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.
Tour Scotland travel photograph of the Adam Ferguson gravestone in the cathedral cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to St Andrews, Fife. Adam Ferguson, also known as Ferguson of Raith was born on the 20th June 1723 at Logierait, Perthshire, and died 22nd February 1816 at St Andrews. He was a philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment, sometimes called "the father of modern sociology."
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Tour Scotland photograph of the George Fortune gravestone in the cathedral cemetery in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. A Scottish Wright in Newgrange who died aged 74, on the 26th of June, 1824.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the Robert Gourlay gravestone in the cathedral cemetery in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Late Convener of the Seven Trades of St Andrews, Scotland.
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Old photograph of Trams on Glasgow Bridge, Glasgow, Scotland. The Glasgow Bridge spans the River Clyde in Glasgow linking the city centre to Laurieston, Tradeston and Gorbals. It is at the bottom of Jamaica Street, near Central Station, and is colloquially known as the Jamaica Bridge. The original bridge was completed in 1772, and was designed by William Mylne and built by John Smeaton. Its seven arch structure was honoured by Thomas Telford, who replaced it in 1833 with a design built by John Gibb & Son for £34,000. It became the first in Glasgow to be lit by electricity. Between 1895 and 1899 it was replaced with the current wider bridge which incorporated Telford's stonework and expanded the arches to accommodate larger ships.
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Old photograph of the River Clyde, Glasgow, Scotland. The success of the River Clyde at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution was driven by the location of Glasgow, being a port facing the Americas. Tobacco and cotton trade began the drive in the early 18th century. However, the shallow Clyde was not navigable for the largest ocean going ships and cargo had to be transferred at Greenock or Port Glasgow to smaller ships to sail upstream into Glasgow itself. In the middle of the 19th century engineers began seriously dredging the Clyde, removing millions of cubic feet of silt to deepen and widen the channel. The completion of the dredging was well timed; as steelworking grew in the city, the channel finally became navigable all the way up to Glasgow. Shipbuilding replaced trade as the major activity on the river and shipbuilding companies were rapidly establishing themselves on the river. Soon, the Clyde gained a reputation for being the best location for shipbuilding in the British Empire, and grew to become the world's preeminent shipbuilding centre. Clydebuilt became an industry benchmark of quality, and the river's shipyards were given contracts for prestigious ocean-going liners as well as warships, including the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth 2 in later years, all built in the town of Clydebank.
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