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 men outside a cottage in Tynron, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish villages lies in a hollow of the Shinnel Water, two miles from Moniaive. At Tynron Doon there can be seen the ditches and ramparts of a Roman Iron Age hillfort.
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Old photograph of Victoria Football Club in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The club were formed in 1910 and play at Bellslea Park. Prior to 1910, they played as a select side made up of the best players from the local amateur league. The club's colours, consisting of black and white stripes, were acquired from a local fish merchant who had links with Newcastle United in England, and the tradition has since been kept, with the current away kit consisting of all red in the pattern of the town's Fraser clan tartan.
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Old photograph of a vintage car outside a shop in Muirdrum, Angus, Scotland. The small village is situated at the junction of the old A92 road from Dundee to Arbroath, the A930 to Carnoustie and B9128 to Forfar. Its closest town is Carnoustie, which lies approximately one mile to the South. The village is mentioned in the list of lands purchased by George Maule, 2nd Earl of Panmure in 1667. These lands were forfeited by his heir, James Maule, 4th Earl of Panmure following the Jacobite Rebellion in 1715. The opening of the Dundee to Arbroath turnpike road, later designated the A92 road, at the beginning of the 19th century lead to some expansion along this road.
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Old photograph of people and a vintage car outside Bannerman's Stores in Arbuthnott, Scotland. Reverend George Gleig, born 12 May 1753, died 9 March 1840, was a Scottish minister who transferred to the Episcopalian faith and became Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. He was born at Boghall Farm, near Arbuthnott in Aberdeenshire, the son of a farmer. He was educated at Arbuthnott Parish School. At the age of thirteen he entered King's College, University of Aberdeen, where the first prize in mathematics and physical and moral sciences fell to him. In his twenty-first year he took orders in the Scottish Episcopal Church, and was ordained to the pastoral charge of a congregation at Pittenweem, Fife, whence he removed in 1790 to Stirling. In 1797 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Gregory, Sir James Hall, and Dugald Stewart. In 1808 he was consecrated assistant and successor to the bishop of Brechin, in 1810 was preferred to the sole charge, and in 1816 was elected Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, in which capacity he greatly aided in the introduction of many useful reforms, in fostering a more catholic and tolerant spirit, and in cementing a firm alliance with the sister Church of England. He died in Stirling. He is buried in the chapel of Greyfriars Church in Stirling.
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Old photograph of houses, people and horse and cart on Ireland Street in Carnoustie, Scotland. The town is at the mouth of the Barry Burn on the North Sea coast in Angus. It was founded in the late 18th century, and grew rapidly throughout the 19th century due to the growth of the local textile industry. It was popular as a tourist resort from the early Victorian era up to the latter half of the 20th century, due to its seaside location, and is best known for its associations with golf.
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