Tour Scotland Video Scottish Passenger Train To Ladybank Fife

Tour Scotland video of cloudy day ride on a diesel passenger train on ancestry visit to Ladybank, Fife, Scotland. Ladybank railway station was opened in 1847 by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway on their line from Burntisland, being the point at which the line divided into two branches to Cupar and Lindores. The latter branch was subsequently extended to Hilton Junction, near Perth, Perthshire, the following year. On 6 June 1857, the Fife and Kinross Railway opened, providing a link to Kinross. This line was closed to passengers on 6 June 1950, with the line between Auchtermuchty and Ladybank closing to freight on 29 January 1957. These days the station is served by two trains per hour to and from Edinburgh, one of these is the hourly service to Dundee and the other runs to Perth.

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Tour Scotland Video Loch Coruisk Isle Of Skye

Tour Scotland video of Loch Coruisk Isle of Skye, Scotland. Loch Coruisk, in Scottish Gaelic, Coire Uisg, the Cauldron of Waters, is a loch, located at the foot of the Black Cuillin in the Isle of Skye, in the Scottish Highlands. It is reputed to be the home of a water horse.

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Old Photograph Limekilns Church Scotland

Old photograph of the church in Limekilns, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish church was reconstructed in 1826, from an earlier church which was built in 1785. Before 1785 residents of Charlestown and Limekilns were required to travel to church at Dunfermline. During the summer of 1824 when the current church was being built, the minister Revd Johnston is said to have held services in a tent in a field beside the village.



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Old Photograph Garth House Scotland

Old photograph of Garth House in Glen Lyon Perthshire, Scotland. Garth estate was bought in 1832 By Sir Archibald Campbell. He pulled down the old house and built a new Garth House, made a new garden and planted the estate. He sold the estate in 1842. Sir Donald Currie, a famous Victorian shipping magnate who bought Garth Estate in 1880 added to and modernised Garth House. In 1951 this Scottish mansion house was given to the Scottish Youth Hostels Association by the Mrs MacKenzie Anderson mother of Lieut Ian Mackenzie Anderson who died when HM submarine Odin was sunk by enemy action in Tarranton Bay on June 13.



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Old Photograph Amisfield House Scotland

Old photograph of Amisfield House by Haddington, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was built for Francis Charteris born 31 January 1749, died 20 January 1808. He was the only son of the Honourable Francis Charteris, second son of James Wemyss, 5th Earl of Wemyss. The fifth Earl's eldest son David Wemyss, Lord Elcho had been attainted for his part in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 so after the Earl's death in 1756 the earldom became forfeit. He was elected to Parliament for the Haddington district of burghs in 1780. From 1784 he was in opposition to the government of William Pitt the Younger. In 1787 Charteris' uncle Lord Elcho, who but for his attainder would have been 6th Earl of Wemyss, died. As Charteris' father had not been attainted himself, he assumed the title as 7th Earl of Wemyss, with Charteris assuming the title Lord Elcho. At the time eldest sons of Scottish peers were not allowed to represent Scottish constituencies in Parliament, and after a debate on the matter Charteris had to vacate his seat. Although it was later established that the Earldom of Wemyss remained forfeit and his father was not after all a Scottish peer, Charteris did not attempt to re-enter Parliament. Charteris died on 20 January 1808 at Amisfield House, East Lothian, and was interred at St Mary's Collegiate Church, Haddington.



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