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 Flodigarry, Isle of Skye, Scotland. In 1750 the Jacobite Flora MacDonald and her fiancé Allan MacDonald were married and lived in a cottage in Floddigarry. In 2008 the singer KT Tunstall was married at the Flodigarry Hotel which abuts the cottage.
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Old photograph of East Linton, a town in East Lothian, Scotland. situated on the River Tyne, five miles east of Haddington. John Rennie, born 7 June 1761, died 4 October 1821, was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, and docks. John, who was the son of a farmer, was born at Phantassie, near East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland, and showed a taste for mechanics at a very early age, and was allowed to spend much time in the workshop of Andrew Meikle, millwright, the inventor of the threshing machine, who lived at Houston Mill on the Phantassie estate. After receiving a rudimentary education at the parish school of Prestonkirk Parish Church, he was sent to the burgh school at Dunbar, and in November 1780 he matriculated at the University of Edinburgh, where he remained until 1783. His older brother George remained to assist in the family agricultural business, achieving notability in this arena. In 1791, John moved to London. England, and set up his own engineering business, having by then begun to expand into civil engineering, particularly the construction of canals. His early projects included the Lancaster Canal, the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation, the Crinan Canal, Rudyard Lake and the Rochdale Canal, which passes through difficult country between Rochdale and Todmorden. The Kennet and Avon Canal including the Dundas Aqueduct, Caen Hill Locks and Crofton Pumping Station occupied him between 1794 and 1810. In 1802 he revised the plans for the Royal Canal of Ireland from Dublin to the Shannon near Longford. For many years he was engaged in extensive drainage operations in the Lincolnshire and Norfolk fens, and in the improvement of the River Witham. The Eau Brink Cut, a new channel for the River Ouse, was completed just before his death. In 1790 he married Martha Ann, daughter of E. Mackintosh, who died in 1806, and by her had seven children, two of whom, George and John, became notable engineers. His daughter Anna married the architect Charles Cockerell. He died, after a short illness, at his house in Stamford Street, London, on 4 October 1821, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
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Old photograph of cottages and houses in Dunscore, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Dunscore is the birthplace of the Church of Scotland missionary Jane Haining, one of only ten Holocaust victims from Scotland. Jane was born at Lochenhead Farm in Dunscore, Dumfriesshire. She was the fifth child of Thomas Haining, a farmer, and his first wife, Jane Mathison, a farmer's daughter. She grew up as a member of the evangelical Craig church in Dunscore, Reformed Presbyterian until 1876, then Free Church of Scotland until 1900, and then United Free Church). She was educated at the village school, and won a scholarship to Dumfries Academy in 1909. She trained at the commercial college of Glasgow Athenaeum, and worked for 10 years as a secretary at a thread maker's in Paisley. She lived in Pollokshields in Glasgow and attended Queen's Park West United Free Church. She volunteered for service as a missionary in 1932, becoming matron of the girls' home at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, Hungary. She was holidaying in Cornwall, England, in 1939 when the Second World War broke out and she immediately returned to Budapest. She was ordered to return to Scotland in 1940 but refused, determined to remain with her girls. After the German occupation of Hungary, its former allies in March 1944, she again refused to leave. She was arrested in April 1944 and detained by the Gestapo, accused, among other things, of working among Jews and listening to the BBC. She admitted all the charges, except those of political activity. She was detained at Fő utca prison in Buda, and then moved to a holding camp in Kistarcsa. She was sent to Auschwitz in May 1944, where she was tattooed as prisoner 79467. She sent a last postcard on 15 July 1944, and died " in hospital " at Auschwitz on 17 July 1944, of " cachexia following intestinal catarrh ", strangely her name is not recorded in the Auschwitz Death Books published by the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum. She is one of a total of ten Scots, including two or three women, thought to have died in the Nazi extermination camps.
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Old photograph of Auchmithie, a former fishing village in Angus, Scotland, three miles north east of the town of Arbroath. A former Scottish fishing village located three miles north east of the town of Arbroath. The Arbroath Smokie, haddock hot smoked in a particular way, originated in Auchmithie. Sir Walter Scott stayed in the Waverley Hotel in Auchmithie and described Auchmithie in his novel The Antiquary written in 1816, under the name Musslecrag. Scarlett Johansson, best known for her roles in Lost in Translation and Iron Man 2, filmed scenes at the beach in Auchmithie for new sci-fi film Under the Skin. In the film, Miss Johansson plays an alien who travels around the Highlands of Scotland, seducing men for their body parts. It is based on a book by Scottish author Michel Faber.
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Old photograph of shops, cars, buildings and people in Jedburgh, Borders, Scotland. Jedburgh lies on the Jed Water, a tributary of the River Teviot, it is only ten miles from the border with England, and is dominated by the substantial ruins of Jedburgh Abbey. Other notable buildings in the town include Mary, Queen of Scots' House and Jedburgh Castle Jail, now a museum.
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