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 Baledmund Pictish Stone near Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. A Pictish stone is a type of monumental stele, generally carved or incised with symbols or designs. A few have ogham inscriptions. Located in Scotland, mostly north of the Clyde Forth line and on the Eastern side of the country, these stones are the most visible remaining evidence of the Picts and are thought to date from the 6th to 9th century, a period during which the Picts became Christianized.
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Old travel Blog photograph of Vale Of Atholl Football Club in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. The Vale of Atholl were founded in 1879 and originally played at the old Recreation Park now situated at the bottom of Loch Faskally. Relocating along with the pavillion in the 1950's when the dam was built to the current location the Vale were regular competitors in the Scottish Cup in the past having played ties against the likes of Dundee and Hibernian.
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Old travel Blog photograph of the Railway Station in Springside in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was originally part of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway. The station opened in 1890, and closed permanently to passengers on 6 April 1964. Also known as Springside Halt, this station had no freight facilities. The line between Irvine and Crosshouse continued to be used by trains until October 1965. The last passenger train through the station was a Kilmaurs Sunday Schools special train to Ardrossan South Beach on Saturday, 20 June 1964.
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Old travel Blog photograph of Kelly Sawmill by Kelly Burn near Wemyss Bay in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The name Wemyss is derived from the Scottish Gaelic uaimh which means cave. It is believed to be taken from the caves of the Firth of Forth where the Clan Wemyss made their home. The chiefs are one of the few noble families who are descended from the Celtic nobility through the Clan MacDuff Earls of Fife. The name Wemyss Bay may be associated with Bob Wemyss, who was the owner of a hut on the shore in the 19th century.
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Old travel Blog photograph of the Post Office in Possilpark, Glasgow, Scotland. Possilpark is a district north of the River Clyde. The district's hub is Saracen Street. The area developed around Saracen Foundry of Walter MacFarlane and Company, which was the main employer. In the wake of the Saracen Foundry's closure in 1967. Walter MacFarlane was the man who renamed the estate of Possil to Possilpark, which grew from a population of 10 people in 1872, to 10,000 by 1891. MacFarlane oversaw the removal of all the woodlands and after creating railway access to his foundry, laid out the rest of the park land as a grid plan of streets and tenements, including naming the main street running through the new suburb, Saracen Street. The Saracen foundry made a series of decorative iron works, from railings and water fountains to park bandstands. These were exported all over the British Empire, and can still be found in abundance in many parts of North Glasgow. After World War II, the combination of the collapse of the British Empire, the move away from steam power and the adaptation of new designs and materials meant a vast decline in orders for Saracen's standard cast iron designs. The MacFarlane company moved into standard foundry work, including being one of five foundries casting Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's classic K6 telephone box for Post Office Telephones. After a take over of the company in 1965, the works closed and the infrastructure was demolished in 1967.
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