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Showing posts with label Tour Scotland Alyth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tour Scotland Alyth. Show all posts
Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the Parish Church, Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. In a prominent position overlooking the town, Alyth Parish Church was completed in 1839 to a design by Thomas Hamilton. Gothic, with Romanesque influences, and an unusually high spire.
June 19th photograph of a prize winning Charolais at the Agricultural Show in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. A beef breed of cattle which originated in Charolais, around Charolles, in France.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
June 19th photograph of a Horse Box at the Agricultural Show in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Clydesdale Horse transporter had mirrored sides at one end.
June 19th photograph of a Horse Box at the Agricultural Show in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
June 19th photograph of a Bagpiper and his daughter at the Agricultural Show in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. It is worth mentioning that I always ask for permission to shoot photographs such as the one above.
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Tour Scotland photograph of a vintage Singer car at the Agricultural Show in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. From the late twenties to the mid thirties, the Singer Car Company was a prolific manufacturer of a wide range of automobiles. In fact, by 1928, the company had become the third largest manufacturer of private cars in Great Britain. Singer made their first four wheel car in 1905. It was designed by Scottish engineer Alexander Craig and was a variant of a design he had done for Lea-Francis having a 2-cylinder 1853 or 2471 cc engine
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Tour Scotland photograph of a vintage AJS motorcycle at the Agricultural Show in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. AJS was the name used for cars and motorcycles made by the Wolverhampton, England, company A. J. Stevens & Co. Ltd, from 1909 to 1931, by then holding 117 motorcycle world records. After the firm was sold, the name continued to be used by Matchless, Associated Motorcycles and Norton Villiers on four-stroke motorcycles till 1969, and since the name's resale in 1974, on lightweight, two stroke scramblers and today on small-capacity roadsters and cruisers.
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Tour Scotland photograph of a Clydesdale Horse at the Agricultural Show in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Clydesdale is a breed of draught horse derived from the farm horses of Clydesdale, and named after that region. Although originally one of the smaller breeds of draught horses, it is now a tall breed.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
June photograph of the Soak The Bagpiper Stall at Alyth Show, Scotland.
June photograph of the Soak The Bagpiper Stall at Alyth Show, Perthshire, Scotland. Alyth Pipe Band raising funds at Alyth Show. A chance to soak a Scottish Piper or Drummer.
Tour Scotland photograph of judging orange sheep at Alyth Show in Perthshire, Scotland. The orange yellow colouring is generally favoured by Blackface breeders and is used when sheep are presented for show or sale. The colouring accentuates the black faces and horns of the sheep and rams making them easier to judge.
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Tour Scotland photograph of a Haggis Maker in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. Mike J Dorward, Scottish Quality Butcher. 5 Commercial Street, Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. Gold award pork sausages, haggis, black pudding, Alyth dry cured bacon steaks, cooked gammon, Boerewors, Merguez. Diamond award beef sausages.
Address to a Haggis, by Robert Burns, Born Alloway near Ayr, Scotland, 25th January, 1759.
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great Chieftain of the Puddin'-race!
Aboon the a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe or thairm;
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang's my arm.
The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdlies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o need,
While thro' your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead
His knife see Rustic-labour dight,
An' cut you up wi' ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reeking, rich!
Then horn for horn, they stretch an' strive:
Deil tak the hindmost , on they drive,
Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
The auld Guidman, maist like to rive
'Bethankit' hums.
Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad make her spew
Wi' perfect sconner,
Looks down wi sneering, scornfu' view
On sic a dinner?
Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As reckless as a wither'd rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro' bluidy flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!
But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll mak it whissle;
An' legs, an' arms, an' heads will sned,
Like taps o' thrissle.
Ye Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o' fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, it ye wish her gratefu' pray'r,
Gie her a Haggis!
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
