Tour Scotland Video Ben Vrackie Mountain Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Ben Vrackie mountain on ancestry visit to Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Ben Vrackie, Scottish Gaelic: Beinn a' Bhreacaidh; sometimes anglicised as Ben Y Vrackie, is located North of the town of Pitlochry and reaches 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 Morning Video Pitlochry Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Morning video looking down on Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Winter Video Pitlochry Dam River Tummel Pitlochry Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland Winter video of the Dam on ancestry visit to Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. This dam led to the formation of Loch Faskally and was constructed between 1947 and 1950 as part of the Tummel Hydro-Electric Power Scheme. The power station and dam are considered to be, architecturally speaking, one of the most successful of the Hydro-Board's projects. There is no overhead clutter of transformers or power lines as all power is transmitted underground to Clunie power station. The power station is faced in pre-cast concrete to fit in with the mass concrete dam. The two automatic drum gates were the first of their type and size used in Britain and were designed and built by Glenfield and Kennedy of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. The hollow drum gates open automatically, rotating forward on a keel hinge at an angle of travel of 65 degrees into a flotation chamber, thus allowing the impounded water to spill over the crest.

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Old Photograph Railway Statiom Dalbeallie Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Dalbeallie near Craigellachie near Aberlour located twelve miles South of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. This station on this long disused section of railway between Grantown East and Craigellachie was established in 1863, it was at first called Dalbeallie, the name of nearby small farm, then called Knockando. The station buildings have now been restored as part of the former Tamdhu Whisky Distillery visitor centre.



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Old Photograph Kinloch House Scotland

Old photograph of Kinloch House near Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland. Kinloch House was the residence of Captain The 6th Earl of Enniskillen, M.B.E., an Anglo Irish aristocrat. Popularly known as David Enniskillen, he had been born into a famous Ulster family and had spent much of his life in Kenya.



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