Old Photograph Viewfield House Portree Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of Viewfield House in Portree, Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Originally built around 1790 as a more modest Georgian house for Lord Macdonald's factor and estate manager, it was transformed into a grand villa in the late 19th century. Portree is the home of a fictional professional Quidditch team in the Harry Potter universe called the Pride of Portree. The film Made of Honor partially takes place in Portree.



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Tour Scotland Video Sunday Drive During The Festival Around Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a Sunday drive around the busy streets of Edinburgh, Scotland. The Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe together form the largest annual cultural festival in the world. The Edinburgh International Festival was established in 1947 in a post war effort to " provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit ". That same year, eight theatrical companies " gatecrashed " the official Festival by organizing their own event, outside the official auspices of the EIF; this started the movement which grew into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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Tour Scotland Video Sunday Morning Drive South On M90 To Forth Road Bridge

Tour Scotland video of a Sunday morning drive on the M90 motorway South from Friarton Bridge in Perthshire to the Forth Road Bridge which spans the Firth of Forth between North Queensferry in Fife and South Queensferry a town to the West of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Building A Skep Medieval Fair Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a man building a Skep on the High Street at the Medieval Fair on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Skeps, baskets placed open end down, have been used to house bees for some 2000 years. Initially they were made from wicker plastered with mud and dung but from the Middle Ages they were made of straw. In northern and western Europe, skeps were made of coils of grass or straw. In its simplest form, there is a single entrance at the bottom of the skep.

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Tour Scotland Video Battle Axe Demonstration Medieval Fair Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a battle axe demonstration on the High Street at the Medieval Fair on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, used an axe to defeat Henry de Bohun in single combat at the start of the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. Given that Bruce was wielding the axe on horseback, it is likely that it was a one handed horseman's axe. They enjoyed a sustained revival among heavily armored equestrian combatants in the 15th century.

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