Tour Scotland Video Scottish Women Curling European Playdowns Dewars Centre Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Scottish women curling at the European Playdowns in the Dewars Centre on visit to and trip to Perth, Perthshire. This is a qualifying event to determine Scotland’s representative teams both male and female for the European Curling Championships 2014 in Champery, Switzerland. Entry to this event is by invitation only.

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Old Photograph James Ramsay MacDonald House Lossiemouth Scotland

Old photograph of the James Ramsay MacDonald house on Prospect Terrace in Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. James was born on 12 October 1866 at Gregory Place, Lossiemouth, he was the illegitimate son of John MacDonald, a farm labourer, and Anne Ramsay, a housemaid. He became a British statesman who was the first ever Labour Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading a Labour Government in 1924, a Labour Government from 1929 to 1931, and a National Government from 1931 to 1935. In 1909 he built this house, the Hillocks, for his mother to look after his six children while he was abroad. Two were born in Lossiemouth and the older ones started school there. In 1910 his mother Annie Ramsay died and in 1911 his wife Margaret died. He died on board the liner Reina del Pacifico at sea on 9 November 1937, aged 71. He was buried alongside his wife at Spynie in his native Morayshire.



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Old Photograph Glendale Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of Glendale on the north western coastline of the Duirinish peninsula on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. The area encompasses the small crofting townships of Skinidin, Colbost, Fasach, Glasphein, Holmisdale, Lephin, Hamaraverin, Borrodale, Milovaig and Waterstein. During the unsettled times of the late nineteenth century, when the local crofters sought land reform, this area played an important part in the struggle. After the Battle of the Braes in 1882, the unrest spread to Glendale. The landlords refused to allow the local population to collect wood from the shore for heating, and they had to use straw to thatch the houses as they were forbidden to cut rushes. Land was in short supply as the holdings had been sub-divided 40 years earlier to provide for those cleared from better land. Led by John MacPherson, the crofters demanded the return of the common grazing land that had been taken from them. Taking direct action, they began grazing their cattle on this land, court orders for their removal notwithstanding. Police action in January 1883 proved ineffective and eventually a government official was sent to Skye on board the navy gunboat HMS Jackal to conduct negotiations. Five crofters including MacPherson agreed to stand in a token trial. They were sentenced to two months in jail and became known as the " Glendale martyrs ", and are commemorated by a memorial in the village. It was also agreed that a Royal Commission, which became the Napier Commission, would be set up to investigate the crofters’ grievances, which eventually resulted in the far reaching Crofters Act of 1886.



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Old Photograph Tram Bieldside Scotland

Old photograph of driver, conductor and Tram in Bieldside, Aberdeen, Scotland. Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy was born on 2 October 1908 at her father's house, Dalhebity, Bieldside, Aberdeenshire, the daughter of Colonel William Smith Gill and his wife Ruth. The Baroness was Lady Diana, Princess of Wales's maternal grandmother.





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Old Photograph Maxwell Park Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Maxwell Park in Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland. The Pollokshields Burgh Hall stands at the edge of Maxwell Park. Designed by Henry Edward Clifford and constructed in 17th century Scottish Baronial style, it was opened in 1890 by Sir John Stirling Maxwell as a Masonic Meeting Place and for the use of the community but served the independent burgh of Pollokshields only until 1891. The Hamilton Memorial Fountain in Maxwell Park was constructed by the Doulton Company in the famous Italian white marble from Carrara in Tuscany. It is a memorial to John Hamilton, who hunted in the area when the land was a marsh. The fountain was demolished in 1989.





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