Old Travel Blog Photograph Steam Locomotive St. Rollox Springburn Glasgow Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a steam locomotive at St. Rollox in Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland. Springburn developed from a small rural hamlet at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Its industrial expansion began with the establishment of a chemical works by Charles Tennant on the newly opened Monkland Canal at nearby St. Rollox in 1799. Later in the 19th century the construction of railway lines through the area led to the establishment of Railway works and the village became a parish in its own right. The Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway first opened in 1831 to supply the St. Rollox Chemical Works and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was opened in 1842. Later, the City Union Line was extended to Springburn in 1871 and the Hamiltonhill Branch Line opened in 1894. Initially located outwith the Glasgow boundary, the area was eventually absorbed by the City of Glasgow Corporation in 1872.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Steam Train Cove Bay Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a steam train near Cove Bay, a suburb on the south east edge of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Cove Bay is situated to the east of the ancient Causey Mounth, a road was built on high ground to make passable this only available medieval route from coastal points south from Stonehaven to Aberdeen. This ancient trackway specifically connected the River Dee crossing, where the Bridge of Dee is located, via Portlethen Moss, Muchalls Castle and Stonehaven to the south. The route was that taken by William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and the Marquess of Montrose, who led a Covenanter army of 9000 men in the battle of the Civil War in 1639.



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Tour Scotland Travel Video Traditional Yellow On The Broom Song Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel Blog video of Yellow On The Broom being sung on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. ( sorry about the poor acoustics ) A song about the Travellers, sometimes called Tinkers, of Scotland who lived a nomadic life which often settled for a short while during the harder winter months.

Well, I ken ye dinna like it, lass, tae winter here in toun
For the scaldies they all cry us, aye, and they try to put us doun;
And it’s hard to raise three bairnies in a single flea-box room,
But I’ll tak’ ye on the road again when the yellow’s on the broom

The yellow’s on the broom, when the yellow’s on the broom,
Oh, I’ll tak’ ye on the road again when the yellow’s on the broom

Oh, the scaldies call us tinker dirt and they sconce our bairns in school,
But who cares what a scaldy says, for scaldy’s but a fool.
They never hear the yorlin’s song, nor see the flax in bloom,
For they’re aye cooped up in houses when the yellow’s on the broom

Nae sales for pegs and baskets now, so just to stay alive
We’ve had tae work at scaldy jobs frae nine o’clock til five;
But we call nae man our master, and we own the world’s aroon,
And we’ll bid fareweel tae Brekin, when the yellow’s on the broom

I am weary for the springtime, when we’ll tak’ the road aince mair,
Tae the plantin’ and the pearling, aye, and the berry fields of Blair,
There we’ll meet wi’ all our kinfolk, frae a’ the country roun’,
When the gang-aboot folk tak’ tae the road, and the yellow’s on the broom

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Old Travel Blog Photograph Drumtochty Church Glenalmond Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Drumtochty Church and graveyard in Harrietfield, Glenalmond located eight miles West of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. John Watson, whose widely familiar pen name is Ian Maclaren, was born in 1850 in Manningtree, Essex, England, where his father, who was engaged in the Excise. The formative years of his childhood were spent however in Scotland, first at Perth and then at Stirling. In due time young Watson went to the University of Edinburgh, where he excelled in the classics and in philosophy. He became secretary and afterwards president of the Philosophical Society connected with the University. When he had completed his studies he decided to enter the Free Church of Scotland, and passed through the curriculum of the New College. He also spent some time at Tübingen. Robert Louis Stevenson was a classmate of his in the English Literature class in the University; and Dr. Watson remembers the occasional visits Stevenson made to the class. For a short period, about a year, after his ordination, he served as assistant pastor to Dr. J. H. Wilson of the Barclay Church in Edinburgh, before he became minister of the Free Church in Harrietfield, a small village consisting chiefly of one main street, belonging to the estate of Logiealmond in Perthshire. His gifts as a brilliant preacher could not be hid under a bushel; and two and a half years were all that he was permitted to spend at Logiealmond. Calls multiplied, and became insistent, until he ultimately accepted one from St. Matthew’s in Glasgow. Dr. Watson’s literary plans of early years, when his young, alert mind was casting around for material to fasten upon for future developments, had been laid aside, and treated as dreams of a presumptuous youth. Up to 1894 he was quite unknown to the public as an author; and yet, in little more than a year after the publication of his first volume, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, the sales had exceeded in England and America 200,000 copies. Doctor Watson continued his literary activity up to the time of his death, which took place on May 6th, 1907.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph St Salvator's Hall St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of St Salvator's Hall in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. St Salvator’s Hall was originally built in 1930, and lies in a central, but quiet, location between The Scores and North Street adjacent to the United College Quadrangle. The hall boasts an impressive oak paneled dining room, featuring a series of stained glass windows commemorating founders and benefactors of the University.



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