Tour Scotland Travel Video 2018 New Year's Day Sunrise Forth Railway Bridge Firth Of Forth
Tour Scotland travel video of Monday, 1 January, 2018 New Year's Day sunrise at the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth of Forth on ancestry visit to North Queensferry, Fife, Scotland. This is a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles west of Edinburgh City Centre. The bridge leaves Edinburgh at South Queensferry and arrives in Fife at North Queensferry. Its construction began in 1882 and took 8 years to complete. It is a Scottish icon.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Sitting Room Lauriston Castle Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of a sitting room in Lauriston Castle on Cramond Road South, between Cramond, Davidson's Mains, and Silverknowes on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. In Western architecture, a living room, also called a lounge room, lounge or sitting room, is a room in a residential house or apartment for relaxing and socializing. Such a room is sometimes called a front room when it is near the main entrance at the front of the house. In large formal homes, a sitting room is often a small private living area adjacent to a bedroom. A Lauriston Castle stood on this site in medieval times but was almost totally destroyed in the raids on Edinburgh in 1544 by the earl of Hertford. A tower house was rebuilt around 1590 by Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston, father of John Napier, for his younger son, also named Archibald. In 1683, the estate was purchased by Edinburgh goldsmith and financier William Law, father of infamous economist John Law, born 1671, died 1729, shortly before his death. John Law then inherited the estate and it stayed in the family until 1823 when sold to banker and mineralogist Thomas Allan. In 1827, Allan commissioned William Burn to extend the house in the Jacobean style.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Drawing Room Carlton Hotel Edinburgh Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the drawing room in the Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland. A drawing room is a room in a house or hotel where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from the 16th century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. In a large 16th to early 18th century English house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a distinguished guest who was occupying one of the main apartments in the house could " withdraw " for more privacy
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Tarradale Hotel Muir Of Ord Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Tarradale Hotel in Muir of Ord located near the western boundary of the Black Isle, eight miles South of Dingwall, Scotland. The village is served by Muir of Ord railway station which is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line and the Far North Line. It is the location of the sole remaining crossing loop on the single line between Dingwall and Inverness, Highlands. It was once the junction of a branch railway to Fortrose. The station building and platform canopy were erected in 1894. Passenger services on the branch ceased on 1 October 1951, but the branch remained open for freight until 13 June 1960. The Glen Ord Distillery is one of the few remaining whisky distilleries on the Black Isle.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Pier And Lighthouse North Queensferry Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the pier and lighthouse, North Queensferry, Fife, Scotland. The Old Harbour Light Tower built in 1812 was designed by Robert Stevenson, engineer to the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses. The octagonal tower is built using local sandstone. A winding staircase of 24 steps leads up the tower to the Lantern Room. Every day the Lighthouse Keeper would have to climb the tower to perform routine maintenance such as cleaning the lamps and trimming the lamp's wicks.
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