Tour Scotland Video Luskentyre Beach Isle of Harris Outer Hebrides
Tour Scotland video of Luskentyre Beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The name Luskentyre derives from Lios-cinn-tir, meaning, headland fort, although there is no trace or local knowledge of a fort at the headland. However, the headland contains the site of an old part of Luskentyre Cemetery. Luskentyre Beach has been voted Britain's best beach. Luskentyre is accessible from the A859, via a minor road. Wildlife in the area includes the common scoter, the velvet scoter, the Eider duck, the wigeon, the long-tailed duck, the red-breasted merganser, the great northern diver and the Slavonian grebe.
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Tour Scotland Video Hopetoun House South Queensferry Edinburgh
Tour Scotland video of Hopetoun House on ancestry visit to South Queensferry near Edinburgh, Scotland. The house was built between 1699 and 1701 and designed by Sir William Bruce. The house was then extended from 1721 by William Adam until his death in 1748, being one of his most notable projects. The Hope family acquired the land in the 17th century. Charles Hope, the first occupant, was only 16 years old when his mother, Lady Margaret Hope, signed the contract for building with William Bruce, on 28 September 1698. The master mason is noted as Tobias Bachope of Alloa. The plumber and glazier was John Forster of Berwick.
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Tour Scotland Video Sunny Drive North Across Queensferry Crossing Firth Of Forth
Tour Scotland video of a sunny afternoon drive North over Queensferry Crossing the new Forth Road Bridge over the Firth of Forth in Scotland. Today, was the day when the bridge was first open to vehicles. The crossing is essentially an extension of the M90 motorway across the Forth with a 70mph speed limit, although operators said an initial 40mph limit will be in place to take account of " driver distraction ". This new bridge will take most of the traffic that currently uses the 53 year old Forth Road Bridge. The old bridge will remain open for cyclists, pedestrians and buses.There will be a royal visit from the Queen ahead of the bridge fully opening later next week.
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Tour Scotland Video Slow Drive South To Cross Queensferry Crossing Firth Of Forth
Tour Scotland morning video of a very slow drive, with long delays, South down the M90 motorway to cross the Queensferry Crossing the new Forth Road Bridge over the Firth of Forth in Scotland. Lots of traffic on the day, today, when the bridge was first open to vehicles. The Queensferry Crossing, formerly the Forth Replacement Crossing, is a road bridge built alongside the existing Forth Road Bridge which will carry the M90 motorway across the Firth of Forth between Lothian, at South Queensferry, and Fife, at North Queensferry. The bridge is 683 feet high above high tide, equivalent to approximately 48 London buses stacked on top of each other and 25% higher than existing Forth Road Bridge. It is estimated the construction involved approximately 10 million man hours.
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Old Photograph Bolton Drive Mount Florida Glasgow Scotland
Old photograph of people and houses on Bolton Drive in Mount Florida, Glasgow, Scotland. Mount Florida is served by the Mount Florida railway station which lies upon the Cathcart Circle railway line. The area is home to Langside College. Scotland's National Stadium, Hampden Park, is located off Cathcart Road in the heart of Mount Florida.
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Old Photograph Model Yacht Pond Largs Scotland
Old photograph of people by the model yacht pond in Largs in Ayrshire, Scotland. From its beginnings as a small village around its kirk, Largs evolved into a busy and popular seaside resort in the nineteenth century. Large hotels appeared and the pier was constructed in 1834. It was not until 1895, however, that the railway made the connection to Largs, sealing the town's popularity. The town is served by the railway line from Glasgow to North Ayrshire. Largs is the birthplace of the actors Daniela Nardini and John Sessions, the footballer Lou Macari and the golfer Sam Torrance. Though not born in Largs, musician and songwriter Graham Lyle of Gallagher and Lyle was brought up there and still returns to visit his holiday home.
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Old Photograph Peinsoraig Isle Of Skye Scotland
Old photograph of church and tower at Peinsoraig overlooking Uig Bay, Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. A small tower, or folly, built around 1840 by the then landlord Captain Fraser can be seen in the centre of the photograph. At that time, local crofters would walk to the tower to pay their rents to Fraser's factor. The Uig Free Church, built in 1847, is seen in the foreground. Apparently, an elder of the Free Church brought one of the last charges of witchcraft against a mother and her daughters in 1880. The charge came to nothing, and all survived. The village of Uig is well known as a fishing port. There was a pier there by 1840, and in 1894 it was greatly extended at a cost of £9000. King Edward Vll and Queen Alexandra officially opened the new pier on 1 September 1902. In earlier years, steamers plying between Glasgow and Stornoway, a town on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, made regular stops in Uig, and in 1964 Caledonian MacBrayne started its regular sailings to the Isle of Harris and North Uist, which still continue today.
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Old Photograph Concert Glen Pavilion Pittencrieff Glen Dunfermline Fife Scotland
Old photograph of people at a concert at the Glen pavilion in Pittencrieff Glen, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Pittencrieff Park, known locally as " The Glen ", is a public park in Dunfermline. It was purchased in 1902 by the town's most famous son, Andrew Carnegie, and given to the people of Dunfermline in a ceremony the following year. Its lands include the historically significant and topologically rugged glen which interrupts the centre of Dunfermline and, accordingly, part of the intention of the purchase was to carry out civic development of the area in a way which also respected its heritage. The project notably attracted the attention of the urban planner and educationalist, Patrick Geddes.
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Old Photograph Railway Station Kilbarchan Scotland
Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish village was known for its former weaving industry. At one time there were 800 weavers in this village. The station was part of the Dalry and North Johnstone Line on the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The station opened on 1 June 1905, and closed to passengers on 27 June 1966. The station was originally an island platform covered by an overhanging glass canopy. Access to the station, was via two glazed brick lined entrance ramps at either end of the platform; one leading to the archway under the green bridges in the village's main thoroughfare High Barholm, and the other leading down to a minor road near the Tandlehill estate. When the station was built, several of the cottages in the street had to be cleared to make way for the station entrance, and the bridges over the street. The station's platform remains partially intact. However, the trackbed is now part of National Cycle Route 7. Both station passenger entrance ramps were re-opened for access to the cycle route.
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Old Photograph Passenger Bus Almondbank Perthshire Scotland
Old photograph of a passenger bus and people outside the Post Office in Almondbank near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Just South of Almondbank village, is the Royal Navy Workshops. This is a fairly large complex of factory workshops which in the past serviced aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm. To the north west of this instillation lies the derelict remains of an industrial complex once busily producing textiles. Now, only the shell of this once large, work intensive industry remains.
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Tour Scotland Video Bagpipes And Drums Inveraray Pipe Band
Tour Scotland video of the bagpipes and drums music of Inveraray and District Pipe Band from Inveraray a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. This Pipe Band won the 2017 World Pipe Band Championships on Glasgow Green.
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Old Photograph Croma Hotel Crail East Neuk Of Fife Scotland
Old photograph of the Croma Hotel in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. King James V, the father of Mary Queen of Scots, sent for his wife, Mary of Guise, whom he had recently married by proxy in Paris, and she landed in Crail in June 1538. accompanied by a navy of ships under Lord Maxwell, and 2,000 lords and barons whom her new husband had sent from Scotland to fetch her away, Queen Mary landed at Crail in Fife on 10 June 1538, just over a year since the landing of Queen Madeleine. She was formally received by the king at St Andrews a few days later with pageants and plays performed in her honour, and a great deal of generally blithe rejoicing, before being remarried the next morning in the Cathedral of St Andrews. Queen Madeleine, the first wife of James V, had landed at Leith, Edinburgh, in the spring of 1537 and died shortly afterwards.
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Old Photograph Bank Cottage Dowally Perthshire Scotland
Old photograph of people outside Bank Cottage in Dowally, Perthshire, Scotland. The parish of Dowally or Dowallie was annexed into Dunkeld in the seventeenth century.
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Old Photograph Gypsy Queen Kirkintilloch Scotland
Old photograph of the famous canal boat, Gypsy Queen, on the Forth and Clyde Canal at Kirkintilloch, Scotland. It was a very popular boat at the time along with the other two in the fleet, the May Queen and the Fairy Queen. Kirkintilloch is a town and former royal burgh in East Dunbartonshire. It is located on the Forth and Clyde Canal, about 8 miles north east of central Glasgow. Following the Scottish victory in the wars of independence and the subsequent decline of Clan Cumming, the baronies of Kirkintilloch, Lenzie, and Cumbernauld were granted by Robert The Bruce to Sir Malcolm Fleming, Sheriff of Dumbarton and a supporter of the Bruce faction in the war. Hitherto part of Stirlingshire, the area subsequently became a detached part of the county of Dumbarton, in which it remains today. On 3 January 1746, the retreating Jacobite army of Bonnie Prince Charlie made its way through Kirkintilloch, on its way back from Derby, England, and on the march to Falkirk and ultimately Culloden. The town was one of the hotbeds of the Industrial Revolution in Scotland, beginning with the emergence of a booming textile industry in the area. There were 185 weavers in Kirkintilloch by 1790, and in 1867 James Slimon's cotton mill at Kelvinside employed 200 women. With the construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal through the town in 1773, and the establishment of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway in 1826, Kirkintilloch developed further as an important transportation hub, inland port and production centre for iron, coal, nickel and even small ships. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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Old Photograph Royal Navy Ship Bay Oban Scotland
Old photographs of a Royal Navy ship in the bay at Oban, Argyllshire, Scotland. The site where Oban now stands has been used by humans since at least mesolithic times, as evidenced by archaeological remains of cave dwellers found in the town Just outside the town stands Dunollie Castle, on a site that overlooks the main entrance to the bay and has been fortified since the 7th century. The modern town of Oban grew up around the distillery which was founded there in 1794, and the town was raised to a burgh of barony in 1811 by royal charter Sir Walter Scott visited the area in 1814, the year in which he published his poem The Lord of the Isles, and interest in the poem brought many new visitors to the town. The arrival of the railways in the 1880s brought further prosperity to local industry and giving new energy to tourism.
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Old Photograph Newark Parish Church Port Glasgow Scotland
Old photograph of Newark Parish Church and cemetery in Port Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. Built in 1774, it is the oldest remaining church in Port Glasgow sited on the axis of Balfour Street. It is an austere, symmetrical 2 storey building with 5 windows in the long walls. The church was built in rubble and to a largely Classical design and has pavilion roofs and galleries. In 1920-22 the square apse was built to be an organ chamber. It was altered and refurbished to become a chancel by Mervyn Noad of Glasgow. There was excellent woodwork and stained glass by Archibald Dawson and Charles Bailey but this was removed some time ago. A steeple for the centre of the north front was always intended but was never built. The south side features a relatively new brick extension. The church congregation was forced to unite with another in recent years, resulting in this church closing down.
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Old Photograph Bannockburn House Scotland
Old photograph of Bannockburn House by Bannockburn town located just South of Stirling, Scotland. In 1636 the lands of Bannockburn were gifted to Sir John Rollo. He was the second son of Sir Andrew Rollo of Duncrub, who was granted the Baronetcy by King Charles II at Perth, Perthshire, in 1651 for his strong royalist support for Charles I during the English Civil War. When Sir John Rollo died in 1666 he had no direct decendant as his only son had predeceased him. In this case his nephew Andrew 3rd Lord Rollo succeeded him to the Barony. Andrew sold the lands to Hugh Paterson in 1672 after only five years. Hugh Paterson, who was a writer and Clerk of Council in Edinburgh, was to commission the building of the house in 1675. The house and the estates were to stay in the Paterson family who were known to be strong Jacobite supporters until 1715, when the third Sir Hugh Paterson, grandson of Hugh Paterson and a relative of the Earl of Mar, was to fight in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. For their Jacobite support their lands were forfeited. The Paterson family continued to live in the house, and in January 1746 at the invitation of Sir Hugh, Bonny Prince Charlie, The Young Pretender, was to make Bannockburn house his headquarters after his army’s long march back from Derby in England, where he had tried to drum up English support for the Jacobites. It was during his stay at Bannockburn, after his victory on the 17th January against the Hanovarian army at Falkirk Muir, that he developed a fever. He was looked after by Clementina Walkinshaw, who was an ardent Jacobite supporter. A bullet hole still remains in the wall where the head of the bed was in the room which Prince Charles had occupied. Tradition has it that it was caused by the bullet of an assassin fired through the bedroom window. It is thought that Charles and Clementina were first introduced at her father’s mansion house at Shawfield Glasgow in December 1745, and that they had become romantically involved. Later she followed him and in 1752 the couple were living together in France. Their daughter Charlotte was born in 1753 and was the only acknowledged child of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
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Old Photograph Bannachra House Scotland
Old photograph of Bannachra House located 3 miles East and North of Helensburgh, Scotland. Bannachra estate was a property of the Galbraiths of Inchgalbraith until gained by the Colquhouns. They built the castle in about 1512. Sir Humphrey Colquhoun was murdered here by the MacFarlanes in 1592. A servant illuminated him at a window by holding up a lamp as he retired to bed, allowing a MacFarlane bowman to shoot him through the window. The MacGregors and Colquhouns battled in Glen Fruin, Glen of weeping, in 1602. Less of a battle and more of a massacre, the MacGregors killed 200 of the people of Luss in an infamous meeting which subsequently led to 35 of their number being hanged with their chief, and partly contributed to the proscription of the Clan.
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Old Photograph Hermitage Park Helensburgh Scotland
Old photograph of Hermitage Park in Helensburgh, Scotland. Hermitage Park was created in 1911, from the grounds of the now demolished Hermitage House and extended in 1919 to include the former Millig Mill. Hermitage Park takes its name from the Hermit’s Well a stone structure in the north east corner of the Park, a typical Victorian garden folly containing a spring and reputed to have therapeutic powers. John Logie Baird was born on 14 August 1888 in Helensburgh, he was the youngest of four children of the Reverend John Baird, the Church of Scotland's minister for the local St Bride's Church and Jessie Morrison Inglis, the orphaned niece of a wealthy family of shipbuilders from Glasgow. John Logie Baird became a famous a Scottish engineer, innovator, and one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system on 26 January 1926. He was the inventor of both the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube. He died on 14 June 1946 at 1 Station Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England.
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Old Photograph Brocklehirst House Scotland
Old photograph of Brocklehirst House in Mouswald in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The original owner of the house was J Jardine Paterson. Mouswald is a parish and village 7 miles South East of Dumfries, and 10 miles West by North of Annan. It is situated in that district formerly called the Stewartry of Annandale, midway between the rivers Nith and Annan, and was anciently covered with wood, as its name implies, " The Wood near the Moss. " It is bounded by the parishes of Lochmaben, Dalton, Rothwell, and Torthorwald, and contains the village of its own name, and the hamlets of Old Brocklehurst and Cleughbrae. The parish was traversed by the old Glasgow and South Western railway, and by the coach roads from Dumfries to Annan and Ruthwell. The parish is in the presbytery of Lochmaben and synod of Dumfries.
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Old Photograph McEwan Hall Edinburgh Scotland
Old photograph of the interior of McEwan Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland. The McEwan Hall is the graduation hall of the University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It was presented to the University in 1897 by William McEwan, brewer and politician. Sir Robert Rowand Anderson was the architect. The McEwan Hall organ was built in 1897 by Robert Hope-Jones.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Pluscarden Abbey
Tour Scotland photograph of the interior of Pluscarden Abbey located South West of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. In 1454, following a merger with the priory of Urquhart, a cell of Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Pluscarden Priory became a Benedictine House. The years immediately preceding the Scottish Reformation, and those after, saw the decline of the priory. By 1680 it was in a ruinous condition. Some work to arrest the decay took place in the late 19th century but it wasn't until 1948 when restoration of the priory was begun by monks from the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, England. In 1966 the priory received its independence from the mother-house and was elevated to abbatial status in 1974.
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Tour Scotland Video Kilchurn Castle
Tour Scotland video of Kilchurn Castle on a rocky peninsula at the north eastern end of Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish castle was the ancestral home of the Campbells of Glen Orchy, who later became the Earls of Breadalbane also known as the Breadalbane family branch, of the Clan Campbell. It was built in about 1450 by Sir Colin Campbell, first Lord of Glenorchy, as a five storey tower house with a courtyard defended by an outer wall. By about 1500 an additional range and a hall had been added to the south side of the castle. Further buildings went up during the 16th and 17th centuries. Kilchurn was on a small island in Loch Awe scarcely larger than the castle itself, although it is now connected to the mainland as the water level was altered in 1817.
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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Country Dancers Village Fair In Scone By Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of Scottish Country Dancers at the village Fair on ancestry visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Scottish country dancing, a social form of dance with normally two or more couples of dancers, should not be confused with Scottish highland dance, the solo form of dance also seen in this video. There is a certain amount of cross over, in that there are Scottish country dances that include highland elements as well as highland style performance dances which use formations otherwise seen in country dances, but these are relatively few when the two dance forms are considered each as a whole.
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Tour Scotland Video Bagpipes And Highland Dancing Village Fair In Scone By Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of a piper playing the bagpipes for traditional Scottish Highland dancing at the village Fair on ancestry visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Highland dance or Highland dancing is a style of competitive solo dancing developed in the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the context of competitions at public events such as the Highland games. Highland dancing is often performed to the accompaniment of Highland bagpipe music. It is now seen at nearly every modern-day Highland games event.
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Tour Scotland Video Bagpipes And Sword Dancing Village Fair In Scone By Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of the bagpipes and Sword Dancing at the village Fair on ancestry visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. In Gillie Callum or Scottish sword dance the dancer crosses two swords on the ground in an X shape, dances around and within the 4 quarters of it. In 1573 Scottish mercenaries are said to have performed a Scottish Sword dance before the Swedish King, John III, at a banquet held in Stockholm Castle.
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Tour Scotland Video Eas Fors Waterfall On The Isle Of Mull Inner Hebrides
Tour Scotland video of Eas Fors waterfall on the Isle Of Mull, the second largest island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It is situated on the Allt an Eas Fors, Eas Fors Burn south of Dervaig. The name is tautologous: eas is Gaelic for waterfall, and fors or is also Norse for waterfall, so " Eas Fors waterfall " means " waterfall waterfall waterfall."
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Tour Scotland Video Ballet Dancing Village Fair In Scone By Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of young Scottish dancers Ballet dancing at the village Fair on ancestry visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread, highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary based on French terminology.
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Tour Scotland Video Gruinard Bay Beach Wester Ross Highlands
Tour Scotland video of Gruinard Bay with its beautiful secluded sandy beach located 12 miles north of Poolewe on the coast of the Scottish Highlands of Wester Ross, Scotland. The bay overlooks Gruinard Island, offshore at the eastern side of the bay. The Summer Isles are visible to the north east.
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Tour Scotland Video Bagpipes And Drums Kinross And District Pipe Band Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of the bagpipes and drums music of Kinross Pipe Band from Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland. The Kinross Pipe Band was formed in the summer of 1946 to play at local galas, festival events and pipe band competitions. Through the town twinning scheme the band has travelled to France on various occasions, and played at the Celtic music festivals in Lorient, Brittany four times. In 1994 they attended and played for the Celtic Congress held in Cornwall, while individual members have played at events worldwide, including Tokyo and Bangkok. The Kinross and District Pipe Band has a tradition of supporting local charities by playing for them without charge when asked. Until recently, the Kinross & District Pipe Band wore the Prince Charles Edward Stewart tartan. The Band now wears their very own tartan, the Pride of Kinross.
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Tour Scotland Video Strathspey And Reel Music Village Fair In Scone By Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of Perth Strathspey & Reel Society playing Strathspey and Reel Music at the village Fair on ancestry visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire. They play traditional Scottish music but also play new music in the Scottish style, some Irish music, country dance music and sing-a-long sets.
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Tour Scotland Video Pipe Band Playing Village Fair In Scone By Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of Perth and District Pipe Band playing at the village Fair on ancestry visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The objects of Perth & District Pipe Band are to promote the playing of the Highland Bagpipe and Pipe Band Drumming; to provided tuition in piping and drumming; and to perform as a Pipe Band in the community and in competitions. The band wore the Royal Stewart tartan until the early 1990s where it was changed to the New Perthshire Muted.
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Tour Scotland Video Pipe Band Marching To Village Fair In Scone By Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of Perth and District Pipe Band marching down Abbey Road to the village Fair on ancestry visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The objects of Perth & District Pipe Band are to promote the playing of the Highland Bagpipe and Pipe Band Drumming; to provided tuition in piping and drumming; and to perform as a Pipe Band in the community and in competitions. The band wore the Royal Stewart tartan until the early 1990s where it was changed to the New Perthshire Muted.
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Tour Scotland Video Bagpipes And Drums Blairgowrie And Rattray District Pipe Band Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of the bagpipes and drums music of Blairgowrie And Rattray District Pipe Band from Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The band wears Clan Macpherson's bonnet, Glengarry badges and kilt pins and the old red Macpherson tartan. The band has won many awards. including the pipe band shield at the Braemar Gathering. The band has had many trips overseas to visit their twin band: the Spessart Highlanders in Aschaffenburg, Germany.
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Tour Scotland Video Of Bagpipes And Drums Vale of Atholl Pipe Band Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of the bagpipes and drums music of Vale Of Atholl Pipe Band from Pitlochry, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Founded in early 1906 and known as the Vale of Atholl Pipers Association, the pipe band wore the Murray of Atholl tartan. These days the band wears the Muted Macnaughton tartan. The band has placed highly in the Major Scottish competitions and the World Pipe Band Championships since at least the late 1980s. In 2002 the band secured a sponsorship deal with Robert Wiseman Dairies, changing its name to Robert Wiseman Dairies Vale of Atholl Pipe Band.
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Tour Scotland Video Edie Ochiltree Statue Abbotsford House Near Melrose Roxburghshire Scottish Borders
Tour Scotland video of the Edie Ochiltree statue outside Abbotsford House on the banks of the River Tweed near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Edie is a character from the novel The Antiquary written in 1816 in by Sir Walter Scott. Edie is shown with a long hair and beard, and wide brimmed hat, a typical itinerant with walking stick and bags slung from his shoulder strap. Edie was a Gaberlunzie, a medieval Scots word for a licensed beggar.
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Tour Scotland Video Morris Statue Abbotsford House Near Melrose Roxburghshire Scottish Borders
Tour Scotland video of the Morris statue in the East courtyard outside of Abbotsford House on the banks of the River Tweed near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Morris is a character from the novel Rob Roy written in 1817 by Sir Walter Scott. John Greenshields was the Scottish sculptor who created the statue of Morris, an excisemen from Rob Roy. Walter Scott Scott was an important patron and admirer of Greenshields who was born in Lesmahagow. Greenshield also sculpted the statue of Prince Charles Edward Stewart on the Jacobite Monument, Glenfinnan in 1835, and The Jolly Beggars in 1835.
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Tour Scotland Video Game Larder Abbotsford House Near Melrose Roxburghshire Scottish Borders
Tour Scotland video of the Game Larder, Icehouse and terraces at Abbotsford House near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. The Castle style game larder and icehouse was built into upper terrace and connected to house by tunnel for Sir Walter Scott by John Smith of Darnick. John Smith of Darnick also created the Wallace Statue at Bemersyde House. His family were builders and masons during the first half of the 19th century, and they have to their credit an extension to Abbotsford, Dryburgh Abbey House, Eckford Church, Gattonside House, Hawick North Bridge, the bridge over the Hermitage Water, Melrose Parish Church, and Yetholm Parish Church.
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Tour Scotland Video Family Chapel Abbotsford House Near Melrose Roxburghshire Scottish Borders
Tour Scotland video of the family chapel in Abbotsford House near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. This was added to Abbotsford in 1855 by Charlotte the granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott, who had converted to Catholicism with her husband, James Hope Scott, in 1851.
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Old Photograph Arbigland House Scotland
Old photograph of Arbigland House near Kirkbean by the Solway Firth in, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Arbigland House was built in 1755 by the improving laird and gentleman architect William Craik, born 1703, died 1798. His daughter, the poet and novelist Helen Craik, born 1751, died 1825, lived there until 1792. James Craik, the Physician General of the United States Army and personal physician of George Washington, was also born there in 1730. An officer in the Continental Navy, John Paul Jones, whose father was a gardener at Arbigland, was born in a cottage in the grounds on 6 July 1747. John Paul Jones was the United States' first well known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War. He made many friends, and enemies, who accused him of piracy among America's political elites, and his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day. As such, he is sometimes referred to as the " Father of the American Navy " an epithet that he shares with John Barry and John Adams. He later served in the Imperial Russian Navy, subsequently obtaining the rank of rear admiral. In June 1792, Jones was appointed U.S. Consul to treat with the Dey of Algiers for the release of American captives. Before Jones was able to fulfill his appointment, however, he was found dead, aged 45, lying face down on his bed in his third floor Paris apartment, No. 19 Rue de Tournon, on July 18, 1792. Jones's body was eventually ceremonially removed from interment in a Parisian charnel house and brought to the United States aboard the USS Brooklyn, escorted by three other cruisers. On approaching the American coastline, seven U.S. Navy battleships joined the procession escorting Jones's body back to America. On April 24, 1906, Jones's coffin was installed in Bancroft Hall at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, following a ceremony in Dahlgren Hall, presided over by President Theodore Roosevelt who gave a lengthy tributary speech. On January 26, 1913, the Captain's remains were finally re-interred in a magnificent bronze and marble sarcophagus at the Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis.
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Tour Scotland Video Leaderfoot Viaduct River Tweed Scottish Borders
Tour Scotland video of Leaderfoot Viaduct over the River Tweed on ancestry visit to the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish viaduct which is no longer used by trains, was opened on November 16th, 1863 to carry the Berwickshire Railway line, which connected Reston, on the East Coast Main Line between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh, with St Boswells, on the Edinburgh to Carlisle " Waverley Line ", via Duns and Greenlaw. The engineers of the railway were Charles Jopp and Wylie & Peddie. The viaduct stands 126 feet from the floor of the river valley. The arches, each of 43 feet span, are of brickwork, and the abutments, piers and walls are of rustic faced red sandstone. Some later strengthening of the abutments and piers with old rails and buttresses on the southern valley side is very obvious. It is straight over its whole course, and runs in a broadly northerly direction.
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Old Photograph Glassel Scotland
Old photograph of a house at Glassel two miles South East of Torphins, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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William Thornton Glassell, born January 15, 1831, died January 28, 1879, was an officer in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. He laid out the city of Orange, California. He was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, was appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy from the state of Alabama on March 15, 1848. When he was still a midshipman, his ship, the St. Laurence was sent to The Great Exhibition in London, England. Lady Byron, Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron, widow of the famous Lord Byron, visited the ship and invited only Glassell to dine with her the next evening. He accepted and " had a very pleasant interview. " Promoted to lieutenant in 1855, he was aboard USS Hartford off China when the Civil War broke out. When Hartford reached Philadelphia, Glassell declined to swear an additional oath of allegiance prescribed for Southerners, and was consequently imprisoned at Fort Warren and dropped from the U.S. service. Confederate authorities issued him a lieutenant's commission, arranged his exchange, and assigned him to CSS Chicora in the Charleston Squadron. On the night of October 5, 1863, Glassell and a crew of three in the diminutive torpedo boat David attacked the most powerful ship in the United States Navy, New Ironsides. Glassell, and the other crewman were however captured and returned to Fort Warren. Glassell, while in prison, was promoted to commander for his attack on New Ironsides. Exchanged in the last six months of the war, he returned to Charleston, South Carolina. On the evacuation of that city he was transferred to Richmond, Virginia and assigned to command the ironclad Fredericksburg in the James River Squadron. With Richmond's evacuation, the squadron's personnel were reorganized as artillery and infantry, and Glassell commanded a regiment. He was paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, on April 28, 1865. Captain Glassell's health had been broken as a result of his experiences while in the Confederate Army, both by his hazardous undertaking, and subsequent capture and eighteen months in a northern military prison. He came to visit his elder brother Andrew Glassell in Los Angeles, and stayed to help in developing the Richland Tract in the capacity of surveyor. The city of Orange was founded by attorneys Andrew Glassell and Alfred Chapman. William T. Glassell died at the age of 48 in Los Angeles, unmarried and childless and is interred at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles. His great nephew was George Smith Patton.
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Old Photograph Bassendean House Scotland
Old photograph of Bassendean house located south of Westruther, Scottish Borders, Scotland. The medieval village of Bassendean declined in the 17th century, and only a ruined church now remains of the settlement. The church, dedicated to St Mary, was established in the 12th century. Disused after the Scottish Reformation, it was rebuilt in 1647, but was replaced only two years later by a new church at Westruther. It subsequently became the burial ground for the Homes of Bassendean. Bassendean House has been the seat of the Homes of Bassendean since 1583. Only a fragment of the original tower house remains, although the 17th century house is still in domestic occupation. During the 1830s, the Colonial Secretary of Western Australia, Peter Broun, who had ancestral ties to Berwickshire, gave the name Bassendean to his homestead near Perth, Western Australia. By the 1920s, the surrounding suburb had also become known Bassendean and was officially renamed.
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Old Photograph Saw Mill Bridge Cortachy Scotland
Old photograph of people walking on Saw Mill Bridge over River South Esk near Cortachy Castle, Scotland. The River Walk from Cortachy Bridge to the Sawmill Bridge was originally laid out in the 1870's in anticipation of a visit to Cortachy by Queen Victoria. In the event this visit never took place but the walk has been carefully and lovingly nurtured and maintained since that period. The trees were planted at that time and include Wellingtonias, Douglas, Silver Firs and Sitca Spruce. Rhododendrons were planted by successive generations of the Airlie family and in particular the azaleas facing the river came from Exbury Gardens, the home of the Rothschild family and were planted by the present Earl. The footbridge halfway between the Cortachy and Sawmill Bridges was built by estate foresters and is known as The American Bridge after the present Countess who is an American citizen.
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Old Photograph Visitor Centre Glencoe Scotland
Old photograph of the visitor centre in Glencoe on ancestry visit to the Highlands of Scotland. This famous Scottish Glen was the site the of the famous Massacre of Glencoe which began simultaneously in three settlements along the glen at Invercoe, Inverrigan, and Achnacon, although the killing took place all over the glen as fleeing MacDonalds were pursued. 38 MacDonalds from the Clan MacDonald of Glen Coe were killed by Campbell guests who had accepted their hospitality. This Highland location featured a lot in Skyfall the James Bond movie, mainly because it is the most famous Scottish glen and one of the most dramatic landscapes in the world. Harry Potter fans will know Glencoe too. In the third film in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the scenes featuring Hagrid’s hut were filmed on location in the glen. Scenes in the sixth instalment, The Half Blood Prince were also filmed here. Highlander was also filmed in Glencoe.
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Old Photograph Spinningdale Mill Dornoch Firth Scotland
Old photograph of Spinningdale Mill by Dornoch Firth, Sutherland, Scotland. Spinningdale cotton mill, situated on the North shore of the Dornoch Firth was built in 1792 by George Dempster, owner of Skibo Estate, and David Dale, the successful industrialist and entrepreneur, who had already established a cotton mill complex along with Robert Owen at New Lanark. Although the site offered most of the usual requirements of a cotton mill, fast flowing burn for water power, climate damp enough to prevent cotton threads breaking, a means of importing the raw cotton, in this case by sea, the main reason for locating the factory here was to relieve poverty and unemployment. Ironically, problems with the labour force was the main reason it was not successful. There was no tradition of factory work in the Highlands and workers absented themselves at lambing, peat cutting and harvesting times. Thus, when the building was gutted by fire in 1806, it was not deemed worthwhile to rebuild it and it remained a ruin. It is now in a precarious state so best viewed from the road.
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Old Photograph T.S.S. Manx Maid II Scotland
Old photograph of the T.S.S. Manx Maid II on sea trials near the Isle of Arran, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. TSS Manx Maid II was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, in 1962, and was the second ship in the Company's history to bear the name. The " Maid ", as she was always affectionately known, was certified for 1400 passengers and a crew of 60. Manx Maid was a great success and was of major importance in the history of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, as she was the first vessel to be designed as a car ferry; she had the capacity for up to 90 cars and light commercial vans. After over 20 years of reliable service, Manx Maid made her final sailing from Douglas on Sunday 9 September 1984, ten days before her younger sister.
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Old Photograph Village Green Aboyne Scotland
Old photograph of the village green in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In 1715 Aboyne was the scene of a tinchal, or great hunt, organised by John Erskine, sixth Earl of Mar, on 3 September, as a cover for the gathering of Jacobite nobles and lairds to discuss a planned Jacobite uprising. The uprising began three days later in Braemar. Aboyne is unusual in having The Green on which events are held, as the village was modelled by one of the first Marquesses of Huntly, inhabitants of Aboyne Castle, on a traditional English village with a green at the centre. Few Scottish towns have such an asset.
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Old Photograph Crofters Cottages And Church Staffin Isle Of Skye Scotland
Old photograph of crofters cottages and church in Staffin on the North East coast of the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Staffin is located on the A855 road about 17 miles North of Portree and is overlooked by the Trotternish Ridge with the famous rock formations of The Storr and the Quirang. The district comprises 23 townships made up of, from south to north, Rigg, Tote, Lealt, Lonfearn, Grealin, Breackry, Cul-nan-cnoc, Bhaltos, Raiseburgh, Ellishader, Garafad, Clachan, Garros, Marrishader, Maligar, Stenscholl, Brogaig, Sartle, Glasphein, Digg, Dunan, Flodigarry and Greap.
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Old Photograph Railway Station Tyndrum Scotland
Old photograph of a steam train approaching the railway station in Tyndrum in the Highlands of Scotland. This is a small Scottish village whose Gaelic name translates as " the house on the ridge ". Tyndrum lies in Strathfillan, at the southern edge of Rannoch Moor. The village is notable mainly for being at a junction of road and rail transport routes to Glencoe to the North, Oban to the West and Crianlarich to Loch Lomond and Glasgow to the South.
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Old Photograph Steam Train Railway Station St Boswells Scotland
Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in St Boswells in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This intermediate station was opened on 20 February 1849 as Newtown Junction station and served as the junction station for branch lines to Reston, Jedburgh and Sprouston Junction. It was successively renamed New Town St Boswells station in January 1863, and St Boswells station, on 1 March 1865, and closed to regular passenger traffic, with the line as a whole, on 6 January 1969.
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Old Photograph Steam Train Railway Shed Killin Scotland
Old photograph of a steam train railway shed in Killin, Scotland. Killin railway station was opened on 1 April 1886, the station comprised a single platform on the west side of the line. There were also three sidings on the same side. This station was officially closed on 1 November 1965, although following the Glen Ogle landslide on 27 September 1965, the service was suspended and replaced by buses until the official closure.
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Old Photograph Polkemmet Colliery Scotland
Old photograph of steams trains working at Polkemmet Colliery by Whitburn in West Lothian, Scotland. Whitburn town is located halfway between Scotlands's two largest cities, being about 27 miles east of Glasgow and 23 miles west of Edinburgh. The town was once dominated by Polkemmet Colliery, a large coal mine, but this was closed as a result of damage by underground flooding during the 1984 miners' strike and never re-opened. The colliery buildings have gone, and the coal bings that once were prominent have now been removed. Work to dismantle Bing No 3, the infamous burning bing, started in August 2006 and was completed by February 2008. The last major outbreak of burning occurred in 1998.
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Old Photograph Sir James Shaw Monument Kilmarnock Scotland
Old photograph of the Sir James Shaw monument in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. Sir James Shaw, 1st Baronet, born on 26 August 1764, in Riccarton, Kilmarnock, became Lord Mayor of London, England in 1805. From humble beginnings in a farming family in Ayrshire, he became a successful merchant and politician; he was a relation of the poet Robert Burns and used his wealth to support Burns's orphaned children. As Lord Mayor of London, he led the funeral procession of Lord Nelson in 1806, having established his right to do so and was created baronet twice, in 1809 and 1813. While later Chamberlain of London, he almost lost his own fortune due to injudicious investments, and died, exonerated, in 1843. Shaw was created Baronet, of Kilmarnock, in the County of Ayr by King George III in 1809, and re-created in 1813 by a second patent to include a future interest for his nephew. As such, he was appointed a Member of Parliament for London until 1818, but thereafter sat as an alderman until he resigned in May 1843. In 1831 he was also appointed Chamberlain of London, and was almost ruined as he inadvertently invested £40,000, then a huge sum, of city funds in fake Exchequer bills. On discovering his error, he began to liquidate all his property to repay the sum, but was cleared by a commission of enquiry. Shaw resigned all his positions in 1843 due to long term illness and died some six months later on 22 October. 1843. Shaw was unmarried, and normally his baronetcy would have become extinct on his death, but because of the second patent, the title passed to his nephew, John Shaw.
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Old Photograph Commercial Hotel Sandhead Scotland
Old photograph of the Commercial Hotel in Sandhead village located seven miles South of Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The old main road, named " Main Street ", runs through the village, but the A716 now bypasses it with a narrow and twisting carriageway. The village developed as a strip village with a smithy and a school by 1850, and the nearby bay was used for landing lime and later coal. The village school is situated above the village, and a little north of this is Balgreggan Motte which stands above the A716. The Motte was the first in a line of early castles along the eastern shore of the Rhins. The top was used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Second World War as a lookout point, but in earlier times the castle was made of wood and was inevitably burned to the ground by marauding forces. The village is located nearby to RAF West Freugh.
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Old Photograph Badenoch Hotel Newtonmore Scotland
Old photograph of the Badenoch Hotel in Newtonmore, Scotland. The village is only a few miles from a location that is claimed to be the exact geographical centre of Scotland. Newtonmore railway station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Highland Main Line. Newtonmore has been bypassed by the A9 since 1979. Newtonmore calls itself the Walking Centre of Scotland, referring both to its geographical location and to the great walking opportunities locally, like the Wildcat Trail. An extension to the Speyside Way could soon add Newtonmore to a Long Distance Route and it will become the new end to this trail.
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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Oban
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Oban, Argyllshire, Scotland. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. The site where Oban now stands has been used by humans since at least mesolithic times, as evidenced by archaeological remains of cave dwellers found in the town Just outside the town stands Dunollie Castle, on a site that overlooks the main entrance to the bay and has been fortified since the 7th century. The modern town of Oban grew up around the distillery which was founded there in 1794, and the town was raised to a burgh of barony in 1811 by royal charter Sir Walter Scott visited the area in 1814, the year in which he published his poem The Lord of the Isles, and interest in the poem brought many new visitors to the town. The arrival of the railways in the 1880s brought further prosperity to local industry and giving new energy to tourism.
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Old Photograph Dryfe Water Scotland
Old photograph of Dryfe Water, a river about 18 miles in length which flows into the River Annan near Lockerbie, Scotland. The river starts on the southern slopes of Loch Fell, near Moffat, and then flows along a narrow valley to the Annan. Dryfe Water gives its name to the parish, Dryfesdale, and the common Scottish surname, Drysdale. A second name is the much less common surname Dryfe, or Drife. The meaning of the word Dryfe is unknown. It may be from the Old Norse, Anglo Saxon or Brittonic languages which were all used at different times in Dumfriesshire.
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