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 a vintage car and buildings on Barrack Street in the city of Dundee, Scotland. Originally a narrow lane known as Friars' Vennel from approximately 1280 to 1580, it served as the main route to the Greyfriars Monastery.
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Tour Scotland wee travel video of photographs of a small group walking tour to the Isle of Harris, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Harris is the southern and more mountainous part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Although not an island itself, Harris is often referred to as the Isle of Harris. North Harris, adjoining Lewis, contains Clisham, the highest mountain in the Outer Hebrides. A person from Harris is known as a Hearach.
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Tour Scotland wee travel video of photographs of a small group walking tour to the Isle Of Rum, one of the Small Isles on ancestry, genealogy, history and trip to the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. For much of the 20th century the name became Rhum, a spelling invented by the former owner, Sir George Bullough, because he did not relish the idea of having the title Laird of Rum. The main range of hills on Rùm are the Cuillin, usually referred to as the Rùm Cuillin, in order to distinguish them from the Cuillin of Skye. The Bullough mausoleum at Harris on Rùm has the Rùm Cullin in the distance. George Bullough, later Sir George, built Kinloch Castle in 1900 using sandstone quarried at Annan in Dumfries and Galloway. A Caledonian MacBrayne ferry, MV Lochnevis, links Rùm and the neighbouring Small Isles of Canna, Eigg and Muck, to the mainland port of Mallaig.
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Tour Scotland wee travel video of photographs of a small group walking tour to the Cuillins, a range of rocky mountains on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The true Cuillin is also known as the Black Cuillin to distinguish it from the Red Cuilin, na Beanntan Dearga, known locally as Red Hills, across Glen Sligachan. The Red Cuilin hills are lower and, being less rocky, have fewer scrambles or climbs. The highest point of the Cuillin, and of the Isle of Skye, is Sgùrr Alasdair in the Black Cuillin at 3,255 feet. The Cuillin is one of 40 National Scenic Areas in Scotland. Didn't have great Scottish weather on this visit.
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Old photograph of an LNER Class C16 steam train in Eastfield Glasgow, Scotland. Fifteen C16 steam locomotives were built between 1915 and 1916, and a final batch of six were built in 1921. The first ten replaced the C15s on the heaviest loads in the Glasgow area. Later C16s also tended to displace C15s from their heavier duties. Other early allocations included North Berwick, St. Margaret's in Edinburgh, and Dunbar. By the late 1940s and early 1950s, some of the C16s worked in places such as Dundee, Dunfermline, and Aberdeen. Eastfield was a steam shed under British Railways with the depot code 65A.
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