Tour Scotland Photograph Robert Douglas Memorial Primary School Scone

Tour Scotland photograph of the Robert Douglas Memorial Primary School in Scone, 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. The father of Robert Douglas was the famous Scottish botanist David Douglas. It was he who founded the Scone Jam Factory when New Scone was about 80 years old. Here his sons learnt the business of jam making and when they went to America they devised a means of extracting from fruit, mainly apples, a setting agent called fruit pectin which was used by preserve manufacturers. They later commercialised the product under the name of Certo for the use of the housewife which proved to be highly successful.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Memorial to David Douglas Scone

Tour Scotland photograph of the Memorial to David Douglas, the famous botanist, in the graveyard of Scone Old Parish Church, Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. David Douglas was born on the 25th of June 1799, and died on the 12th of July 1834. He was a Scottish botanist. He worked as a gardener, and explored the Scottish highlands, North America, and Hawaii, where he died. The son of a stonemason, he was born in the village of Scone north-east of Perth, Scotland. He attended Kinnoull School and upon leaving he found work as an apprentice gardener in the estate of the 3rd Earl of Mansfield at Scone Palace. He spent seven years at this position before leaving to attend college in Perth to learn more of the scientific and mathematical aspects of plant culture. After a further spell of working in Fife (during which time he had access to a library of botanical and zoological books) he moved to the Botanical Gardens of Glasgow and attended botany lectures at the University of Glasgow. The Professor of Botany was greatly impressed with him and took him on an expedition to the Highlands before recommending him to the Royal Horticultural Society of London. Although the common name Douglas fir refers to him, the tree's scientific name, Pseudotsuga menziesii, honors a rival botanist, Archibald Menzies.



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Tour Scotland Photograph And Video Old Parish Church Scone

Tour Scotland photograph the Old Parish Church in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. Scone Church was first built in 1286 near to Scone Palace. Moved to present site in 1806 using stone from original building. Mansfield pew presented by Queen Anne of Denmark 1615. Memorial to David Douglas, botanist, in graveyard.



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August 2nd Photograph Newsagent Scone Scotland

August 2nd photograph of the Newsagent shop, Scone, Perthshire, Scotland,

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Tour Scotland Photograph Scone New Church

Tour Scotland photograph of the New Church in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. Scone New Church was originally the Free Church when it was built in 1887. The congregation of Scone New was formed by the union of the Abbey and West churches in 1952, Abbey Church was built in 1843 during the Disruption, while West Church was built in 1748. West Church, in Abbey Road, was built after 1747, when some of the congregation objected to the new Minister being appointed in the Parish Church. They left the Established Church and formed into the Burgher section of the Secession Church. The building is a large rectangular structure, with impressive buttresses down the sides, four each side, and larger paired buttresses at the corners and gable ends.



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