Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old photograph of cottages, houses and children on North Feus Street in Upper Largo by Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Dr William Julius, Joe, Eggeling was born, the son of a doctor, on 18 July 1909 in Upper Largo, Fife. He was a Scottish forester, botanist, and naturalist. Eggeling was a dominant figure in the Uganda Forest Department in the 1930s and 1940s, and played an important role in nature conservation in Scotland during the 1950s and 1960s. When seven years old and enrolled at Kirkton of Largo Parish School, he spent 18 bed ridden months with tuberculosis of the hip. Despite this initial set back he rose to a distinguished career. Following St Mary's Preparatory School in Melrose, where he was Vice Captain, Dux and Victor Ludorum, his schooling was completed at Giggleswick in Yorkshire, England. At Edinburgh University he obtained a BSc in Forestry, being awarded the Younger Medal in Practical Forestry, and three class medals for Indian and Colonial forestry, and forest mycology. In 1930 he attended the Colonial Service Postgraduate Course in Forestry at Oxford University. Despite his educational focus upon India, he instead joined the Uganda Forest Department in 1931, becoming Assistant Conservator. By 1939 Eggeling had collected some 3800 specimens for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the British Museum Natural History. In 1954 Eggeling retired from the Colonial Forest Service and returned to the United Kingdom. Eggeling helped to found the Scottish Wildlife Trust in 1964 and became Vice President. He was also a Member of Council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Chairman of its Scottish Advisory Committee, and President of the Scottish Ornithologist Club between 1966 and 1969. In 1939 he had married Jessie Elizabeth Tothill, died 1988, daughter of Dr John Douglas Tothill, born 1888, died 1969, Director of Agriculture in the Sudan, who had filled a similar post in Uganda. Jessie accompanied her husband on most of his trips in Africa, and thereafter in the UK, raising a family of two sons and three daughters. After 19 years in Anstruther, where his wife's parents had retired, he and his wife moved to Dunkeld in 1973. He died on 10 February 1994 in Perth, Perthshire.
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Old photograph of houses and shops in St. Ninians, Stirling, Scotland. St. Ninians is a long standing settlement which is now a district of the city of Stirling. It was originally known as Eccles, and may have been a Christian site from an unusually early date, perhaps in the 5th or 6th century. Later called St. Ringan's, a variant of St Ninian's. The church here was the administrative centre for churches across the strath of the River Forth. In the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, the retreating army of Bonnie Prince Charlie blew up the church of St. Ninians where they had been storing munitions; only the tower survived and can be seen to this day. During the 19th century, St. Ninians' main industry was nail making, with the main works located at the corner of Weaver Row and Main Street, known locally as Nailworks Corner.
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Old photograph of Carbrook House near Larbert located two and half miles from Falkirk, Scotland. Joseph Cheney Bolton, who was Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire between 1880 and 1892, lived in this house. Joseph, born in 1819, was a partner in the firm of Ker, Bolton, & Company, East India merchants, of Glasgow and London, England, he was a Justice Of The Peace for Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire. At the 1874 general election Bolton stood for Parliament in the Glasgow constituency, where he won by less than 1% of the votes. However, at the next general election, 1880, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire. He held the seat until he stood down at the 1892 general election. Bolton died at the age of 81 on 14 March 1901.
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