Old Photograph Blacksmith Kilmany Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Blacksmith in Kilmany, Fife, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video April Photographs Burleigh Castle Perthshire

Tour Scotland wee video of April photographs of Burleigh Castle located just outside the village of Milnathort in Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle dates from the 15th and 16th centuries. The lands of Burleigh were held by the Balfours from 1446, when they were granted by James II to John Balfour of Balgarvie, and a tower house was erected in the late 15th or early 16th century. Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich extended the castle in the late 16th century, adding a curtain wall with a corner tower, and other outbuildings. In 1607 his son Sir Michael Balfour was raised to the peerage as Lord Balfour of Burleigh. Legend tells how Robert Balfour, before his accession as 5th Lord, narrowly escaped death when, in 1707, he was sentenced to beheading for the murder of the schoolmaster of Inverkeithing, who had the misfortune to have married Balfour's childhood sweetheart. Escaping from Edinburgh tolbooth, Balfour joined the Jacobite cause, proclaiming the 'Old Pretender' James Stuart king at Lochmaben, and fighting in the 1715 rising. Following the defeat of the Jacobites, Balfour was attainted, dying in France in 1757. The castle was forfeit to the Irwins, then passed to the Grahams of Kinross.



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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Stained Glass Windows St Matthews Church Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland wee travel video of photography of stained glass windows in St Matthews Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire.


Tour Scotland wee video of a Scottish Piper playing the bagpipes outside St Matthews Church on visit to Tay Street in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Young Scottish Piper Busking In Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a young Scottish Piper playing the bagpipes and Busking in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Stained Glass Windows McManus Galleries Dundee

Tour Scotland wee travel video of photography of stained glass windows in McManus Galleries on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Dundee.


Tour Scotland video of the Mary Of Queen Of Scots window in McManus Galleries on ancestry visit to Dundee. Mary’s first visit to the City was on 19th September 1561, barely a month after her return from France on the first of her several progresses taking her from Edinburgh to Perth, Perthshire, Dundee, St. Andrews, Falkland, Fife, and back to Edinburgh. Mary was again in Dundee in September 1564 when she granted the lands now known as the Howff to be a burial ground outwith the then City Walls.

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