Tour Scotland Video Bagpipes And Drums Blairgowrie And Rattray District Pipe Band Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the bagpipes and drums music of Blairgowrie And Rattray District Pipe Band from Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The band wears Clan Macpherson's bonnet, Glengarry badges and kilt pins and the old red Macpherson tartan. The band has won many awards. including the pipe band shield at the Braemar Gathering. The band has had many trips overseas to visit their twin band: the Spessart Highlanders in Aschaffenburg, Germany.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Bagpipes And Drums Vale of Atholl Pipe Band Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the bagpipes and drums music of Vale Of Atholl Pipe Band from Pitlochry, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Founded in early 1906 and known as the Vale of Atholl Pipers Association, the pipe band wore the Murray of Atholl tartan. These days the band wears the Muted Macnaughton tartan. The band has placed highly in the Major Scottish competitions and the World Pipe Band Championships since at least the late 1980s. In 2002 the band secured a sponsorship deal with Robert Wiseman Dairies, changing its name to Robert Wiseman Dairies Vale of Atholl Pipe Band.

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Tour Scotland Video Edie Ochiltree Statue Abbotsford House Near Melrose Roxburghshire Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of the Edie Ochiltree statue outside Abbotsford House on the banks of the River Tweed near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Edie is a character from the novel The Antiquary written in 1816 in by Sir Walter Scott. Edie is shown with a long hair and beard, and wide brimmed hat, a typical itinerant with walking stick and bags slung from his shoulder strap. Edie was a Gaberlunzie, a medieval Scots word for a licensed beggar.

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Tour Scotland Video Morris Statue Abbotsford House Near Melrose Roxburghshire Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of the Morris statue in the East courtyard outside of Abbotsford House on the banks of the River Tweed near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Morris is a character from the novel Rob Roy written in 1817 by Sir Walter Scott. John Greenshields was the Scottish sculptor who created the statue of Morris, an excisemen from Rob Roy. Walter Scott Scott was an important patron and admirer of Greenshields who was born in Lesmahagow. Greenshield also sculpted the statue of Prince Charles Edward Stewart on the Jacobite Monument, Glenfinnan in 1835, and The Jolly Beggars in 1835.

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Tour Scotland Video Game Larder Abbotsford House Near Melrose Roxburghshire Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of the Game Larder, Icehouse and terraces at Abbotsford House near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. The Castle style game larder and icehouse was built into upper terrace and connected to house by tunnel for Sir Walter Scott by John Smith of Darnick. John Smith of Darnick also created the Wallace Statue at Bemersyde House. His family were builders and masons during the first half of the 19th century, and they have to their credit an extension to Abbotsford, Dryburgh Abbey House, Eckford Church, Gattonside House, Hawick North Bridge, the bridge over the Hermitage Water, Melrose Parish Church, and Yetholm Parish Church.

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