Tour Scotland Video Bagpipes Blackford Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of bagpipes on ancestry visit to Blackford, Perthshire, Scotland. Pipe Band and solo Piper before and during the Highland Games. Blackford was first known as a ford over the Allan Water. There is a legend that a King Magnus lost his wife Queen Helen in a storm and she is buried on a nearby hill. Blackford became a popular stopping place especially when Scotland's first public brewery was started. James VII of Scotland even stopped in Blackford while travelling to sample their ale. The village became more prosperous by the nineteenth century with manufacturing including two breweries and with a healthy agricultural sector based on wool and flax.

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Tour Scotland Video Bagpipes Cupar Fife

Tour Scotland video of bagpipes in Cupar near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Pipe Band and solo Pipers before and during the Highland Games. Cupar town is believed to have grown around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the sheriff and was owned by the earls of Fife. The area became a centre for judiciary as the county of Fife and as a market town catering for both cattle and sheep.

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Old Photograph Pub Carnwath Scotland

Old photograph of the Pub in a cottage with a thatched roof in Carnwath on the southern edge of the Pentland Hills thirty miles South of Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland. The Clan Lamont were driven from their homeland to settle in Carnwath. They later became Covenanters. In 1630, the Carnwath estate, owned by the Earl of Mar was purchased by Sir Robert Dalzell, later to become Lord Dalzell. In 1639, his son, the 2nd Lord Dalzell and also named Robert, was further elevated to become the Earl of Carnwath. The title was forfeit in 1716 when the 5th Earl, Robert Dalzell became attainted due to his support of the Jacobite cause but the titles were restored in 1826. Writer, spy and politician, George Lockhart, inherited the Carnwath estates from his father, George Lockhart of the Lockharts of Lee, who had purchased them in 1681.



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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Airdrie

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish town really came to prominence through its weaving industry. Airdrie Weavers Society was founded in 1781 and flax was being grown in sixteen farms in and around the burgh. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, coal mining was in progress and around thirty colliers were employed. Weaving continued to flourish making up a substantial part of the population of over 2,500 around the turn of the 19th century. 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 School Annathill Scotland

Old photograph of the School in Annathill, a small village located near Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Coatbridge is situated about 10 miles east of Glasgow city centre. Annathill was primarily famous for coal, as it was home to Bedlay Colliery. The majority of miners from Bedlay Colliery came from Annathill and there were houses along with various shops, a butchers and a school and pub which were all built around the same time Bedlay Colliery was sunk in 1905. On December 11 1981, Bedlay Colliery was closed by the then Conservative government.



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