Tour Scotland Video Drive North On M90 From Edinburgh To Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland April video of part of a drive North from Edinburgh on the M90 Motorway and over Friarton Bridge which spans the River Tay, on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Friarton Bridge is a two lane dual carriageway; unusually for a motorway, although not unusually for the M90, neither carriageway has a hard shoulder. When it was built in 1978, it was designated as the M85 motorway. When the A85 from the north end of the bridge to Dundee was renumbered in the early 1990s to A90 through to Dundee, the motorway's designation changed to M90 to provide a continuous route number from Edinburgh through to Fraserburgh.

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Tour Scotland Video Classic Cars Gleneagles Hotel Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of classic cars from Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, leaving after a visit to the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum located North of Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum based at Lathalmond near Dunfermline is a gem for the bus enthusiast, featuring preserved buses and coaches from all over the British Isles, but majoring on the fleets of Scotland in the years gone by.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Clydesdale Horse Foal Kinross Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a Scottish Clydesdale horse Foal on history visit and trip near Kinross, Perthshire. The Clydesdale is a Scottish breed of draught horse. It is named for its area of origin, the Clydesdale or valley of the River Clyde, much of which is within the county of Lanarkshire. The first recorded use of the name Clydesdale for the breed was in 1826; the horses spread through much of Scotland and into northern England. After the breed society was formed in 1877, thousands of Clydesdales were exported to many countries of the world, particularly to Australia and New Zealand. The Clydesdale was originally used for agriculture, hauling coal in Lanarkshire, and heavy hauling in Glasgow. Clydesdale horses are big. They range in height from 64 to 72 inches from their foot to their shoulder. That's about six feet tall, so that means that many Clydesdales are taller than the average adult man. They can also weigh up to 2,000 pounds, or 907 kilograms, which is one ton. Even Clydesdale foals are very big. A newborn foal can weigh up to 180 pounds, or 81 kilograms. Clydesdale horses are usually a reddish brown color that is sometimes called bay. They can also be brown, chestnut, and black. Some Clydesdales have white faces and bellies, and small white patches on other parts of their bodies. Their coats are thick. One thing that all Clydesdales have in common is feathering, the long hair that grows around their ankles. This feathering, paired with their thick coats, helped Clydesdales to survive in the cold winters of Scotland, where the horse is from. Most Clydesdales have white feathering. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Old Photograph Crofthead Mill Scotland

Old photograph of Crofthead Mill in Neilston, East Renfrewshire near Glasgow, Scotland. Crofthead Mill, known locally as Neilston Mill, was established in 1792. It was one of seven large cotton mills on the banks of the River Levern between Neilston and Dovecothall. Because of the large size of the complex, coupled with its short distance from the main residential core of Neilston, it was described in 1830, at the peak of the industry's prosperity, as " a little town of its self. "





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Old Photograph Connel Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of Connel Bridge, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish bridge is a cantilever bridge that spans Loch Etive at Connel in Scotland. The bridge takes the A828 road across the narrowest part of the loch, at the Falls of Lora. The bridge appears in the 1981 film Eye of the Needle, starring Donald Sutherland. In the film, Sutherland's character is seen riding a stolen motorcycle across the bridge, which he then disposes of by pushing it down the embankment at the north end of the bridge after it runs out of fuel.




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