Tour Scotland Video Sunset West Coast Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland video of sunset off the West coast of the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. In traditional Scottish geography, the Highlands refers to that part of Scotland north west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which crosses mainland Scotland in a near straight line from Helensburgh to Stonehaven. However the flat coastal lands that occupy parts of the counties of Nairnshire, Morayshire, Banffshire and Aberdeenshire are often excluded as they do not share the distinctive geographical and cultural features of the rest of the Highlands. The north east of Caithness, as well as Orkney and Shetland, are also often excluded from the Highlands, although the Hebrides are usually included. The Highland area, as so defined, differed from the Lowlands in language and tradition, having preserved Gaelic speech and customs centuries after the anglicisation of the latter; this led to a growing perception of a divide, with the cultural distinction between Highlander and Lowlander first noted towards the end of the 14th century.

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Old Photograph Victoria Park Aberdeen Scotland

Old photograph of Victoria Park in Aberdeen, Scotland. The park has an area of five hectares and was opened to the public in 1871. It is named after Queen Victoria.



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Old Photograph Fishing Boats Leven Fife Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats in the harbour in Leven, Fife, Scotland. David Gibb, eldest son of Robert Gibb, a salt manufacturer, and his wife Joanna, was born in Methil near Leven, Fife on 31 October 1883. He attended Leven Public School and then George Watsons College in Edinburgh. He studied mathematics and sciences at the University of Edinburgh. While being a student, he lodged with Mr Flockhart at 3 West Preston Street, Edinburgh. In 1909 he began lecturing in mathematics at the University. In 1910 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contributions to mathematics and astronomy. During the First World War he worked on the Ballistic Department Ordnance Committee at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, remotely calculating complex gun angles to fire on hidden or obscured targets, such as at the Gallipoli peninsula. In 1934 he was promoted to Reader in Mathematics and remained in this role until his death on 28th March 1946 in Edinburgh. The harbour originally ranked as a creek under Kirkcaldy port, and prior to 1876 was simply the natural inlet at the mouth of the river, difficult of access, but admitting vessels of 300 tons to a small quay built about 1833. Under the Leven Harbour Act, however, of 1876, a new wet dock, a river wall, a protection wall, and a railway siding, were constructed at a cost of £40,000, and opened in 1880. The dock was 500 feet long and 250 broad, and had 16 feet of water on the sill at ordinary tides. Vessels of 800 tons could be loaded, but financially the scheme was not successful, and the trust disposed of the works to the proprietor. The new docks erected at Methil still further lessened the trade. The principal imports were flax and tow, barley, timber, pig-iron, and bones; and the principal exports were coal, linen, and linen yarn, whisky, bone dust, cast iron, and potatoes.



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Old Photograph Leysmill Scotland

Old photograph of people in the village of Leysmill located 5 miles North West of Arbroath in Angus, Scotland. The villagers once worked in a nearby quarry and a local flax mill.



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Old Photograph Cottages Muchalls Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in the village of Muchalls located North of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is situated slightly to the east of the ancient Causey Mounth trackway, which was constructed on high ground to make passable this only available medieval route from coastal points south from Stonehaven to Aberdeen. This ancient passage specifically connected the River Dee crossing, where the present Bridge of Dee is situated, via Gillybrands, Muchalls Castle and Stonehaven to the south. The route was that taken by William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and the Marquess of Montrose when they led a Covenanter army of 9000 men in the battle of the Civil War in 1639. From Muchalls Castle to the sea is a secret cave about one mile long which smugglers once used. The cave is said to be haunted by the green lady.



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