Spring Road Trip Drive With Music From Balmullo On History Visit To Tayport North Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video of a Spring road trip drive, with Scottish music, East on the the A914 and B945 roads from Balmullo on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to he harbour in Ferryport on Tay now called Tayport on the North East coast of Fife. Tayport Harbour was arguably the world's first roll on roll off ferry crossing the Tay at Tayport and over to Broughty Ferry. The current harbour was rebuilt 1847 by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway as a basin formed by a pier and two quays; it was the terminus of the ferry to Broughty Ferry which served to complete the link up of the east coast railway between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. The harbour fell into disuse for that purpose when the first Tay Rail bridge was built but was then brought back into use as a rail ferry link when the first Tay bridge was destroyed in a storm in 1879. The Harbour was eventually taken over by a Timber processing company, Donaldsons of Tayport, and was used by cargo boats of up to 3000 tons carrying potatoes, grain, esparto grass and timber until the 1980s when the timber firm began to wind down its operation. Douglas Young was born in Tayport, Fife, the son of Stephen Young; a mercantile clerk employed in India by a Dundee jute firm. Young senior had insisted that his pregnant wife return home to give birth to their son in Scotland. However, shortly after his birth in Fife, Douglas was taken to India with his mother, where he spent the early part of his childhood in Bengal, speaking Urdu as a second language there. From the age of eight, Young attended Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, where he developed a deep interest in History and the Classics. He studied at the University of St Andrews, graduating with a first class MA in Classics in 1934, and then at New College, Oxford, England. He also possessed a large range of talents over a wide array of subjects and was recognised as a polymath. Young began his professional academic career at the University of Aberdeen, where he served as assistant lecturer in Greek from 1938 to 1941. Following the war, Young was lecturer in Latin at University College, Dundee, which was then a part of the University of St Andrews, from 1947 to 1953, then lecturer in Greek at the University of St Andrews from 1953 to 1968. In 1968, he moved to Canada to a post as professor of classics at McMaster University, where he taught until 1970. He was then the first Paddison Professor of Greek at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in America from 1970 until his death. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. When driving in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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