Tour Scotland Photograph Video Dancers Blackford Highland Games

Tour Scotland photograph of Scottish Dancers in kilts at Blackford Highland Games, Perthshire, Scotland. Highland dance or Highland dancing is a style of competitive solo dancing developed in the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the context of competitions at public events such as the Highland games, where it is often performed to the accompaniment of Highland bagpipe music. Highland dancers wear specialized shoes called ghillies.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Piper Blackford Highland Games

Tour Scotland photograph of a Bagpiper in a kilt at Blackford Highland Games, Perthshire, Scotland. Blackford is located 5 miles from the town of Auchterarder. The village is located just off the A9 between Perth and Stirling which has been bypassed since 1978. It is home to Highland Spring water and the Tullibardine whisky distillery. Blackford became a popular stopping place especially when Scotland's first public brewery was started. James VII of Scotland even stopped in Blackford while travelling to sample their ale.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Atholl Highlanders

Tour Scotland photograph of an Atholl Highlander in Perthshire, Scotland. The Atholl Highlanders are a military regiment. Based in Blair Atholl, Scotland, they are not part of the British Army. Instead, the regiment is in the private employ of the Duke of Atholl, making it the only legal private army in the United Kingdom and Europe.



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Old Photograph Dyeing Wool Scotland

Old photograph of a woman dyeing wool in a Crofter's Cottage on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Fireplace Cottage Scotland

Old photograph of fireplace and spinning wheel in a cottage in Scotland.

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