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 John Rennie Memorial by East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland. Civil engineer John Rennie, born 1761, died 1821, was born near here, at Phantassie on Dunbar Road. He died at his home in London, England, while working on the London Bridge project, a bridge he designed. The work was completed by his sons, George and Sir John Rennie.
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Old photograph of children fishing at the harbour in Kirkwall on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The town is first mentioned in Orkneyinga saga in the year 1046 when it is recorded as the residence of Rögnvald Brusason the Earl of Orkney, who was killed by his uncle Thorfinn the Mighty. In 1486, King James III of Scotland elevated Kirkwall to the status of a royal burgh; modern roadsigns still indicate The City and Royal Burgh of Kirkwall. The name Kirkwall comes from the Norse name Kirkjuvagr, meaning Church Bay, which later changed to Kirkvoe, Kirkwaa and Kirkwall. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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Old photograph of Brunstane Roman Bridge near Joppa, Edinburgh, Scotland. With a single semicircular skewed arch this might be the oldest skewed bridge in Scotland. Joppa is bounded on the north by the coast of the Firth of Forth, on the west by Portobello. Joppa is now largely residential, but salt was once produced from sea water by evaporation at Joppa Pans.
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Old photograph of the Braemar Hotel in Innellan, Scotland. A Scottish village that lies on the east shore of the Cowal peninsula, on the Firth of Clyde, four miles south of the town of Dunoon in Scotland.
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Tour Scotland travel video of an Autumn road trip drive West from Meikleour on the A984 old military route through Spittalfield on ancestry visit to Caputh, Perthshire. This Scottish village is on the A984 Coupar Angus to Dunkeld road about 6 miles east of Dunkeld and 8 miles west of Coupar Angus. Caputh called in ancient records Keapoch, was in former times the site of a Pictish town of great strength, named, according to Boetius, Tuline or Tulina, and the inhabitants of which, who were very numerous, burned and deserted it, on the approach of the Romans. The parish containing the villages of Craigie, Fungarth, Kincairnie, Meikleour, and Spittalfield is situated on the northern bank of the river Tay. The church, built in 1798, is a plain commodious edifice, situated on an eminence near the southern border, and contains sittings for 800 persons. There has been a church in Caputh since the 9th century, the present one being a fine stone building, now into its third century. The building of Caputh Church was started in 1798.
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