Tour Scotland Spring Video Old Parish Church Easter Rhynd Perthshire

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of the old Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Easter Rhynd in Perthshire. This old Scottish church has not been used since 1841 and is now an ivy covered ruin. Originally a cell of the Priory of May, first mentioned in the reign of King David, 1124 to 53. The church was erected in the 17th century, but one or two re-used inscribed stones suggest an older structure on the same site.

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Tour Scotland Video Ferryman Gravestone Easter Rhynd Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a Ferryman gravestone in the old Parish Church graveyard cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Easter Rhynd in Perthshire. This is the gravestone of a ferryman, perhaps one of those who once operated the ferry across the mouth of the River Earn between Easter Rhynd and Ferryfield.

The River Earn leaves Loch Earn at St Fillans and runs east through Strathearn, then East and South, joining the River Tay near Abernethy. The Earn is about 46 miles long. It passes by Comrie, Crieff and Bridge of Earn.

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Tour Scotland April Video Drive To Easter Rhynd Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of part of a drive to Easter Rhynd in Perthshire, Scotland. This hamlet is located near to the River Tay and River Earn, East of Bridge of Earn and South East of Perth.

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Tour Scotland Video Classic Arrol Johnston Car Strathmore Angus

Tour Scotland video of a classic Arrol Johnston Car on visit to the Strathmore Vintage Vehicle Club near Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland. Arrol-Johnston, later known as Arrol-Aster, was an early Scottish manufacturer of automobiles, which operated from 1896 to 1931 and produced the first automobile manufactured in Britain. The company also developed the world's first "off-road" vehicle for the Egyptian government, and another designed to travel on ice and snow for Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole. George Johnston was by training a locomotive engineer from Neilson, Reid and Company Limited of Springburn, Glasgow. Johnston was commissioned by Glasgow Corporation Tramways in 1894 to build an experimental steam-powered tramcar to replace their fleet of horse-drawn trams.

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Tour Scotland Video Classic Beardmore Car Strathmore Angus

Tour Scotland video of a classic Beardmore Car on visit to the Strathmore Vintage Vehicle Club near Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland. William Beardmore and Company was a Scottish engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area. It was active from 1886 to the mid 1930s. It was founded and owned by William Beardmore, later Lord Invernairn, after whom the Beardmore Glacier was named.

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