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 Gun Batteries on the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland. Edinburgh Castle still has a military garrison, used for ceremonial purposes and is the headquarters of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, and the 5th Regiment Royal Military Police. For the artillery fan there are no less than five gun batteries to view.
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Old photograph of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother and King George VI on Royal visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, born 4 August 1900, died 30 March 2002, was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. She was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions from her husband's accession in 1936 until his death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter. She was the last Empress of India. Born into a family of British nobility, she came to prominence in 1923 when she married Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. The couple and their daughters embodied traditional ideas of family and public service.
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Old photograph of St Anthony's Well, a natural spring in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, Scotland. This was venerated as a Holy Well on the path to St. Anthony's Chapel, the well was noted for its curative properties and its use as such was still recorded until the late 19th Century. The spring no longer flows, having dried up in the 1950s.
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Old photograph of cottages on March Road in Blackhall a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. There is evidence that the street name " March Road " is derived from " Marsh Road ", as the area was bog and wetland hundreds of years ago. John Horne, born 1 January 1848, died 30 May 1928, was a Scottish geologist. He served as President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1915 to 1919. He was the son of James Horne of Newmill and his wife Janet Braid. John was educated at the High School, Glasgow, and Glasgow University. He joined the Scottish Branch of HM Geological Survey in 1867 as an assistant and became an apprentice to Ben Peach. The two soon became good friends and collaborators. Horne was involved in mapping the Central Lowlands. Horne was a logical thinker and writer, complementing Peach's skills of resolving the internal structure of mountains by looking at the surface rocks. After their work in the Highlands, Horne and Peach wrote Northwest Highlands Memoir in 1907. The work is regarded as one of the most important geological memoirs. Horne wrote most of the memoir himself. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1900 and was a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. He also served as President of the Edinburgh Geological Society. In later life he lived at 12 Keith Crescent in Blackhall, Edinburgh. He died on 30 May 1928 in Edinburgh.
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Old photograph of Cannonball House in Edinburgh, Scotland. A 15th Century tenement house at the top end of the Royal Mile in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Cannonball House stands on Castle Hill and looks out onto Edinburgh Castle. Extended to the rear in 1630 for Alexander Mure, whose initials appear with those of his wife on a pediment, the building was much altered in the late 17th Century and middle of the 19th Century, the before being converted into an annexe of Castlehill School in 1913. The house derives its name from the cannon ball which can be seen embedded in the west wall. The apocryphal tale of its presence, which is told to tourists, is that it was fired from the castle, while under siege by the Jacobites in 1745, towards the Palace of Holyrood House, where Bonnie Prince Charlie had taken up residence. The more likely story is that it was placed there by engineers to indicate the gravitational height of the piped water supply brought from Comiston Hill to the original Castlehill Reservoir to supply the Old Town.
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