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 travel video of art in the National Gallery on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip Edinburgh, This is the national art gallery of Scotland. An elaborate neoclassical edifice, it stands on The Mound, between the two sections of Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. The building, which was designed by William Henry Playfair, first opened to the public in 1859.
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Tour Scotland travel video of a panel from the Scottish American War Memorial in Princes Street Gardens on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Edinburgh, Scotland. This memorial, " The Call ", was erected in Princes Street Gardens in 1927, gifted by American Scots as a tribute to the bravery of Scottish troops during the 1914-1918 conflict. Behind the main statue is a frieze showing queues of men answering the call by following a kilted pipe band. The memorial was given by Scottish Americans to honour Scots who had served in the first World War. The memorial was designed by R. Tait McKenzie who was a Scottish Canadian working at the time at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, America.
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Below Scotland's capital, hidden for almost two centuries, is a metropolis whose very existence was all but forgotten. For almost 250 years, Edinburgh was surrounded by a giant defensive wall. Unable to expand the city's boundaries, the burgeoning population built over every inch of square space. And when there was no more room, they began to dig down. Trapped in lives of poverty and crime, these subterranean dwellers existed in darkness and misery, ignored by the chroniclers of their time. It is only in the last few years that the shocking truth has begun to emerge about the sinister underground city. The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh's Legendary Underground City.
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