Tour Scotland Winter Travel Video Snow Falling Smeaton's Bridge River Tay Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland Winter travel video of snow falling on Smeaton's Bridge which spans the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. John Smeaton, architect of the Eddystone Lighthouse, was commissioned to build a new bridge at Perth. Smeaton's bridge was completed in 1771 and is generally known as Perth Bridge or by locals simply the Old Bridge.
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Tour Scotland Winter Travel Video Snow Falling Moot Hill Scone Palace By Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland Winter travel video of snow falling on Moot Hill on ancestry visit to Scone Palace by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The mons placiti or Scone mote hill is the inauguration site of the Scottish Kings. It is also called Boot Hill, possibly from an ancient tradition whereby emissaries swore fealty to their king by wearing the earth of their own lands in their foot bindings or boots
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Tour Scotland Winter Travel Video Walk In Snow To Ruthven Castle Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland travel video of a Winter walk in the snow to Ruthven Castle on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. The Ruthven lands in Perthshire, Scotland take their name from the Scottish Gaelic, Ruadhainn which means Dun uplands. The clan chief's family are of Norse origin. They first settled in East Lothian but by the end of the twelfth century they were in Perthshire.
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Tour Scotland Winter Travel Video Snow St Matthews Church Tay Street Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland Winter morning travel video of sleet and snow falling by the 212 foot high spire of St Matthews Church an iconic landmark on Tay Street on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Early English Gothic by John Honeyman 1871. Its impressive steeple is a much photographed landmark of Perth. The building in Tay Street that became St Matthews was designed by John Honeyman and built between 1869 and 1871. It is Victorian Gothic in style, and a Session room was added in 1872. A Mission Hall was built in 1880 and a further large hall was added in 1896, when the re-decorated church was opened. John Honeyman was born at 21 Carlton Place, Glasgow on 11 August 1831, the third son of John Honeyman JP of the corn factors John Honeyman & Company, and his wife Isabella Smith. Over £900,000 has been spent in 2017 bringing the iconic Perth place of worship into a warm and welcoming new era.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Adam Ritchie Govan Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Adam Ritchie from Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. The surname as MacRitchie is mainly found in the Highlands, and more usually without " Mac " in Southern Scotland and the English border counties. Early examples include Duncan Richie, a kings messenger in Perth in 1505, John Riche who witnessed an instrument of sasine in Brechin in the same year, and Robert McRichie also known as Makryche, of Glenshee in 1571, whilst Duncan Riche was the king's sheriff of Inverness in the Highlands in 1512. William Ritchie founded the Scotsman newspaper in 1817, and Alexander Ritchie was an Edinburgh artist of repute in the early half of the last century.
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