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.
Tour Scotland Video Of Old photographs Of Leven Fife
Tour Scotland travel video of old photographs of Leven, Fife. The origin of the name Leven comes from the Pictish word for flood. In 1854 the Leven Railway opened, linking the town with Thornton Junction on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen main line. This helped it to become a tourist resort popular with visitors from the west of Scotland, and particularly Glasgow. Leven is located on the coast of the Firth of Forth at the mouth of the River Leven, eight miles north-east of Kirkcaldy and six miles east of Glenrothes. Golf is also a major draw with two courses at Scoonie and Leven Links. The ecclesiastical and civil parish of Scoonie included the town of Leven. I was born in Randolph Street, in nearby village of Buckhaven. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Leith Edinburgh
Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Leith, Edinburgh. Leith has played a long and prominent role in Scottish history. As the major port serving Edinburgh, it has been the stage on which many significant events in Scottish history have taken place. Mary of Guise ruled Scotland from Leith in 1560 as Regent while her daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots remained in France. Mary of Guise moved the Scottish Court to Leith, to a site that is now Parliament Street, off Coalhill. Leith Docks became known as the port for Edinburgh and modest shipbuilding and repair facilities grew. On 20 May 1806. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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Tour Scotland Video January Road Trip Drive West Glencoe Scottish Highlands
Tour Scotland video of a January road trip drive West on the A82 road through Glencoe, Highlands, Scotland. Two of the three Highlander films starring Christopher Lambert were filmed here. The opening battle scene near the beginning of the film takes place between the mountains of Buchaille Etive Mor and Buchaille Etive Beag, at the entrance to the Glen. This Highlands location featured in Skyfall the James Bond movie, and Harry Potter films mainly because it is the most famous Scottish glen and one of the most dramatic landscapes in the world. The A82 runs from Glasgow to Fort William and Inverness, passing along the shores of Loch Lomond and Loch Ness and in the shadow of Ben Nevis along the way. It is probably the most important trunk route serving the West Highlands of Scotland, and along its route uses pieces of road first built in the 1750s. Glencoe was the scene of one of the most infamous massacres in Scottish history.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Hepworths Shop High Street Dunfermline Fife Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Hepworths Shop on the High Street in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Joseph Hepworth was the clothing manufacturer who founded Joseph Hepworth & Son, a company which grew to become the United Kingdom's largest clothing manufacturer and which is now known as Next plc. Joseph was born in 1834 at Lindley in Huddersfield, England. He left school at ten to join George Walker's Mill in Leeds in 1844. In 1864 he went into business with James Rhodes, his wife's brother, as a tailor in Leeds. By 1881 their factory in Wellington Street employed 500 people and, unusually, made all three pieces of a gentlemen's three piece suit. In the 1880s they innovated further establishing shops to sell their suits direct to the public. By 1890 they employed 2,000 operatives who sold their stock through 107 shops. Hepworth married Sarah Rhodes in 1855 they went on to have three sons and four daughters. Joseph Hepworth died in Harrogate in 1911 and within 6 years of his death Joseph Hepworth & Son was the largest clothing manufacturer in the United Kingdom.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Burn And Culvert Ecclefechan Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of cottages, houses and people by the burn and culvert in Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The High Street of the village has a burn, which is Scottish word for a stream, which runs through a culvert below it. This culvert was constructed in 1875 by Dr George Arnott at his own expense. Thomas Carlyle the essayist, satirist and historian was born on 4 December 1795 in The Arched House in Ecclefechan. Carlyle left Ecclefechan at the age of 13 and walked the 84 miles to Edinburgh in order to attend university. In 1828 he moved to Craigenputtock with his wife Jane. He never forgot his roots and insisted that Ecclefechan should become his final resting place. He was buried in Ecclefechan churchyard on 5 February 1881. Robert Burns composed a song entitled The Lass O' Ecclefechan.
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