Old Photograph Road To Persie Near Blairgowrie Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the road to Persie near Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Loch Lubnaig Scotland

Old photograph of Loch Lubnaig near Callander, Trossachs, Scotland. This Scottish loch lies in the former county of Perthshire. It is part of the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park. Fed by the River Balvaig from the north and drained by the Garbh Uisge to the south, Loch Lubnaig offers fishing from the shore while canoes can be rented at the north end. The route of the former Callander and Oban Railway runs along the west shore of the loch. This route has now been converted to a part of the National Cycle Network's Route ' allowing cyclists and walkers to travel the 9 miles between Callander and Strathyre.



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Tour Scotland Video Winter Drive Around Crail East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of a Winter morning drive around the old fishing village of Crail in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Crail became a Royal Burgh in the 1178. Robert the Bruce granted permission to hold markets on a Sunday, in the Marketgait, where the Mercat Cross now stands in Crail. This practice was still continuing in the 16th century, causing concern in the freshly puritanical circles of Edinburgh such that John Knox was moved to deliver a sermon in Crail Parish Church, damning the fishermen of the East Neuk for working on a Sunday. Despite the protests, the markets continued and were amongst the largest in Europe for their time. King James V, the father of Mary Queen of Scots, sent for his wife, Mary of Guise, whom he had recently married by proxy in Paris, France, and she landed in Crail in June 1538.

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Tour Scotland Video Winter Morning Drive From Kilrenny To Crail East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of a Winter morning drive from Kilrenny on ancestry visit to the old fishing village of Crail in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Crail became a Royal Burgh in the 1178. Robert the Bruce granted permission to hold markets on a Sunday, in the Marketgait, where the Mercat Cross now stands in Crail. This practice was still continuing in the 16th century, causing concern in the freshly puritanical circles of Edinburgh such that John Knox was moved to deliver a sermon in Crail Parish Church, damning the fishermen of the East Neuk for working on a Sunday. Despite the protests, the markets continued and were amongst the largest in Europe for their time. King James V, the father of Mary Queen of Scots, sent for his wife, Mary of Guise, whom he had recently married by proxy in Paris, and she landed in Crail in June 1538.

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Tour Scotland Video Winter Morning Drive From Pittenweem To Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of a Winter morning drive from the fishing village of Pittenweem on ancestry visit to Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Thomas Chalmers, was born, the son of John Chalmers, a merchant, and Elizabeth Hall, in the old fishing village Anstruther on 17 March 1780. He was a Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland. At the age of eleven Chalmers was entered as a student at St Andrews, where he devoted himself almost exclusively to mathematics. In January 1799 he was licensed as a preacher of the Gospel by the St Andrews presbytery. In May 1803, after attending further courses of lectures in The University of Edinburgh, and acting as assistant to the professor of mathematics at St Andrews, he was ordained as minister of Kilmany. In 1815 he became minister of the Tron Church, Glasgow, in spite of determined opposition to him in the town council on the grounds of his evangelical teaching. In 1823 Chalmers accepted the chair of moral philosophy at St Andrews University, the seventh academic offer made to him during his eight years in Glasgow. His lectures led some students to devote themselves to missionary effort. Among his pupils were William Lindsay Alexander, Alexander Duff, and James Aitken Wylie. In November 1828 Chalmers was transferred to the chair of theology in Edinburgh. On 28 May 1847 Chalmers returned to his house at Morningside, near Edinburgh, from a journey to London on the subject of national education. On the following day he was employed in preparing a report to the General Assembly of the Free Church, then sitting. On Sunday, the 30th, he continued in his usual health and spirits, and retired to rest with the intention of rising at an early hour to finish his report. The next morning, 31 May 1847, he did not make his appearance, and he was discovered lying dead in bed.

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