Tour Scotland Video Charity Hairdressing Show City Centre Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity hairdressing show on visit to the St John's Shopping Centre in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Breakthrough Breast Cancer is the leading charity in the UK dedicated to stopping women dying from breast cancer.

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Tour Scotland Video Charity Fashion Show City Centre Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity fashion show on visit to the St John's Shopping Centre in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Breakthrough Breast Cancer is the leading charity in the UK dedicated to stopping women dying from breast cancer.

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Old Photograph New Luce Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in New Luce in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village is located in the traditional county of Wigtownshire. The coast to coast walk, the Southern Upland Way, passes close to the village. The Covenanter Alexander Peden spent time preaching in the village. Peden was born at Auchincloich Farm near Sorn, Ayrshire, about 1626, and was educated at the University of Glasgow. He was a teacher at Tarbolton and then ordained minister of New Luce in Galloway in 1660. In June 1673 while holding a conventicle at Knockdow near Ballantrae, Ayrshire, he was captured by Major William Cockburn, and condemned by the Privy Council to four years and three months imprisonment on the Bass Rock and a further fifteen months in the Edinburgh Tolbooth. In December 1678 he, along with 60 others, was sentenced to banishment to the American plantations. They were transported by ship to London, where they were supposed to be transferred to an American ship, however the American captain on hearing the reason for their banishment released them. Peden made his way north again to divide the remaining years of his life between his own country and the north of Ireland. His last days were spent in a cave on the River Lugar in the parish of Sorn, near his birthplace and his brother's farm in Auchinleck, and there he died in 1686, worn out by hardship and privation.




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Old Photograph Stichill House Scotland

Old photograph of Stichill House located two miles North of Kelso, Borders, Scotland. This Scottish house is located in the historic territory of the Pringles, a notorious Riding family of Border Reivers. The Pringles of Stichill are a cadet branch of the Pringles of Smailholm. Robert Pringle of Bartingbush purchased the lands of Stichill in 1628, and his grandson, another Robert Pringle, was created 1st Pringle Baronet of Stichill, in the Baronetcy of Nova Scotia, in 1683. The present laird is Lt-Gen Sir Steuart Robert Pringle, KCB, 10th Baronet.



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Old Photograph Kilmory Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Kilmory Castle, also known as Kilmory House, located just to the south of Lochgilphead, Argyll, Scotland. A house may have stood here as early as the 14th century. The Campbells built a house, or extended the existing one, between 1816 and 1820. Eliza Campbell, the eldest daughter and co-heir of Peter Campbell, married Sir John Orde, 2nd Baronet in 1824. He purchased the estates following the death of his father in law in 1828 and of his wife in 1829. Orde demolished the modest old Campbell house and replaced it with the grand Gothic style mansion designed by architect Joseph Gordon Davis. Sir John Powlett Orde was born on 9th June 1803 at Gloucester Place, St Marylebone, London, England, the son of Sir John Orde, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he graduated with a BA. He married Eliza Campbell, eldest daughter and co-heir of Peter Campbell, of Kilmory, Argyll, on 15 June 1826. They had one son and three daughters. His father in law died in Jamaica in 1828 and upon the death of his wife in 1829 he inherited the estates in Jamaica and Scotland. He remarried in 1832 to Beatrice Edwards. Orde rebuilt Kilmory Castle in a Gothic style to a design by architect Joseph Gordon Davis, and remodelled the grounds with the aid of William Jackson Hooker. Kilmory is now the headquarters of Argyll and Bute Council. He was succeeded by his son Sir John William Powlett Orde who, in 1880, obtained Royal Licence to assume the surname of Campbell Orde


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