Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old Photograph Curling Loch Leven Scotland
Old photograph of men Curling on Loch Leven, Perthshire, Scotland. The most famous association of this area is Loch Leven Castle where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned. Curling was invented in medieval Scotland, with the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February 1541. Evidence that curling existed in Scotland in the early 16th century includes a curling stone inscribed with the date 1511 uncovered, along with another bearing the date 1551, when an old pond was drained at Dunblane. Kilsyth Curling Club claims to be the first club in the world, having been formally constituted in 1716; it is still in existence today.
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