Tour Scotland Video Summer Drive To St Kattan's Cemetery Aberuthven Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Summer drive on the A824 road to St Kattan's cemetery in Aberuthven, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. St Kattan’s at Aberuthven stands proud in its prominent location overlooking Strathearn. The medieval chapel was dedicated to St Cattan, Bishop and Confessor in the 6th Century. In 1618 St Kattan’s lost its status as a Parish Church and fell into disrepair. Three mausolea were built into the structure during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the Montrose Mausoleum designed by John Adam in 1736.

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Tour Scotland Video Summer Drive From Broxden Roundabout To Balhousie Castle Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Summer drive from Broxden Roundabout through Perth on ancestry visit to Balhousie Castle in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Broxden Roundabout, junction 12 of the M90 Motorway, is the northern most motorway junction in the British Isles. Found in Perth, it is one of Scotland's busiest junctions. The A9 road starts here for its journey to Inverness and the far north of Scotland at this roundabout. Going south, its signed for Stirling and Glasgow while the A93 takes the A9's old route though Perth. The M90 spur meanwhile takes traffic to Dundee, Aberdeen or Edinburgh. Balhousie Castle is the Regimental Headquarters and Museum of The Black Watch.

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Old Photograph Taylor Street Clydebank Scotland

Old photograph of people and houses on Taylor Street in Clydebank by Glasgow, Scotland. The town encompasses part of the Antonine Wall, including, at Hardgate Duntocher, the site of one of the forts built at regular intervals along the wall. In 2008, the Antonine Wall was designated as a World Heritage Site, as part of a multinational Heritage Site encompassing the borders of the Roman Empire. Before 1870, the area which later became Clydebank was largely rural, and agricultural. It consisted of some villages (Hardgate, Faifley, Duntocher, Dalmuir, Old Kilpatrick), farms and estates, with some small scale mining operations, coal, limestone and whinstone, several cotton mills and some small boat building yards.



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Old Photograph East Port Street Dunfermline Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a Tram, shops and people on East Port Street in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Dunfermline's most famous son is the entrepreneur and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie who was born in the town in 1835. Among the gifts he gave to his home town, include a free library and public swimming baths. Most important of all, was the donation of the Pittencrieff Estate which he had purchased in 1903 to be converted into Pittencrieff Park. In 1888, two Dunfermline men, John Reid and Robert Lockhart, first demonstrated golf in the USA by setting up a hole in an orchard, before Reid set up America's first golf club the same year, St. Andrews Golf Club in Yonkers, New York, with Andrew Carnegie one of the first members.



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Old Photograph Willowbrae Road Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Willowbrae Road in Edinburgh, Scotland.



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