Tour Scotland Winter March Video Mortuary Chapel Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Winter March travel video of the Mortuary Chapel on Moot Hill on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Scone Palace by Perth, Perthshire. Scone Palace Mortuary Chapel or Mausoleum is located on Moot Hill by the replica of the Stone of Destiny. The aisle was part of the old Parish Church of Scone, which is believed to have been built about 1624. Within the Mausoleum, there is a fine baroque memorial to David, 1st Viscount Scone who died in 1631 and a dormer pediment, which probably came from the 17th century palace. David was a Scottish courtier, comptroller of Scotland and captain of the king's guard, known as Sir David Murray of Gospertie, then Lord Scone, and afterwards Viscount Stormont. He is known for his zeal in carrying out the ecclesiastical policy of James VI and I.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Fire And Rescue Service Launch Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish Fire And Rescue Service Launch by the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. A mock water rescue was just one of the activities at the North Inch Park by the river. Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs Roseanna Cunningham joined the Chief Officer and the Chair of the new Scottish Fire and Rescue Service at this public event to launch the inception of a new single Service.

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Tour Scotland Video Sheep On The Road Glen Sherup Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of sheep on the road on the drive to visit Glen Sherup on in the Ochil Hills of Perthshire, Scotland. Rush hour on a narrow Scottish road. The Ochil Hills is a range of hills in Scotland north of the Forth valley bordered by the towns of Stirling, Alloa, Kinross, Auchterarder and Perth. The only major roads crossing the hills pass through Glen Devon, Glen Eagles and Glenfarg, the latter now largely replaced except for local traffic by the M90 Edinburgh to Perth motorway cutting through the eastern foothills. The hills are part of a Devonian lava extrusion whose appearance today is largely due to the Ochil Fault which results in the southern face of the hills forming an escarpment.

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Old Photograph Branxholme Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Branxholme Castle located three miles South West of Hawick, Scotland. The present castle is on land owned by the Clan Scott since 1420. The Earl of Northumberland, England, burned the first castle in 1532. The next held out against the English in the War of the Rough Wooing in 1547. But in due course the Scotts themselves slighted the castle in 1570, the English, under the Earl of Essex, finishing the job with gunpowder. Within a decade Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch had commenced the rebuilding. The Scotts were during these troubled years frequently the Wardens of the Middle March. The castle was extensively remodelled by William Burn in 1837 for the 5th Duke of Buccleuch. The Branksome Hall School in Toronto, Canada, is named after this castle, and has been given a replica of a mantle from the castle.



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Old Photograph Craigston Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Craigston Castle, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A historic home of the Urquhart family. It was built 1604-1607 by John Urquhart of Craigfintry, known as the Tutor of Cromarty. The castle is composed of two main wings flanking the entrance and connected by an elevated arch, and surmounted by a richly corbelled parapet, regarded by many as one of the finest examples in Scotland. There are bases for corner turrets near the top corner of each wing, but the turrets themselves do not appear to have ever been completed. The wood carvings in the drawing room depict biblical themes and Clan Urquhart heraldic artifacts.



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