Tour Scotland Travel Photograph And Video White Peacock Scone Palace

Tour Scotland travel photograph of a White Peacock at Scone Palace, Scotland. Peachicks are born yellow in colour and become white as they mature. Although commonly thought of as albino, white peacocks, or peafowl as they are known, are in fact a genetic mutation of the more common Indian Blue Peafowl. This mutation, called ‘Leucism’, causes a lack of pigments in the plumage which in turn gives them their stunning pure white appearance. However, unlike albino birds they have blue eyes. Peachicks are born with flight feathers already on their wings and can fly by the time they are one week old. When fully grown, the male will sport about 150 of the long "eyed" peacock feathers with which most of us are so familiar. While most people think of these as the tail, they are in fact a train which covers the tail underneath.




Tour Scotland travel photograph of a White Peacock at Scone Palace, Scotland.

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May 20th Photograph Rhododendrons Scotland

May 20th photograph of Rhododendrons at Scone Palace, Scotland.


May 20th photograph of Rhododendrons at Scone Palace, Scotland.


May 20th photograph of Rhododendrons at Scone Palace, Scotland.

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Rhododendrons and Azaleas profiles over 4,000 varieties of this highly popular and striking plant. Illustrated with over 2,200 colour photographs, each entry includes: A description of the plant and flower colour; notes on hardiness, height and spread, and flowering time; advice on cultivation and proven performers; the name of the parent plants, the raiser and similar varieties. Practical advice is also given on rhododendrons in the landscape, maintenance and husbandry, pests, diseases, problems and disorders, propagation, and buying and collecting rhododendrons, along with a brief history and a guide to their classification. Rhododendrons and Azaleas: A Colour Guide.

Old Photograph Esplanade Dunoon Scotland

Old photograph of people walking on the Esplanade in Dunoon, Scotland. For years the Dunoon was the haunt of visitors from Glasgow. Dunoon is a town situated on the Cowal Peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It sits on the Firth of Clyde to the south of Holy Loch and to the west of Gourock.

Old photograph of the Esplanade, Dunoon, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph David Carnegie Gravestone Balquhidder

Tour Scotland photograph of the David Carnegie gravestone in the cemetery in Balquhidder, Scotland. David Carnegie, of Stronvar, born 3rd of May 1813, died 15th February 1890. David was a major landowner and benefactor in Balquhidder. He was the grandson of George Carnegie who fled to Sweden after the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. George established a very successful business in Gothenburg and became a wealthy man. David made his fortune from brewing in Gothenburg and also sugar refining. His second wife was his cousin, Susan. They had three children and decided to make their home in Scotland. In 1849 John Lorn Stewart sold the Glenbuckie estate to Carnegie. By this time a new Glenbuckie house had been built on the site of the present Stronvar House. The house was rebuilt on a much grander scale to the design of the architect David Bryce. Beautiful gardens were created and the estate was renamed Stronvar by Carnegie. He acquired several other areas of land including Stroneslaney and Gartnafuaran and built many houses in the village for his tenants, solid stone houses which are still there today. He gifted the Church, also designed by David Bryce, to the village in 1855 and also the school and schoolhouse in 1869 as well as the Reading Room.



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Old Photograph Causeyside Street Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of Causeyside Street, Paisley, Scotland. The Industrial Revolution based on the textile industry turned Paisley from a small market town to an important industrial town in the late 18th century. Its location attracted English mill owners; immigrants from Ayrshire and the Highlands poured in to a town that offered paying jobs to women and children. By the middle of the19th century weaving had become the town's principal industry. The Paisley weavers' most famous product were the shawls, which bore the Paisley Pattern made fashionable after being worn by a young Queen Victoria. The American Civil War of 1861 to 1865 cut off cotton supplies to the textile mills of Paisley. The mills in 1861 had a stock of cotton in reserve, but by 1862 there was large scale shortages and closures.



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