Early Summer Road Trip Drive To Visit Forth Railway Bridge Through South Queensferry Scotland

Tour Scotland early Summer travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, East on the A904 road and into and onto the cobbled streets of South Queensferry to visit the Forth Railway Bridge. The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles west of Edinburgh City Centre. It is considered an iconic structure and a symbol of Scotland, having been voted Scotland's greatest man made wonder, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Firth of Forth is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea, between Fife to the north and Lothian to the south. It was known as Bodotria in Roman times. South Queensferry is 35.3 miles from Perth, Perthshire.

Robert Stodart Wyld was born on 16 April 1808, the son of Leith wine merchant James Wyld of Gilston, born 1776, died 1860, and his wife, Marion Stodart. The family lived at Tolbooth Wynd in Leith. In 1810, the family moved to Bonnington Bank House, west of Leith. Robert was educated at Leith Academy. He appears to have been apprenticed as a lawyer around 1822 but did not have formal university training. He trained as a lawyer and became a Writer to the Signet in 1833. In the 1840s he was married and living at 32 Royal Terrace on Calton Hill. Following his first wife's death he moved to South Queensferry and set up the Glenforth Whisky Distillery with his father, which he operated and owned until 1863. Glenforth Distillery stood close to the harbour on the very edge of the Firth of Forth. He also owned the brewery which gave its name to Brewery Close in the town. By 1855, he had wholly given up his legal practice and was living in South Queensferry serving as its Provost from 1852 to 1861. On the death of his father in 1860, he inherited the magnificent Gilston House in Fife. In 1862, he sold the Gilston estate to Edward Baxter of Dundee. However, he retained the title " of Gilston " possibly due to renaming his South Queensferry House as Gilston. In 1864 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposer was James Lorimer. He lived most of his life at 19 Inverleith Row in the northern Edinburgh suburbs. He died there on 29 October 1893.

William Wyld, landed in Wanganui, New Zealand in 1840; Mary Wyld, aged 27, a servant, arrived in Auckland, New Zealand aboard the ship Celestial Queen in 1872; Jon Wyld, arrived in Virginia, America, in 1653; Daniel Wyld, arrived in Virginia, America, in 1676; Abel Wyld, arrived in Maryland, America, in 1722.

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