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 cottages and people in cMuirhead near Dundee, Scotland. Many street names here have been inspired by the local environment, for instance, Post Box Road has a post box on it and Wood Road leads to a wooded area. There are also streets named after the late John Huband who was a very famous accordion player from the village and also wrote a huge amount of music in his day. The streets are John Huband Drive and Accordion Way and are located just off Dronley Road.
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Old photograph of a crofter making a basket for carrying peat in Scotland. Crofts, once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland, were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by landowners in the Clearances. Some fled to Nova Scotia, America, Australia, and beyond.
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Old photograph of Forfar, Scotland. A Scottish town and former royal burgh in Angus,located in East Central Lowlands of Scotland. Forfar is the county town of Angus, which was officially known as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1929, when the ancient name was reinstated. Forfar is a traditional market town, serving the outlying lowland farms of Strathmore in central Angus.
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Old photograph of the Isle of Tiree, Scotland. An island in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, south west of Coll. The island is at the same latitude as southern Alaska and the same longitude as the border between Spain and Portugal. Britain’s twentieth largest island, it is just over ten miles at its longest, five miles at its widest, and a little over half a mile at its narrowest. Isle Of Tiree is the most westerly island in the Inner Hebrides. Its name derives from Tìr Iodh, meaning land of the corn, from the days of the 6th century Celtic missionary and abbot St Columba. Tiree provided the monastic community on the island of Iona, south east of the island, with grain. In 1770, half of the island was held by fourteen farmers who had drained land for hay and pasture. Instead of exporting live cattle, which were often exhausted by the long journey to market and so fetched low prices, they began to export salt beef in barrels to get better prices. The rest of the island was let to 45 groups of tenants on co-operative joint farms: agricultural organisations probably dating from clan times. Field strips were allocated by annual ballot. Sowing and harvesting dates were decided communally. It is reported that in 1774, Tiresians were 'well clothed and well fed, having an abundance of corn and cattle.
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Old photograph of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland. The first settlement to be known as Lerwick was founded in the 17th century as a herring and white fish seaport to trade with the Dutch fishing fleet. This settlement was on the mainland, the west side of Bressay Sound, a natural harbour with south and north entrances between the Shetland mainland and the island of Bressay.
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