Tour Scotland Autumn Video Bagpipes Mill Street Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a Pipe Band playing their bagpipes on Mill Street outside the Concert Hall on cloudy, rainy day visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Perth Concert Hall opened its doors in September 2005 with a weekend of signature events giving a flavour of what was to come. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra represented the classical strand. Legendary percussionist Trilok Gurtu with an ensemble of Perthshire musicians presented world music and Belle & Sebastian flew the flag for top of the range contemporary music.

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Old Photograph High Street Earlston Scotland

Old photograph of houses, shops and people on the High Street in Earlston, Berwickshire, Scotland. In the 12th and 13th centuries the Lindsays and the Earls of March and Dunbar were the chief baronial families in this area. Residents of early Earlston, Earlstons, have since spread afar, with some travelling to the United States of America in the early 1800s. But the vast majority of Earlstons with that surname, have taken residence in the Black Country, West Midlands in England. Travelling to the Black Country in the early 1700s, they have set up a strong residence, governed by middle child of the Earlston three brothers, Lord Dale.



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Old Photograph Mersington House Scotland

Old photograph of Mersington House near Greenlaw, located in the foothills of the Lammermuir Hills on Blackadder Water at the junction of the A697 and the A6105 in the Scottish Borders of Scotland. Mersington House was built in 1865. Although the identity of the architect is unknown, the design of the house bears similarities to the work of a local architect, WJ Gray. The two storey and attic house is built in Tudor style, and features extensive use of timber on the exterior and interior. There is also some decorative plasterwork inside the house, a further characteristic of this style.



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Old Photograph Sprouston Scotland

Old photograph of people outside the thatched cottage Post Office in Sprouston in the in the former county of Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. The village is close to the south bank of the river Tweed, which forms the northern boundary of the parish. The eastern border of the parish is also the border with England and with the parish of Carham, Northumberland in that country, Sprouston being the last Scottish parish on the south side of the Tweed. The parish of Linton borders Sprouston to the south and the parishes of Eckford and Kelso to the west.



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Old Photograph Harryburn House Scotland

Old photograph of Harryburn House by Lauder in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. Harryburn is a fine country house built in 1827 for John Romanes, banker and town clerk of Lauder, to designs by John Smith, born 1782, died 1864. Smith had continued the business of his father, also John, a mason and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, after the latter's death, along with his younger brother Thomas. The Smiths were enterprising, and whilst their practice consisted mainly of designing and enlarging small houses, rural churches, schools and manses, they were also employed by a number of Borders landowners, including, most notably, Sir Walter Scott, who commissioned them to build his home, Abbotsford, to the designs of William Atkinson.



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