildfowl to the King as required. The dwelling which came with the post was called Fowlertoun and the family may have eventually adopted the name. The Fullarton's of Angus had been required by King Robert I to supply him with wildfowl at his castle of Forfar, Angus. William Fullarton, the builder of the house, inherited the estate from his grandfather in 1710, he having inherited it from his brother in turn. Orangefield and Fairfield near Monkton, Ayrshire had been part of the Fullarton Estate, however they were sold by Colonel William Fullarton around 1803, prior to his taking up an official appointment in Trinidad as one of the government's commissioners. Colonel Fullarton died in 1808. Colonel Stewart Murray Fullarton of Bartonholm, a second cousin, married Rosetta, said to be the daughter of the Colonel Fullarton, and their two sons continued the line, however the estate had been sold in 1805 to the Duke of Portland. Fullarton House was was demolished in 1966.



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Old Photograph Garscadden Gates Scotland

Old photograph of Garscadden Gates in Drumchapel in Glasgow, Scotland. The Girnin' Gates, as they were known were built at the southern entrance to Garscadden House in 1789 for James Colquhoun, who was the laird of Garscadden. The Fleming family owned Garscadden Estate, in the 14th century, after which it fell heir to Sir Robert Erskine, and then to the Galbraiths in the 15th century. It was in 1664 that Archibald Colquhoun of Camstradden, near Luss by Loch Lomond, became it’s latest owner. In 1938 Garscadden House was acquired by Glasgow Corporation and evacuees were sent there during the Second World War. It was destroyed by fire in 1959.



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Old Photograph Jimmie Guthrie Memorial Scotland

Old photograph of the Jimmie Guthrie memorial in Hawick, Scotland. Tour Scottish Borders. Andrew James " Jimmie " Guthrie, born 23 May 1897, died 8 August 1937, was a Scottish motorcycle racer famous for 19 motorcycle Grand Prix wins and 3 victories in the North West 200 and 6 wins at the Isle of Man TT Races in his career. On leaving school he became an apprentice engineer with a local firm. He joined the Border Battalion of the 4th King's Own Scottish Borderers and on his 18th birthday headed off to the horrors of Gallipoli and the Great War. In a dreadful accident, 215 men were killed just miles from home, when their troop train collided with a goods train at Gretna and was subsequently hit by an express. Guthrie did not return to Hawick until the war ended, a gruelling tour of duty that took in Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and the Western Front in France. He died aged 40, riding his favourite Norton motorcycle while leading the field and thrilling a crowd of 250,000 people packed into the Sachsenring circuit in Germany. He he was on the final lap when he came off his bike on the notorious Noetzhold corner, suffered terrible injuries and died soon afterwards. The Germans laid on a special train and a military escort as Jimmy’s body made the solemn journey home to Hawick where his funeral attracted huge crowds.



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Old Photograph Lawrie Reilly Scotland

Old photograph of Lawrie Reilly who was born on 28 October 1928 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Lawrie was a Scottish football player. He was one of the " Famous Five ", the Hibernian forward line during the late 1940s and early 1950s, along with Bobby Johnstone, Gordon Smith, Eddie Turnbull, and Willie Ormond. Reilly is rated as the top forwards in Scottish football history and was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in 2005. He died on 22 July 2013.



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Old Photograph Neil Munro Memorial Glen Aray Scotland

Old photograph of the Neil Munro memorial in Glen Aray near Inveraray, Scotland. Neil Munro, Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic, born 3 June 1863, died 22 December 1930, was the author of the famous " Para Handy " stories, he spent much of his time in Glen Aray when young and his mother came from a farm close to this point. He was born in Inveraray, the illegitimate son of Ann Munro, a kitchen maid; his death certificate gives his father's name as James Thompson Munro. He was brought up by his maternal grandparents and an aunt. He attended Glencaddie Primary School and Church Square Public School, leaving at 14. For five years he worked in the office of the Sheriff Clerk of Argyll, a fairly prestigious post which has led to speculation that he may have had undisclosed family connections. He then moved to Glasgow, and worked briefly in the cashier's office in an ironmonger's shop in the Trongate, before working as a journalist on the Greenock Advertiser, the Glasgow News, the Falkirk Herald and the Glasgow Evening News. He died in Craigendoran, Helensburgh on 22 December 1930.



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Old Photograph Harry Lauder Scotland

Old photograph of Harry Lauder who was born on 4 August 1870 in Portobello in Edinburgh, Scotland. Harry was the eldest of seven children to John Lauder, a potter, and his wife Isabelle née Macleod. John Lauder, was a descendent of Lauders of the Bass, and Isabella was born in Arbroath in Angus, to a family from the Black Isle. Lauder's father moved to Newbold, Derbyshire, England, in 1882 to take up a job designing china, but died of pneumonia later that year. Upon his death, Isabella moved the family to Arbroath and Harry worked part-time at the local flax. The following year he moved independently to Hamilton, South Lanarkshire where he was employed as a miner, a job which he maintained for the next decade. On 19 June 1891, at age 21, Lauder married Ann, daughter of James Vallance, a colliery manager in Hamilton. At around that time, Lauder initiated a singing career and gained a reasonable reputation as a singer and comedian with local concert parties. To pass the time, Lauder sang to fellow miners who encouraged him to perform in local music halls. While singing in nearby Larkhall, he received 5 shillings, the first time he was paid for singing. He received further engagements including a weekly " go as you please " night held by Mrs. Christina Baylis at her Scotia Music Hall, Metropole Theatre in Glasgow. By the 1900s, Lauder had become the highest paid performer in the world, and was the first Scottish artist to sell a million records. He raised vast amounts of money for the war effort during World War I, for which he was subsequently knighted in 1919. He went into semi retirement in the mid 1930s, but briefly emerged to entertain troops in World War II. By the late 1940s he was suffering from long periods of ill health and died in Scotland in 1950.

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Old Photograph Neilson Institute Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of the Neilson Institute in Paisley by Glasgow, Scotland. The John Neilson Educational Institution at Oakshawhead, Paisley, opened to pupils in April 1852. John Neilson was a Paisley grocer who died in 1839, aged 61, and was buried in Paisley Abbey. John Neilson's will directed a large portion of his wealth to be used to build a school and to establish a fund to finance the education of boys who would not otherwise be able to afford an education. His nephew, Archibald Gardner, was one of the executors and he dedicated himself to the task of establishing the school.



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Old Photograph Pat Crerand Scotland

Old photograph of Pat Crerand who was born on 19 February 1939 to Irish immigrants in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland. His father, Michael Crerand, was from Newtownstewart, County Tyrone, Ireland, and his mother, Sarah Boyle, was from Gweedore, County Donegal, where Crerand spent much of his childhood. His father was killed on 12 March 1941 in a German air raid on John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank, where he was working the fire watch on the night of his death; Crerand was two years old. Pat became a Scottish former footballer. After six years at Celtic he moved to Manchester United in England, where he was a member of teams that won the English League title twice, the FA Cup and European Cup. He also gained 16 international caps for Scotland.



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Old Photograph Aikenhead House Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Aikenhead House in Kings Park in Glasgow, Scotland. The last private owner of this Scottish mansion house was Mr Henry Erskine Gordon, born 1849, died 1929, the grandson of John Gordon who had built the house. Mr Gordon died at home on 12th April 1929. The first Gordon of Aikenhead was a principal partner in the extensive West India firm of Somervell, Gordon and Company afterwards Stirling, Gordon and Company. His father, Alexander Gordon, by his wife, Isabel Fleming, daughter of John Fleming, a prosperous maltman, acquired a considerable section of land on the banks of St. Enoch's Burn, then a trout stream, running through St. Enoch's Square, and emptying itself into the Clyde, near the bridge. Here he built a handsome and substantial house on the north side of the old Westergate, in which he and his family resided for many years. About the time the American colonies rebelled, Mr. Gordon's neighbouring laird, Andrew Buchanan, son of Maltman George, who died in 1737, laid out in the Lang Croft several steadings for feuing, running north from Mr. Gordon's house, now known as Buchanan Street. On one of these feus James Johnston, a Glasgow merchant, built an elegant house, a short way north of the present Arcade. The failure of so many of the Virginia merchants during the progress of the war put a complete stop to building operations for a time, and Mr. Johnston's house stood alone among the vacant feus for many years, its garden occupying the site of Prince's Court. This house and garden were bought by John Gordon, and occupied by him as his town house until his death. He also purchased the estate of Aikenhead from Robert Scot, of the Thistle Bank, on which he built a spacious country house in 1806. Many of the older Glasgow merchants remember Mr. Gordon well. At the time when political feeling ran high, he and his partner, Charles Stirling, were esteemed the leaders of the Tory party in Glasgow. Mr. Gordon has been described as a stately, well made gentleman, of somewhat lofty bearing, enhanced by his style of dress; for notwithstanding the varied changes of fashion and custom, he kept to the last by the knee breeches, ruffles, and powdered hair. He was greatly respected by his brother traders and by the public, as an upright and honourable merchant, a good citizen, and a benevolent and hospitable gentleman. He was appointed chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in 1804 and 1805. He was twice married, first to a daughter of John Alston, merchant and banker, Glasgow. Their only child married Mungo Campbell, of John Campbell and Company. On the death of his first wife, Mr. Gordon married a daughter of Gilbert Hamilton, Lord Provost in 1792-93, and first secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. John Gordon of Aikenhead, their only son, occupied the estate and died in 1828.



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Old Photograph Reverend Henry Williamson Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of Reverend Henry Williamson in Dundee, Scotland. Henry was the founder and honorary president of the Dundee Mill and Factory workers operatives Union. He was born in Surrey, England, in 1839 he had a brother John born 1841 and sisters Ann, born in 1846 and Jane, born in 1849. His parents were Charles Williamson and Harriet Edgeley again from Surrey. Henry became A unitarian minister in Dundee in 1866, he was one of the longest serving ministers there and the church is called the Williamson memorial chapel after him.



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Old Photographs Golf Course Alness Scotland

Old photograph of the golf course in Alness near the Cromarty Firth, Scotland. This Scottish golf course has been around since 1904 and has undergone some significant changes in the last 100 years. The most significant was the 1997 extension from nine to 18 holes.




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Old Photograph Tommy Ring Scotland

Old photograph of Tommy Ring who was born on 8 August 1930 in Glasgow, Scotland. Tommy was a Scottish footballer who played for Ashfield, Clyde, Everton, Barnsley in England, Aberdeen, Fraserburgh, Stevenage Town and the Scotland national team. He is perhaps best known for his time at Scottish club Clyde, during which he won the Scottish Cup in 1955 and 1958. Ring scored the winning goal in the replayed 1955 Scottish Cup Final, against Celtic. Ring also won Scottish Division Two championships in 1951-52 and 1956-57.



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Old Photograph Police Station Kirkcaldy Scotland

Old photograph of the Police Station n Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The 1903 Burgh Police Station once contained a Court House, jail, mortuary, exercise yard and stables. Officers policed Kirkcaldy on foot, horseback and bicycle, policing a population of over 34,000 persons. In 1949 Fife Constabulary was formed combining Kirkcaldy Burgh and Dunfermline City Police.



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Old Photograph St. Drostans Church Markinch Fife Scotland

Old photograph of St. Drostans Church in Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. This Scottish church is the successor of a preaching station said to have been established here towards the close of the 6th century. About the middle of the 11th century, it was given to the Culdees of Loch Leven in Perthshire. In 1203, Duncan, Earl of Fife gave the church to the Priory of St Andrews. On the 19th July 1243, the church was rededicated to St John the Baptist, the former dedication being to St Drostan or Modrust. Although the present parish church is modern, the western tower dates from the 12th century.



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Old Photograph Thomas Carlyle House Kirk Wynd Kirkcaldy Scotland

Old photograph of the Thomas Carlyle house in Kirk Wynd in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The celebrated Scottish essayist and Social historian was born at Ecclefechan in Dumfriesshire in 1795. He studied divinity at Edinburgh University but abandoned the clergy and left without a degree in 1814. He spent the next four years teaching mathematics. It was during this period that Carlyle was invited to be master of the Burgh school in Hill street, Kirkcaldy. Thomas Carlyle resided in the Kirk Wynd. Of Kirkcaldy Thomas Carlyle wrote: “ The Kirkcaldy population were a pleasant, honest kind of fellow mortals; something of quietly fruitful, of good old Scotch in their works and ways; more vernacular, peaceable, fixed, and almost genial in their mode of life than I had been used to in my Border homeland. I liked; those ancient little burghs and seaside villages, with their poor little havens, saltpans, and weather beaten breakwaters.Dissatisfied with teaching, Thomas Carlyle, returned to Edinburgh and briefly studied Law. He became a tutor and wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia and the Edinburgh Review. He married Jane Baillie Welsh, a writer, in 1826 and they set up a home on a farm in Craigen-puttock. In 1834 they moved to the Chelsea section of London, England, where Carlyle soon became known as the Sage of Chelsea. After the death of his wife in 1866 he edited her letters and prepared his Reminiscences, in which he revealed unfavourable traits in his character and his neglect of his wife, for which he could not forgive himself. He died in London on February the 5th, 1881.



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Old Photograph Glenluce Abbey Scotland

Old photograph of Glenluce Abbey, Wigtownshire, Scotland. This was was a Cistercian monastery called also Abbey of Luce or Vallis Lucis founded around 1190 by Rolland or Lochlann, Lord of Galloway and Constable of Scotland. Following the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the abbey fell into disuse. Gilbert, Earl of Cassillis obtained control of Glenluce during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. The Earl persuaded one of the monks of the abbey to counterfeit the necessary signatures to a deed conveying the lands of the abbey to him and his heirs. To ensure that the forgery was not discovered he employed a man to murder the monk and then persuaded his uncle, the laird of Bargany to hang his paid assassin on a trumped up charge of theft. The success of these actions encouraged him to obtain the lands of Crossraguel Abbey through the torturing of Allan Stewart, the commendator at his castle of Dunure.



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Tour Scotland Video Tango Dancing Chilli Festival Scone Palace Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of Tango dancing at the Chilli Festival on ancestry visit to the gardens at Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. These wonderful dancers run Tango classes in Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Glasgow and Perth. Alenka is from Slovenia and started with stage dance when she was four, later on she continued with ballroom, Latin American, jazz ballet and salsa before she discovered tango. Ariel was born in Buenos Aries, but was raised in Córdoba. His father was an amateur tango singer and he grew up in local milongas. YirajeTango

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Tour Scotland Video Dancer And Drummers Chilli Festival Scone Palace Perth Perthshire



Tour Scotland video of a dancer and drummers at the Chilli Festival on ancestry visit to the gardens at Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Palace that can be visited today was finished in 1808. Built of red sandstone with a castellated roof, it is one of the finest examples of late Georgian Gothic style in the United Kingdom. During the early 19th century the Palace was enlarged by the architect William Atkinson. In 1802, David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, commissioned Atkinson to extend the Palace, recasting the late 16th century Palace of Scone. The 3rd Earl tasked Atkinson with updating the old Palace whilst maintaining characteristics of the medieval Gothic abbey buildings it was built upon, with the majority of work finished by 1808.

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