Tour Scotland Video Summer Sunset Robert Douglas Memorial School Scone Perthshire

Tour Scotland Summer video of sunset behind Robert Douglas Memorial School on ancestry visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The school is named after the village’s Robert Douglas, who developed the use of the setting agent pectin in jam making to make his fortune in the USA. He became President of the great Certo Corporation, later sold to the giant General Foods Corporation of America. Throughout the years he remembered his birthplace and retained his affection for it.

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Tour Scotland Video G-CHKW Robinson R44 Raven Helicopter Landing Perth Airport Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of G-CHKW Robinson R44 Raven helicopter landing at Perth Airport on visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Airport is a general aviation airport located at New Scone, 3 nautical miles north east of Perth. The airport used by private and business aircraft, and for pilot training. There are no commercial scheduled flights from the airport. The airport opened in 1936 as Scone Aerodrome.

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Old Photograph Alva Glen Scotland

Old photograph of Alva Glen located above the village of Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. During the Industrial Revolution, Alva developed as a textile manufacturing centre, with the, originally water powered, woollen mills using water from the Glen, to provide employment for locals and migrant workers to the area. The Dalmore Works was built in 1874 for Wilson Brothers who produced textile products including tweed, woollen novelty fabrics and mohair and woollen rugs. The works were operated by Wilsons until 1964.



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Old Photograph Subterranean Passage Castle St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a subterranean passage under the Castle in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The castle was for centuries, the residence of Scotland’s most powerful churchmen. Some of its remarkable secrets are hewn into the rock beneath its battlements including the underground mine and countermine, dug during the brutal siege of 1546. The Siege of St Andrews Castle followed the killing of Cardinal David Beaton by a group of Protestants at St Andrews Castle. They remained in the castle and were besieged by the Governor of Scotland, Regent Arran. However, over 18 months the Scottish besieging forces made little impact, and the Castle finally surrendered to a French naval force after artillery bombardment. The Protestant garrison, including the preacher John Knox were taken to France and used as galley slaves.



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Old Photograph Fountain Market Street St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a flower seller by the fountain on Market Street in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Lady Catherine Melville ordered the erection of the fountain in 1880, in memory of her son George John Whyte Melville, a Victorian novelist and horseman, who was killed in a riding accident in 1878. George was born in 1821, at Mount Melville near St Andrews. He was a son of Major John Whyte Melville and Lady Catherine Anne Sarah Osborne and a grandson on his mother's side of the 5th Duke of Leeds. His father was a well known sportsman and Captain of St Andrews Golf Club. George was tutored privately at home by the young Robert Lee, then educated at Eton, entered the army in 1839, became captain in the Coldstream Guards in 1846 and retired in 1849. He married The Charlotte Hanbury Bateman in 1847, and they had one daughter, Florence Elizabeth, who went on to marry Clotworthy John Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene and 4th Viscount Ferrard. By a strange accident, Whyte Melville lost his life in 1878 whilst galloping quietly over a ploughed field in the Vale of White Horse. Having moved to Tetbury in Gloucestershire. England, in about 1875, the better to follow the Beaufort and V.W.H hunts, he was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Tetbury, within a few feet of his property, Barton Abbotts.



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