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.
Old photograph of people outside a cottage shop in Roswell, Scotland. Located three miles north east of Penicuik, the village was established in the last half of the 19th century as a place where the men mining Whitehill Colliery could stay with their families.
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Old photograph of the House of Binns near Linlithgow in Scotland. The seat of the Dalyell family. It dates from the early 17th Century. The house contains a collection of porcelain, furniture, and portraits tracing the family's lives and interests through the centuries.
Dalziel, Dalzell or Dalyell is a Scottish Lowland surname. The name originates from the former barony of Dalzell in Lanarkshire, in the area now occupied by Motherwell. The name Dalzell is first recorded in 1259, and Thomas de Dalzell fought at Bannockburn. The Dalzell lands were forfeited later in the 14th century, but regained through marriage in the 15th. Sir Robert Dalzell was created Lord Dalzell in 1628, and his son was further elevated in the peerage as Earl of Carnwath, in 1639. In 1645 the Dalzell estates were sold to the Hamiltons of Orbiston, who held them until the 20th century.
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Old photograph of the lighthouse on the Bass Rock, Scotland. The rock is currently uninhabited, but historically has been settled by an early Christian hermit, and later was the site of an important castle, which was, after the Commonwealth, used as a prison. The island was in the ownership of the Lauder family for almost six centuries, and now belongs to Sir Hew Fleetwood Hamilton-Dalrymple. A lighthouse was constructed on the rock in 1902, and the remains of a chapel are located there. The Bass Rock features in numerous works of fiction, including Robert Stevenson's Catriona. The island is located in the outer part of the Firth of Forth, 3 miles north east of North Berwick.
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Old photograph of King's Stables at the Battlefield of Culloden near Inverness, 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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