Tour Scotland Video Dun Telve Iron Age Broch Highlands

Tour Scotland wee video of photographs of Dun Telve Iron Age Broch on a small group walking tour of South of Glenelg in the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. Dun Telve stands on the north bank of the Abhainn a’Ghlaine Bhig, in the lower reaches of Gleann Beag. It lies next to the minor road which leads south from Glenelg. It is thought that the broch was robbed for stone in 1722, probably for the building of Bernera Barracks in Glenelg. A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow walled structure of a type found only in Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Bernera Barracks Glenelg Highlands

Tour Scotland wee video of photographs of Bernera Barracks on a small group walking tour of Glenelg in the West Scottish Highlands of Scotland. The barracks were constructed between 1717 and 1723 as part of a campaign by the British government to subdue the local population which had risen up in arms in the Jacobite Rising of 1715, and which would do so again in 1745. The barracks were designed by Andrews Jelfe and John Lambertus Romer of the Board of Ordnance, or possibly their predecessor James Smith, and built by Sir Patrick Strachan. Some of the stone used in the construction was taken from a nearby broch. The Government troops who were garrisoned here during the Jacobite uprisings were also intended to control the crossing to Skye.

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Tour Scotland Video Dun Troddan Iron Age Broch Highlands

Tour Scotland wee video of photographs of Dun Troddan Iron Age Broch on a small group walking tour of the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. Dun Troddan stands on a level rock platform north of the Abhainn a’Ghlaine Bhig, in the lower reaches of Gleann Beag. It lies just north of the minor road leading south from Glenelg. It can be accessed via a steep path. A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow walled structure of a type found only in Scotland.

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Old Photograph Reverend Henry Williamson Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of the Reverend Henry Williamson with son and grandson in 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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Old Photograph Children Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old photograph of children in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. From the early 16th century, the establishment of a harbour at the East Burn confirmed the town's early role as an important trading port. The town also began to develop around the salt, coal mining and nail making industries. The production of linen which followed in 1672 was later instrumental in the introduction of floorcloth in 1847 by linen manufacturer, Michael Nairn. In 1877 this in turn contributed to linoleum, which became the town's most successful industry: Kirkcaldy was a world producer until well into the mid 1960s. The town expanded considerably in the 1950s and 1960s, though the decline of the linoleum industry and other manufacturing restricted its growth thereafter.

Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar, was born his family home in the Raith area near Kirkcaldy on 6 March 1860. He was a Scottish politician and colonial governor. He served as the sixth Governor General of Australia from 1914 to 1920, and is considered probably the most politically influential holder of this post. After his return to Britain, he was Secretary for Scotland from 1922 to 1924. Laconic, suave, urbane and highly intelligent, Munro Ferguson's easy going aristocratic airs and graces made him wee liked and charming. In the diplomatic corps, he made a success of Governorship of Australia. He married Lady Helen Hermione, born 1863, died 9 April 1941, daughter of Lord Dufferin, in 1889. The union was childless. They lived at 18 Portman Square, when in London, England. He was a member of the Athenaeum and Reform Clubs. He died at his home in 1934, aged 74, his title dying with him as he left no issue.

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