Old Photograph Shepherd Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish shepherd in the Cairngorms of Scotland. The surname Shepherd has an ancient history in both England and Scotland. The many variations in England include Sheppard, Shephard, Shepperd, Shepard, Shipman and Shippard. The Scots have these as well as Sheepheard, and Shippert.



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Old Photograph Hill Walking Guide Scotland

Old photograph of a Scottish hill walking guide in the Cairngorms of Scotland. The idea of undertaking a walk through the countryside for pleasure developed in the 18th century, and arose because of changing attitudes to the landscape and nature, associated with the Romantic movement. In earlier times walking generally indicated poverty and was also associated with vagrancy.



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Old Photographs Dalbeattie Scotland

Old photograph of Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish town is famed for its granite industry and for being the home town of William McMaster Murdoch First Officer of the RMS Titanic. William was the fourth son of Captain Samuel Murdoch, a master mariner, and Jane Muirhead, six of whose children survived infancy. They were a long and notable line of Scottish seafarers who sailed the world's oceans as early as the 19th century; his father and grandfather were both sea captains as were four of his grandfather's brothers.



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Tour Scotland Videos Daytime Search For Body River Tay Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of daytime search for a body in the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Police, firemen and Tayside Mountain rescue teams resumed the search just below Smeaton's Bridge for the missing 16 year-old boy named Mateusz Wilamowski from Poland who was swept into a river in Perth.



Tour Scotland video of daytime search for a body in the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Fire Service Night Search River Tay Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Scottish Fire Service searching for a body at night in the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This search and rescue operation was looking for a 16 year old boy named Mateusz Wilamowski from Poland who got into difficulty while crossing the River Tay near to the Woody Islands after attending the Rewind Festival in Scone. Five fire appliances where at the scene and police diving teams and firefighters searched the water while officers were on Queen's Bridge watching the river.

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