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 the railway station in Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located on the River Urie 4 miles north west of Inverurie, the former railway station was on the Great North of Scotland Railway line.
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Old photograph of the United Free Church in Cults a suburb on the western edge of Aberdeen road in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The church was built as a Free Church in 1844 and was originally a small rectangular building with a square tower. By 1900 this had proved to be too small and a new, larger church was built nearby, opening in 1903. However, this church burnt down in a devastating fire in 1941, leaving only the tower and spire, which were eventually incorporated into the new, and present, church, built in the 1950s. The United Free Church of Scotland, is a Scottish Presbyterian denomination formed in 1900 by the union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the majority of the 19th century Free Church of Scotland. The majority of the United Free Church of Scotland united with the Church of Scotland in 1929.
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Old photograph of handloom weavers at Ladyknowe by Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Moffat was a notable market in the wool trade. From 1633 Moffat began to grow from a small village into a popular spa town. The infamous murderer and alleged grave robber William Hare may have stayed in the Black Bull Hotel during his escape to Ireland after turning King's evidence against William Burke. Robert Burns came for the waters and frequented the local bars.
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Old photograph of cars and cottages on Mid Street in Rosehearty located four miles West of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Scottish village which is now named Rosehearty was founded by a group of shipwrecked sailors from Denmark in the 14th century. In 1424 the Fraser family built Pitsligo Castle a few hundred yards inland which was then later enlarged by the Forbes family in 1570. The remains of the Castle are visible from the village. Rosehearty didn't officially exist until it was granted a charter in the 1680s by King Charles II. Sir Walter Murdoch, born 1876, died 1970, was an Australian academic and essayist; Murdoch University in Western Australia is named after him; Walter Murdoch was born in Rosehearty and spend the first 10 years of his life there, the youngest of 14 siblings, before emigrating with his family to Melbourne. in 1886; his father James Murdoch was the Free Kirk minister at Rosehearty.
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Old photograph of children in Juniper Green located South West of Edinburgh, Scotland. Juniper Green's earliest mention is in the Kirk records of Colinton in 1707. However it is largely called Curriemuirend up until the end of the 18th century. Traditionally, its major industries were paper and snuff set in the river valley of the Water of Leith. Only with the building of a railway station in 1874 did the village begin to prosper.
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