Old Photograph Chinook Helicopter Peterhead Scotland

Old photograph of a Chinook Helicopter flying over Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Peterhead was founded by fishermen and was developed as a planned settlement. In 1593 the construction of Peterhead's first harbour, Port Henry, encouraged the growth of Peterhead as a fishing port and established a base for trade. Peterhead was a Jacobite supporting town in the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745. In particular, it was one of the Episcopalian north-eastern ports where reinforcements, plus money and equipment, were periodically landed from France during the Forty Five.



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Old Photograph Chinook Helicopters Airport Dyce Scotland

Old photograph of Chinook helicopters in a hangar at the airport in Dyce, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Aberdeen International Airport is an international airport, located at Dyce, a suburb of Aberdeen. It is a base for BMI Regional, Eastern Airways and Flybe. The airport also serves as the main heliport for the Scottish offshore oil industry. The airport opened in 1934, established by Eric Gandar Dower, intended to link the northern islands of Scotland with London, England. During Second World War the airfield became a Royal Air Force station, RAF Dyce. It was the site of the Dyce Sector Operations Room within No. 13 Group RAF. Although fighters were there throughout the Battle of Britain to provide protection from German bombing raids from Occupied Norway, it was mainly used as a photographic reconnaissance station. Anti-shipping operations by Coastal Command were carried out from RAF Dyce as well as convoy escort.



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Tour Scotland Video Walking Tour Lochaber Highlands

Tour Scotland wee travel video of photographs of a small group walking trip on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Lochaber in the West of the Scottish Highlands. The Clan Cameron lands are in Lochaber. Historically Lochaber referred to the area between Loch Linnhe and Loch Leven, around the town of Fort William. It is now also used to refer to a much wider area. According to legend a glaistig, an evil woman goat hybrid, once lived in the area. Lochaber is mentioned by Adomnan of Iona in his biography of St Columba. Stories related to Columba using his saintly blessing to raise people out of poverty and make them wealthier. In one story, Columba met a poor man named Nesán in Lochaber who had five cows. Columba blessed the poor man's cows and his own descendants, and the poor man's five cows multiplied until he had a herd of one hundred and five cows. In days gone by the Lochaber the district included North Lorne, Glen Coe, Nether Lochaber, the western part of the Rannoch Moor, the Road to the Isles, Moidart, Ardgour, Morvern, Sunart, Ardnamurchan, and the Small Isles, Rùm, Eigg, Muck and Canna. Laggan Dam is a dam located on the River Spean in this area.

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Tour Scotland Video Dolphins North East Coast

Tour Scotland video of Dolphins leaping out of the water off the East Coast of Scotland. The cool waters surrounding Scotland are the perfect habitat for the sleek marine mammal, with bottlenose, white-beaked and common dolphins all playing near our coastlines,. The best places to see dolphins in Scotland include; the Bay of Nigg, the Moray Firth, Broughty Ferry Castle, at the entrance to the Firth of Tay, Tayport harbour in Fife, Anstruther on the coast of Fife has experienced a rise in dolphin sightings around the Firth of Forth, dolphins are often seen at Ardnamurchan Point, Mull, and Red Point, south of Gairloch. The predominance of bottlenose dolphins is also a feature of the waters on the west coast, with over 60 members of the species living in the Sound of Barra and the Hebrides.

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Old Photograph Nethergate Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of cars, people and buildings on the Nethergate in the city of Dundee, Tayside, Scotland.



Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of streets and people in the city of Dundee, Tayside, Scotland. The rise of the textile industries in Dundee brought with it an expansion of supporting industries, notably of the whaling, maritime and shipbuilding industries and extensive development of the waterfront area started in 1815 to cope with increased demand for port capacity. At its height, 200 ships per year were built there, including Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic research vessel, the RRS Discovery. While the city's economy was dominated by the jute industry, it also became known for smaller industries. Most notable among these were James Keiller's and Sons, established in 1795, which pioneered commercial marmalade production,[39] and the publishing firm DC Thomson, which was founded in the city in 1905. Dundee was said to be built on the three Js': Jute, Jam and Journalism. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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