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 Photograph of the ruins of Culross Abbey in Culross, Fife, Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1217 by Malcolm I, Mormaer or Earl of Fife, and was first colonised by monks from Kinloss Abbey. Culross may have been chosen to establish an abbey because this was the birth place of Saint Mungo. It is evident that the abbey was built over the earlier Pictish church supposedly founded by Saint Serf in the 6th century, as witnessed by the presence in the ruined Cistercian church of early medieval carved stones and from a ninth-century reference to a church of St Serf at Culross. The original 13th century abbey was cruciform in plan, without aisles. By the late 15th century the lay brothers had left, and the abbey community consisted of only choir monks. The western half of the abbey was therefore abandoned, and the nave was demolished around 1500. In 1633 the east choir of the abbey was taken over for use as a parish church, while the adjoining buildings show above fell into decay.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the Stewart McPherson Gravestone in Culross, Fife, Scotland. Stewart McPherson VC, born in Culross in 1819, died 7th December 1892, he was a Scottish soldier in India and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth military forces. His citation reads: For daring gallantry in the Lucknow Residency on the 26th September, 1857, in having rescued, at great personal risk, a wounded Private of his Company, who was lying in a most exposed situation, under a very heavy fire. Colour-Sergjeant McPherson was also distinguished on many occasions by his coolness and gallantry in action.
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Tour Scotland photograph of a fishing boat in the harbour at Charlestown, Fife, Scotland. Charlestown was established in 1770 by Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin. The planned village is laid out in the shape of a letter E for Elgin. It was established as a harbour town for the shipment of coal mined on Lord Elgin's Fife estates, and for the production of lime. The harbour's outer basin was built around 1840. Shipbuilding was carried on at Charlestown in the 19th century, as well as shipbreaking. Some of the German Imperial Fleet were brought here from Scapa Flow after World War I to be broken up.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
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