Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish accordion music, from Rosyth on visit to the historic Abbey Church in Dunfermline, Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phàrlain, in Fife. The church occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts of a large medieval Benedictine abbey, which was sacked in 1560 during the Scottish Reformation and permitted to fall into disrepair. Part of the old abbey church continued in use at that time and some parts of the abbey infrastructure still remain to this day. Dunfermline Abbey is one of Scotland's most important cultural sites. The Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Trinity and St Margaret, was founded in 1128 by King David I of Scotland, but the monastic establishment was based on an earlier foundation dating back to the reign of King Malcolm Canmore. Saint Margaret of Scotland was buried here in 1093; on 19th June 1250. King Robert the Bruce was buried, in 1329, in the choir, now the site of the present parish church. Bruce's heart rests in Melrose, but his bones lie in Dunfermline Abbey, where, after the discovery of the skeleton in 1818, they were reinterred with fitting pomp below the pulpit of the New church. In 1891 the pulpit was moved back and a monumental brass inserted in the floor to indicate the royal vault.
Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835 to Margaret Morrison Carnegie and William Carnegie in Dunfermline, in a typical weaver's cottage with only one main room, consisting of half the ground floor, which was shared with the neighbouring weaver's family. The main room served as a living room, dining room and bedroom. He was named after his paternal grandfather. Carnegie's maternal uncle, George Lauder, Senior, a Scottish political leader, deeply influenced him as a boy by introducing him to the writings of Robert Burns and historical Scottish heroes such as Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, and Rob Roy MacGregor. Lauder's son, also named George Lauder, grew up with Carnegie and would become his business partner. When Carnegie was thirteen, his father had fallen on very hard times as a handloom weaver; making matters worse, the country was in starvation. His mother helped support the family by assisting her brother, a cobbler, and by selling potted meats at her " sweetie shop ", leaving her as the primary breadwinner. Struggling to make ends meet, the Carnegies then decided to borrow money from George Lauder, Senior, and move to Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in the United States in 1848 for the prospect of a better life. Carnegie's migration to America would be his second journey outside Dunfermline, the first being an outing to Edinburgh to see Queen Victoria. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away $350 million, to charities, foundations, and universities, almost 90 percent of his fortune. His 1889 article proclaiming " The Gospel of Wealth " called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and stimulated a wave of philanthropy. He died on August 11, 1919.
The Rosyth area is best known for its large dockyard, formerly the Royal Naval Dockyard Rosyth, construction of which began in 1909. The town was planned as a garden city with accommodation for the construction workers and dockyard workers
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.
No comments:
Post a Comment