Tour Scotland Travel Video Of Old Photographs Of Port Ellen Island Of Islay

Tour Scotland travel video of old photographs of Port Ellen, Island Of Islay, Scotland. Port Ellen is built around Loch Leodamais, Islay's main deep water harbour. It is the largest town on Islay, only slightly larger than Bowmore and provides the main ferry connection between Islay and the mainland, at Kennacraig. The Port Ellen Distillery was first established in the 1820s and ceased production of Scotch whisky in 1983. The large malting continues to produce for the majority of the distilleries on Islay. 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 Winter Travel Video Cargo Ship Firth of Forth

Tour Scotland Winter travel video of a cargo ship on the Firth of Forth, Scotland. Snow on the Ochil Hills in the background. The Firth of Forth, Scottish Gaelic: Linne Foirthe, is the estuary, firth in Scots, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth. It meets the North Sea with Fife on the north coast and Lothian on the south. It was known as Bodotria in Roman times. In the Norse sagas it was known as the Myrkvifiörd. Shot this with a long lens.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Drive South To Cross Queensferry Crossing Firth Of Forth

Tour Scotland sunny Winter morning video of a road trip drive, from Friarton Bridge outside Perth, Perthshire, all the way 32 miles South down the M90 motorway, to cross the Queensferry Crossing the new Forth Road Bridge, over the Firth of Forth near South Queensfery, Scotland. Queensferry Crossing, is a road bridge built alongside the existing Forth Road Bridge which will carries the M90 motorway across the Firth of Forth between Lothian, at South Queensferry, and Fife, at North Queensferry. The bridge is 683 feet high above high tide, equivalent to approximately 48 London buses stacked on top of each other and 25% higher than existing Forth Road Bridge. It is estimated the construction involved approximately 10 million man hours.

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Tour Scotland Winter Travel Video Waterfalls Glencoe And Glen Etive Highlands

Tour Scotland Winter travel video of waterfalls in Glencoe and Glen Etive on ancestry visit to the Highlands of Scotland. Early on the morning of 13 February 1692, in the aftermath of the Jacobite uprising of 1689 an incident known as the Massacre of Glencoe or Mort Ghlinne Comhann in Gaelic took place in Glen Coe in the Highlands of Scotland. Thirty eight men from Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed by government forces billeted with them on the grounds they had not been prompt in pledging allegiance to the new monarchs, William III and Mary II. Another forty women and children later died of exposure after their homes were burned. Movie sets for the third Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, were built near to the bottom of Clachaig Gully. Glen Etive has been used as the backdrop to many movies, among them Braveheart and Skyfall. The Fachen is also known as the Dwarf of Glen Etive. In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, Deirdre and her love Naoise founded Glen Etive after fleeing Ulster.

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Old Travel Blog Photograph Orchar Park Broughty Ferry Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of people in Orchar Park in Broughty Ferry by Dundee, Scotland. Orchar Park became a part of the City of Dundee in 1923, under the Extension of the City Act. In 1887, on the occasion of the First Jubilee of Queen Victoria, the conversion of the lease of the ground was acquired by the Commissioners, of the Burgh at that time and in 1890 James Guthrie Orchar, born 1825, died 1898, who was for many years Provost of Broughty Ferry, at his own expense, erected the wall and railing by which the Park is surrounded. A provost, introduced into Scots from French, is the ceremonial head of many Scottish local authorities, and under the name prévôt was a governmental position of varying importance in Ancien Régime France. Historically the provost was the chief magistrate or convener of a Scottish burgh council, the equivalent of a mayor in other parts of the English speaking world.



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