Tour Scotland Video Bonfire Night Fireworks Display Coupar Angus Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Bonfire Night Fireworks Display in Larghan Park on Forfar Road on visit to Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland. Coupar Angus is situated four miles south of Blairgowrie. The name Coupar Angus serves to differentiate the town from Cupar, Fife. The town was transferred from the county of Angus to Perthshire in 1891, but retained its traditional name. In the Middle Ages it was the site of the major Cistercian abbey of Coupar Angus, one of Scotland's most important monasteries, founded by King Malcolm IV, in the 1160s. Several Polish units were stationed in and around Coupar Angus from 1939 to 1945. The Scottish Fold breed of cat originated in Coupar Angus.

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Tour Scotland Video 2017 Bonfire Night Fireworks Display City Of Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the 2017 November 5th Fireworks Display on Guy Fawkes Night on a visit to South Inch Park in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Run by Perth Round Table. Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in Great Britain. Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605, when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. Celebrating the fact that King James I had survived the attempt on his life, people lit bonfires around London; and months later, the introduction of the Observance of 5th November Act enforced an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot's failure,

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Tour Scotland Video Autumn Drive To Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of an Autumn road trip drive along the coast road to, and through, Pittenweem on ancestry visit to the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, on the coast of the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Opened in 1969, the museum is situated on the harbour front in Anstruther, in the heart of the East Neuk crab and lobster fishing villages of St Monans, Pittenweem, Cellardyke and Crail. It has grown over time into a sizable complex, occupying a number of converted buildings set around three sides of a cobbled courtyard.

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Tour Scotland Video Autumn Morning Drive To Pittenweem East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of an Autumn morning road trip drive from Upper Largo through Colinsburgh on ancestry visit to Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Founded as a fishing village around a probably early Christian religious settlement, it grew along the shoreline from the west where the sheltered beaches were safe places for fishermen to draw their boats up out of the water. Later a breakwater was built, extending out from one of the rocky skerries that jut out south-west into the Firth of Forth like fingers. This allowed boats to rest at anchor rather than being beached, enabling larger vessels to use the port. A new breakwater further to the east was developed over the years into a deep, safe harbour with a covered fish market. As the herring disappeared from local waters and the fishing fleet shrank, this harbour and its attendant facilities became the main harbour for the fishermen of the East Neuk of Fife. The Pittenweem witches were five Scottish women accused of witchcraft in the small fishing village of Pittenweem in Fife on the east coast of Scotland in 1704. Another two women and a man were named as accomplices. Accusations made by a teenage boy, Patrick Morton, against a local woman, Beatrix Laing, led to the death in prison of Thomas Brown, and, in January 1705, the murder of Janet Cornfoot by a lynch mob in the village. Two of the accused women, Laing and Nicholas Lawson, were imprisoned again in 1708 after charges of witchcraft were levelled against them by Cowper and another local minister. They were released in April 1709 and pardoned after Queen Anne issued an Act of Indemnity. Another of the accused women, Janet Horseburgh, sued the bailies responsible for her incarceration; she received an apology and monetary recompense.

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Tour Scotland Video Autumn Morning Drive To Lower Largo East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of an Autumn morning road trip drive from Leven through Lundin Links on ancestry visit to Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife. Lower Largo or Seatown of Largo is a village in Fife, situated on Largo Bay on the north side of the Firth of Forth. An ancient fishing village, Lower Largo has gained fame as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Alexander Selkirk, born in 1676, the son of a shoemaker and tanner in Lower Largo. Selkirk was an unruly youth, and joined buccaneering voyages to the South Pacific during the War of the Spanish Succession. One such expedition was on Cinque Ports, commanded by William Dampier. The ship called in for provisions at the Juan Fernández Islands, and Selkirk judged correctly that the craft was unseaworthy and asked to be left there. When he was eventually rescued by follow on English privateer Woodes Rogers, Selkirk had become adept at hunting and making use of the resources that he found on the island. His story of survival was widely publicised after their return to England, becoming a source of inspiration for writer Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe.

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