Old Photograph Boat Lake Of Menteith Scotland

Old photograph of tourists on the boat to Inchmahome Priory on Lake Of Menteith, Scotland. The priory was founded in 1238 by the Earl of Menteith, Walter Comyn, for a small community of the Augustinian order, the Black Canons. The Comyn family were one of the most powerful in Scotland at the time, and had an imposing country house on Inch Talla, one of the other islands on the Lake of Menteith. There is some evidence that there was a church on the island before the priory was established. The priory has a long history of receiving many notable guests. King Robert the Bruce visited three times: in 1306, 1308 and 1310. His visits were likely politically motived, as the first prior had sworn allegiance to Edward I, the English king. In 1358 the future King Robert II also stayed at the priory. In 1547 the priory served as a refuge for Queen Mary, aged four, hidden here for a few weeks following the disastrous defeat of the Scots army at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh during the Rough Wooing.



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Old Photograph The Queen Of Earn St Fillans Scotland

Old photograph of visitors on The Queen Of Earn cruise ship on Loch Earn on by St Fillans in Highland Perthshire. Loch Earn is a freshwater loch in the central highlands of Scotland. The name is thought to mean " Loch of Ireland ", and it has been suggested that this might derive from the time when the Gaels were expanding their kingdom of Dál Riata eastwards into Pictland. Lochearnhead is the centre for the water sports activities on the loch; water skiing, canoeing and sailing. The loch is also stocked regularly with brown and rainbow trout and fishing, by permit, is possible from the shore and by boat. Loch Earn is unusual in that it has its own apparent tidal system, or seiche, caused by the action of the prevailing wind blowing along the loch. This wind pressure on the surface causes the water level to build up at one end of the loch. As with all damped mechanical systems, applied pressure can result in an oscillation, and the water will return to the opposite end of the loch over time. In the case of Loch Earn, this has a period of 16 hours and the effect can be measured, but is difficult to observe. The resulting currents can create complex turbulence patterns, as higher layers of warmer waters mix with the lower lying colder waters of the loch. Other bodies of fresh water which experience this seiche effect include Lake Geneva, Lake Garda, the Great Lakes and Lake Baikal.



Tour Scotland video of a mirrored statue in Loch Earn on ancestry visit to St Fillans in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Small Group Ancestry Tour Plockton Wester Ross Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland wee travel video of photographs from a small group ancestry tour.of Plockton on ancestry, genealogy history visit and trip Wester Ross in the Scottish Highlands. This Scottish village is located on the shores of Loch Carron. Most of the houses date from the 19th and 20th centuries. It was a planned community based on fishing in an attempt to stem the tide of emigration from the Highlands. The TV series Hamish Macbeth, starring Robert Carlyle, was filmed there, substituting for the fictional Lochdubh. It was was also used for various scenes in the film The Wicker Man and the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries TV series. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Old Photograph Lawn Bowling Green Laurencekirk Scotland

Old photograph of men playing Bowls on the Lawn Bowling Green in Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In 1864 William Wallace Mitchell, born 1803, died 1884, a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, published his " Manual of Bowls Playing " following his work as the secretary formed in 1849 by Scottish bowling clubs which became the basis of the rules of the modern game. Young Mitchell was only 11 when he played on Kilmarnock Bowling green, the oldest club in Scotland, instituted in 1740.



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Old Photograph Wilsons Railway Hotel Laurencekirk Scotland

Old photograph of Wilsons Railway Hotel in Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The railway station here was opened on 1 November 1849 by the Aberdeen Railway, which ran from Aberdeen in the north to Guthrie, just outside Arbroath, to the south. The line joined the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway north of Montrose at Kinnaber Junction and Arbroath and Forfar Railway at the triangular junctions at Friockheim and Guthrie. The station was closed in September 1967.



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