Tour Scotland Winter Travel Video Car Driving Over Old Golf Course St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland Winter travel video of a car driving across Granny Clark's Wynd on ancestry visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. This is the road that splits the fairways of the 1st and 18th fairways on the Old Course at St. Andrews. It is thought that no other championship course has a public road crossing two of its holes and golfers who have the misfortune of having their ball end up on the road must play it as it lies or take relief under penalty. Historically the wynd was a route for townsfolk to get to the West Sands beach.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Fish and Chips Shop Anstruther East Neuk of Fife

Tour Scotland Winter travel video of the Fish and Chips Shop at 25 Shore Street in the fishing village on ancestry visit to Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. When I was a young man, raised in Cellardyke and Anstruther, this was called Brattesanis. The Brattisani family settled in Edinburgh in the late 1870s and were the very first of the Italian immigrants to settle in the city. Manegildo owned this chippy in 1955. The Brattisani family historic roots are from a very small village in Italy called Borgo val di Taro in the Province of Parma, 63 kilomoteres from the city of Parma. Fish and chips became a common meal among the working classes in Scotland as a consequence of the rapid development of trawl fishing in the North Sea, and the development of railways which connected the ports to major industrial cities during the second half of the 19th century, which meant that fresh fish could be rapidly transported to the heavily populated areas.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Diesel Passenger Train Crossing Tay Railway Bridg

Tour Scotland travel video of a diesel passenger train crossing the Tay Railway Bridge over the Firth of Tay from Wormit in Fife on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. The present structure is the second one this site. From about 1854, there had been plans for a Tay crossing, to replace an early train ferry. The first bridge, opened in 1878, was a single track lattice design, notable for lightness and low cost. Its sudden collapse in a high wind on 28 December 1879 was one of the great engineering disasters of history. Seventy five passengers and crew died,The second bridge is a double track construction of iron and steel, opened in 1887 and still in service.

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Old Travel Blog Photograph George Sinclair Painters And Decorators Shop Gorgie Edinburgh Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the George Sinclair, Painters and Decorators, shop in Gorgie, Edinburgh, Scotland. Gorgie is recorded in 12th century charters of Holyrood Abbey, when in 1236 it came into the possession of Sir William Livingston. In 1799, the Cox family who owned a mill bought most of the former estate from the residual Livingston family. They developed a glue factory on the site, which was redeveloped under a new Post Office Telecommunications telephone exchange in 1969. From 1527, the landowners lived in Gorgie House, situated on Alexander Drive. Its remnants were demolished in 1937, to allow construction of the Pooles Roxy cinema and some housing. With grain whisky consumption growing in the industrialised and railway connected Victorian era, independent whisky blenders needed access to a high quality and high volume producer of grain whisky spirit. In 1885, major shareholders Andrew Usher, William Sanderson and John M. Crabbie, with numerous other whisky blenders as shareholders, established the North British Distillery Company, which bought the former pig farm, and began developing a distillery. The distillery gained access to the Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway, which began developing a railway station in Gorgie. This brought about the 1888 development of Stewart Terrace, Wardlaw Place, Wardlaw Street, and the tenement flats of Tynecastle Terrace and Ardmillan Terrace; although Gorgie, west of Robertson Avenue, did not lose its rural character until the early 1900s.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Exterior Lady Chapel Dryburgh Abbey Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the exterior of the Lady Chapel at Dryburgh Abbey in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. The Abbey was founded by the Premonstratensian Order, brought from Alnwick in 1140. They were a reformed group of Augustinians and this was their first of only six houses in Scotland. Though Dryburgh was less troubled than Jedburgh or Kelso, like Melrose it was wasted by the English in 1322, and rebuilt with the financial assistance of Robert the Bruce. The 15th century west end of the Abbey church lies flush to a high, enclosing cloister wall, where more usually would have been a range of claustral buildings. Elsewhere around the cloisters stood the refectory, warming house, library and vestry, parlour.



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