Tour Scotland Video Sailing Club Bay St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of the sailing club by East Sands beach in the Bay of the North Sea on visit St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The Club offers a mix of training, racing and leisure sailing, and cater for beginners through to experienced racing helms and crews.

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Tour Scotland Video St John's Church Cupar Fife

Tour Scotland video of St John's Church on ancestry visit to Cupar near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. This church was built between 1875 and 1878 by Campbell Douglas and Sellars, architects, of Glasgow, as a Free Church and opened for worship on 28 November 1878. Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, the church became St. John's United Free Church. In 1929 the United Free Church joined with the Church of Scotland and St. John's became a Church of Scotland building. The spire is 150ft tall, is the tallest building in Cupar, and dominates the skyline.

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Old Photograph Pheasant Tree Wanlockhead Scotland

Old photograph of the Pheasant Tree in Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This village is located in the Lowther Hills and one mile south of Leadhills at the head of the Mennock Pass, which forms part of the Southern Uplands. It is Scotland's highest village. Wanlockhead owes its existence to the lead and other mineral deposits in the surrounding hills. These deposits were first exploited by the Romans. The village was founded permanently in 1680 when the Duke of Buccleuch built a lead smelting plant and workers cottages. A branch railway also the highest in Scotland, served the village from 1901 to 1939.



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Old Photograph War Memorial Twynholm Scotland

Old photograph of the War Memorial in Twynholm located near Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. To the glory of God and in loving memory of those men from this Parish who fought and died for their King and Country in the Great War, 1914 to 1918, Their names liveth for evermore.

Lieutenant. Maitland, G. M., Irish Guards
Sergeant. Currie, James, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Sergeant. McNeil, Robert, Scottish Rifles
Sergeant. McKie, William, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Sergeant. Scott, William John, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Lance Corporal. Caven, Joseph, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Lance Corporal. McQuarrie, James, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Lance Corporal. Watret, John, Highland Light Infantry
Trooper. Smith, Wm. P, Scottish Horse
Rifleman. Watret, James, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Private. Brown, John, Royal Scots Fusiliers
Private. Chesney, William, Highland Light Infantry
Private. Craig, John, Highland Light Infantry
Private. Grierson, William. R., Scottish Rifles
Private. Heron, William R., Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Private. Jackson, James, Cameron Highlanders
Private. Leith, David, Cameron Highlanders
Private. Lockhart, John, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Private. Morrison, Robert, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Private. Murray, George. C., Royal Scots
Private. McKie, John, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Private. McKie, Robert, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Private. Watret, Thomas P., Royal Scots Fusiliers
Gunner. Edgar, Joseph, Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Seaman. Coulthard, Thomas. W., Royal Navy

Also in memory of those men from this Parish who died in the second Great War 1939 to 1945

Sergeant. Craig, Desmond, Royal Air Force
Lance Corporal. Caldow, James, Cameron Highlanders
Able Seaman. B. Caldow, Robert, Royal Navy
Gunner. Heron, Alex., Royal Regiment of Artillery
Gunner. Porteous, Robert, Royal Regiment of Artillery

Twynholm is 102 miles from Glasgow and Paisley



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Old Photograph Power Station Tongland Scotland

Old photograph of the Power Station in Tongland in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Tongland Power Station was built in 1936 by Merz and McLellan, and Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, engineers, and is the lowest and largest such station in the Galloway Hydro Electric Scheme. The concrete building is in the art deco style, and is complemented by a surge tower of riveted steel construction on reinforced concrete arches. Water is supplied from a reservoir impounded by a concrete arch and granite dam with monumental flood gates. Th power station has three 11,000kW vertical Francis turbines. The tailrace extends about 300 feet below the powerhouse, and has been formed by the excavation of the rock in the bed of the river, which is tidal up to a point beyond the power station.



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