Old Travel Blog Photograph Shinty Team Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Shinty team in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Shinty, Scottish Gaelic: camanachd, iomain, is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread in Scotland, and was even played for a considerable time in England and other areas in the world where Scottish Highlanders migrated. While comparisons are often made with field hockey, the two games have several important differences. In shinty, a player is allowed to play the ball in the air and is allowed to use both sides of the stick, called a caman, which is wooden and slanted on both sides. The stick may also be used to block and to tackle, although a player may not come down on an opponent's stick, a practice called hacking. Players may also tackle using the body as long as it is shoulder to shoulder.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Scottish Horse Regiment Pipers Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Scottish Horse Regiment Pipers in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. The Scottish Horse was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Territorial Army from 1902 to 1956 when it was amalgamated with The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry. It carries the traditions and battle honours of The Scottish Horse raised in South Africa in 1900 for service in the Second Boer War. The regiment saw heavy fighting in both the Great War as the 13th Battalion of The Black Watch and in World War II as part of The Royal Artillery.



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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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