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 Kirkbean Scotland
Old photograph of Kirkbean near the Solway Firth in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Among its most famous sons was John Paul Jones, the founder of the United States Navy, who was born in Arbigland, Kirkbean on July 6, 1747. A memorial font exists in the church, by sculptor George Henry Paulin. The Kirbean cemetery is the burial place of Jean Thurot (1755–1833), son of the famous Francois Thurot, French Naval Commodore and Privateer. Kirkbean is also the birthplace of another great seafarer, John Campbell, who was born in 1720 and who went on to become a British naval officer, navigational expert and colonial governor of Newfoundland in Canada.
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