Old Photograph Winter Walker Ben Vrackie Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a Winter walker on Ben Vrackie, north of Pitlochry, Scotland. Sometimes anglicised as Ben Y Vrackie this is a Scottish mountain 2759 feet high at its summit. The summit may be reached easily by a direct path from Pitlochry or Killiecrankie, and commands views of Pitlochry and the surrounding glens.



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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Piping Competition Kinross Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish Piping Competition on ancestry visit to Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Boat Trip Firth Of Forth

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a boat trip on the Firth Of Forth including under the Forth Railway Bridge and Forth Road Bridge from South Queensferry, near Edinburgh. The Firth of Forth, Scottish Gaelic: Linne Foirthe, is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea, between Fife to the north and Lothian to the south. It was known as Bodotria in Roman times. Many towns line the shores, as well as the petrochemical complexes at Grangemouth, commercial docks at Leith, former oil rig construction yards at Methil, the shipbreaking facility at Inverkeithing and the naval dockyard at Rosyth, along with numerous other industrial areas, including the Forth Bridgehead area, encompassing Rosyth, Inverkeithing and the southern edge of Dunfermline, Burntisland, Kirkcaldy, Bo'ness and Leven.

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Tour Scotland Video John MacPherson Champion Piper Gravestone Newtonmore Highlands

Tour Scotland video of the John MacPherson, Champion Piper, gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry visit to Newtonmore in Badenoch and Strathspey, Highlands, Scotland. John was the eldest son of Calum Piobaire and he was born in Stornoway. He succeeded his father as piper to Cluny in 1880 and later served in a similar capacity to Lord Breadalbane, Campbell of Kilberry, Andrew Carnegie and the Earl of Ancaster, later Lord Willoughby at Drummond Castle, Perthshire.

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Tour Scotland Video Interior Carriden Parish Church Bo'ness West Lothian

Tour Scotland video of the interior of Carriden Parish Church on ancestry visit to Bo'ness, West Lothian, Scotland. The chancel apse contains three stained glass windows depicting St George, Christ and St James all installed in 1912.

Bo'ness has important historical links to the Roman period and marks the eastern extent of the Antonine Wall which stretched from Bo'ness to Old Kilpatrick on the west coast of Scotland. The Antonine Wall was named as an extension to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site by UNESCO in July 2007. A Roman fortlet can still be seen at Kinneil Estate.

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