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 Canniesburn Toll in Glasgow, Scotland. These days the Canniesburn Toll Roundabout connects the A81, Maryhill Road, A81, Milngavie Road, A739, Bearsden Road, and the A809, Drymen Road. Even in the 1930s, this was a complex junction, although it was a relatively simply four way junction in the 19th Century.
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Old photograph of the hotel in Potarch located between Aboyne and Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. For many years The Dinnie Stones were located outside the hotel. In the 1830’s huge iron rings were attached to the stones so that they could act as counterweights; for scaffolding; during the pointing of Potarch Bridge. Donald Dinnie, the son of a stonemason, carried the two stones, with a combined weight of 775 pounds, for a distance of about 5 yards, across the Potarch Bridge and back. Donald, born in 1837 at Balnacraig, Birse, near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. He has been recognized as " The Nineteenth Century's Greatest Athlete ". Dinnie's athletic career spanned over 50 years, and over 11,000 successful competitions. Donald and his family eventually lived in Glasgow, where they owned a fish and chip restaurant and tea room in the Govan area. They then lived for a few years in Newcastle, England, before finally settling in London where Dinnie died in 1916, aged 78 years. In the United States, The New York Times paid tribute in the paper's obituary column.
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Old photograph of the Post Office in Drumchapel in Glasgow, Scotland. Drumchapel, Scottish Gaelic: Druim a' Chapaill, known to locals and residents as The Drum, is part of the city of Glasgow, having been annexed from Dunbartonshire in 1938. It borders Bearsden to the east, in East Dunbartonshire, and Clydebank to the west, in West Dunbartonshire. The area is bordered by Knightswood and Yoker in Glasgow. The name derives from the Gaelic meaning, the ridge of the horse. Drumchapel was part of the parish of New Kilpatrick, becoming devolved in the late 19th century and a church parish in its own right in 1923. As part of the overspill policy of Glasgow Corporation, a huge housing estate was built here in the 1950s to house 34,000 people, it is this estate that is now most associated with Drumchapel, despite there being an area known as Old Drumchapel made up of affluent villas to the south of modern Drumchapel.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the bagpipes and drums music of Stockbridge Pipe Band from Edinburgh. Stockbridge is a suburb of Edinburgh, located towards the north of the city, bounded by the New Town and by Comely Bank. The name is Scots stock brig from Anglic stocc brycg, meaning a timber bridge. Originally a small outlying village, it was incorporated into the City of Edinburgh in the 19th century. The current Stock Bridge, built in 1801, is a stone structure spanning the Water of Leith.
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Old photograph of the Easton, Dennison and Moir shops on Kilmarnock Road in Shawlands, Glasgow, Scotland. Shawlands is a district of Glasgow, located less than 2 miles south of the River Clyde. Neighbouring districts include the areas of Crossmyloof, Langside and Pollokshaws with Shawlands itself overlapping the Glasgow City. Within walking distance of Shawlands is Queens Park, acquired in 1857 and designed by the world renowned Sir Joseph Paxton, also responsible for noted public parks in London, Liverpool, Birkenhead and the grounds of the Spa Buildings at Scarborough, England. The park was dedicated to the memory of Mary, Queen of Scots and not Queen Victoria.
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