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 Parish Church and Dumbarton Road in Old Kilpatrick located three miles from Clydebank by Glasgow, Scotland. This village is on the north bank of the River Clyde immediately to the north of the Forth and Clyde Canal. The Great Western Road runs through Old Kilpatrick, and the next village to its west is Bowling. There is a local legend that it was the birthplace of Saint Patrick. The western end of the Roman Antonine Wall was at Old Kilpatrick.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Parish Church and graveyard on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Kilmany, Fife. The old parish church of Kilmany, which was rebuilt in 1768, is thought to have been dedicated to St Adrian and formerly belonged to St Salvator's College St Andrews. In 1934, following the 1929 union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, Kilmany was joined with the former United Free church congregation of Rathillet. After the union the charge continued under the name of Kilmany and both churches remained in use for public worship. Kilmany was later linked in 1956 with Flisk, however this arrangement was terminated in 1971 in favour of union between Flisk, Kilmany and also Creich, under the name of Creich, Flisk and Kilmany. A further link was established between the united parish and Monimail in 1983. The kirk session sat within the Presbytery of Cupar until the restructuring of the presbyteries in 1976, when it became part of the Presbytery of St Andrews. The church is a simple rectangle, with a west porch and bellcote. It is surrounded by a graveyard with stones the earliest of which date from the late eighteenth century, and its use continued into the late twentieth century.
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Old photograph of the Parish Church in Thornton, Fife, Scotland. Thornton Parish Church was built in 1834 as a chapel of ease for Markinch Parish Church. Thornton is located between Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes, and stands between the River Ore and Lochty Burn, which are at opposite ends of the main street. In 1957 the Rothes Pit was opened to mine the coal in the rural hinterland surrounding the village. This coal mine was tied very closely to the development of the new town of Glenrothes to the North. The planned long term benefits were to be huge, and were to be the driver for economic regeneration in central Fife. In 1961, 4 years after opening, the huge investment was written off and the mine run down because of unstoppable flooding. Ironically, miners who had worked in older deep pits in the area had forewarned against the development of the Rothes Pit for this very reason.
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Old photograph of the Parish Church in Davidson's Mains by Cramond, Edinburgh, Scotland. Originally Cramond Free Church. A small T-plan kirk with flat Gothic windows by David Cousin in 1843. The timber bellcote with a prickly slated hat was added to the centre gable in 1866. Interior enlarged to the north in 1970. Major refurbishment to the chancel area in 1999. To the East is the little school and house by Robert R Raeburn in 1846.
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Old photograph of the Parish Church in Elderslie located between Johnstone and Paisley, Scotland. The village was once the home to Stoddard Carpets which made the carpets for the Cunard liners RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 which were built by John Brown & Company in their shipyard in Clydebank by Glasgow. The firm also produced carpets for Queen Elizabeth II's wedding in Westminster Abbey, the ocean liner RMS Titanic and for the Concorde aircraft. A remaining example of the work which was carried out here can be seen in the circular carpet which covers the floor of the drawing room in Culzean Castle designed by Robert Adam.
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