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 Bridge Street Dollar Scotland
Old photograph of hotel, shops, buildings and people on Bridge Stree in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Robert Burns visited Dollar in 1787, staying on the Harviestoun estate. There he was inspired to write the song The Banks of Devon. The painter J. M. W. Turner visited Dollar and made sketches in the glen. Dollar Academy was founded in 1818 with a bequest from a Dollar native, Captain John McNabb, who had allegedly made his fortune in the slave trade. Amongst the many notable pupils at the Academy are James Dewar, the inventor of the vacuum flask; the grandsons of Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia; the second Presiding Officer and Speaker of the Scottish Parliament, George Reid; BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston; and political journalist for The Scotsman, the News of the World and The Spectator magazines, Fraser Nelson. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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