Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old travel Blog photograph of the road to Glenesk, Angus, Scotland. Glenesk, lying at the foot of the Grampian mountain range, is the most easterly of the Angus Glens. There is no through road, but possibly this has helped to protect its unspoilt character. The area is used by both walkers and anglers.
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Old travel Blog photograph of the Post Office in Tannadice located four miles North of Forfar in Angus, Scotland. The estate of Tannadice was formerly owned by William Neish of Tannadice and Clepington. Neish Street in Dundee was called after William Neish of Tannadice and Easter Clepington, who had become proprietor, in 1856, of the land on which the street was formed.
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Old travel Blog photograph of people outside the Post Office in the village of Glamis, Scotland. Situated by Glamis Castle. Glamis was the location of a flax spinning mill which in 1818 was leased by William Baxter, who later founded the major Dundee textile firm Baxter Brothers & Company Limited. within the village there stands an intricately carved Pictish stone known as the Glamis Manse Stone.
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Old travel Blog photograph of houses and people on Searle Terrace in Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Scotland. Near this Scottish village is Auchinleck House, past home of the lawyer, diarist and biographer James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck. Within the churchyard is a memorial to Richard Cameron and other famous Covenanters.Cameron and his group were captured at Aird's Moss, North East of Auchinleck after publishing the Sanquhar Declaration of 1680.
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Old travel Blog photograph of the actress, Kittie Franklyn, in the Princess Theatre in the Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland. The theatre opened as Her Majesty's in 1878 and became the Royal Princess's two years later. It became famous for its pantomimes, the titles of which, like Tammie Twister, always contained thirteen letters. The Gorbals has long had a reputation as a gritty and rough area of Glasgow. In the 1870s, the City Improvement Trust cleared away the old Gorbals village and redeveloped the area to form the new Gorbals Cross, at the same time developing new workers tenements around the former Oatlands Square. Later, industrial restructuring meant a loss of jobs, and abandoned factories and support buildings fell into ruin. In the 20th century, the problems of concentrated poverty and lack of jobs contributed to high levels of crime. Those people who managed to advance in education and economic status left the area for newer housing and work elsewhere. Throughout the 1930s, the Gorbals was often referred to as the most dangerous place in the UK. Street gangs and casual violence were rife, particularly from the famous Glasgow razor gangs. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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