Tour Scotland Video Mylnefield Lilies Parkhead Gardens Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Mylnefield Lilies on visit to Parkhead Gardens in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. These lilies were developed by Christopher North, who died aged 87, and who was head of plant breeding at the Scottish Horticultural Research Institute, at Mylnefield, Dundee. Parkhead Gardens in Perth are most definitely worth a visit, and can be viewed only by prior arrangement.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Parkhead Gardens Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of photographs of visit to Parkhead Gardens in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Interesting plants and shrubs and a rare national collection of the Mylnefield Lilies. Parkhead Gardens in Perth are most definitely worth a visit, and can be viewed only by prior arrangement.

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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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