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 houses and fishwives on Wester Close in Newhaven in Edinburgh, Scotland. This Scottish village played a part in the birth of photography. David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson did many studies of the fishwives of Newhaven. A close, is a Scots term for alleyway, although they may be individually named close, entry, court, or wynd.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Glencoe Massacre Memorial Monument on ancestry visit to the village of Glencoe in the Highlands of Scotland. Not far from here on 13 February 1692, MacIain, Chief of the MacDonalds of Glencoe and 37 of his clansmen were murdered by a militia of the Earl of Argyll's regiment in the infamous Massacre of Glencoe. Cruel is the snow that sweeps Glencoe and covers the grave o' Donald.
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Old travel Blog photograph of a Royal Navy ship by Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland. The Royal Naval Reserve were the first Shetlanders to be called up and ordered to report to their headquarters in Lerwick on 2nd August 1914. This was the first time in the history of the R.N.R that men had been called up, emphasising the gravity of the international situation. Hundreds of men poured into Lerwick from nearly every district in Shetland. The first settlement to be known as Lerwick was founded in the 17th century as a herring and white fish seaport to trade with the Dutch fishing fleet. When Lerwick became more prosperous through sea trade and the fishing industry during the 19th century, the town expanded in 1891 to the west of Hillhead, thereby including the former civil parishes of Gulberwick und Quarff, as well as the islands parish of Burra. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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Old travel Blog photograph of the 1910 flood in Largs in Ayrshire, Scotland. From its beginnings as a small village around its kirk, Largs evolved into a busy and popular seaside resort in the nineteenth century. Large hotels appeared and the pier was constructed in 1834. It was not until 1895, however, that the railway made the connection to Largs, sealing the town's popularity. The town is served by the railway line from Glasgow to North Ayrshire. Largs is the birthplace of the actors Daniela Nardini and John Sessions, the footballer Lou Macari and the golfer Sam Torrance. Though not born in Largs, musician and songwriter Graham Lyle of Gallagher and Lyle was brought up there and still returns to visit his holiday home.
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Old photographs of Haddington, Scotland. It is approximately twenty miles east of Edinburgh. The town, like the rest of the Lothian region, was ceded by King Edgar of England and became part of Scotland in the tenth century. Haddington received burghal status, one of the earliest to do so, during the reign of King David I, giving it trading rights which encouraged its growth into a market town. In the middle of the town is the Town House, built in 1748 according to a plan by William Adam.
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