Tour Scotland Video Sheep Shearing Kirriemuir Angus

Tour Scotland video of Sheep Shearing on visit to the Agricultural Show in Kirriemuir, Scotland. Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a shearer. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year, a sheep may be said to have been " shorn " or " sheared ", depending upon the local dialect. The annual shearing most often occurs in a shearing shed, a facility especially designed to process often hundreds and sometimes more than 3,000 sheep per day.

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Tour Scotland Video Strathmore Pipe Band Kirriemuir Angus

Tour Scotland video of Strathmore Pipe Band on visit to the Agricultural Show in Kirriemuir, Scotland. The band practice on Tuesdays evenings and offers tuition in piping, snare drumming and tenor drumming at East and Old Church Hall, Chapel Street, Forfar.

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Old Photograph Pitcaple Scotland

Old photograph of Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located on the River Urie 4 miles north west of Inverurie. Pitcaple is in Chapel-of-Garioch parish, Aberdeenshire.



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Old Photograph Udny Green Scotland

Old photograph of Udny Green, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The parish church here was built by John Smith in the early 1820s in a Todor Gothic style.



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Old Photographs Old Deer Scotland

Old photograph of Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Saint Columba and his nephew Drostan founded a monastery here in the 6th century, of which no trace remains. The Book of Deer is a most interesting relic of the monks, which was discovered in 1857 in the Cambridge University library by Henry Bradshaw. It was probably stolen during the Wars of Scottish Independence by English troops. It is a small manuscript of the Gospels in the Vulgate, fragments of the liturgy of the Celtic church, and notes, in the Gaelic script of the 12th century, referring to the charters of the ancient monastery, including a summary of that granted by David I of Scotland. These are among the oldest examples of Scottish Gaelic. The manuscript is also adorned with Gaelic designs. It had belonged to the monks of Deer and been in the possession of the University Library since 1715. It was edited by John Stuart for the Spalding Club, by whom it was published in 1869 under the title The Book of Deer (Leabhar Dhèir in Gaelic).

Old photograph of Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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