Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old photograph of Alva Glen located above the village of Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. During the Industrial Revolution, Alva developed as a textile manufacturing centre, with the, originally water powered, woollen mills using water from the Glen, to provide employment for locals and migrant workers to the area. The Dalmore Works was built in 1874 for Wilson Brothers who produced textile products including tweed, woollen novelty fabrics and mohair and woollen rugs. The works were operated by Wilsons until 1964.
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Old photograph of a subterranean passage under the Castle in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The castle was for centuries, the residence of Scotland’s most powerful churchmen. Some of its remarkable secrets are hewn into the rock beneath its battlements including the underground mine and countermine, dug during the brutal siege of 1546. The Siege of St Andrews Castle followed the killing of Cardinal David Beaton by a group of Protestants at St Andrews Castle. They remained in the castle and were besieged by the Governor of Scotland, Regent Arran. However, over 18 months the Scottish besieging forces made little impact, and the Castle finally surrendered to a French naval force after artillery bombardment. The Protestant garrison, including the preacher John Knox were taken to France and used as galley slaves.
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Old photograph of a flower seller by the fountain on Market Street in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Lady Catherine Melville ordered the erection of the fountain in 1880, in memory of her son George John Whyte Melville, a Victorian novelist and horseman, who was killed in a riding accident in 1878. George was born in 1821, at Mount Melville near St Andrews. He was a son of Major John Whyte Melville and Lady Catherine Anne Sarah Osborne and a grandson on his mother's side of the 5th Duke of Leeds. His father was a well known sportsman and Captain of St Andrews Golf Club. George was tutored privately at home by the young Robert Lee, then educated at Eton, entered the army in 1839, became captain in the Coldstream Guards in 1846 and retired in 1849. He married The Charlotte Hanbury Bateman in 1847, and they had one daughter, Florence Elizabeth, who went on to marry Clotworthy John Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene and 4th Viscount Ferrard. By a strange accident, Whyte Melville lost his life in 1878 whilst galloping quietly over a ploughed field in the Vale of White Horse. Having moved to Tetbury in Gloucestershire. England, in about 1875, the better to follow the Beaufort and V.W.H hunts, he was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Tetbury, within a few feet of his property, Barton Abbotts.
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Old photograph of Hoddom Bridge by Ecclefechan, Scotland. This bridge carries the B723 public road over the River Annan, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Hoddom to the North and Cummertrees to the South. The River Annan, Abhainn Anann in Gaelic, is a river in South West Scotland. It rises Annanhead Hill and flows through the Devil's Beef Tub, Moffat and Lockerbie, reaching the sea at Annan, Dumfries and Galloway. It is one of the region's foremost fishing rivers, the main fish found are salmon, sea trout, brown trout, grayling, and chub. Pike can also be found in the river.
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Old photograph of people and vintage cars outside the village hall in Luthermuir located North East of Montrose, Scotland. In days gone by this Scottish village in Aberdeenshire was dependent on weaving and farming. In 1882, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Luthermuir like this: Luthermuir, a village, with a public school, in Marykirk parish, Kincardineshire, near the right bank of Luther Water, near Fettercairn and Laurencekirk, under which it has a post office. Founded towards the close of last century on a moor so barren as to be reckoned worthless, it figured, for a time, as little else than a resort of destitute and abandoned persons from many surrounding parishes, but forty years ago was mainly occupied by handloom weavers.
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