Old Photographs Walkerburn Scotland

Old photograph of houses in Walkerburn in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish village was founded in 1854 around the mill to house the workers. The village is now home to the Scottish Museum of Textiles.

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Old Photograph Kirkbean Scotland

Old photograph of Kirkbean near the Solway Firth in, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Among its most famous sons was John Paul Jones, the founder of the United States Navy, who was born in Arbigland, Kirkbean on July 6th, 1747. The Kirbean cemetery is the burial place of Jean Thurot, born 1755, died 1833, son of the famous Francois Thurot, French Naval Commodore and Privateer. Kirkbean is also the birthplace of another great seafarer, John Campbell, who was born in 1720 and who went on to become a British naval officer, navigational expert and colonial governor of Newfoundland in Canada. The parish was also the departure point for thousands of Scots seeking a better life in the American and Australian colonies during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Convicts were also transported to Australia from here, making the parish a rich source of genealogy history with many hundreds of thousands of people worldwide having a connection to this beautiful part of Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Highland Dancing Kirriemuir Angus

Tour Scotland video of Scottish Highland dancing on visit to the Agricultural Show in Kirriemuir, Scotland. Highland dance or Highland dancing is a style of competitive solo dancing developed in the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the context of competitions at public events such as the Highland games, where it is often performed to the accompaniment of Highland bagpipe music. It is now seen at nearly every modern day Highland games event.

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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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