Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old photograph of Loch Ard, a small freshwater loch located in the Trossachs, Scotland. The loch is considered to be the source of the River Forth and lies downstream of Loch Chon. The loch contains several small islands including Eilean Gorm, Briedach, St. Mallo, which is rumoured to have an old chapel dedicated to that saint, and Dundochill, which is the site of Duke Murdoch's castle that may have been built by the Duke of Albany.
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Old photograph of Justinhaugh Bridge, which spans the River South Esk near Forfar, Angus, Scotland. A late 19th century Bowstring girder bridge, with castellated masonry terimnals and ornate wrought iron panels acting as railings at the ends of the trusses.
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Old photograph of cottages in Furnace, a village in Argyll and Bute, on the west coast, on the north shore of Loch Fyne, Scotland. Furnace is around eight miles south west of Inveraray on the A83 road. It is unusual for a West Highland village in having an industrial past in addition to the usual focus on agriculture and fishing. Industrial activity was led by three main businesses: the iron furnace, the powdermills and the quarry. The Gaelic poet Evan McColl was born in 1808 at Kenmore, a township on the northern fringe of Furnace. McColl, who wrote The Mountain Minstrel, died at the end of the 19th Century. A stone cairn was erected in his memory at Kenmore, on the rocks above the loch and was unveiled in 1930 by the Duke of Argyll. Former residents of Furnace include the late Duncan Williamson, a celebrated traditional storyteller, author of The Horsieman and a member of Scotland's gypsy travellers. Williamson's first wife was his cousin, Jeannie Townsley with whom he had ten children. There are still members of the Townsley family living in Furnace. An American academic, now Dr Linda Williamson, became his second wife and guided his career as a celebrated and published storyteller. They had two children. The Tower of London’s first female Beefeater, Moira Cameron, appointed in 2007, is from Furnace, living above the village at Goatfield.
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Old photograph the Cape Wrath Hotel in Sutherland, Scotland. Cape Wrath is a cape in the Durness parish of the county of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. It is the most north westerly point in mainland Britain. Cape Wrath was once the home of a series of small crofting communities, although by 1845 the only families remaining were shepherds. The 200 year old, now closed, Cape Wrath Hotel was originally built as a factor's house by the Duke of Sutherland and operated as a fishing hotel from 1927. The hotel, which enjoys a superb position overlooking the Kyle of Durness, was run for many years by local man Jack Watson.
Tour Scotland video of a windy day visit to Kearvaig Beach, Cape Wrath in Sutherland, Scotland.
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