Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs East Saltoun

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of East Saltoun located five miles South West of Haddington and 2½ miles east of Pencaitland, East Lothian, Scotland. The village includes several 18th Century buildings and a Gothic Parish Church, built in 1805 on the site of an earlier church. Saltoun was once served by a branch line railway, which ran 2 miles to south of the village and then on to Gifford. The railway was never greatly successful and closed to passengers in 1933 and completely in 1960. In the 12th century David I gifted lands in Saltoun to Hugh de Moreville. In 1643 the lands and barony were sold to Andrew Fletcher, grandfather of Andrew Fletcher, the Patriot, and it was the Fletcher family who attempted to make Saltoun a centre of manufacturing in the early 18th century. Most industry was sited in West Saltoun, formerly Milton, on the Birns Water. The first barley mill in Scotland was established there in 1712, and the British Linen Company had bleachfields in West Saltoun in 1746. In the early 19th century the Fletcher family invested further in the parish by helping to pay for a new church, manse and school in East Saltoun, and commissioning additions to Saltoun Hall, near West Saltoun. By the mid 19th century most of the parish's industries were failing, and the land was given over to agriculture. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, the Patriot, born 1655, died September 1716, was a Scottish writer and politician, he is remembered as an advocate for the independence of Scotland, and an opponent of the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England. Fletcher became an exile after being accused of promoting insurrection, he was appointed the cavalry commander of the Monmouth Rebellion, but shortly after landing in England he killed another leading figure. He again went into exile, this time as a fugitive and with his estates forfeit. He returned with William of Orange, becoming Commissioner of the old Parliament of Scotland. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Dalmuir

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Dalmuir, an area on the western side of Clydebank, in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Before being annexed to the growing shipbuilding town of Clydebank, early Dalmuir was a town in its own right and host to Richard Collins paper mill, which opened in 1747 on the banks of the Duntocher Burn. The William Beardmore and Company shipbuilding and engineering works attracted a large population to settle in the area. It was active from 1886 to the mid 1930s and at its peak employed about 40,000 people. Its most well known area these days is Dalmuir Park. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Old Photographs Spittalfield Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Spittalfield, Perthshire. Spittalfield lies between Caputh and Meikleour, on the A984 road 6 miles east of Dunkeld. The A984 road begins on the northern side of Thomas Telford's Dunkeld Bridge. When originally classified in 1922, this route was given the B947 number. However, by 1932 the route had already been upgraded to be the A984 we see today, and the B947 number reused on a spur route into Blairgowrie. This was a planned weaving village with traditional Scottish cottages surrounding a village green built in 1776. In 1846 the village had 238 inhabitants, mostly weavers, hence the name Spittalfield. Sir John Muir Mackenzie, of Delvine, Baronet. was the principal heritor in the parish. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Black Douglas Castle Moray

Tour Scotland travel video of Balvenie Castle on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip near Dufftown, in the heart of Speyside, Scotland. This Scottish castle was originally known as Mortlach, it was built in the 12th century by a branch of the powerful Comyn family, the Black Comyns, and extended and altered in the 15th and 16th centuries. The castle fell out of use in the early 14th century when the Comyns were reduced by Robert the Bruce. At some point in the 14th century the castle and the lordship of Balvenie passed into the earldom of Douglas. Nothing is documented as to how the Black Douglases first acquired the castle but the most likely account is that it came with the marriage of the heiress Joanna Murray to Archibald, the Grim, 3rd Earl of Douglas in 1362. His son and successor Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas granted his younger brother James, the Gross, the lordship of Balvenie in 1408. James's main residence was at Abercorn Castle, a coastal fortress to the west of Edinburgh and Balvenie Castle's use was as temporary accommodation when the need arose.

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Tour Scotland Video Torosay Castle Isle Of Mull

Tour Scotland video of Torosay Castle on the on the Isle Of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. It was designed by architect David Bryce for John Campbell of Possil in the Scottish Baronial style, and completed in 1858. John Campbell of Possil sold the castle and the estate to Arburthnot Charles Guthrie, a wealthy London businessman, in 1865. Following the sale of Guthrie Castle out of the Guthrie family, Torosay was generally acknowledged as the seat for Clan Guthrie.

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