Old Photograph King's Stables Culloden Scotland

Old photograph of King's Stables, Culloden, Scotland. A granite stone inscribed " Kings Stables. Station of English Cavalry after the Battle of Culloden. " King's Stable Cottage was so named following the stabling of Hanoverian horse nearby in the aftermath of the battle. The original cottage was likely to have been built before the 1746 battle, perhaps having been built in the early part of the 18th century. The cottage may also be that described in 1748: '12 wounded men [Jacobites] were carried out of this house and shot in a hollow...'

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Old Photographs Forres Scotland

Old photograph of the High Street, Forres, Moray, Scotland. On 23 June 1496 King James IV of Scotland issued a Royal Charter laying down the rights and privileges that the town's people are believed to have held by an earlier charter since the reign of King David I some 300 years earlier. Shakespeare's play Macbeth locates Duncan's castle in Forres, and the Three Witches meet on a heath near the town in the third scene of the drama. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photographs Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of Campbeltown, Scotland. Campbeltown is one of five areas in Scotland categorised as a distinct malt whisky producing region, and is home to the Campbeltown single malts. At one point it had over 30 distilleries and proclaimed itself " the whisky capital of the world ". However, a focus on quantity rather than quality, and the combination of prohibition and the Great Depression in the United States, led to most distilleries going out of business, Hugh Henry Brackenridge was born in 1748, near Campbeltown. He was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A frontier citizen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, he founded both the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Gazette, still operating today as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Brackenridge died June 25, 1816 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Duncan McNab McEachran was born on 27 October 1841 in Campbeltown. He was a Canadian veterinarian and academic. He was the son of David McEachran and Jean Blackney, McEachran graduated from the Edinburgh Veterinary College in 1861 and received his license to practice from Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. In 1862, he emigrated to Canada West, settling in Woodstock. In 1863, he helped set up, along with primary founder Andrew Smith, the Upper Canada Veterinary School, later the Ontario Veterinary College. McEachran was a staff member but he considered the admission standards and academic requirements to be inadequate. He left after three years, moving to Montreal. In 1867, Smith and McEachran again joined forces to publish the first veterinary textbook in Canada for farmers, The Canadian horse and his diseases. He died on 13 October 1924.



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Old Photographs Darnick Scotland

Old photograph of a shop, houses and people in Darnick, Scotland. A village near Melrose in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Roxburghshire. Places nearby include Abbotsford, Buckholm, Eildon, the Gala Water, Galashiels, Gattonside, Lindean and Newtown St. Boswells. The village's name was first recorded in 1124, and its name has changed from Dernewic, Dernwick and Darnwick to the present Darnick. Darnick Tower was built in ca. 1425, and another tower house, Fisher's Tower, is still recognisable by its remains; however there is no trace of the third tower.

Skirmish Hill by Darnick is the site of a battle which took place on July 18th, 1526, by the Scotts, the Kerrs and the Elliots, trying to intercept King James V who was then under the guardianship of the Douglas clan.

John Smith of Darnick created the Wallace Statue at Bemersyde House. His family were builders and masons during the first half of the 19th century, and they have to their credit an extension to Abbotsford, Dryburgh Abbey House, Eckford Church, Gattonside House, Hawick North Bridge, the bridge over the Hermitage Water, Melrose Parish Church, and Yetholm Parish Church.

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Tour Scotland Canan Nan Gaidheal Video

Tour Scotland Canan Nan Gaidheal Video. Performed by Duncan Chisholm and Ivan Drever. Duncan Chisholm, born 31st October, 1968, is a Scottish fiddler and founder member of folk rock group Wolfstone. As well as Wolfstone, he often tours with Scottish Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis' band and Wolfstone's previous lead singer Ivan Drever. He is a former member of ensemble Blazin' Fiddles. Duncan has a strong solo career, having recorded four solo albums, the latest of which is Canaich, released in 2010. Ivan Drever is a folk singer, songwriter and guitarist popular not only with the Scottish folk scene but also in other European countries such as Norway, Denmark and Spain. He often tours with popular fiddler Duncan Chisholm who founded the folk rock band Wolfstone which Drever joined in 1990 but left in later years. For three decades, Drever has produced a unique music sound, mixing traditional folk with some rock and roll sounds.

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