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 oldest shop in Dundee, Scotland. JA Braithwaite tea and coffee merchants first opened in 1868 at The Pillars in City Square. It moved to 6 Castle Street in 1932. They have an impressive range of 100 different teas and 30 different coffees to choose from as well as an extensive range of tea and coffee pots.
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Old photograph of Moscow on the A719 road some 4 miles east of Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The name is thought to be a corruption of Moss hall or Moss haw but its spelling was formalised in 1812 to mark Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. A stream called the Volga Burn flows through the village. Locally the land and forest around Cowans Law to the north west is referred to as Little Russia. The hamlet also shares the same latitude, 55° North, as the Russian city. In the Spring of 1884 a Mr. Rankin was found murdered in a gruesome fashion at his lonely cottage near Moscow. He was said to be well-to-do, however although no clues were found, theft was considered to be the motive; the guilty party was never brought to book. Mr. McNabb, a retired police officer, related that in his opinion the murder was carried out by a somnambulist who was therefore unaware of the deed. He had never ventured this opinion officially for fear of being laughed out of the force.
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Old photograph of Trinafour Post Office in Blair Atholl by Blair Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. The Atholl Country Life Museum is divided into three main rooms, and has been extended to include a wooden post office building relocated from Trinafour, a small settlement in a remote location at the head of Glen Errochty, nine miles to the east of Blair Atholl.
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Old photograph of the hotel in Shieldenish on the Island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Shieldinish, known for its hospitality, is a small settlement which lies close to the head of Loch Erisort, opposite Balallan. It was cleared and then later resettled in 1886 with most of the tenants coming from Balallan. From Old Norse ' sild ' herring and ' nis ' point; the point is the prominent peninsula.
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