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 a Highland farmer near Kingussie, Scotland. The name Kingussie comes from the Gaelic, Ceann a' Ghiuthsaich which means Head of the Pine forest.
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Old photograph of sailing ships in the harbour at Campbeltown, Scotland. A Scottish town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, located by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre peninsula. Originally known as Kinlochkilkerran; The head of the loch by the kirk of St. Kieran, and this form is still used in Gaelic. It was renamed in the 17th century and became an important centre for shipbuilding and Scotch whisky, and a busy fishing port.
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Old photograph of cottages and houses in Ecclefechan Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village lies in the valley of the Mein Water, a tributary of the River Annan, just five miles north of Annan and eight miles northwest of the border with England. Thomas Carlyle the essayist, satirist and historian was born in Ecclefechan on 4th of December 1795 at The Arched House. Carlyle left Ecclefechan at the age of 13 and walked the 84 miles to Edinburgh in order to attend university. In 1828 Carlyle moved to Craigenputtock with his wife Jane. He never forgot his roots and insisted that Ecclefechan should become his final resting place. He was buried in Ecclefechan churchyard cemetery on 5th February 1881. Archibald Arnott, born 1772, died 1855, was Napoleon's doctor on St Helena, he was born in Ecclefechan on 18 April 1772 at Kirconnel Hall. He returned to Ecclefechan in his retirement and he was also buried in the Ecclefechan churchyard cemetery. William Harkness, born 1837, died 1903, who was an astronomer was born at Ecclefechan.
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Old photograph of vintage buses, cars, shops and buildings in Annan, Scotland. Annan stands on the River Annan, just fifteen miles from Dumfries, in the region of Dumfries and Galloway on the Solway Firth in the South of Scotland. Lieutenant Colonel George Johnston was born on 19 January 1764 in Annan. He as the son of Captain George Johnston, aide de camp to Lord Percy, later the 5th Duke of Northumberland. Percy obtained a commission for the 12 year-old Johnston as second lieutenant of marines on 6 March 1776. Johnston went to America with his regiment, and took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War, where he distinguished himself by seizing the colours and carrying them into action after the standard bearer had been mortally wounded. During the fight, his father received a chest wound, from which he subsequently died. The Duke of Northumberland, who had held Johnston's father in high regard, became Johnston's guardian. He subsequently acted as a recruiting officer in the United Kingdom before served aboard HMS Sultan in the East Indies in 1781, and suffering a severe wound in action against the French. Returned to garrison duty in Portsmouth, England, he volunteered to join the New South Wales Marine Corps, which would accompany the First Fleet to New South Wales. He sailed for Australia aboard the convict transport Lady Penrhyn in 1788. On 26 January 1808, Johnston played a key role in the only successful armed takeover of a government in Australia's recorded history, the Rum Rebellion, working closely with John Macarthur. Johnston led the troops that deposed Governor William Bligh, assumed the title of lieutenant governor, and illegally suspended the judge-advocate and other officials. He died much respected on 5 January 1823.
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Old photograph of people, cottages and vehicles in Moniaive, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. In the 17th century, Moniaive became the refuge for the Covenanters, a group of Presbyterian nonconformists who rebelled at having the Episcopalian religion forced on them by the last three Stuart kings, Charles I, Charles II and James II of England, King James VII of Scotland. There is a monument off the Ayr Road to James Renwick, a Covenanter leader born here who was executed in Edinburgh.
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