Tour Scotland Video 2015 November 5th Fireworks Display Guy Fawkes Night Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the 2015 November 5th Fireworks Display on Guy Fawkes Night on a foggy visit to South Inch Park in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Royal Hospital for Sick Children Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the Princess Beatrice ward in the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, Scotland. The hospital opened in 1860, and received a royal charter in 1863, when it moved to the purpose built Meadowside House. In 1890 an outbreak of typhoid forced a temporary removal to Morningside, and Meadowside House was subsequently sold. Plans for a new hospital were put in hand, to designs by George Washington Browne. The Sciennes Road building was opened on 31 October 1895 by Princess Beatrice. The hospital celebrated its 150th birthday in 2010.



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Old Photograph J & G Stewart Scotch Whisky Merchants Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of J & G Stewart Scotch Whisky Merchants in Edinburgh, Scotland. Situated between Nelson's Parkside printing works and Holyrood Park was the distillery belonging to J & G Stewart, one of whose products was the famous Cream of the Barley whisky. The company also had premises in West Nicolson Street, in the building known as Peartree House, formerly West Nicolson House, in which the poet Thomas Blacklock had entertained both Robert Burns and Dr Samuel Johnson during the late eighteenth century. Part of the building is now called The Blind Poet in his honour. During the nineteenth century, this building had been used by Thomas Usher, Distiller and brother of the famous brewers mentioned above, who left £100,000 in his will to build the Usher Hall in Lothian Road.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Blairgowrie Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The Scottish Midland Junction Railway was authorised in 1845 to build a line from Perth to Forfar. The SMJR opened its main line on 4 August 1848. Proposals to merge with other railways were rejected by Parliament at first, but in 1856 the SMJR merged with the Aberdeen Railway to form the Scottish North Eastern Railway. The SNER was itself absorbed into the larger Caledonian Railway in 1866. On 26 June 1846 the SMJR obtained authorisation to build three branches: to Dunkeld, to Kirriemuir and to Blairgowrie. In fact only the Blairgowrie branch was constructed during the lifetime of the SMJR. The Dunkeld branch was actually built by an independent company, the Perth and Dunkeld Railway. It left the SMJR main line at Stanley Junction, and was opened on 7 April 1856. It was worked by the SMJR. The Perth and Dunkeld Railway was taken over in 1864 as part of a scheme to connect Perth and Inverness, by what became the Highland Railway. The Kirriemuir branch was opened in November 1854. Most trains continued to Forfar, and when the Dundee and Forfar direct line opened, to Dundee. The now closed Blairgowrie branch left the main line at Coupar Angus; it opened for passengers on 1 August 1855, and for goods on 21 August 1855. Blairgowrie was an industrial centre for jute manufacture, and for soft fruit. The line descended sharply from Coupar Angus to the crossing of the River Isla, and then climbed again to the terminus.



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Old Photograph Prince Edward Balmoral Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Prince Edward at Balmoral Castle, Scotland. Edward was born on 23 June 1894 at White Lodge, Richmond Park, on the outskirts of London, England, during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria. He was the eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George V and Queen Mary. His father was the son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. His mother was the eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Teck, Francis and Mary Adelaide. At the time of his birth, he was third in the line of succession to the throne, behind his grandfather and father. As a great grandson of the monarch in the male line, Edward was styled His Highness Prince Edward of York at birth. He was baptised Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David in the Green Drawing Room of White Lodge on 16 July 1894 by Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury. He was created Prince of Wales on his sixteenth birthday, nine weeks after his father succeeded as king. As a young man, he served in the British Army during the First World War and undertook several overseas tours on behalf of his father. Edward became Edward VIII on his father's death in early 1936. Only months into his reign, he caused a constitutional crisis by proposing marriage to Wallis Simpson, an American who had divorced her first husband and was seeking a divorce from her second. Choosing not to end his relationship with Simpson, Edward abdicated. After his abdication, he was created Duke of Windsor. He married Simpson in France on 3 June 1937, after her second divorce became final. Later that year, the couple toured Germany. During the Second World War, he was at first stationed with the British Military Mission to France but, after private accusations that he held Nazi sympathies, he was appointed Governor of the Bahamas. After the war, he spent the remainder of his life in retirement in France.



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