Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Drive Mennieburn Road To Aberuthven Perthshire

Tour Scotland sunny Winter travel video of a drive down narrow Mennieburn Road on ancestry visit Aberuthven, Perthshire, Scotland. Until the 19th century Aberuthven was named Smiddyhaugh, a blacksmith forge by the bridge over the Ruthven. In days gone by the village was filled with hand loom weavers working away in their cottages.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Snowdrops By The Road To The Historic Capital

Tour Scotland travel video of snowdrops by the old road to the historic capital of Scottish kingdom of Alba on ancestry visit to Scone Palace by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This is the road travelled by the Highland Clan Chiefs who would come here to pledge allegiance to their land. Most of the Kings crowned during those early days were Gaelic speakers.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video A Walk Among The Tombstones And Snowdrops Chapel Graveyard Innerpeffray Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a walk among the tombstones and Winter Snowdrops on ancestry visit to the Chapel graveyard at Innerpeffray, Perthshire, Scotland. Innerpeffray Chapel was built as the private chapel for the local noble family, the Drummonds. By 1542 it had become a collegiate church. The Protestant Reformation of 1560 should have ended the chapel’s role as a place of worship, but evidence suggests the Drummonds continued their Catholic worship here. It continued to serve as the family mausoleum, and by 1680 part of it was being used as the first public lending library in Scotland.

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Old Travel Blog Photograph Balavil Hotel Newtonmore Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Balavil Hotel on the High Street in Newtonmore, Scotland. The village is only a few miles from a location that is claimed to be the exact geographical centre of Scotland. Newtonmore railway station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Highland Main Line. Newtonmore has been bypassed by the A9 since 1979. Newtonmore calls itself the Walking Centre of Scotland, referring both to its geographical location and to the great walking opportunities locally, like the Wildcat Trail. An extension to the Speyside Way could soon add Newtonmore to a Long Distance Route and it will become the new end to this trail.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Esplanade And Beach Aberdeen Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of people on the Esplanade and Beach in Aberdeen, Scotland. Extending for 2½ miles along Aberdeen Bay, from Footdee in the South to the Bridge of Don in the North, Aberdeen Esplanade links Aberdeen Harbour with the sand dunes of Donmouth Nature Reserve. Also referred to as Aberdeen Promenade or Aberdeen Beach, the esplanade provides Scots with a pleasure beach, including these days a Beach Ballroom, Transition Extreme Skatepark and Climbing Centre, Beach Leisure Centre, Linx Ice Arena, Codona's Amusement Park, with associated entertainment arcades, the Old Town Golf Course and a Golf Driving Range. Traces of the former Beach Bathing Station can still be seen. Opened in 1885, this was at the centre of the development of the Beach area for leisure, it having become an industrial area during the earlier 19th Century. with a cotton mill, chemical works, iron works, gas works, and rope and sail manufacturer all located nearby in the 1880s.



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