Old Photograph Loch Ardvar Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage by Loch Ardvar in Sutherland, Scotland. Loch Ardvar, Gaelic: Loch Airdbhair or Loch Ardbhair, is a small sea loch extension of Loch na Droighniche which opens into Eddrachillis Bay. A broch is located at the head of the loch at the point where the stream of Allt na Claise enters the loch. The settlement of Ardvar is located on the north eastern shore of the loch.



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Tour Scotland Video Music And Song Bridge Of Earn Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of music and song in a pub in Bridge Of Earn, Perthshire, Scotland. Often referred to by locals simply as The Brig, which is Scots for bridge, the village grew up on the south bank of an important crossing of the River Earn, whose sandstone bridge existed from at least the early 14th century, when it is known to have been repaired by order of King Robert I of Scotland. This ancient bridge was a major landmark on the road between Edinburgh, 39 miles South. and Perth, 4 miles north, for several centuries.

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Tour Scotland Video Brass Band Music Kirriemuir Angus

Tour Scotland video of a Brass Band on ancestry visit to Kirriemuir, Scotland. Kirriemuir, sometimes called Kirrie, is a burgh in Angus. Its history reaches back to earliest recorded times, when it seems to have been a major ecclesiastical centre. Later it was identified with witchcraft, and some older houses still feature a witches stane to ward off evil. In the 19th century, it was an important centre of the jute trade. The playwright J.M. Barrie was born here. Though its importance as a market town has diminished, its former jute factories, now manufacturing synthetics, echo its past importance in the 19th century as the centre of a home weaving industry.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive To Lauriston Castle Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a drive to Lauriston Castle on Cramond Road South, between Cramond, Davidson's Mains, and Silverknowes on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. A Lauriston Castle stood on this site in medieval times but was almost totally destroyed in the raids on Edinburgh in 1544 by the earl of Hertford. A tower house was rebuilt around 1590 by Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston, father of John Napier, for his younger son, also named Archibald. In 1683, the estate was purchased by Edinburgh goldsmith and financier William Law, father of infamous economist John Law, born 1671, died 1729, shortly before his death. John Law then inherited the estate and it stayed in the family until 1823 when sold to banker and mineralogist Thomas Allan. In 1827, Allan commissioned William Burn to extend the house in the Jacobean style.

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Old Photograph Loch And Palace Linlithgow Scotland

Old photograph of the Loch and Linlithgow Palace, Scotland. Linlithgow Loch lies immediately north of the town of Linlithgow in West Lothian. The loch is fed by four small streams, the Hatchery Burn, the Bonnytoun Burn, the Springfield Burn, and Bell's Burn, and drained by the Mill Burn on its western side, which eventually joins the Avon. The loch is the source of the town of Linlithgow's name; the British llyn laith cau translates to " lake in the damp hollow ". Two islets in the loch, Cormorant Island and the Rickle, are thought to be the 5,000 year old remains of crannogs. Linlithgow Loch was once famed for its brown trout, but most of the sport today comes from stocked rainbow trout, regularly released by the Forth Area Federation of Anglers.



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