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 houses on Abbots Road in Grangemouth, South of Stirling, Scotland. In 1872 responsibility for municipal affairs passed from the Dundas family to a new burgh council in Grangemouth and soon the marks of civic pride began appearing all over the prosperous town. Fine new churches of various denominations, public buildings and schools graced the elegant streets with Bo'ness Road, Charing Cross, Abbots Road, Talbot Street, and Ronaldshay Crescent among the most attractive. Here the well to do merchants and traders built high quality homes while ensuring that the working population in Marshall and Lumley Street had good houses as well. By the turn of the century the population was over 8,000 people.
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Old photograph of a thatched cottage by Claggan Bay, Island of Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The UNITY, a 12 ton ship, with no cargo and a crew of three, whose Captain was McRoy, of Belfast, was bound from Belfast to Islay on 8 Oct 1906 when she anchored at Claggan Bay. The ship dragged her anchor and drifted ashore five miles south of MacArthurs head Lighthouse. All the crew were saved.
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Old photograph of the cottage tearoom in Dundonnell located North of Ullapool, Scotland. Dundonnell is a village on the south side of Little Loch Broom at the foot of An Teallach mountain, right at the north of the area commonly known as the Great Wilderness. There is an independent youth hostel and a farm. Many semi wild sheep roam the area, which is the most inland point of the loch. The Ardessie Falls pour into the loch nearby. Local wildlife includes cormorants, lesser black backed gulls and song thrushes.
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Old photograph of the War Memorial in Wigtown, Scotland. Wigtown gives its name to the county of Wigtownshire. Wigtown was made a royal burgh in 1469 although a settlement here existed long before this. The burgh is mentioned in an indenture of 1292, and the fact that the sheriffdom was in existence at the time of the Largs campaign of 1263 suggests that the burgh may also have been recognized as such during the reign of King Alexander III.
IN PROUD REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN OF THIS BURGH AND PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 TO 1918
John Black
William Black
Robert Boyd
Andrew Briggs
John Briggs
Alexander Broadfoot
Edward Clark
John Coburn
Robert Copland
Thomas Cromie
William Edwards
John Ewing
John Flynn
Edward Hale
James Hargreaves
John Harvey
Adam Horner
Robert Hughes
William Irvine
William Jamieson
David Kellie
Francis Kennedy
Leslie Kennedy
Edward Kilpatrick
William Kilpatrick
David Kiltie
Alexander Knowles
Robert Knowles
Charles Landers
Alexander Laurie
James Loan
James Love
Blain Malone
David Malone
Robert Murray
David McCaskie
Thoma McCaskie
Thomas McCheyne
Ernest McClelland
James McCulloch
Louis McGuffie
Charles McKinna
James McNeil
Joseph McRobert
Hugh Neil
William Paton
Stanley Rolfe
Walter Scott
William Sproul
George Todd
William Walker
Charles Boyd
John Davies
David McMurray
AND IN WORLD WAR 1939 TO 1945
Robert Aird
James Clark
Frank Davidson
William George Dodds
Kenneth Drysdale
John ALexander McCulloch
John McEwan
John McHugh
James McMillan
Fraser Nimmo
James Salvona
Robert Douglas Thomson
John Watson
The distance from Wigtown to Glasgow and Paisley is 86 miles
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Old photograph of a thatched cottage on the coast of Isle of Mull, Scotland. Mary MacDonald, born 1789, died 1872, from Ardtun, a small settlement on the Isle of Mull, wrote a hymn to the traditional melody Bunessan, best known today as the tune of Morning has Broken. Morning Has Broken is now a popular and well known Christian hymn first published in 1931. It has words by English author Eleanor Farjeon and is set to a traditional Scottish Gaelic tune known as Bunessan, it shares this tune with the 19th century Christmas Carol Child in the Manger. Bunessan" had been found in L. McBean's Songs and Hymns of the Gael, published in 1900. Before Farjeon's words, the tune was used as a Christmas carol, which began " Child in the manger, Infant of Mary, " translated from the Scottish Gaelic lyrics written by Mary MacDonald. The English language Roman Catholic hymnal also uses the tune for the James Quinn hymns, " Christ Be Beside Me " and " This Day God Gives Me," both of which were adapted from the traditional Irish hymn St. Patrick's Breastplate. Another Christian hymn, " Baptized In Water, " borrows the tune. The song has been recorded by numerous artists, including Steven Curtis Chapman, Judy Collins, Michael Card, Floyd Cramer, Dana, Neil Diamond, Órla Fallon, Art Garfunkel, Ellen Greene, Esther Ofarim, Daliah Lavi, Joe Longthorne, Jojje Wadenius and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Nana Mouskouri, Aaron Neville, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, Joseph McManners, Sister Janet Mead, Mary O'Hara, Demis Roussos, Third Day, Pam Tillis, Hayley Westenra, Roger Whittaker, 2nd Chapter of Acts, Libera Choir, Richard Souther and Dana Winner.
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