Tour Scotland Video City Of Discovery Pipe Band Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of City Of Discovery pipe band from Dundee marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the Highland Games Parade in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Glenrothes and District Pipe Band Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Glenrothes and District pipe band from Fife marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the Highland Games Parade in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Glenrothes is a town situated in the heart of Fife, in east central Scotland. It is located approximately 30 miles from both Edinburgh, which lies to the south and Dundee to the north. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Perth and District Pipe Band Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Perth and District pipe band marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the Highland Games Parade in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Their tartan is Perthshire Muted. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Lanark and District Pipe Band Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Lanark and District pipe band marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the Highland Games Parade in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video City Of St Andrews Pipe Band Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of City Of St Andrews pipe band from Fife marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the Highland Games Parade in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Their tartan is Red Erskine. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Carnoustie and District Pipe Band Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Carnoustie and District pipe band marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the Highland Games Parade in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Northern Constabulary Pipe Band Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Northern Constabulary pipe band marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the Highland Games Parade in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Their tartan is Scottish National Modern. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Badenoch and Strathspey Pipe Band Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Badenoch and Strathspey pipe band marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the Highland Games Parade in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Their tartan is Monarch of the Glen. Badenoch and Strathspey is a local government ward of the Highland council area and a ward management area of the Highland Council in Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video The MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of The MacKenzie Caledonian pipe band from Dundee marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the Highland Games Parade in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Their tartan is Ancient MacKenzie. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video West Fife Schools Pipe Band Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of West Fife Schools pipe band marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the Highland Games Parade in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Their tartan is a Muted Macnaughton. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Kelty And Blairadam Pipe Band Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Kelty and Blairadam Pipe Band from Fife marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the Highland Games Parade in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Their tartan is a Muted Macnaughton. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Vale Of Atholl Pipe Band Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Vale Of Atholl Pipe Band marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the Highland Games Parade in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Their tartan is a Muted Macnaughton. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Alyth and District Pipe Band Highland Games Parade Pitlochry Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Alyth and District Pipe Band marching to Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground at the Highland Games Parade in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Their tartan is a Black Stewart Tartan. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.

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Old Photograph Cunzie Neuk Kinghorn Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses, shops and people in Cunzie Neuk, Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Royal Visit Dundee Scotland

Old photograph a Royal visit to Dundee, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Hotel Spean Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of cars and people outside the hotel in Spean Bridge, Scotland. This Scottish village, in the Great Glen, takes its name from the Highbridge over the River Spean on General Wade's Highlands military road between Fort William and Fort Augustus. The Highbridge Skirmish on 16 August 1745 was the first engagement of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The Commando Memorial, dedicated to the men of the original British Commando Forces raised during Second World War, is located approximately 1 mile north west of Spean Bridge, at the junction of the A82 and the B8004. It overlooks the training areas of the Commando Training Depot established in 1942 at Achnacarry Castle.



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Old Photograph Golfers Beach Golf Course Machrihanish Scotland

Old photograph of golfers on the beach at the golf course at Machrihanish, Argyll, Scotland. Machrihanish is village in Argyll, on the west coast. It is a short distance north of the tip of the Mull of Kintyre, which faces out towards Ireland and the Atlantic. Machrihanish has a classic links golf course designed by Old Tom Morris from St Andrews, Fife, with views towards the islands of Gigha, Islay and Jura. The Kintyre Way long distance walking footpath passes through the village from Campbeltown and carries on south towards the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Largiebaan Reserve. Coal was mined near the village; the Machrihanish Coalfield was one of Britain's smallest coalfields. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden built a radio transmitting station with a 400 foot high mast here in 1905 to transmit Wireless Telegraphy to a similar station at Brant Rock in Massachusetts, United States. An exchange of messages took place on 1 January 1906 but the mast blew down in a gale on 5 December 1906 and was never rebuilt. Machrihanish railway station opened in 1906 and finally closed in 1932. Weather data is collected from Machrihanish and broadcast in the Shipping Forecast. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video World War 1 Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of the World War 1 stained glass window in St John's Kirk, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Forteviot Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Forteviot stained glass window in St John's Kirk on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Dedicated in 1932, the window was given Lady Forteviot in memory of her husband, John Alexander Dewar, chairman of the whisky company John Dewar & Sons, and a principal benefactor behind the restoration of St John’s in the 1920s. It is the work of the Glasgow stained glass firm, Guthrie and Wells and represents Moses as he strikes the rock at Horeb to obtain water.


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Tour Scotland Video John MacNaughton Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the John MacNaughton stained glass window in St John's Kirk on ancestry, history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. The Clan MacNaughton are amongst the Scottish clans who claim descent from the early Pictish rulers of the Mormaer of Moray. The name Nectan means pure or clear and was popular in at least one Pictish royal branch. Three brothers are recorded in the thirteenth century: Gilchrist, Athe and Gilbert, all sons of Malcolm Macnachten. In 1297 Gilchrist received a charter from King Alexander III of Scotland which granted to him the keepership of a castle warding the narrow Pass of Brander, which was the gateway to the west.

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Tour Scotland Video South Transept Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the South Transept stained glass window in St John's Kirk on ancestry, visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Gifted by the 1st Lord Forteviot, the window is by Herbert Hendrie, and was completed in 1929. John Knox preached against idolatry in the Kirk on 11th May 1559, an event said to mark the start of the Reformation in Scotland. His sermon whipped the congregation into a frenzy, such that they stoned the priest, divested the church of its ornamentation, and then proceeded to the nearby Greyfriars, Blackfriars and Charterhouse monasteries, stripping them back to their bare walls. Following the Reformation the building was divided into three separate churches; East, Middle and West, each with its own Minister. The north transept was cut back by James Gillespie Graham in 1825 to improve the flow of traffic and Graham went on to carry out various repairs to the church.
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Tour Scotland Video North Transept Stained Glass Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the North Transept stained glass window in St John's Kirk, on ancestry, history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Gifted by Lord Dewar, the window was by Herbert Hendrie and dedicated in 1930. Representing Perth's oldest and most historically-significant building, the A-listed St. John's Kirk is located between the High Street and South Street, at the heart of the Mediaeval city centre. It was this church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, that gave Perth its former name of St. Johnstoun. There was a church here in 1126, when King David I extracted funds to support Dunfermline Abbey, but it was probably not completed until 1242, when it was dedicated by David de Bernham, the Bishop of St Andrews. It had become a foundation of considerable importance, because King Alexander III's heart was buried here in 1286.
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Tour Scotland Video City Of Perth Stained Glass Window St John's Kirk Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the City Of Perth stained glass window in St John's Kirk, on ancestry, history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. The window was dedicated in 1975, it was a gift of the Town Council commemorating the link between the Council and the Kirk. Designed by Harvey Salvin, an American artist. The symbols depicted in it - the crown, keys, gate, ears of corn, fish and river - have both a local and biblical significance.


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Old Photograph Road Workers Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old photograph of road workers in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. Kirkcaldy is the birthplace of social philosopher and economist Adam Smith, who wrote The Wealth of Nations at his mother's house at 220 High Street between 1765 and 1767. Architect and designer Robert Adam, and his father, William, came from the town. Sir Sandford Fleming, born 1827, died 1915, engineer and inventor behind the development of worldwide standard time zones and who worked on much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway was born in the town before emigrating to Canada. Explorer John McDouall Stuart, who led six expeditions into the centre and from the south to north of Australia, was born in nearby Dysart.



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Old Photograph Mill Workers Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Mill workers in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Children Markinch Fife Scotland

Old photograph of children in Markinch village in Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Woman With Spinning Wheel Lower Largo Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a woman with a spinning wheel outside a cottage by the coast in Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Agricultural Show Luthrie Fife Scotland

Old photograph of an Agricultural Show in Luthrie near St Andrews in North Fife, Scotland.





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Old Photograph Gypsy Father And Son Near Pitlochry Highland Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a gypsy father and son in a camp near Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Highland Travellers also known as Tinkers are closely tied to the native Highlands, and many traveller families carry clan names like Macfie, Stewart, MacDonald, Cameron, Williamson and Macmillan. They followed a nomadic or settled lifestyle; passing from village to village and are strongly identified with the native Gaelic speaking population. Continuing their nomadic life, they would often pitch their tents on rough ground on the edge of the village and earn money there as tinsmiths, hawkers, horse dealers or pearl fishermen. Many found seasonal employment on farms, e.g. at the berry picking or during harvest time.



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Old Photograph Fishing Net Factory Lower Largo East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a fishing net factory in Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. In 1867, the Cardy Net Works was built by David Gillies. At its height it had thirty three machines and employed sixty to seventy people most of whom had been hand loom weavers. The net factory was in production for less than twenty years before closing in 1886.



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Old Photographs Paddle Steamer River Tay Brdge of Earn Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a paddle steamer in the River Tay by Bridge of Earn by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Beach Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old photograph of children on the beach in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Horse And Cart Cupar Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and cart in Cupar, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Cottages Lower Largo East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages by the coast in Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish coastal village has gained fame as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Alexander Selkirk, born 1676, died 13 December 1721, was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent more than four years as a castaway, from 1704 to 1709, after being marooned by his captain on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. He survived that ordeal, but succumbed to tropical illness a dozen years later while serving aboard HMS Weymouth off West Africa.



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Tour Scotland Video Interior The Parish Church of St Cuthbert's Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the interior The Parish Church of St Cuthbert's Church on ancestry history visit and trip to Edinburgh. This parish church of the Church of Scotland is within the Presbytery of Edinburgh. A chapel dedicated to St Cuthbert is first mentioned in the 8th century. It is believed a church has definitely stood on the same site as currently used since 850 AD, making it Edinburgh's oldest building in terms of foundation. A mediaeval St. Cuthbert's church is mentioned in 1127, possibly rededicated by St. Margaret.

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Tour Scotland Video Elizabeth Murray Window St Cuthbert's Church Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the Elizabeth Murray memorial stained glass window in St Cuthbert's Church, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Edinburgh. Elizabeth Murray died 1898, window donated by her sister Helen wife of Reverend James MacGregor, senior minister one of H.M. Chaplains.

Murray is both a Scottish and an Irish surname with two distinct respective etymologies. The Scottish version is a common variation of the word Moray, an anglicisation of the Medieval Gaelic word Muireb, or Moreb; the b here was pronounced as v, hence the Latinization to Moravia. These names denote the district on the south shore of the Moray Firth, in Scotland. Murray is a direct transliteration of how Scottish people pronounce the word Moray. The Murray spelling is not used for the geographical area, which is Moray, but it became the commonest form of the surname, especially among Scottish emigrants, to the extent that the surname Murray is now much more common than the original surname Moray.

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Tour Scotland Video Elizabeth Bladworth Coulman Window St Cuthbert's Church Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the Elizabeth Bladworth Coulman memorial stained glass window in St Cuthbert's Church, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Edinburgh. Wife of William Bladworth Hardie, died 13 September, 1893 aged 47.

The Coulman surname is a Scottish variant of Coleman, which has a number of possible origins, the first source being of both Irish and English origin, from the Old Irish personal name " Colman ", from " Columban ", a compound of the Gaelic elements " colm ", a dove and " ban ", white, hence a " white dove ". This name was adopted by Scandinavians as the Old Norse " Kalman " and was introduced into Cumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire, England, by Norwegians from Ireland. The second source is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and was given as an occupational name for a burner of charcoal or a gatherer of coal, from the Middle English. This source of the surname is the same as that of the surname Collier. Another possible source is also of English origin, from an occupational name for the servant of a man named " Cole ", Middle English a personal name derived from the Old English by name " cola ", from " col ", charcoal, used to describe someone of a dark complexion. The modern surname can be found as Coleman, Colman, Coulman, Callum and Cullum. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Hervicus Coleman, which was dated 1166, in the Red Book of the Exchequer, Yorkshire, during the reign of King Henry 11.

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Tour Scotland Video William Stuart Window St Cuthbert's Church Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the William Stuart memorial stained glass window in St Cuthbert's Church on ancestry, genealogy family history visit and trip to Edinburgh. This window is erected by Jane Fisher Stuart and John Stuart children of William Stuart and Rebecca Murray and sole surviving grandchildren of John Stuart and Jane Charteris Fisher.

A DNA study has found that half of all the men who carry the surnames Stewart, or Stuart, are descended from Scotland’s royal dynasty. The same investigation has also traced, for the first time, the rise of a male DNA lineage to a single individual in the 13th century who founded a branch of the Royal Stewart line. There are about 70,000 people with the surname in Britain, and the findings mean that around 17,500 men, regardless of their family trees, can now claim to be of royal descent. Sir John Stewart of Bonkyll died in 1298 fighting alongside William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk, but his well documented pedigree allowed ScotlandsDNA to carry out tests on his descendants, and those of his brother James, the 5th High Steward of Scotland and the grandfather of Robert II, the first Stewart king.

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Tour Scotland Video Catherine Glendinning Window St Cuthbert's Church Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the Catherine Glendinning memorial stained glass window in St Cuthbert's Church, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Edinburgh. This window was gifted by the women of St Cuthbert's in grateful recognition of her service to the church.

Glendinning is an ancient Scottish surname. It is locational from a place called Glendinning in the parish of Westerkirk, in the county of Dumfriesshire. The name derives from the Welsh " glyn " meaning " valley ", " dun ", a fort, plus " gwyn " white or fair, hence, " the valley of the white fort ". In the Miscellany of the Scottish Historical Society one, William de Glendonwyn is recorded as " procurator of the Scottish Nation in the University of Orleans ". In the " Criminal Trials of Scotland " from A.D. 1487 to 1624 reference is made to the stealing of goods from a Bartholomew Glendunwyne, and in the reign of Charles 1, a John Glendinning had his lands forfeited when Montrose, the Kings's lieutenant, whom he supported was defeated.

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Tour Scotland Video The Good Shepherd Window St Cuthbert's Church Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the Good Shepherd stained glass window in St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, Scotland. The Good Shepherd is an image used in the pericope of John 10:1-21, in which Jesus Christ is depicted as the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep. Similar imagery is used in Psalm 23. The Good Shepherd is also discussed in the other gospels, the Epistle to the Hebrews, the First Epistle of Peter and the Book of Revelation in references to Jesus not letting himself lose any of his sheep.

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Tour Scotland Video Violin And Accordion Duo In Dundee

Tour Scotland video of a violin and accordion duo called Caper in Camperdown Country Park on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video The Deadly Winters Band Dundee

Tour Scotland video of The Deadly Winters Band in Camperdown Country Park on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Shadow Of The Mountain Dougie MacLean Visit Scotland Information Office Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the brilliant Dougie MacLean singing Shadow Of The Mountain outside the Visit Scotland information office in the city centre on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Dougie MacLean, OBE is a Scottish wonderful singer songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. One of Scotland's premier singer songwriters, and a man I consider to be a good friend

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Tour Scotland Video Feel So Near Dougie MacLean Visit Scotland Information Office Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the brilliant Dougie MacLean singing Feel So Near outside the Visit Scotland information office in the city centre on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Dougie MacLean, OBE is a Scottish wonderful singer songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. One of Scotland's premier singer songwriters, and a man I consider to be a good friend

You'll find me sitting at this table with my friend Fin and my friend John
My friend Murdaney tells us stories of things long gone lone gone
And we may take a glass together the whisky makes it all so clear
It fires our dulled imagination and I feel so near

CHORUS
I feel so near to the howling of the wind
Feel so near to the crashing of the waves
Feel so near to the flowers in the field
Feel so near

The old man looks out to the island he says this place is endless thin
There's no real distance here to mention we might all fall in all fall in
No distance to the spirits of the living no distance to the spirits of the dead
And as he turned his eyes were shining and he proudly said proudly said

CHORUS

So we build our tower constructions there to mark our place in time
We justify our great destructions as on we climb on we climb
Now the journey doesn't seem to matter the destination's faded out
And gathering out along the headland I hear the children shout children shout

CHORUS

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Tour Scotland Video Child Of This Place Dougie MacLean Visit Scotland Information Office Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the brilliant Dougie MacLean singing Child Of This Place outside the Visit Scotland information office in the city centre on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Dougie MacLean, OBE is a Scottish wonderful singer songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. One of Scotland's premier singer songwriters, and a man I consider to be a good friend

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Tour Scotland Video Ready For The Storm Dougie MacLean Visit Scotland Information Office Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the brilliant Dougie MacLean singing Ready For The Storm outside the Visit Scotland information office in the city centre on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Dougie MacLean, OBE is a Scottish wonderful singer songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. One of Scotland's premier singer songwriters, and a man I consider to be a good friend.

The waves crash in and the tide tide pulls out
It's an angry sea but there is no doubt
That the lighthouse will keep shining out
To warn the lonely sailor
And the lightning strikes and the wind cuts cold
Through the sailor's bones to the sailor's soul
Till there's nothing left that he can hold
Except the rolling ocean

CHORUS
But I am ready for the storm, yes sir ready
I am ready for the storm, I'm ready for the storm

Oh give me mercy for my dreams
Cause every confrontation
Seems to tell me what it really means
To be this lonely sailor
But when the sky begins to clear
And the sun it melts away my fear
I'll cry a silent weary tear
For those that need to love me

CHORUS

Distance it is no real friend
And time will take its time
And you will find that in the end
It brings you me, the lonely sailor
And when you take me by your side
You love me warm, you love me
And I should have realized
I had no reason to be frightened

CHORUS

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Old Photograph Arthur Conan Doyle Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of Arthur Conan Doyle in Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was English, of Irish Catholic descent, and his mother, Mary, née Foley, was Irish Catholic. His parents married in 1855. In 1864 the family dispersed due to Charles's growing alcoholism and the children were temporarily housed across Edinburgh. In 1867, the family came together again and lived in squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place. Supported by wealthy uncles, Doyle was sent to the Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, at the age of nine. He then went on to Stonyhurst College until 1875. From 1875 to 1876, he was educated at the Jesuit school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, Austria. By the time he left, he had rejected religion and become an agnostic, though he would eventually become a spiritualist mystic. Doyle's father died in 1893, in the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of psychiatric illness. Arthur Conan Doyle became most famous for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.



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Old Photograph Farm Workers Aberdeenshire Scotland

Old photograph of farm workers in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Mother And Children Holytown Scotland

Old photograph of a mother and children in Holytown, a small village outside Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The area was born and grew on the back of the nearby coal mining industries in the 18th century, although the roots of the town stretch back to at least the 17th Century, where records show that a meeting house was used for prayer services for the community.



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Old Photograph Fisherman Loch Fyne Scotland

Old photograph of a fisherman by his fishing nets in Inveraray Loch Fyne, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in Edinburgh, Scotland. The regiment was raised as the 79th Regiment of Foot, Cameronian Volunteers, on August 17, 1793 at Fort William from among the members of the Clan Cameron by Sir Allan Cameron of Erracht. Originally on the Irish establishment, it became part of the British Army in 1804, and in 1806 it was renamed as the 79th Regiment of Foot, Cameron Highlanders. On raising, it was decided that the red-based Cameron tartan would not be used, and instead a new design was devised. The Cameron of Erracht tartan was based on the Macdonald sett with the addition of a yellow line from the Cameron tartan, and the omission of three red lines found in that of Macdonald. In 1961 the regiment was amalgamated with the Seaforth Highlanders, Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's, to form the Queen's Own Highlanders, Seaforth and Camerons, which later merged with the Royal Scots, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment, the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment, and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The regiment's lineage is now continued by the 4th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.



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Old Photograph Fishwife And Fishermen Elie East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a fishwife and fishermen in Elie, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Proclamation King George VI Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the Proclamation of the Accession of King George VI in Edinburgh, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Bing Crosby St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Bing Crosby on the Old Golf Course in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Coach And Horses Banff Scotland

Old photograph of a coach, horses, and people in Banff, Scotland. Banff is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Macduff across the estuary of the River Deveron. Banff is a former royal burgh, and is the traditional county town of Banffshire. The first recorded Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and in 1372 Royal Burgh status was conferred by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was one of three principal towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, along with Aberdeen and Montrose.



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Old Photograph River Tay Grandtully Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the houses by the River Tay in Grandtully near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Road To Falkland Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the road to Falkland village in Fife, Scotland. One of the first scenes for Outlander was filmed in the picturesque town of Falkland, which substituted for 1940s Inverness in the Highlands.





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Old Photograph Railway Station Broomhill Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Broomhill near Boat of Garten in Badenoch And Strathspey, Scotland. Dulnain Bridge, Skye of Curr and Broomhill were served by the railway station at Broomhill. It was one of the lines which were axed in 1965 but since 1971 it's being operated again by an enthusiastic group of volunteers.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Broughton Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Broughton in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. The Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway had a station and its headquarters here, which was later absorbed into the Caledonian Railway.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Brdge of Earn Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Bridge of Earn by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Bridge of Earn has had two railway stations, the second and most recent having closed on 15 June 1964, when the Bridge of Earn to Mawcarse line was closed down. Bridge of Earn's original station had been located a few hundred yards further east when the existing line first opened on 18 July 1848. This station was closed on 1 February 1892, not as a consequence of economic cutbacks, but rather as a consequence of expansion. The Bridge of Earn to Mawcarse line, which followed closely to the route of the current M90 motorway southwards towards Balmanno Hill, before cutting right through the heart of it via the two tunnels which still exist today, opened to passengers on 1 June 1890. It made logistical sense to move Bridge of Earn's station to a better position to accommodate this new junction and so the original station was replaced.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Bo'ness Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Bo'ness in West Lothian, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Beauly Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Beauly located ten miles West of Inverness, Scotland. The Inverness and Ross-shire Railway, which was to be a line between Inverness and Invergordon, was authorised in 1860, and opened in stages. The first section, that between Inverness and Dingwall, opened on 11 June 1862, and one of the original stations was that at Beauly. The station closed a nearly a century later, on 13 June 1960, along with most of the others between Inverness and Bonar Bridge. This was due to increasing competition from motor buses, particularly those of Highland Omnibuses Ltd. Following a local campaign, the station was reopened in 2002. It is the first stop after leaving Inverness station, heading north on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line and the Far North Line.





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Old Photograph Railway Station Blackford Hill Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Blackford Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland. This station was opened on 1 December 1884 and closed in 1962, when passenger rail services were withdrawn from the Edinburgh Suburban line although the line itself was retained for rail freight use.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Beith Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Beith in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station opened on 26 June 1873 as Beith. It was renamed Beith Town on 28 February 1953, and closed permanently to passengers on 5 November 1962. Freight services continued at the station until 1964. The station was the terminus of a five mile branch from Lugton. The station was originally part of the Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Fyvie Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction Railway connected the Aberdeenshire town of Turriff with the Great North of Scotland Railway's main line at Inveramsay. A separate company, the Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension Railway, built extension to a station called Banff and Macduff. The junction railway, together with the junction station at Inveramsay, opened on 5 September 1857 and the extension opened on 4 June 1860. Both railways were absorbed by the Great North of Scotland Railway on 1st August 1866, and the line was extended to a new Macduff station in 1872. Following the grouping in 1923, the line became part of London and North Eastern Railway and was nationalised, becoming part of British Railways. The Macduff branch closed to passengers on 1 October 1951, completely to the north of Turiff on 1st August 1961 and the remaining line on 3 January 1966.



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Old Photograph Montgomerie Pier Railway Station Ardrossan Scotland

Old photograph of Montgomerie Pier Railway Station in Ardrossan located in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was opened on 30 May 1890 as Ardrossan Pier. It was closed from 1 January 1917 to 1 February 1919 due to wartime economy. The station was renamed Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier on 2 June 1924. The name change was to avoid confusion with a nearby station of the same name. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and continued to operate until it officially closed to passengers by the British Railways Board on 6 May 1968.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Creetown Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Creetown near the head of Wigtown Bay, 18 miles Weest of Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Castle Douglas to Stranraer, Port Road, of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway was opened by that company on 12 March 1861. It closed to regular passenger traffic (with the line as a whole) on 14 June 1965.



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Old Photograph South Beach Railway Station Ardrossan Scotland

Old photograph of South Beach Railway Station in Ardrossan located in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was opened on 1 January 1883 by the Glasgow and South Western Railway, during the extension of the former Ardrossan Railway to Largs. It became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Drem Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Drem, East Lothian, Scotland. The station was opened by the North British Railway on 22 June 1846, on the same date as the main line from Edinburgh to Berwick-upon-Tweed.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Balnaguard Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Balnaguard located South of Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. This was the intermediate station on the Ballinluig to Aberfeldy branch of the former Highland Railway opened on 2 December 1935 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, the line itself having been opened in 1865. It remained open until the closure of the entire line on 3 May 1965.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Abernethy Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland. Initially Abernethy Road opened concurrently with the Edinburgh and Northern Railway on 18 May 1848. When the line was extended this first station was replaced by Abernethy on 18 July 1848. It became part of the North British Railway in 1865, and so into the London and North Eastern Railway. The line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was closed by the British Transport Commission on 19 September 1955. Although the line through the station site is still open for trains, as part of the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line between Perth and Ladybank, the station at Abernethy is closed. A small section of the southbound platform is still in place, but is heavily overgrown.





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