Tour Scotland Video Winter Afternoon Drive From Dundee To Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Winter video of an afternoon drive West on the A90 road from Dundee on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish road originates in Edinburgh, it the travels west and over the Forth Road Bridge, before turning into the M90 motorway. At Perth, the M90 again becomes the A90, now running north east to Dundee and through the Kingsway road system. It then passes Forfar, Brechin, Stracathro, the site of an ancient Roman Camp, Stonehaven, Bridge of Muchalls, where the Burn of Muchalls flows under, near Muchalls Castle, near Saint Ternan's Church, Newtonhill, Portlethen, from there through the city of Aberdeen, crossing the Ythan Estuary, on to Peterhead on its way to Fraserburgh.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Old Kilpatrick Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Old Kilpatrick located three miles from Clydebank by Glasgow, Scotland. This station on the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway, was closed in 1964.



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Old Photograph Moorfoot View Street Bonnyrigg Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Moorfoot View Street in Bonnyrigg located eight miles South East of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1547 when the nations of Scotland and England were at war with one another, a fierce battle took place at Pinkie which is East of Dalkeith and the retreating Scots army with the English army in pursuit, headed westwards to the River North Esk where some 14,000 Scots perished. Many bodies strewed the countryside giving rise to the place being called “ boney ridge ” where many bones were found, hence the name Bonnyrigg.



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Old Photograph Dalry Road Kilwinning Scotland

Old photograph of people, houses and a horse and cart on Dalry Road in Kilwinning in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

James Service was born on 27 November 1823 in Kilwinning, Ayrshire. He was the son of the poet Robert Service. As a young man James worked in a Glasgow tea importing business, Thomas Corbett and Company. In 1853 he arrived in Melbourne, Australia, as a company representative, and the following year went into business on his own forming James Service and Company, importers and wholesale merchants, which became a large and prosperous organization still in business many years after his death. He was a founding member of the Emerald Hill municipal council, now South Melbourne, in 1855, and of the Commercial Bank of Australia in 1866, going on to become a prominent banker and representative of Melbourne business interests. Service was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Melbourne in a by election in March 1857, retaining this seat until August 1859. He then represented Ripon and Hampden from October 1859 to around August 1862, Maldon from May 1874 to March 1881 and Castlemaine from June 1883 to February 1886. By the time of the 1886 election Service was in declining health and decided to retire from active politics and return to England for a while. In 1888 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Melbourne Province, and served there until his death on 13 April 1899.



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Old Photograph Arthurlie Cross Springhill Road Barrhead Scotland

Old photograph of Arthurlie Cross by Springhill Road in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. The standing stone is said to be associated with Arthur, King of the Britons. Locally it was said to mark Arthur's grave or a conspicuous leader of that name.



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