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 cars and cottages on Roome Bay Avenue in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Crail is on the Fife coastal walking route. Access to beach is off Roome Bay Crescent. The beach is about 10 minutes walk from the centre of Crail.
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Old photograph of the dining room in Blairquhan Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle is located near Maybole in South Ayrshire. Four different families have lived at Blairquhan or on its lands. The McWhirters built the first tower house about 1346. The Kennedys then inherited the estate through marriage and built the remainder of the old castle about 1573. In the early 17th century the Whitefords took over, but in 1798, suffering the effects of a bank crash, they sold Blairquhan to Sir David Hunter Blair, 3rd Baronet, the second son of Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet who had married Jean Blair, the daughter and heiress of John Blair of Dunskey in Wigtownshire in 1770. When Jean Blair inherited her father’s estate in 1777, the family took the additional surname of Blair. In 1820, Sir David commissioned Scottish architect William Burn to design a new house on Blairquhan. The old castle, which had become ruinous due to previous fires and neglect, was torn down for a new the Tudor style castle.
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Old photograph of the drawing room in Blairquhan Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland. A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from the 16th century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. In a large 16th to early 18th century Scottish house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a distinguished guest who was occupying one of the main apartments in the house could " withdraw " for more privacy.
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Old photograph of houses and the harbour at Hynish on the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. The buildings at Hynish were started in 1837 and comprised a harbour, workshops and lodgings for those involved in the building of the Skerryvore Lighthouse. In 1842 the Skerryvore Lighthouse was completed and in the following year the Hynish pier was extended to allow the lighthouse vessel to berth.
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Old photograph of a thatched crofters cottage by Balevullin Bay and beach on the North West corner of the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. James Galbraith was Head of the Parochial School at Balevullin from 1874. James and his wife Janet with two of their Donald grandchildren, still lived at the croft house at Balevullin around 1890. James and his family were originally from Gigha. The Duke of Argyll displaced the MacLeod family off their croft to Kilmoluaig to make way for them. After James` death the family`s title to the croft at Balevullin was challenged by the Duke, despite one of James` daughters, Sarah, now living in Glasgow, continuing to pay the rent, and her two sisters still living there. One sister, Mary Galbraith, married John MacDonald of Cornaigmore in 1907 and they continued to run the croft. However, after 10 years of pursuit, the Duke took the matter to Court and the croft was given up around 1913.
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