Tour Scotland Video Drive From M90 Halbeath Junction North To Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a drive North on the M90 motorway from just South of Halbeath Junction all the way to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Halbeath Junction forms junction 3 of the M90 and was previously known locally as the Bells Whisky Roundabout.

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Old Photograph Church Dowally Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of St Anne's Church and cemetery in Dowally, Perthshire, Scotland. The parish of Dowally or Dowallie was annexed into Dunkeld in the seventeenth century. Built in 1818 on the site of a 16th century building, St Anne's is a small country church with a bright interior. The designer was probably John Stewart, although the church has been much altered since. Dates on the bell, which is still in use) and belfry, suggest that they came from the earlier church. The chancel has carved screens which were originally in Dunkeld Cathedral. The organ was moved from Dunkeld Cathedral in 1909. One of the Memorials is to John Robb, a minister of the parish who perished in the shipwreck in which Grace Darling became a national heroine.



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Old Photograph East Main Street Rutherglen Glasgow Scotland

Old photographs of shops, cars, people and buildings on East Main Street in Rutherglen, Glasgow, Scotland. James White was a Scottish lawyer, businessman and chemicals manufacturer. He was born in 1812 at Shawfield House in Rutherglen which at that time was a rural country estate on the banks of the River Clyde. He was educated at Glasgow Grammar School and Glasgow University and thereafter became a lawyer and a partner in Couper and White solicitors, a position which he held for 17 years. In 1836 he married Fanny Campbell, sister of businessman Robert Orr Campbell, settling initially at Hayfield House within the Shawfield estate, and they produced seven children, six daughters and one son, John Campbell White. At the invitation of his father and older brother, another John White, who had joined the business in 1833, James White became a partner in the family firm in 1851, focusing on the commercial aspect whilst his brother and father, who died in 1860, were more concerned with the manufacturing. Apart from his business interests, White was also deputy chairman of the Glasgow and South Western Railway, although the railway lines which served the Shawfield works were operated by the Clydesdale Junction Railway and the Caledonian Railway), was a director of the Merchants' House of Glasgow, and at various times was chairman of the Glasgow Royal Exchange, the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and the National Bible Society of Scotland. He was a member of the Free Church of Scotland and a Liberal in politics. Upon his death in 1884 aged 72 at Overtoun House, the Lord Provost of Glasgow remarked that White was " a gentleman who has long occupied a foremost place among the citizens of Glasgow ".



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Old Photograph Thomas Carlyle Statue Ecclefechan Scotland

Old photograph of the statue of Thomas Carlyle in Ecclefechan, Scotland. Thomas Carlyle, born 1795, died 1881, the essayist, satirist and historian was born in Ecclefechan on the 4th of December 1795 at The Arched House. Carlyle left Ecclefechan at the age of 13 and walked the 84 miles to Edinburgh in order to attend university. In 1828 he moved to Craigenputtock with his wife Jane. He never forgot his roots and insisted that Ecclefechan should become his final resting place. He was buried in Ecclefechan churchyard on 5 February 1881. Robert Burns composed a song entitled The Lass O' Ecclefechan.



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Old Photograph Robert Burns Statue Bernard Street Leith Scotland

Old photograph of the Robert Burns statue on Bernard Street, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland. Bronze statue of Robert Burns standing, with his weight on his right leg, his left arm by his side, and his right arm across his chest to hold his plaid draped over his left shoulder. His left knee is bent and his left foot extends over the edge of the plinth. The statue is on a red sandstone pedestal which is placed on a pink granite base. On each side of the pedestal is a bronze panel depicting one of Burns' poems. On the front is The Cottar's Saturday Night, placed on the pedestal in 1898, on the left side is Halloween, placed on the pedestal in 1901, on the back is Death and Dr Hornbrook, placed on the pedestal in 1898, and on the right side is The Smiddy, placed on the pedestal in 1901.



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