Tour Scotland Video Beaver Knapdale

Tour Scotland video of a Beaver in Knapdale, a rural district of Argyll, in the Highlands of Scotland. The Eurasian beaver or European beaver is a species of beaver which was once widespread in Eurasia. It was hunted to near extinction for both its fur and castoreum; and by 1900, only 1200 beavers survived in eight relict populations in Europe and Asia. Reintroduced through much of its former range, it now occurs from Great Britain to China and Mongolia.

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Tour Scotland Video Diesel Passenger Trains Forth Railway Bridge

Tour Scotland January video of diesel passenger trains crossing the Forth Railway Bridge on visit to North Queensferry, Fife, and South Queensferry near Edinburgh, Scotland. The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles West of Edinburgh City Centre. It is considered an iconic structure and a symbol of Scotland, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was designed by the English engineers Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker.

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Tour Scotland Video January Forth Road Bridge Firth Of Forth

Tour Scotland January video of the Forth Road Bridge on visit to North Queensferry, Fife, Scotland. This is a suspension bridge which spans the Firth of Forth and forms a crucial part of the corridor between south-east and north east Scotland, linking Edinburgh to Perth, Perthshire, Dundee and Aberdeen by the A90 road and its sister M90 motorway.

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Tour Scotland Video January Drive Through Cellardyke To Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland January video of a drive from the East End of Cellardyke passed the harbour and along narrow George Street and John Street to Shore Street on ancestry visit to Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. I was raised in these old fishing villages on the East coast and attended Cellardyke Primary School and Waid Academy in Ansruther. I was raised a Dyker. Cellardyke was formerly known as Nether Kilrenny, Scots for Lower Kilrenny, or Sillerdyke, and the harbour as Skinfast Haven, a name which can still be found on maps today. The harbour was built in the 16th century and was rebuilt between 1829 and 1831. By 1860 Cellardyke was a thriving town, with more than fifty boat owners and skippers year round, and one hundred other captains joining in for the annual herring fishing drive or Lammas drave which took place around the Lammas festival on August 1st. There was also a February surge in fishing, when shoals of herring arrived in the Firth of Forth. The fish curers of Cellardyke salted and smoked cod and herring from Anstruther as well as their own fish, sending some to London, and some as far as the West Indies. The villages are located on the Fife Coastal Path.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs of Duns

Tour Scotland travel video of old photographs of Duns in the Borders, Scotland. Duns is a past county town of the historic county of Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders. The town was created a Burgh of Barony in 1490 by King James IV heritably for John and George Hume of Ayton, and the townsfolk were given the right to hold a market every Wednesday, and to hold a week long annual fair between Pentecost and Trinity Sunday. Duns suffered badly in cross border raiding and feuding, and was burned to the ground three times within 14 years, in 1544, 1545 and 1558 during the war of the Rough Wooing. Oliver Cromwell put a garrison into the town after the Battle of Dunbar on 3 September 1650. In the peace following the end of the Jacobite rebellion in 1746, Duns began to expand and many of the administrative functions of Berwickshire were carried out in the town. The Hay family were responsible for the present Gothic Revival Duns Castle. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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