Tour Scotland Video Bagpipes And Drums Parades Pitlochry Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the bagpipes and drums music of Pipe Bands marching down Atholl Street towards Ferry Road and Recreation Ground to the Scottish Highland Games in Pitlochry, Highland Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Salmon Leaping Rivers Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of salmon leaping up rivers in Highland, Perthshire, Scotland. Every year Atlantic salmon make their way from the sea to their spawning grounds up river and you can watch them leap out of the water as they leap up waterfalls and the difficult part of rushing rivers to their breeding grounds. Fish tend to be more active in the early morning and evening so time your visit to make the most of your salmon spotting. The best sightings tend to be in the Autumn in October and early November.

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Old Photograph Cub Scouts Newton Stewart Scotland

Old photograph of Cub Scouts in Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Cub Scouts or Cubs are an age based section of The Scout Association for young boys and girls ages 8 to 10. The town on Newton Stewart on the River Cree was founded in the mid 17th century by William Stewart, fourth and youngest son of the 2nd Earl of Galloway. The New Town of Stewart was granted burgh status by charter from King Charles II, allowing a weekly market and two annual fairs to be held. It was on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St Ninian at Whithorn in 1329 that Robert the Bruce forded the river where the present bridge stands. Designed by John Rennie the Elder and built in 1813 the present bridge replaced the old bridge of 1745 which was destroyed by floods in 1806. film The Wicker Man was filmed almost entirely on location around Newton Stewart.



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Old Photograph Young Scots At School In Whithorn Scotland

Old photograph of young Scots at school in Whithorn in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Located about ten miles south of Wigtown, the town was the location of the first recorded Christian church in Scotland, Candida Casa: the White, or Shining House, built by Saint Ninian about 397.



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Old Photograph School Children Stranraer Scotland

Old photograph of school children in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Around 1600, Stranraer had become the market town for western Wigtownshire. At about this time, Stranraer was reached by a military road built from Dumfries to allow easier access to Portpatrick for transportation of people to Ireland for the Plantation of Ulster. Stranraer became a royal burgh in 1617. The first harbour in Stranraer was built in the middle of the 18th century, with further port development in the 1820s. The arrival of the railway from Dumfries in 1861, which closed in 1965), which gave the shortest journey to/from London, England, established Stranraer as the area's main port. In 1862, the line was extended to serve the harbour directly, and a link to Portpatrick was also opened. In 1877, a rail connection north to Girvan and Glasgow was also established. Stranraer remained the main Scottish port for the Irish ferries for the next 150 years or so.



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