Old Photograph Coaltown of Wemyss Fife Scotland

Old photograph of shops and people in Coaltown of Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Coaltown of Wemyss is the closest village to Wemyss Castle, Fife, Scotland. Cottages originally built for mineworkers. Close to the village are now unworked deep coal mine workings. Originally, it was two villages, Easter and Wester, but when the miners distinctive cottages were expanded by the Wemyss Coal Co in 1860, the two villages were amalgamated as a " model mining village. "


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Old Photograph High Street Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of the High Street, Paisley, Scotland. In 1819 riots took place on the High Street by a population committed to parliamentary reform, which in many ways was the start of two decades of agitation for political reform in the town, but which also echoed and reflected Scotland and UK wide struggle for greater democracy.



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Old Photograph Mail Coach Scotland

Old photograph of a Mail Coach outside the Post Office in Colintraive, Argyll, Scotland. Colintraive is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Ferries sail between Colintraive and Rhubodach on the Isle of Bute. It is located on the Kyles of Bute or Loch Riddon on the west coast of the Cowal peninsula. The nearest town of notable size is Dunoon which is a twenty minute drive away on the east coast of the peninsula facing Gourock and the River Clyde, heading to Port Glasgow and Greenock. The village faces the Isle of Bute where a ferry journeys the 100 yard gap between Colintraive and the isle. On the island there is one fairly modest tourist town called Rothesay. Also there is the famous Scalpsie Bay often regarded as one of the best seal viewing points in the world. The name Colintraive derives from Gaelic and means "swimming strait" or " swimming narrows ". In the past, cattle were swum over from the Isle of Bute to Colintraive on their way to the cattle markets of lowland Scotland.



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Tour Scotland My Funny Valentine Video

Tour Scotland My Funny Valentine Video. Sung by Scottish singer Rod Paterson

My funny Valentine
Sweet comic Valentine
You make me smile with my heart

Your looks are laughable
Unphotographable
Yet you're my favourite work of art

Is your figure less than Greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?

Don't change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little Valentine
Stay!
Each day is valentine's day

Is your figure less than Greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart ?

Don't change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little Valentine
Stay, oh stay !
Each day is valentine's day.

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Tour Scotland Video Silver Darlings

Tour Scotland Video Silver Darlings. Alastair McDonald singing Silver Darlings by Jim McLean, Andy Hulskramer and Bob Halfin from the album Scotland in Song.

O herrings are harvests that fishermen glean
Where flashes the silver through deep ocean green,
But when herring harvests reach old Aberdeen
They're known as the silver darlings

CHORUS: Silver darlings on Aberdeen quay,
Brought by the fisherman home from the sea
To the city that stands 'twixt the Don and the Dee,
The home of the silver darlings

The boats leave the harbour, their wake spreading wide
And empty they roll with the swell of the tide.
O soon may their hatches be thrown open wide
For a catch of the silver darlings

With ice in the rigging and death down below,
The gales screaming wild and the glass hanging low,
The wives and the sweethearts are women who know
The price of the silver darlings.

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