Tour Scotland Video Afternoon Drive on A90 Road From Dundee To Royal Infirmary Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of an afternoon drive West on the A90 road from Dundee to visit the Royal Infirmary in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Perth Royal infirmary hospital has its origins in the Perth City and County Infirmary, which was completed in 1838 and opened to patients on 1 October of that year. The current Perth Royal Infirmary was built on a site on Glasgow Road between 1912 and 1914. An extension containing operating theatres and kitchens was added between 1934 and 1935. The most recent addition to the Royal Infirmary was the inclusion of the A&E department in 1993.
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Tour Scotland Video Cloudy Day Drive From Wormit Beach To Riverside Drive In Dundee
Tour Scotland video of a cloudy day drive East on the B946 road from Wormit Beach by the the Firth of Tay through the small town of Wormit and the small town of Newport-on-Tay, then over the Tay Road Bridge to Riverside Drive in Dundee, Scotland. During the Second World War, King Haakon VII of Norway stayed in Wormit. Newport-on-Tay was established near the endpoint of one part of a ferry route that itself was started in the 12th century.
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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Barry Buddon Training Camp
Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Barry Buddon Training Camp by Carnoustie, Scotland. Barry Buddon dates back to around 1850 when the area was used by the Forfarshire Rifle Volunteers, the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, the Panmure Battery of the Forfarshire Artillery Brigade, and a Royal Naval Reserve Battery. In 1897 the Earl of Dalhousie sold the site to the War Office for use as a military training area. 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 Seaforth Highlanders Pipe Band Burghead Scotland
Old photograph of the Seaforth Highlanders Pipe Band marching in Burghead located eight miles North West of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. The present town of Burghead was built between 1805 and 1809, destroying in the process more than half of the site of an important Pictish hill fort. This fort was probably a major Pictish centre and was where carved slabs depicting bulls were found; they are known as the " Burghead Bulls. " The town is mainly built on a peninsula that projects north westward into the Moray Firth, meaning that most of the town has sea on three sides.
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Old Photograph Mill Nether Liberton Scotland
Old photograph of a Mill in Nether Liberton located just South of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1143, a charter given to the monks building the newly established Holyrood Abbey granted them the rights over the mills at Libbertun, giving an early record of this activity in the neighbourhood.Then, in 1329, King Robert the Bruce made a grant to the Abbey of the Blackfriars of six merks from the mill of Nether Liberton, giving further evidence of this important trade in the village
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