Tour Scotland Video Wrapping Fish And Chips In A Scottish Fish And Chip Shop

Tour Scotland video of wrapping Fish and Chips in a Scottish Fish and Chip Shop in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. British fish and chips were originally served in a wrapping of old newspapers, but this practice largely ceased as a result of a European Union directives, with plain paper. Fish and chips became a common meal among the working classes in Scotland as a consequence of the rapid development of trawl fishing in the North Sea, and the development of railways which connected the ports to major industrial cities during the second half of the 19th century, which meant that fresh fish could be rapidly transported to the heavily populated areas.

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Old Travel Blog Photograph Thatched Cottages Kyles Of Scalpay Isle Of Harris Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of thatched cottages at Kyles Of Scalpay across from the island of Scalpay on Island Of Harris, Scotland. Scalpay is home to many Gaelic singers and psalm presenters. The island used to have more than 10 shops over 30 years ago but due to lack of people and work, the last shop closed in 2007. There also used to be a salmon factory which was a major local employer from 2001 until its closure in 2005. In the spring of 2009, local newspapers reported that the factory was to reopen.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Eaval North Uist Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Eaval, the highest hill on North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. North Uist is the tenth largest Scottish island. North Uist was hit hard during the Highland Clearances, and there was large scale emigration from the island to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. North Uist surnames affected during the clearances were the MacAulay, Morrison, MacCodrum, MacCuish, and MacDonald. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Mill Balmuir Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of houses and Mill in Balmuir on the outskirts of the city of Dundee, Tayside, Scotland. Balmuir is located to the north of the Dighty Water 1½ miles East South East of Bridgefoot. The Dighty, or Dichty, Water rises as the Lundie Burn in the Sidlaw Hills to the north west of Dundee. It flows southeastwards to enter the Tay estuary between Broughty Ferry and Monifieth, having completed a course of 12½ miles. The Dighty provided power for industry from at least the 16th Century when grain mills are recorded here. In the 17th Century mills were involved in the waulking of woollen cloth, and bleachfields were also established at this time, some of which persisted until the 20th century. There may have been 56 mills on the river at one point in the 18th century.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Major General Robert Bruce Memorial Dunfermline Abbey Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Major General Robert Bruce Memorial, Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland. Major-General the Honourable Robert Bruce, born 15 March 1813, died 27 June 1862, was a British Army officer who served as Governor to the young Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. He was the fourth son of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and the Earl's second son by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of James Townsend Oswald. James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin was his elder brother, and his younger brothers included Frederick Wright-Bruce and Thomas Charles Bruce. Bruce entered the Army at the age of seventeen, with the purchase of a commission as ensign and lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 18 June 1830. His promotion to lieutenant and captain was purchased on 22 February 1833. Bruce served as adjutant of the regiment from 28 May 1835 until July 1836 and then on the staff of Sir Edward Blakeney, the commander-in-chief in Ireland. Bruce served as military secretary to his brother Lord Elgin, the governor of Jamaica, from 1841 to 1846, in the meantime being promoted captain and lieutenant-colonel in the Grenadier Guards, again by purchase, on 2 August 1844. He acted again as military secretary to his brother from 1847 to 1854, during Elgin's term as Governor-General of the Province of Canada, and on 20 June 1854 he was granted brevet rank as colonel. He returned to England in that year and served briefly as a surveyor-general at the Board of Ordnance. He was promoted major of his regiment, without purchase, on 16 September 1856, and served until he retired as a lieutenant-colonel on the half-pay unattached list on 7 December 1858. In 1858 Bruce was appointed governor to the seventeen-year-old Prince of Wales, following the dismissal of the Prince's tutor Frederick Waymouth Gibbs. He attended the Prince during his time at Christ Church, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge between 1859 and 1861, and accompanied him on his trips to Rome in 1859 and Canada and the United States in 1860. On 7 December 1859 he was promoted major-general. In 1862 he went with the Prince of Wales on a tour of the Near East, where he caught a fever. He died at St James's Palace in the rooms of his sister Lady Augusta Bruce, later wife of Dean Stanley. Bruce was married on 2 May 1848 to Katherine Mary, second daughter of Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, 6th Baronet. They had no children. The Hon. Mrs Bruce was appointed a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria in 1866, and was a Lady of the Order of Victoria and Albert. She died on 3 December 1889.



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