Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Bonar Bridge
Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Bonar Bridge, Sutherland, Scotland. This is a town on the north bank of the Kyle of Sutherland, in the Parish of Creich in the Highlands. The Battles of Invercarron and Carbisdale took place in 1650 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms close to the village of Culrain, which lies to the West of Bonar Bridge. The battles were fought between the forces of the Scottish Covenantor Government and royalist forces loyal to the King, led by James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose. The royalists were defeated. In 1746 the Earl of Cromartie and his forces returning South were attacked by Clan Sutherland near Bonar Bridge, in what became known as the Battle of Bonar Bridge. Most of the Jacobite officers were captured, many of the men were killed and the rest were driven onto the shore where several were drowned trying to swim the Kyle of Sutherland. Thus Clan MacKenzie were prevented from joining the Jacobite army at the Battle of Culloden. John Murray was born on 14 October 1898, in the croft of Badbea, near Bonar Bridge, in Sutherland county. He was a Scottish Calvinist theologian who taught at Princeton Seminary and then left to help found Westminster Theological Seminary, in London, England, where he taught for many years. Joe Strummer was born John Graham Mellor in Ankara, Turkey, on 21 August 1952. His mother, Anna Mackenzie, a crofter's daughter born and raised in Bonar Bridge in the Scottish Highlands, she was a nurse. 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 Video Of Old Photographs Of Insch
Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Insch village in Garioch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is located approximately 28 miles from the city of Aberdeen. The name of the village may have come from the Scottish Gaelic innis, meaning an island, or, as in this context, a piece of terra firma in a marsh. In the Middle Ages, the village was home to a colony of Flemish merchants. The village is served by Insch railway station and has regular bus services to Huntly and Inverurie with connections to Aberdeen and Inverness. Dr Robert Daun was born in 1785 in Insch. He was the eldest son of Reverend George Daun the local minister. On 16 April 1785. He went to Elgin Grammar School and then studied Medicine at King's College, Aberdeen graduating MA in 1803. Having sat the relevant medical exams in London, England, in 1804 he received a commission as Assistant Surgeon, aged only 19, in the army and travelled to India to work there, aiding in the Second Anglo Maratha War. He served first with the 22nd Light Dragoons then the 59th Foot. He returned to Britain around 1812 and received his MD degree from Aberdeen University in 1813. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1814. He then joined the Scots Greys. He was nomadic by nature living in London from 1832 to 1835, St Andrews in Fife, from 1835 to 1839 and Aberdeen from 1839 to 1861. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. From 1861 onwards he lived in retirement at 6 Picardy Place at the head of Leith Walk in Edinburgh. He died peacefully at home in Edinburgh on 14 June 1871, aged 86. He is buried in Dean Cemetery in west Edinburgh. His wife, Helen Jamieson, lies with him. 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 Video Of Old Photographs Of Denny
Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Denny town located seven miles West Falkirk, Scotland. Formerly in the county of Stirlingshire. It is situated 7 miles west of Falkirk, and 6 miles north east of Cumbernauld, adjacent to both the M80 and M876 motorways. Denny is separated from neighbouring village Dunipace by the River Carron. Until the early 1980s, Denny was a centre for heavy industry, including several iron foundries, brickworks, a coal mine and paper mills. Thomas Bain was born in Denny on December 14, 1834. He was a Canadian parliamentarian. He was the son of Walter Bain, and migrated to Canada with his family when he was three years old. They settled on a bush farm in Wentworth County near Hamilton, Ontario. He was elected to the County Council in the 1860s and became Warden. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1872 federal election as a Liberal. He was re-elected on six subsequent occasions, serving as a Member of Parliament for 28 years before retiring in 1900. In the House, he usually spoke on agricultural issues, and became Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Colonization in 1896. In 1874, he married Helen Weir. When the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, James David Edgar, died unexpectedly in July 1899, Wilfrid Laurier asked Bain to become the new Speaker for the remainder of Egar's term. Bain served as Speaker until the House was dissolved for the 1900 election in which he did not run. After retiring from politics, Bain became President of the Landed Banking and Loan Company and the Malcolm and Souter Furniture Company. He died in Dundas, on January 18, 1915, Ontario at age 80. Carl William Dunn Kirkwood was born on 30 April 1929 in Denny. He was the son of iron jobbing moulder William Kirkwood and his wife Ellen. He completed his schooling in Scotland and then served in the British Army in Malaya and Singapore from 1946 to 1948. He worked as a jobbing moulder, in Australia in 1955. He was soon active both in the Moulders' Union and the Labor Party's Preston branch. In 1970 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Preston. He became spokesman on local government immediately, adding lands from 1976 to 1977 and dropping his front bench role entirely in 1981. Kirkwood retired in 1988. The railway station opened in 1850 on the Caledonian railway branch line from Larbert, and closed to passengers in the 1930’s although it was still used as a freight line until the 1960’s. 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 Video Chunky Vegetable Soup with Baps Touchdown Cafe
Tour Scotland video of home made Chunky Vegetable Soup with Baps in Touchdown Cafe at Perth Airport on visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. A Scottish bap is a Scottish yeast bread roll. It is usually round in most areas of Scotland, but it can be made in other shapes. The Scottish bap is a food staple that may be eaten at any time of day in Scotland.
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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Kirkintilloch
Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Kirkintilloch, Scotland. 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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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Buchlyvie
Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Buchlyvie in Stirlingshire, Scotland. A village in Stirling district in central Scotland. It is situated 14 miles west of Stirling and 18 miles north of Glasgow. Lying within the Carse of Forth, to the north is Flanders Moss and to the south are the Campsie Fells. The village lies on the A811 road, which follows the line of an eighteenth century military road between Stirling and Balloch. Buchlyvie was granted Burgh of Barony status in 1672, and by the eighteenth century was served by two railway lines. Buchlyvie Junction formed the intersection of the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway, which linked Stirling and Balloch, and the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which ran north to Aberfoyle. The Forth and Clyde Junction Railway closed to passengers in 1934, with the line closing for good in 1950. Passenger services on the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle line closed in 1951 with the railway itself closing in 1959. 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 Video Of Old Photographs Of Drymen
Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Drymen, Scotland. A village in Stirling district in central Scotland. Drymen lies to the west of the Campsie Fells and enjoys views to Dumgoyne on the east and to Loch Lomond on the west. The Queen Elizabeth Forest reaches down to the village edge, and the whole area is part of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. It is often used as an overnight stop for hikers on the West Highland Way, and forms the western end of the Rob Roy Way. Despite the growth in the numbers of villagers commuting to Glasgow to work, there remains an agricultural tradition in the area. The Scottish family name Drummond is derived from the Scottish Gaelic form of the village's name, 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 Video Cumberland Sausage With Vegetables Wheel Inn
Tour Scotland video of Cumberland Sausage with vegetables on visit to the Wheel Inn in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Cumberland sausage is a form of sausage that originated in the ancient county of Cumberland, England, now part of Cumbria. The sausage is typically filled with coarsely chopped pork and black pepper, and sometimes other ingredients such as herbs and other spices. They are traditionally in curved lengths.
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Old Photograph Stairs To The Old University Glasgow Scotland
Old photograph of stairs to the old University College in Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow University is the second oldest University in Scotland, second to St. Andrews in Fife, and was inaugurated in 1451 at the request of William Turnbull, Bishop of Glasgow. On his instigation, King James II applied to Pope Nicholas V who issued a Papal Bull, and in doing so gave Glasgow the opportunity to create a Studium Generale which would possess all of the powers of a University. Initially lectures were held in the Chapter House of Glasgow Cathedral, until 1457 when building started on the High Street. It was in 1460 that James Lord Hamilton donated to the Faculty of Arts an area of land on the east side on the High Street, and in 1560 a further endowment of money and land was given by Mary Queen of Scots. The University remained at this site until the 17th century, when new building works began in the area directly behind the High Street, and eventually grew to replace the original building on the High Street.
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Tour Scotland Video Parish Church Drymen
Tour Scotland video of the Parish Church in Drymen, Scotland. The church is located Stirlingshire, about 15 miles north of Glasgow. The present church stands on a site which has been a centre of Christian worship for many hundreds of years, possibly since the 11th Century. An ancient graveyard, in the Scottish tradition, is sited to the south of the Church and contains headstones recording burials from the 17th century to the 1890’s.
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Tour Scotland Video Buchanan Castle
Tour Scotland video of Buchanan Castle, a ruined country house in Stirlingshire, located 1 mile West of the village of Drymen, Scotland. The house was built by the 4th Duke of Montrose in 1854. The original structure, the ancestral seat of the Clan Buchanan, had burned down in 1852, and Montrose commissioned William Burn to replace it. Burn designed an extravagant manor in the Scottish baronial style. This new house replaced Mugdock Castle as the official seat of the Clan Graham.
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Old Photograph Hayweights Clock Musselburgh Scotland
Old photograph of the Hayweights Clock in Musselburgh, Scotland. The name Musselburgh is Old English in origin, with " mussel " referring to the shellfish, and " burgh " derived from the Old English for " town ". Musselburgh was first settled by the Romans in the years following their invasion of Scotland in AD 80. They built a fort a little inland from the mouth of the River Esk, at Inveresk. The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh was fought south of Musselburgh.
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Old Photograph Nether Liberton Scotland
Old photograph of Trams, houses, sunken cottage and people in Nether Liberton located just South of Edinburgh, Scotland. The sunken cottage building with the rounded corner which forms the junction of Gilmerton Road with Nether Liberton is a very old cottage which was at one time known locally as Good's Corner. Goods being the name of a local carppenter who occupied the cottage.
Recorded in several spelling forms including Good, Goode, Goude, Gudd, Gudde, Gode, Gude, Guth, Gut, LeGood, Goed, Goede, De Goede, and others, this is medieval surname which seems to originate from the pre 7th century Olde English word " god " meaning good.
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Old Photograph Gearrannan Isle Of Lewis Scotland
Old photograph of thatched Blackhouses in Gearrannan, Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Garenin is in the Carloway municipality and has a population of about 80 people. Garenin is also within the parish of Uig. These houses were lived in till 1974 and were the last group of blackhouses to be inhabited in the Western Isles. The blackhouses on the Isle of Lewis have roofs thatched with cereal straw over turf and thick, stone-lined walls with an earthen core. Roof timbers rise from the inner face of the walls providing a characteristic ledge at the wall head. This gives access to the roof for thatching. Both the animals and occupants shared the same door, living at different ends of the same space. Several long ranges, or rooms, were usually built alongside each other, each one having its own ridgeline giving them the very distinctive look of the Lewis blackhouse.
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Old Photograph Dunkeld House Hotel River Tay Perthshire Scotland
Old photograph of Dunkeld House Hotel by the River Tay in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. The building is based on a summer house built by George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl. The author Beatrix Potter spent a lot of time writing there. On September 4, 1893, Potter drafted her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, at Eastwood House while writing a story and picture letter to child friend Noel Moore.
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Old Photograph Pier Carbost Isle Of Skye Scotland
Old photograph of a ship by the pier at Carbost, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The pier in the fjord like Loch Harport was formerly owned by Diageo, owners of the nearby Talisker Distillery. Many years ago, raw materials were brought in, and the finished product shipped from the island, aboard traditional Clyde puffers.
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Old Photograph Market Cross Perth Perthshire Scotland
Old photograph of the Market Cross on King Edward Street in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Old Market Cross of Perth was pulled down by Oliver Cromwell's army in 1651 and is now in the grounds of Fingask Castle. What is here now is not an actual market cross as such, but a memorial to King Edward VII constructed in 1913, it still be viewed as a modern replacement of the market cross.
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Old Photograph Royal Navy Band Invergordon Scotland
Old photograph of a Royal Navy Band marching on the High Street in Invergordon, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. Invergordon has been a port since the early 18th Century. The Royal Navy visited the port during the Jacobite uprisings of 1715 and 1745. The town of Invergordon was named after Sir William Gordon who was a prominent landowner. In 1907, Invergordon and Cromarty Firth welcomed 14.5 thousand men and 20 torpedo boats, 12 battleships, six cruisers, and two scout ships. In 1912, the UK Ministry of Defense established a permanent naval base there which was in use until 1993. During World War I, Cromarty Firth was a fully equipped navy base and dockyard. The Invergordon Mutiny was an industrial action by around 1,000 sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet that took place on 15 and 16 September 1931. For two days, ships of the Royal Navy at Invergordon were in open mutiny, in one of the few military strikes in British history.
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Old Photograph Petrol Filling Station Millerton Inverness Scotland
Old photograph of cars at the Petrol Filling Station in Millerton, Inverness, Scotland. Inverness, a popular Highlands tourist destination, is situated at the mouth of the River Ness, which flows from nearby Loch Ness, and at the south western extremity of the Moray Firth. The city lies at the end of the Great Glen with Loch Ness, Loch Ashie and Loch Duntelchaig to the West. Inverness's Caledonian Canal also runs through the Great Glen connecting Loch Ness, Loch Oich, and Loch Lochy.
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Old Photograph Golf Club Members Carnoustie Scotland
Old photograph of golf club members outside the Clubhouse on the Golf Course in Carnoustie, Scotland. Golf is recorded as having been played at Carnoustie in the early 16th century. In 1890, the 14th Earl of Dalhousie, who owned the land, sold the links to the local authority. It had no funds to acquire the property, and public fundraising was undertaken and donated to the council. The original course was of ten holes, crossing and recrossing the Barry Burn; it was designed by Allan Robertson who was born in St Andrews, Fife, assisted by Old Tom Morris who was also born in St Andrews, and opened in 1842. The opening of the coastal railway from Dundee to Arbroath in 1838 brought an influx of golfers from as far afield as Edinburgh, anxious to tackle the ancient links. This led to a complete restructuring of the course, extended in 1867 by Old Tom Morris to the 18 holes which had meanwhile become standardized. Two additional courses have since been added: the Burnside Course and the shorter though equally testing Buddon Links. Carnoustie first played host to The Open Championship in 1931, after modifications to the course in 1926 by James Braid who was was born in Earlsferry, in the East Neuk of Fife. The winner then was Tommy Armour, from Edinburgh. Later Open winners at Carnoustie include Henry Cotton of England in 1937, Ben Hogan of the USA in 1953, Gary Player of South Africa in 1968, Tom Watson of the USA in 1975, Paul Lawrie of Scotland in 1999 and Pádraig Harrington of Ireland in 2007. The last three championships were all won in playoffs.
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Old Photograph Cottage Post Office And Bridge Cabrach Dufftown Scotland
Old photograph of the cottage Post Office and Bridge in Cabrach, Moray, Scotland. This Scottish name means " antler place " in Scottish Gaelic. The forces of Huntly and Errol mustered in Cabrach before the battle of Glenlivet in 1594. This battle is often seen as a religious conflict, and was fought by the Catholic forces of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly and Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll, who were victorious over the Protestant forces of Archibald Campbell, 7th Earl of Argyll. When the decree of 12 November 1593 came out, by which Catholics were ordered to give up their faith or leave the country, Huntly refused to obey. His continued resistance culminated in the Battle of Glenlivet, where, accompanied by the Earl of Erroll, he engaged Argyll's army above Allt a' Choileachain. The Earl of Huntly's forces consisted of 2,000 Highlanders from Clan Gordon, Clan Hay, Clan Comyn, Clan Cameron, Clan Cumming. The Earl of Argyll's forces consisted of 10,000 Highlanders from Clan Campbell, Clan Murray, Clan Stewart, Clan Forbes, Clan Macgillivray, Clan Maclean, Clan Grant, and the Chattan Confederation of Clan Mackintosh. Huntly's retainers prepared for battle by confession and communion. Mass was said at Auchindoun for them by Father James Gordon, before they set out on their march through Glenrinnes. Their weapons were sprinkled with holy water, and a cross placed on their armour symbolised that they fought in defence of the Cross of Christ. The Earl of Huntly's force of 2,000 men routed the Earl of Argyll's force of 10,000. Huntly's victory was a dramatic victory of horse and artillery over irregular infantry.
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Old Photograph Thatched House High Street Strathmiglo Fife Scotland
Old photograph of a thatched house, shops and people on the High Street in Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish village is sometimes thought to have belonged to the Mormaers of Fife in early times. Before 1350 it had become the centre of the shire of Strathmigloshire. It became a burgh of barony in the 16th century, by which time it belonged to the Scotts of Balwearie. Prior to the Reformation it was the site of a Collegiate church. The economic life of the burgh in early times was linked to nearby Falkland Palace. In the 18th and 19th centuries the textile industry was important, as was boot-making in the 20th. The tollbooth of 1734 is a prominent landmark and there is a Pictish stone by the cemetery. Country music legend Johnny Cash traced his ancestry back to this area of Scotland. The clan Cash originated in this area and streets in Strathmiglo and Falkland still carry the name Cash, as do Easter Cash, Wester Cash and Cash Farms.
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Old Photograph Tram Nithsdale Cross Pollokshields Glasgow Scotland
Old photograph of a Tram at Nithsdale Cross in Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland. This is a conservation area which was developed in Victorian times according to a plan promoted by the original landowners, the Stirling Maxwells of Pollok, whose association with the area goes as far back as 1270.
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Old Photograph Comet Radio Station Scotland
Old photograph of the Comet Radio Station off the coast of Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Radio Scotland was an offshore pirate radio station broadcasting on 1241 kHz medium wave, created by Tommy Shields in 1965. The station was on the former lightship L.V. Comet, which had been fitted out as a radio station in Guernsey using RCA technology and engineers, it was anchored at locations off Scotland, most often outside territorial waters. The station began on 31 December 1965 and featured DJs including Paul Young, Richard Park, Stuart Henry and Jack McLaughlin with a céilidh programme that promised to tickle the " tartan tonsils. " Its headquarters, Radio Scotland House, was a building at Cranworth Street, Hillhead in Glasgow. Cranworth Street also made taped programmes, using 1/4" magnetic tape, taken to the ship by tender. The Comet was initially off Dunbar on the east coast and had strong coverage of Edinburgh, but not as clearly in Glasgow. The anchorages off the West coast of Scotland were found to be within territorial water and the company was fined £80, bringing a move to Ballywater, off County Down, Northern Ireland, the station changing its name to Radio Scotland and Ireland. Then RTÉ claimed the station was causing adjacent channel interference to its Dublin transmitter on 1250 kHz. Transmissions to the east of Scotland were worse from this location, so Shields took the ship to off Fife Ness and the Isle of May. As well as giving eastern Scotland a strong signal, the " water run " meant the signal didn't hit land until Grangemouth in Stirlingshire, about 20 miles from Glasgow. So the Central Belt at last had a listenable signal. The station closed on 14 August 1967. Many presenters went to other stations, including BBC Radio 1, Radio Caroline, Radio Luxembourg, Radio Clyde and BBC Radio Scotland.
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Old Photograph Station Road Errol Scotland
Old photograph of houses on Station Road in Errol, Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Errol is located about halfway between Dundee and Perth. Errol is known for its reeds, which used to be collected up to a few years ago to make thatched roofs. These reeds grow in the banks of the River Tay and act as home to a fairly uncommon bird called the bearded tit. Errol has a large church, built in 1831, known as the Cathedral of The Carse. The street's name is probably derived from the fact that cows were herded down it for market days.
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Old Photograph Time Gun Dundee Scotland
Old photograph of the Time Gun in Dundee, Scotland. The Time Gun was located on a platform built into the embankment immediately to the south of Dudhope Castle. It was installed in 1872 and fired daily at 1pm.
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Old Photograph Roman Well Burghead Scotland
Old photograph of the Roman Well in Burghead located eight miles North West of Elgin, Moray, Scotlan. The well comprises a rectangular chamber about 16 feet square and 12 feet high, with rounded angles, cut out of rock at the base of a crag. When found, during the improvements which commenced in 1808, the chamber roof was broken and the entrance ill defined. When the well was cleared out a number of finds were made. A stone slab with a bull carved on it, a number of Spanish coins, a bell metal jug, and a square stone having a cross upon the centre the margin of which was covered with Celtic knotwork cut in bold relief. The Well was probably an Early Christian baptistry associated with the local cul of St. Ethan.
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Old Photograph Albert Street Dundee Scotland
Old photograph of shops, houses, people and a Tram on Albert Street in Dundee, Scotland. The first municipal public transport in Dundee was operated by Dundee and District Tramways. From 1877, these were generally horse-drawn, but by June 1885 steam cars with green and white livery were introduced. Unusually, the tram lines were publicly built and owned, although initially leased by police commissionaires to private companies. All routes came under direct municipal control in 1893, which allowed the city to adopt overhead electric lines to power the trams. Between 1899 and 1902 the tramways were fully electrified. The first electric tram in Dundee started on 12 July 1900. The route ran from High Street to Ninewells in the West via Nethergate and Perth Road with a later route running to Dryburgh in the North.
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Old Photograph Powbank Mill Prestwick Scotland
Old photograph of Powbank Mill near Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland. Powbank Mill closed at the outbreak of World War II, when it was requisitioned as a Canteen. After the war, the mill never returned to the family, being the home of the Scottish Aviation Club, before they moved into the St Cuthbert's site on Kirk Street. The Pow Burn, Burn is a Scots word for stream or river, is fed by a small loch near the estate of Coodham and is narrow until it reaches Prestwick, where it starts to widen. The Burn separates Prestwick and Monkton. It crosses Prestwick Airport and flows through Prestwick Golf Course, where is serves as a natural obstacle. A caravan park has been built overlooking the mouth of the burn, where it flows into the Firth of Clyde. The Ayrshire Cycle Track and Ayrshire Coastal Path cross over the burn by a bridge not far from the estuary.
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Old Photograph St Peter's Church Birsay Orkney Islands Scotland
Old photograph of St Peter's Church, Birsay Orkney Islands, Scotland. This site is situated in the remains of a burial ground, and has seen repeated phases of occupation. The earliest settlement being a 6th Century Celtic monastery, replaced in the ninth century by Viking farmsteads. It became the site of Earl thorfinn's Christ Church, the earliest Norse Church in Orkney. in the eleventh century. This was superseded by a Cathedral, traditionally dedicated to St Peter, in the twelfth century, which remained in use as a parish church until the thirteenth century. The Bishop's palace to the north remained in use until at least the fourteenth century. Despite being made obsolete by the construction of Kirkwall Cathedral, the site continued to be a site for pilgrimage until the Scottish Reformation.
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Old Photograph Midhowe Broch Rousay Orkney Islands Scotland
Old photograph of Midhowe Broch on on the west coast of the island of Rousay, Orkney Islands, Scotland. The Broch is situated on a narrow promontory between two steep sided creeks, on the north side of Eynhallow Sound. The broch is part of an ancient settlement, part of which has been lost to coastal erosion. The broch got its name from the fact that it's the middle of three similar structures that lie grouped within 500 metres of each other and Howe from the Old Norse word haugr meaning mound or barrow. The broch is surrounded by the remains of other lesser buildings, and a narrow entrance provides access into the defended settlement. The other buildings seem to have been built as adjacent houses, but later in the site’s history they were used as workshops, and one of these buildings still retains its iron-smelting hearth.
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Old Photograph Ian Bannen Scotland
Old photograph of Ian Bannen, who was born on 29 June 1928 in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was the son of Clare, née Galloway, and John James Bannen, a lawyer. Bannen served in the British Army after attending St Aloysius' College, Glasgow and Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire, England. His first acting role came in a 1947 Dublin, Ireland, stage production of Armlet of Jade. He became a successful figure on the London stage, making a name for himself in the plays of both Shakespeare and Eugene O'Neill. He was an original member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared on Broadway as well. His film debut occurred in the early 1950s with a small role in Pool of London, and he quickly rose to prominence, primarily in a wide range of supporting roles. He had a very significant role as Stoker Samuel Bannister in Yangtse Incident. During the early stages of his career he worked with the Boulting Brothers on Private's Progress and Carlton Browne of the F.O.. His performance as Crow in The Flight of the Phoenix earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, making him the first Scottish actor to receive this honour; he also received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year Actor. That same year, he starred alongside Sean Connery in the WW2 prison drama, The Hill. He received in 1965 an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Flight of the Phoenix as Ratbags Crow, one of the survivors of a plane crash. He also won acclaim for his roles as Brother Benedict in Lamb, Grandfather George in John Boorman's Hope and Glory, for which he received a second Best Supporting Actor BAFTA nomination), the elder Robert de Brus in Braveheart and as the touchingly crafty villager in Waking Ned Devine. Bannen was killed, aged 71, in a car accident by Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands in November 1999. He and his wife, Marilyn Salisbury, who had been driving, were discovered in an overturned vehicle at Knockies Straight between Inverness and Fort Augustus. His wife, a veterinarian for the Ministry of Agriculture, suffered only minor injuries. The couple had been married since 1976; they had no children. Bannen was posthumously given the 2000 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award.
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Tour Scotland Video Of Lochranza Castle
Tour Scotland video of Lochranza Castle, Island of Arran, Scotland. This Scottish castle is an L-plan tower house situated on a promontory in the middle of Lochranza, on the North of the Isle of Arran in Scotland. Most of the present castle today was built in the sixteenth century. The original building dates to the thirteenth century when it was owned by the MacSweens. In 1262, King Alexander III granted the castle and its lands to Walter Stewart, the Earl of Menteith. It is believed that Robert the Bruce landed at Lochranza in 1306 on his return form Ireland to claim the Scottish throne. By 1371, the castle has become the property of Robert II. It is thought that at this time it was used as a royal hunting lodge. The castle has seen many varied uses over time. During the 1490s, James IV used the castle in his campaign against the Lord of the Isles and his Clan MacDonald. In 1614 it was occupied by James VI and in the 1650s it was used by Cromwell. By 1705, Lochranza Castle had become the property of the Hamilton family, when it was purchased by the Duchess of Hamilton. The Hamilton family had owned other estates on the Isle of Arran. During the eighteenth century, the castle fell into disuse and disrepair and was abandoned.
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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Broxburn
Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland. It is located 12 miles west of Edinburgh on the A8 road, 5 miles from Edinburgh Airport, and to the north of Livingston. Broxburn remained an agricultural community until the development of the oil shale industry in the area during the second half of the nineteenth century. This brought in a rapid influx of workers, greatly expanding the local population. Broxburn is still known for its association with the industry, pioneered by the inventor and industrialist James Young. Many shale spoil tips, known as bings, are still in evidence around the town. The name Broxburn is a corruption of brock's burn, brock being an old name for a badger and burn being a Scots word for a stream. The village was earlier known as Easter Strathbrock. 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 Frieda Inescort Scotland
Old photograph of Frieda Inescort, who was born on 29 June 1901 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was the daughter of Scots born journalist John Jock Wrightman and actress Elaine Inescourt, who was of German and Polish descent. They married in 1899 but parted ways when their daughter was still a young child. While she lived in England, Inescort wrote for a newspaper in London. After going to the United States, she not only acted but also worked as associate editor of The Exporter's Encyclopedia. Frieda Wrightman adopted her mother's surname as her professional name and moved to Hollywood, California, and made her film debut in The Dark Angel. Her other films include Mary of Scotland, The Letter, The Trial of Mary Dugan, You'll Never Get Rich and A Place in the Sun. On 2 August 1961, she and her husband since 1926, Ben Ray Redman, dined out. Redman had been despondent for some time. Returning home before her, he went upstairs to bed. He then called Frieda, informing her that he was depressed over the state of the world and had taken 12 sedative pills. By the time the paramedics arrived, he had died, a suicide at the age of 65. Inescort had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the 1930s. Her disease accelerated after her husband's death, and she was using a wheelchair by the mid 1960s. On 7 July 1964, her estranged mother, British actress Elaine Inescourt, died in Brighton, England, aged 87. Frieda worked as much as possible for the funding of multiple sclerosis research. She was often seen in the Hollywood area seated in her wheelchair, she collected donations outside supermarkets and in malls. She died at the Motion Picture Country Home at Woodland Hills, California, from the disease she had battled since 1932, aged 74.
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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Ballachulish
Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Ballachulish, Lochaber, Scotland. The name Ballachulish, from Scottish Gaelic, Baile a' Chaolais, means the Village by the Narrows. The narrows in question is Caolas Mhic Phàdraig, Peter or Patrick's son's narrows, at the mouth of Loch Leven. As there was no road to the head of Loch Leven until 1927, the Ballachulish Ferry, established in 1733, and those at Invercoe, Callert and Caolas na Con were essential. The Ballachulish ferry closed in December 1975 when the Ballachulish Bridge finally opened. In 1903, a branch of the, now closed, Callander and Oban Railway, from Connel Ferry, was opened to Ballachulish. Slate from local quarries, established just two years after the infamous Glencoe Massacre of 1692, was used to provide the roofing slate for much of Edinburgh and Glasgow's skyline in the succeeding centuries. 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 Photographs Passenger Buses In Scotland
Old photographs of single decker and double decker passenger buses in Scotland, including Oban, Glasgow, Ayr, Glenrothes, Greenock, Burghmuir, Dundee, St Andrews, St Combs, Fintry, Barnhil, Ninewells, Royston, Fowlis, Charleston, Broughty Ferry, Whitfield, Kirkton, Island Of Arran, Machrie, Brodick, Blackwaterfoot, Fort William, Fort Augustus, Aberdour, Auchenback, Easterhouse, Fife, Gyle Centre, Stirling, Ninewells Hospital, Inverness, Highlands, Monikie, Perth, Perthshire, Lochinver, Kilmarnock, Riccarton, Bonaly, Langside, Carnwadric, Rutherglen, Toryglen, Garscadden, St Enoch Square, Bishopbriggs, Rouken Glen, Knightswood, Barrhead, Craigie, Spittalfield, Kincaidston.
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Ancestry Genealogy Photographs From Tour Scotland Video 18
Ancestry and Genealogy photographs from Tour Scotland Video 18. I hope these might be of interest to folks with Scottish Roots. I made this video just for fun, didn't have time to name all the places and people.
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Old Photograph Andrew Allan Clyde Scotland
Old photograph of Andrew Allan Clyde born on March 25, 1892, in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Andy was a Scottish film and television actor whose career spanned more than four decades. In 1921 he broke into silent films as a Mack Sennett comic, debuting in On a Summer Day. He was the fifth of six children of theatrical actor, producer and manager John Clyde. Clyde's brother David and his sister Jean also became screen actors. Although Andy Clyde's movie career spanned 34 years, he may be best known for his work as California Carlson in the popular Hopalong Cassidy movie series. He is also well known for two long running television series: as the farmer Cully Wilson in CBS's Lassie and as the neighbour, George MacMichael, on ABC's The Real McCoys. Coincidentally, the number of appearances in these series was identical: 29 episodes each. On September 23, 1932, Clyde married Elsie Maud Tarron, a former member of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, in Ontario in San Bernardino County, California. Jules White recalled that Clyde became a father in middle age, and was devastated when his nine year-old son, John Allan Clyde, died. He was close friends with Ben Turpin, being the witness at Turpin's second marriage, and a pallbearer at his funeral. He became a naturalized United States citizen on September 24, 1943. He continued to perform on television until his death on May 18, 1967. His remains are interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park, near his son, John Allan and older brother, David Clyde. On February 8, 1960, Andy Clyde received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6758 Hollywood Boulevard, for his contribution to the motion pictures industry.
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Old Photograph Andrew Cruickshank Scotland
Old photograph of Andrew Cruickshank, who was born to Andrew and Mary Cruickshank on 25 December 1907 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, he was to have entered the profession of civil engineering after completing his education, but instead joined provincial repertory theatres, leading to 1930 roles in Othello at the Savoy Theatre in London, England, as Maudelyn in Richard of Bordeaux at the Empire Theatre on Broadway in 1934. His first film role followed in 1937, as the poet Robert Burns in Auld Lang Syne. He appeared in many television plays and series, amongst them A. J. Cronin's Dr Finlay's Casebook, containing his most famous characterisation, Doctor Angus Cameron, a crusty but erudite senior partner in the rural general practice run in Tannochbrae, with the help of the much younger Doctor Alan Finlay and stiff Presbyterian housekeeper Janet. The highly popular BBC production ran from 16 August 1962 until 3 January 1971, after which Cruickshank continued with it on BBC Radio 4 for seven years, it having been adapted to that format since 10 March 1970. He finally bade farewell to the character on 18 December 1978, following its parting episode, Going Home. In 1963 he played the title role in the BBC sitcom Mr Justice Duncannon, having appeared as that character in the final episode of the 1962 sitcom Brothers in Law. He married Curigwen, and they had one son and two daughters. He was chair of the board of directors of Edinburgh Festival Fringe between 1970 and 1983. He died on 29 April 1988 in London.
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Old Photograph Benny Lee Scotland
Old photograph of Benny Lee born on 11 August 1916 in Glasgow, Scotland. Benny started his singing career as tenor in the school choir. Leaving school at 14, he became a tailor's apprentice, but soon left to join an all purpose act, which sang, danced and performed acrobatics all around one of the main variety circuits of Britain. In 1941, Lee was heard singing by Johnny Claes, a trumpeter who had recently formed a swinging dance band called the Claepigeons. He liked the sound of Lee's voice and signed him on as a vocalist. Soon Lee was singing and recording with many bands of the day. His voice became popular enough for him to be featured as a solo singer and not just a band singer. In 1948 he was supported by the close harmony group the Keynotes on Rambling Rose. Next year he duetted with Joy Nichols, the star of Take It From Here, singing On the 5.45. The Decca company came in with a contract and from 1950 he recorded such hits of the time as Enjoy Yourself, It's Later Than You Think, and Down at the Ferry Boat Inn with the Stargazers. Every type of pop song seemed to suit Lee. Lee also appeared in the films, Keep It Clean, My Wife's Family, The Girl Hunters and Mahler, portraying Tarbottom, Arnold, Nat Drutman and Uncle Arnold respectively. Lee died on 9 December 1995 at the age of 79. He left behind a wife and two daughters.
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Old Photograph Robert Urquhart Scotland
Old photograph of Robert Urquhart who was born on 16 October 1922 in Ullapool, Scotland. He was a Scottish character actor who mainly worked in British television during his career. Having initially entered the Merchant Navy, he won an ex Serviceman's scholarship to train at RADA. Urquhart made his stage debut in 1947, while his first film role was in You're Only Young Twice. He appeared in many television shows of the detective, special agent genre, such as Department S, Callan, The Professionals, Man in a Suitcase, The Avengers, and opposite Patrick McGoohan in the episodes of Danger Man entitled English Lady Takes Lodger and It's Up To The Lady, and as the title character in The Man with the Foot. He also played the lead role in Jango, a short lived 1961 production by Associated Rediffusion. Urquhart also starred as Wing Commander MacPhearson in the 1970s series Pathfinders. His wife was Jean Urquhart. He died in Edinburgh on 21 March 1995.
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Old Photograph Little Ross Island Scotland
Old photograph of Little Ross Island and lighthouse in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The lighthouse was constructed in 1843 by Alan Stevenson, it is approximately 66 feet tall and has been automated since 1961. In August 1960 two relief lighthouse keepers were on duty during the holiday of the principal keeper. The secretary of the local RNLI arrived on the island with his son for lunch and a walk and discovered the body of one of the keepers, Hugh Clark. After a nationwide hunt the other relief keeper, Robert Dickson was arrested and found guilty of murder for which he was sentenced to hang.
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Old Photograph Youth Hostel Braemar Scotland
Old photograph of the Youth Hostel in Braemar, Royal Deeside, Scotland. The annual Highland Games Gathering is held at Braemar on the first Saturday in September and is traditionally attended by the British Royal Family. Since Queen Victoria's time the reigning Monarch has been the patron of the Braemar Royal Highland Society.
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Old Photograph Youth Hostel Killin Scotland
Old photograph of the Youth Hostel cottages by Falls Of Dochart in Killin, Scotland. The MacNab Clan were once dominant here, and have long been associated with Killin. Their ancient burial ground is on Inchbuie in the River Dochart, just below the falls, and is visible from the bridge.
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Old Photograph Youth Hostel Glencoe Scotland
Old photograph of the Youth Hostel in Glencoe, Scotland. The Glen was the site of the Massacre of Glencoe in 1692, in which 38 members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed by forces acting on behalf of the government of King William III following the Glorious Revolution. The village occupies an area of the glen known as Carnoch. Native Gaelic speakers who belong to the area always refer to the village as A'Charnaich, meaning " the place of cairns ". Even today there is Upper Carnoch and Lower Carnoch. A small hospital, currently empty, with emergency services at Fort William 16 miles away, lies at the southern end of the village just over an arched stone bridge.
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Old Photograph Youth Hostel Glen Nevis Scotland
Old photograph of the Youth Hostel in Glen Nevis, Scotland. Several films have been shot in Glen Nevis, including some scenes from the Harry Potter movies, Highlander, Highlander III, Braveheart and Rob Roy. Glen Nevis is bordered to the South by the Mamore range, and to the north by the highest mountains in the British Isles: Ben Nevis, Càrn Mor Dearg, Aonach Mòr, and Aonach Beag. It is home to one of the three highest waterfalls in Scotland, Steall Falls, where the Allt Coire a'Mhail joins the Water of Nevis in the glen. Below the waterfall is a steeply walled and impressive gorge.
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Old Photograph Youth Hostel Hailes Edinburgh Scotland
Old photograph of the Youth Hostel in Hailes in Edinburgh, Scotland. The SYHA is a self-funding charitable organisation, and as a not-for-profit business invests all surplus back into the organisation, both to develop the network and to improve older hostels. Today it faces strong competition from the more numerous independent hostels, and from rural hotels which provide bunkhouse accommodation.
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Old Photograph Calvine Scotland
Old photograph of the Post Office, cottages and people in Calvine in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. This is Clan Donnachaidh country, spiritual home to clan members which include Robertson, Duncan, McConnachie, Reid and McLagan.
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Old Photograph Glenbervie Scotland
Old photograph of Glenbervie located seven miles South of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Old Photograph Parish Church Drumlithie Scotland
Old photograph of the Parish Church in Drumlithie located seven miles South of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Drumlithie is noted for its appearance in the classic Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel, Sunset Song, while neighbouring Glenbervie is the final resting place of the great grandparents of famous Scottish poet Robert Burns. Drumlithie is also twinned with Couture D'Argenson in France. Close to Drumlithie is the land of Mondynes, and here again springs the history of Scottish kings and their battles. It was here that King Duncan the Second is thought to have been slain, and the spot where he fell, in a field at Mill of Mondynes, is marked by a large standing stone which, legend has it, must be kept whitewashed at all times.
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Tour Scotland Video Drive A889 Road From Dalwhinnie To Laggan
Tour Scotland video of a drive on the A889 road from Dalwhinnie to Laggan, Scotland. The A889 is neither straight nor level, and in that respect is just like most of the other older roads through the Highlands. It goes up, down, left and right, always following the line of least resistance across the hillside. The A889 from Dalwhinnie to Laggan is one of the last remaining stretches of Wade's Military Roads which is still in use today as a primary route. The original road was part of Wade's route between Dalwhinnie and Fort Augustus, over the Corrieyairack Pass. The village of Laggan is in Badenoch, in the Highlands. It is notable as being the region in Badenoch where the Gaelic language survived the longest. It featured as the fictional village of Glenbogle in the BBC TV drama series Monarch of the Glen where many of the locals took part in playing the minor background roles. Laggan is an excellent base for touring by car and an ideal location for all outdoor activities, including fishing in the River Spey and surrounding lochs, Hill Walking and Mountaineering, Golf with several courses in the area, Pony Trekking, Mountain Biking and Ski-ing.
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Tour Scotland Video Whisky Distillery In Dalwhinnie
Tour Scotland video of the whisky distillery in Dalwhinnie near Newtonmore, Scotland. Dalwhinnie village in the Highlands is one of the coldest villages in the United Kingdom, having an average annual temperature of 6 degrees Centigrade, making it suitable for winter walking and mountaineering. It is north of Drumochter, just off the A9 road from Perth, Perthshire to Inverness and has been bypassed since 1975 by the main A9 road. It is about 2 to 2½ hours drive from both Edinburgh and Glasgow, 25 miles from Aviemore, 13 from Newtonmore and 17 from Kingussie. Dalwhinnie railway station lies on the Highland Main Line from Perth to Inverness. The local distillery is the highest elevation working distillery in Scotland. Dalwhinnie Single Malt is a light, heathery whisky. Dalwhinnie railway station lies on the Highland Main Line from Perth to Inverness.
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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Symington
Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Symington in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It is located in Symington Parish and lies close to the A77 road from Ayr to Glasgow. Its church, built in 1160, remains one of the finest examples of a Norman churches in Scotland. The name of the village and parish of Symington is derived from the person of a Norman Knight, Symon Loccard or Lockhart, who held the barony of Symington lands under Walter fitz Alan, the first Steward in 1165. John Kelso Hunter, born 1802, died 1873, was born at Gillhead Cottage, close to Symington cemetery, on the Dankeith Estate and was at first employed here during his indenture as a herd boy, his father being a gardener. John moved to the village of Dundonald and became a respected artist, noted for portraiture. In 1847 he exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, England, before becoming a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy for the next 25 years. He is buried in the Southern Necropolis in Glasgow. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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