Tour Scotland Video Drive Through Abernethy Perthshire To Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland video of a February afternoon drive East on the A913 road through Abernethy in Perthshire, to where the Lindores Abbey Whisky Distillery is being built on Abbey Road in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. Robert Hunter, the lead editor of the Encyclopædic Dictionary, which he produced in seven volumes between 1879 and 1888. In addition, he was an ordained minister and missionary for the Free Church of Scotland, and a notable geologist, becoming a Fellow of the Geological Society, was born in Newburgh, Fife in 1823 to John Mackenzie Hunter of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, an excise officer and Agnes Strickland of Ulverston, Lancashire, England. He was educated at the Grammar School, Aberdeen where he came first in the open exam for university bursaries and thus went to Marischal College at the University of Aberdeen. He studied Latin, Greek, Mathematics and Natural Science, frequently coming first in the exams.

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Old Photograph Black Watch Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of World War 1 Black Watch Pipers in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The 1st Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the 1st Brigade in the 1st Division in August 1914 for service on the Western Front. It saw action during the Retreat from Mons in August 1914, the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914 and the First Battle of the Aisne later in September 1914; it also took part in the advance to the Hindenburg Line in September 1918. The 2nd Battalion landed at Marseille as part of the Bareilly Brigade in the 7th Meerut Division in October 1914 for service on the Western Front. It took part in the defence of Givenchy in December 1915 and then moved to Mesopotamia later that month and saw action during the siege of Kut in Spring 1916, the fall of Baghdad in March 1917 and the Battle of Istabulat in April 1917. It transferred to Palestine in January 1918 and took part in the Battle of Megiddo in September 1918



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Old Photograph Craibstone School of Rural Domestic Economy Scotland

Old photograph of Craibstone School of Rural Domestic Economy by Bucksburn, five miles North of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Craibstone House was formerly the home of the Pirie family who owned Stoneywood Paper Mills and it was bought by the North of Scotland College of Agriculture in 1913 and this school was set up around 1920. The School was a training college for women who wanted to work on the land and provided training in household work, cookery, laundry, dairying, poultry and bee keeping and farm accounts. The mansion was totally destroyed by fire in January 1953 but a new college was built and the college continued to use the estate for research and experimental work in relation to grassland and crops. However, by 1968 Rural Domestic Economy was no longer a viable course and the School closed.



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Old Photograph Tormaukin Hotel Scotland

Old photograph of Tormaukin Hotel near Gleneagles, Perthshire, Scotland. Tormaukin Hotel, built in the 18th Century, was named after the hill that lies directly behind this old Drovers Inn. In Gaelic, “ Tor ” means Hill and “ Maukin ” means Hare. The name of the Scottish Glen Gleneagles has nothing to do with eagles, and is a corruption of eaglais or ecclesia, meaning church, and refers to the chapel and well of Saint Mungo, which was restored as a memorial to the Haldane family which owns the Gleneagles estate.



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Old Photograph Sail Mhor From Gruinard Bay Scotland

Old photograph of Sail Mhor from Gruinard Bay twelve miles North of Poolewe in Wester Ross, Scotland. Sail Mhor is the final termination of a long ridge extending from An Teallach mountain overlooking Loch Broom. Gruinard Bay has a number of settlements, mainly located on the eastern shore of the bay. On the south east corner, the small hamlet of Little Gruinard is located, where the similar named river leaves land. On the western coast, the former fishing village of Laide, in the nook where the coast turns north, overlooks Gruinard Island to the northeast. Further up the west coast, the villages of Achgarve, the main village of Mellon Udrigle and the smaller crofting township of Opinan.



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