Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old photograph of the Marine Biological Station in Millport on the island of Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The University Marine Biological Station was a higher education institution run by the University of London, England. It closed in 2013 and is now Millport Field Centre, run by the Field Studies Council.
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Old photograph of houses and children in Cairntrodlie, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Cairntrodlie is traditionally the site of a duel where one combatant was killed and buried on the spot.
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Old photograph of houses on Backmarch Road in Rosyth, Fife, Scotland. The 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.
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Old photograph of houses 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 of the 19th Century Coastguard houses at Rattray Head by Fraserburgh, Scotland. In 1898, the coastguard spotted a distressed vessel flying signals of distress three miles off Rattray Head. The vessel drifted towards the land and eventually stranded.
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Old photograph of the school in Slamannan located six miles East of Cumbernauld, Scotland. Former Cabinet Minister Viscount Horne was born in Slamannan in 1871, the son of the village's Church of Scotland minister. After study at the University of Glasgow, he became a successful QC and was elected to represent Glasgow Hillhead in Parliament, and served as Minister of Labour, President of the Board of Trade and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lloyd George after the First World War. He was ennobled in 1937 as Viscount Horne of Slammanan. Lance Corporal Samuel Frickleton, was born in Slamannan, in 1891, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Frickleton. The family emigrated to New Zealand to take advantage of the plentiful jobs on offer in the coal mining industry, and the following year saw the outbreak of the First World War. Corporal Frickleton was awarded the military's highest honour for his actions in the Battle of Messines. His bravery was so outstanding that his commanding officer claimed he could have won the Victoria Cross " twice over ".
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Old photograph of cottages and children on Bentham Street in Ardler, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located three miles to the east of Coupar Angus, and approximately equidistant between the latter and Meigle.
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Old photograph of delivery cart in Ettrickbridge located seven miles from Selkirk, Scottish Borders, Scotland. There have been settlements in the area for over a century, but in recent years the population has increased steadily. The village was known as Kirkhope until the late 1700s.
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Tour Scotland wee video of April photographs of Burleigh Castle located just outside the village of Milnathort in Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle dates from the 15th and 16th centuries. The lands of Burleigh were held by the Balfours from 1446, when they were granted by James II to John Balfour of Balgarvie, and a tower house was erected in the late 15th or early 16th century. Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich extended the castle in the late 16th century, adding a curtain wall with a corner tower, and other outbuildings. In 1607 his son Sir Michael Balfour was raised to the peerage as Lord Balfour of Burleigh. Legend tells how Robert Balfour, before his accession as 5th Lord, narrowly escaped death when, in 1707, he was sentenced to beheading for the murder of the schoolmaster of Inverkeithing, who had the misfortune to have married Balfour's childhood sweetheart. Escaping from Edinburgh tolbooth, Balfour joined the Jacobite cause, proclaiming the 'Old Pretender' James Stuart king at Lochmaben, and fighting in the 1715 rising. Following the defeat of the Jacobites, Balfour was attainted, dying in France in 1757. The castle was forfeit to the Irwins, then passed to the Grahams of Kinross.
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Tour Scotland wee travel video of photography of stained glass windows in St Matthews Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire.
Tour Scotland wee video of a Scottish Piper playing the bagpipes outside St Matthews Church on visit to Tay Street in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.
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Tour Scotland wee travel video of photography of stained glass windows in McManus Galleries on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Dundee.
Tour Scotland video of the Mary Of Queen Of Scots window in McManus Galleries on ancestry visit to Dundee. Mary’s first visit to the City was on 19th September 1561, barely a month after her return from France on the first of her several progresses taking her from Edinburgh to Perth, Perthshire, Dundee, St. Andrews, Falkland, Fife, and back to Edinburgh. Mary was again in Dundee in September 1564 when she granted the lands now known as the Howff to be a burial ground outwith the then City Walls.
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Tour Scotland wee video of photographs of a Carnyx Celtic War Trumpet player in the City Centre on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.
Tour Scotland video of a Carnyx Celtic War Trumpet being played in the City Centre on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The carnyx was a wind instrument of the Iron Age Celts. Entering battle, Iron Age warriors unnerved their opponents by the sheer volume of noise they could make. This replica of the The Deskford Carnyx was being played by the incredible John Kenny.
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Tour Scotland wee video of photographs of stained glass windows in St John's Kirk on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.
Tour Scotland video of the Mascot of the Royal Regiment of Scotland outside St John's Kirk on Remembrance Day visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The official mascot is a Shetland pony named Cruachan. He was originally the regimental mascot of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders prior to the amalgamation. The first pony mascot was presented to the Argylls in 1929 by HRH Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll and named after Ben Cruachan, a mountain in the Argylls' namesake lieutenancy, and the war cry of Clan Campbell, of whom the Duke of Argyll was chief. The current mascot is Cruachan IV and was presented in late 2012.
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Tour Scotland travel video of Forget Me Nots on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Wemyss Castle Gardens in Fife, Scotland
Wemyss Castle is located on the cliffs between the villages of East Wemyss and West Wemyss overlooking the Firth of Forth.. Accounts date the construction of the castle to the year 1421 when Sir John Wemyss decided to build a fortified castle to replace one destroyed by the Duke of Rothesay at Kilconquhar in 1402. The castle is thus the ancient seat of the Earls of Wemyss and their families. The castle is best known as the location where Mary, Queen of Scots, met her future husband Lord Darnley in 1565.
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Tour Scotland travel video of Allium flowers on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Wemyss Castle Gardens in Fife, Scotland.
Wemyss Castle is located on the cliffs between the villages of East Wemyss and West Wemyss overlooking the Firth of Forth.. Accounts date the construction of the castle to the year 1421 when Sir John Wemyss decided to build a fortified castle to replace one destroyed by the Duke of Rothesay at Kilconquhar in 1402. The castle is thus the ancient seat of the Earls of Wemyss and their families. The castle is best known as the location where Mary, Queen of Scots, met her future husband Lord Darnley in 1565.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
