Tour Scotland Video Scottish Yarn Bombing Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Yarn Bombing outside the Old Ship Inn on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Local Scottish knitters went around the city to brighten up the city centre. Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, kniffiti, urban knitting or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk. While yarn installations, called yarn bombs or yarnstorms, may last for years, they are considered non permanent, and, unlike other forms of graffiti, can be easily removed if necessary. Nonetheless, the practice is still technically illegal in some jurisdictions, though it is not often prosecuted vigorously. The practice is believed to have originated in the America with Texas knitters trying to find a creative way to use their leftover and unfinished knitting projects, but it has since spread worldwide.

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Old Photograph Comlongon Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Comlongon Castle near Dumfries, Scotland. Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray granted the lands of Comlongon, in the early 14th century, to his nephew William de Moravia, ancestor of the Murrays of Cockpool. His descendant Cuthbert of Cockpool built Comlongon Castle in the later part of the 15th century, to replace the Murrays earlier castle of Cockpool, of which only earthworks remain at Cockpool Farm, to the south west of Comlongon. His son John Murray was created Baron Cockpool in 1508. Descendants of the Murrays were later created Viscounts Stormont in 1621, and Earls of Mansfield in 1776, and Comlongon was part of the Earl's estate until 1984. The castle is reportedly haunted by the ghost of Lady Marion Carruthers who took her own life by leaping from the lookout tower.



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Old Photograph Edwin Scrymgeour Scotland

Old photograph of Edwin Scrymgeour who was born on 28 July 1866 in Dundee, Scotland. Edwin was was a Member of Parliament for Dundee. He is the only person ever elected to the House of Commons on a prohibitionist ticket, as the candidate of the Scottish Prohibition Party. He was educated at West End Academy. He was a pioneer of the Scottish temperance movement and established his party in 1901 to further this aim. He served on Dundee City Council and began contesting elections in the 1908 Dundee by election which saw Winston Churchill first elected for Dundee and continued to fight at every election thereafter, increasing his vote. In part this was because of his popularity, general left-wing sympathies and history with the labour movement. Churchill's stance against suffragettes may have had an impact in a city where many women were breadwinners, while many men were " kettle boilers." In the 1922 election, Scrymgeour and Labour candidate E. D. Morel jointly ousted Winston Churchill, who had represented the city as a Liberal. Scrymgeour remained a Member of Parliament for Dundee until the 1931 general election, when he was ousted by Florence Horsbrugh. Out of Parliament Scrymgeour worked as an evangelical Chaplain at East House and Maryfield Hospital in Dundee. He died on 1 February 1947.

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Old Photograph Altyre House Scotland

Old photograph of Altyre House located South of Forres, Moray, Scotland. Altyre Estate is the family home of the Gordon Cummings, the sole descendants of the great family of Comyn. Altyre House, which was renovated by Sir William Gordon Cumming at the end of the 19th Century with John Kinross as its architect, was demolished in 1962. At the centre of the estate is Blairs House, designed by W.L. Carruthers in 1895, and an Italianate farm steading, possibly the work of Archibald Simpson, is nearby. Altyre also gives its name to woodlands and the surrounding parish which united with Rafford in 1651. The remains of Altyre Kirk date from the 13th century.



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Old Photograph Town Hall Dingwall Scotland

Old photograph of the town hall in Dingwall, Scotland. This building is located on the north side of Dingwall High Street and was originally the site of the tolbooth. The earliest parts of the building date from the 17th century but there was extensive remodelling carried out in 1732 and 1782, as well as in 1905 and 1925. The jail was declared unfit for prisoners in 1830.



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