Tour Scotland Video Safety Rescue Boat Firth Of Forth

Tour Scotland video of the Tracey S safety rescue boat on the Firth of Forth Scotland. A safety boat must be in the water whenever work is being undertaken over or adjacent to the Firth of Forth. The Firth of Forth 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.

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Old Photograph Horse And Cart On The Road To Banff Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and cart on the road to Banff, Scotland. Banff is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Macduff across the estuary of the River Deveron. Banff is a former royal burgh, and is the traditional county town of Banffshire. The first recorded Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and in 1372 Royal Burgh status was conferred by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was one of three principal towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, along with Aberdeen and Montrose.



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Old Photograph Opening Of Colinton Mains Hospital Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra opening Colinton Mains Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1903 the City Fever Hospital moved to its present site at Colinton Mains, where it became the City Hospital for Infectious Diseases. By the 1960s the hospital, by now called simply the City Hospital, was no longer restricted to the treatment of infectious diseases. It also treated tropical diseases, and it had surgical departments for chest and thoracic surgery.



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Old Photograph Cattle South Inch Park Perth Scotland

Old photograph of cattle on South Inch Park, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Lewis Street Stranraer Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and rider on Lewis Street in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Around 1600, Stranraer had become the market town for western Wigtownshire. At about this time, Stranraer was reached by a military road built from Dumfries to allow easier access to Portpatrick for transportation of people to Ireland for the Plantation of Ulster. Stranraer became a royal burgh in 1617. The first harbour in Stranraer was built in the middle of the 18th century, with further port development in the 1820s. The arrival of the railway from Dumfries in 1861, which closed in 1965), which gave the shortest journey to/from London, England, established Stranraer as the area's main port. In 1862, the line was extended to serve the harbour directly, and a link to Portpatrick was also opened. In 1877, a rail connection north to Girvan and Glasgow was also established. Stranraer remained the main Scottish port for the Irish ferries for the next 150 years or so. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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