Tour Scotland Video Robert Fergusson Gravestone Canongate Kirkyard Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the poet, Robert Fergusson Gravestone in Canongate Kirkyard, Royal Mile, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Edinburgh. The gravestone was raised by Robert Burns, who, on visiting Edinburgh twelve years after Fergusson's death, was shocked to find no memorial stone over the poet's grave. Burns commissioned the stone from Robert Burn, the architect who later designed the Nelson Monument on the Calton Hill. It was erected in 1792 with lines on it written by Burns: No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, No storied urn, nor animated Bust; This simple stone directs Pale Scotia's way; To pour her Sorrows o'er the Poet's Dust.

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Tour Scotland Photograph The Royal Scots Stained Glass Window Canongate Kirk Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel photograph of The Royal Scots Stained Glass Window in Canongate Kirk, Royal Mile, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Edinburgh. Commissioned by the 1st Battalion, The Royal Scots, The Royal Regiment, which was originally installed in the kirk at Albuhera Barracks, Werl, Germany, then was transferred to the Regimental Kirk, Canongate. The Kirk of Holyrood House.



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Old Photograph Reform Street Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of Reform Street, Dundee, Scotland. The street was named after the Reform Act of 1832. The Act was a response to many years of people criticising the electoral system as unfair. For example, there were constituencies with only a handful of voters that elected two Members of Parliament to Parliament. In these constituencies, with few voters and no secret ballot, it was easy for candidates to buy votes. Yet towns like Manchester that had grown during the previous 80 years had no Members of Parliament to represent them. In 1831, the House of Commons passed a Reform Bill, but the House of Lords, dominated by Tories, defeated it. There followed riots and serious disturbances in London, Birmingham, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Yeovil, Sherborne, Exeter and Bristol, England. In Britain, King William IV lost popularity for standing in the way of reform. Eventually he agreed to create new Whig peers, and when the House of Lords heard this, they agreed to pass the Reform Act. Rotten constituencies were removed and the new towns given the right to elect Members of Parliament, although constituencies were still of uneven size. However, only men who owned property worth at least £10 could vote, which cut out most of the working classes, and only men who could afford to pay to stand for election could be MPs. This reform did not go far enough to silence all protest.



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Old Photographs Peebles Scotland

Old photograph of shops in Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. This Scottish town is located at the confluence of the River Tweed and Eddleston Water, locally called the Cuddy. Initially a market town, Peebles played a role in the woollen industry of the Scottish Borders up until the 1960s. The annual local festival is called the Beltane, and involves, as with many Borders festivals, a Common Riding.



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Old Photograph Spittal Of Glenshee Scotland

Old photograph of Spittal of Glenshee, Perthshire, Scotland.

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