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 the Puffin Billy vintage tractor in Craigtoun Park by St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The park was originally part of the Mount Melville Estate originally called Craigtoun was one of the many Melville family estates, first acquired in 1698 for General George Melville of Strathkiness. In the late 18th Century General Robert Melville oversaw extensive landscaping of the grounds including the planting of orchards and woodland. The grounds continued in Melville family ownership until 1901 when the new owner Dr James Younger of the Younger brewing dynasty commissioned Paul W. Waterhouse to landscape the park. In 1947 Mount Melville house and gardens were acquired by Fife County Council.
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Old photograph of boating on the River Wick in Wick, Caithness. Scotland. Wick River, known also as River Wick, is a river in the Highlands which has its source at the confluence of Scouthal Burn and Strath Burn near Achingale Mill at the northern end of Bardarclay Moss in the Flow Country. The river estuary, is in the North Sea bay of Wick, and is straddled by the town of Wick. The river basin includes Loch Watten and Loch Tofingall to the West of the estuary, and Loch Hempriggs and the Loch of Yarrows to the South.
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Old photograph of houses on Fountainhall Road in Aberdeen, Scotland. The name Fountainhall first appears in Taylor's map of 1773. The ground there contained some of the old stone Fountains or Cisterns, used from 1706 as storage wells for the Aberdeen water supply, and the neighbourhood was spoken of as Fountainha. This, however, is not " Fountainhall, " but local enunciation of " Fountain-haugh, " or hollow.
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Old photograph of houses on Mid Stocket Road in Aberdeen, Scotland. Midstocket is named after the Forest of Stocket, which was a gift from Robert the Bruce to the people of Aberdeen in 1319. The income from the forests land formed Aberdeen's Common Good Fund. Midstocket Road cuts through the area and is generally seen as the focal point of the Midstocket Area. The streets between Midstocket Road and Westburn Road from Mile End School are considered to be in the Midstocket Area. Between Rosemount and Mile-End School is considered the Mile End area despite Midstocket Road passing through it.
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Old photograph of the train station in Penicuik, Scotland. The Penicuik Railway obtained its authorising Act on 28 June 1870. The Company's engineer was Thomas Bouch. The terrain was difficult, for the line followed the sinuous River North Esk, which runs between steep hillsides on both sides; the line crossed the River North Esk seven times in two and a half miles, and there was a viaduct and two tunnels. The line left the Peebles Railway at Hawthornden, and there were stations at Rosslyn and Auchendinny as well as Penicuik. The line opened for goods traffic on 9 May 1872 and to passengers on 2 September 1872. The Penicuik Railway was absorbed by the North British Railway, authorised by Act of Parliament of 13 July 1876 and effective on 1 August 1876. The line served several paper mills, and the attractive nature of the area encouraged residential travel by Edinburgh professionals. The line prospered for many years as an outer suburban branch, and for many years the railway was the only practicable means of residential travel to Edinburgh. The sixteen mile train journey from Penicuik to Edinburgh took about 40 minutes. Auchendinny station was closed on 5 March 1951, and the branch closed to passenger traffic on 10 September 1951. The last passenger train on the branch was a railtour on 29 August 1964. There were two landslides on the line in 1966, and at that time the only remaining traffic was an occasional goods train to Penicuik. The cost of the rectification considerably exceeded income, and the line was closed to all traffic on 27 March 1967.
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