Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Castle Fraser

Tour Scotland Winter photograph of Castle Fraser near Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Castle Fraser was built as the home of the Frasers of Muchalls, later Frasers of Castle Fraser. The castle was passed down through the Lords Fraser, the Frasers of Inverallochy and then the Mackenzie family who took the name Mackenzie Fraser. In 1897 the last male Fraser of the direct line, Frederick Mackenzie Fraser, died childless. In 1921 his widow, Theodora, sold the castle due to the lack of a suitable heir and mounting financial difficulties. The buyer was Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray. Castle Fraser is contemporary with other nearby castles: Craigievar Castle, Crathes Castle and Midmar Castle which are also believed to have been designed by the Bell family of master masons.



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Tour Scotland Evening Photograph Fountain Market Street St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland evening photograph of the fountain and buildings on Market Street in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Lady Catherine Melville ordered the erection of the fountain in 1880, in memory of her son George John Whyte Melville, a Victorian novelist and horseman, who was killed in a riding accident in 1878. George was born in 1821, at Mount Melville near St Andrews. He was a son of Major John Whyte Melville and Lady Catherine Anne Sarah Osborne and a grandson on his mother's side of the 5th Duke of Leeds. His father was a well known sportsman and Captain of St Andrews Golf Club. George was tutored privately at home by the young Robert Lee, then educated at Eton, entered the army in 1839, became captain in the Coldstream Guards in 1846 and retired in 1849. He married The Charlotte Hanbury Bateman in 1847, and they had one daughter, Florence Elizabeth, who went on to marry Clotworthy John Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene and 4th Viscount Ferrard. By a strange accident, Whyte Melville lost his life in 1878 whilst galloping quietly over a ploughed field in the Vale of White Horse. Having moved to Tetbury in Gloucestershire. England, in about 1875, the better to follow the Beaufort and V.W.H hunts, he was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Tetbury, within a few feet of his property, Barton Abbotts.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Sunset Kilchurn Castle

Tour Scotland photograph of a misty sunset at Kilchurn Castle, Scotland. Kilchurn Castle is located on an islet in Loch Awe to the west of Dalmally in Argyll and Bute, the ruined remains of the Campbell stronghold of Kilchurn Castle date from the mid 15th century whilst extensions were added in the 17th century when the castle was used as a garrison. The roof was removed in 1770 when the building was left to ruin. Since 1953 it has been in the care of Historic Scotland. Scottish Castles.



Tour Scotland video of a rainy day at Kilchurn Castle, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Finnieston Crane Glasgow

Tour Scotland photograph of Finnieston Crane in Glasgow, Scotland. The Crane was commissioned in June 1928 by the Clyde Navigation Trust, the operators of the port and dock facilities in Glasgow, completed in 1931 and commenced operation in 1932. The tower was built by Cowans, Sheldon & Company of Carlisle, England, and the cantilever by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company, under the supervision of Daniel Fife, mechanical engineer to the Clyde Navigation Trust. Connected to a spur of the Stobcross Railway, the crane's primary purpose was the lifting of heavy machinery, such as tanks and steam locomotives, onto ships for export. As many as 30,000 locomotives were hauled through the streets of Glasgow by Clydesdale horses, traction engines and diesel tractors, from the works at Springburn to the crane for export to the British Empire.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Sunset Loch Duich

Tour Scotland photograph of sunset on Loch Duich near Eilean Donan Castle. A legend connected with Loch Duich states that three brothers who went fishing at the loch one night became enraptured by three seal maidens who had thrown off their furs, assumed the likeness of humans, and danced in the moonlight on the sands. The brothers stole their furs, intending to claim the seal-maidens as their wives. The youngest brother, however, moved by the seal girl’s distress, returned her seal skin. For his kindness, the girl’s father allowed the youngest brother to visit the maiden every ninth night. As for the other two brothers, the middle brother lost his wife after the seal maiden he had captured found her stolen fur, while the eldest brother burnt his wife’s fur as a preventative measure, only to burn her accidentally in the process. Eilean Donan Castle was MacRae stronghold which dates from 13th century. Ruined by naval bombardment in 1719, rebuilt earlier this century. Causeway, three arched bridge and gateway with portcullis lead through walls up to 14ft thick. Restored chambers, billeting room and banquet hall with furnishings.



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