Tour Scotland Video Purple And White Scottish Heather

Tour Scotland video of Purple and White Scottish Heather in Perthshire, Scotland. Heather is an important food source for various sheep and deer which can graze the tips of the plants when snow covers low-growing vegetation. Willow Grouse and Red Grouse feed on the young shoots and seeds of this plant. Formerly heather was used to dye wool yellow and to tan leather. With malt, heather is an ingredient in gruit, a mixture of flavourings used in the brewing of heather-beer during the Middle Ages before the use of hops. White heather is regarded in Scotland as being lucky, a tradition brought from Balmoral to England by Queen Victoria and sprigs of it are often sold as a charm and worked into bridal bouquets. Heather stalks are used by a small industry in Scotland as a raw material for sentimental jewelry. The stalks are stripped of bark, dyed in bright colors and then compressed with resin.

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Tour Scotland Video May Afternoon Drive On A90 To Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Monday afternoon drive on the A90 road through the Carse of Gowrie between Dundee and Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Carse stretches for about 20 miles along the north shore of the Firth of Tay and this area offers high quality agricultural land and is well known as a major area for strawberry, raspberry and general fruit growing. Fruit is easy to cultivate in the area because of a southerly aspect and low rainfall.

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Tour Scotland Morning Drive To Inchture Between Dundee And Perth

Tour Scotland video of a Monday morning drive to visit Inchture which is located just off the A90 road between Dundee and Perth in the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Inchture is twinned with the village of Fléac near Angoulême in France.

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Tour Scotland Video Race For Life North Inch Park Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the start of the Race For Life on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Despite a windy, chilly, cloudy Sunday morning, 800 people, young and old, turned up to walk, jog or run this 5k Cancer Research UK Race for Life to help beat cancer. Well done to everyone who took part in the public charity event.

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Old Photograph Barnhill Scotland

Old photograph of the golf course at Barnhill, Dundee, Scotland. The 18 hole course was opened on Saturday 15th June 1895 by Provost Orchar. It was situated on 13 acres of land owned by the Earl of Dalhousie. In 1902, it was bought by the Burgh of Broughty Ferry for the sum of £500. The course was well used, and the ladies seemed to take special pride in their clubhouse, a small wooden building, around which they planted flower beds. The clubhouse was opened on 8th May 1897. With the outbreak of the World War II the course became little used. Soon after 1950 the course ceased to be used, and remained neglected until 1954 when the local parks superintendent suggested it should be transformed into a rock garden.



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