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 Cloan House, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. Victorian Gothic turrets of Cloan, home of Viscount Haldane philosopher and statesman, visited by every great man of the period from Albert Einstein, Lloyd George to Baden Pawell. Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane of Cloan, Viscount, born 1856, died 1928, British statesman. He entered the House of Commons as a Liberal. As war secretary from, 1905 to 1912, he effected drastic army reforms, creating a British expeditionary force, an imperial general staff, an officers training corps, and the territorial army. He was created a peer in 1911. On a diplomatic mission to Germany in 1912) he rejected a proposal of British neutrality in any war into which Germany might be drawn. In Ramsay MacDonald's first short Labour ministry in 1924 he was again lord chancellor. He was first chancellor of the University of Bristol and was elected lord rector of Edinburgh. Haldane was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh in 1912. He died at Cloan House and is buried at Gleneagles. The current chief of Clan Haldane is Martin Haldane of Gleneagles.
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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 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 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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