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 railway station in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Monymusk railway station was a station on the Alford Valley Railway in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire. which closed in 1950. This planned Scottish village began in 1170, was rebuilt in 1840, and in modern times serves as a site for fishing on the nearby River Don.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
Old photograph of the Central Hotel in Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. Sir Robert John Mathieson Inglis, was born at Tantah House in south Peebles on 5 May 1881, the son of James C. Inglis. He was educated locally at Bonnington Park Academy then went to Edinburgh University to study Mathematics and Engineering. In 1900 he joined the North British Railway as a junior design engineer. He quickly rose to be Resident Engineer for the Lothian area and was involved in the widening works between Edinburgh and Portobello, including a reconfiguration of the tunnels going through Calton Hill under the Royal High School. In 1909 he became Chief Assistant for New Works for all of the North British Railway, aged only 28. In 1911 he received yet another boost to his career, being appointed an Engineer to the Ministry of Transport for Great Britain. In 1912 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, Willam Archer Porter Tait, Benjamin Hall Blyth, Charles Alexander Stevenson and William Allan Carter. In 1948 he went to South Africa to advise upon and establish the new Durban railway station. In 1949 he returned to Scotland as Chairman of the Glasgow and District Transport Committee with the primary purpose of electrifying the Glasgow and Clyde Valley railway system. He retired to Helensburgh in 1957 aged 76, and took on the titular role of Deputy Lieutenant for Dunbartonshire. He died in Helensburgh on 23 June 1962.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
Old photograph of a Post Box in Finzean, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In the 10th century the lands of Finzean became the personal property of Scottish Kings, who used the Forest of Birse as a hunting reserve. In the 12th century King William the Lion gifted the area to the Bishops of Aberdeen who continued to own it until the 16th century, during which they gradually sold off all the land. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Farquharson family acquired the whole of the eastern part of Finzean, while the Forest of Birse was owned by the Earl of Aboyne, but with ancient common rights retained by all the inhabitants of Birse parish to this day. Finzean was the subject of many paintings by the artist Joseph Farquharson, whose family have owned Finzean Estate, which occupies the eastern half of Finzean, since the 17th century.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
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.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
