Tour Scotland Video Old Photographs Clydebank West Dunbartonshire

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Clydebank, a town situated on the north bank of the River Clyde in West Dunbartonshire by Glasgow. Before 1870, the area which later became Clydebank was largely rural, and agricultural. It consisted of some villages, Hardgate, Faifley, Duntocher, Dalmuir, Old Kilpatrick, farms and estates, with some small scale mining operations, coal, limestone and whinstone, several cotton mills and some small boat building yards. At the start of the 1870s, however, the growing trade and industry in Glasgow resulted in the Clyde Navigation Trustees needing additional space for shipping quays in Glasgow. The Queen Mary a retired ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line was built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank.The ship was named after Queen Mary, consort of King George V. On 13 and 14 March 1941, Luftwaffe bombers attacked various targets in and around Clydebank. In what became known as the Clydebank Blitz, the town itself was seriously damaged as were the local shipyards and armaments factories such as the Dalnottar Oil depot and the Singer's Sewing Machine factory. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Old Photographs Alexandria West Dunbartonshire

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Alexandria, a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The town's traditional industries, most importantly cotton manufacturing, bleaching and printing, are long gone. Alexandria sits on the former A82 main road between Glasgow and Loch Lomond. There are regular bus services on the route and the town has a railway station on the rail line between Balloch and Glasgow Queen Street. The town is situated on the River Leven, four miles north west of Dumbarton. The Argyll Motor Works, is a former car factory in Alexandria, It was opened in 1906 by Argyll Motors Ltd, at the time the largest producer of cars in Scotland. After the Argyll company folded it was used as a torpedo factory, subsequently lying empty for many years. A. J. Cronin's uncle owned a pub in Bridge Street. Alexandria sits on the former A82 main road between Glasgow and Loch Lomond. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Old Photographs Milngavie East Dunbartonshire

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Milngavie, a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. A Scottish town on the Allander Water, at the north western edge of Glasgow. It neighbours Bearsden. Although known today as a dormitory suburb of Glasgow, the town grew from a country village within the parish of New Kilpatrick to a minor industrial centre in the nineteenth century with paper mills and bleach works on the Allander River to the north east of the town centre. The land surrounding the village comprised several estates with tenant farms, amongst them Barloch, Clober, Craigton, Craigdhu, Dougalston, Douglas Mains and South Mains. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Buckie Moray

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Buckie, a town on the coast of the Moray Firth, Scotland. Once a thriving fishing and shipbuilding port, today Buckie is a small fishing town. George Imlach McIntosh, VC, was born in Buckie on 24 April 1897, he was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 20 years old, and a private in the 1/6th Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders, British Army during the First World War. For his bravery at the Battle of Passchendaele, he was awarded the VC. He died on 20 June, 1968. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Albert Square Dundee Tayside

Tour Scotland video of Albert Square on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the city of Dundee, Tayside, Scotland. The first part of the video shows Dundee High School, the boys' building, which was originally the Public Seminaries. The second part of the video shows Dundee's old Royal Exchange, designed by David Bryce and built in 1855.This has a Flemish Neo-Gothic style. The third part of the video shows McManus Galleries a Gothic Revival style building which houses a museum and art gallery with a collection of fine and decorative art as well as a natural history collection. The final part of the video shows the Burns Statue. Sculptor, Sir John Steell, made the original of this statue of Burns for New York at a cost of 2000 guineas. Dundee paid 1000 guineas for a replica. It was unveiled on 16th October 1880 by Mr Frank Henderson MP in front of about 20,000 people. Robert Burns visited Dundee briefly in the Autumn of 1787. The statue is situated in Albert Square in front of the McManus Galleries.

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