Old Travel Blog Photograph Vale Of Atholl Pipe Band Blair Castle Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Vale Of Atholl Pipe Band at the Highland Games by Blair Castle in Highland Perthshire Perthshire, Scotland. The band was founded in 1906 as the Vale of Atholl Pipers Association, with the Marquess of Tullibardine as patron and led by pipe major Mitchell Pirnie. The band started in competing in competition in 1931 under the leadership of Robert Pirnie, and played at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. In 1993, the band reached a sponsorship agreement with Macnaughtons of Pitlochry, and changed its tartan from traditional Murray of Atholl tartan to the Muted Macnaughton.



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Tour Scotland Travel Video Adam Smith Statue In The Rain Royal Mile Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the statue of Adam Smith, the first modern economist , in the rain, on the Royal Mile on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. Adam Smith, was born in Kirkcaldy in 1723. He became a well renowned lecturer in economics and he is best remembered for the first serious study of economics on a massive and International scale originally titled, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations and later abbreviated by publishers to The Wealth Of Nations. It was written at his mother’s house in the High Street of Kirkcaldy. The honoured statue was created by Alexander Stoddart, Scotland's leading monumental sculptor, and was unveiled by Nobel Laureate Economist Professor Vernon L. Smith.

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Old Travel Blog Photograph Dalreavoch Lodge Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Dalreavoch Lodge, a late Victorian sporting lodge, once the haunt of Dukes and Earls, by Rogart, Sutherland, Scotland. Rogart was originally a scattered crofting village in the Highlands, until the opening of the Rogart railway station at Pittentrail 1.5 miles to the south east. A newer industrial village grew after the arrival of the railway in 1886, with the older village remaining. The village was the home of Major Andrew MacDonald born 7th of May 1721, who fought in the French and Indian War. In 1758 Andrew was sent to assist with besieging the Fort of Louisbourg. The French garrison resisted for just long enough to prevent the British from marching westwards to invade Quebec that year. The eventual capture of Quebec though earned him a promotion to Captain and a return to Halifax. His climb up the ranks continued and in 1766 he became a Major in the 59th Regiment. Rather than returning home when he retired on full pay in 1770, he remained in Halifax. He had settled there and had many friends among the Scottish merchants of the city. The year after his retirement he joined the North British Society and for the next quarter century he was an active and enthusiastic member of this philanthropic club. He is described rather formidably as having a ‘powerful and robust personality’! MacDonald worked to develop the burgeoning colonial town of Halifax. Despite having been settled in the colony of Nova Scotia for thirty years, in 1798 he decided to return to Scotland. For the final decade of his life, until his death in 1809, he lived where he had been born, in Rogart. 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 Cottages Achnacroish Lismore Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of cottages in Achnacroish on Lismore an island situated in Loch Linnhe, by Fort William, Scotland. Saint Moluag founded a monastery on Lismore. The island was a major centre of Celtic Christianity, and the seat of the later medieval bishopric of Argyll or the Isles. Achnacroish harbour serves the ferry between Lismore and Oban.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Vintage Passenger Bus Road To Milngavie Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a vintage Passenger Bus on the road to Milngavie, a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. A Scottish town on the Allander Water, at the north western edge of Glasgow. It neighbours Bearsden. Although known today as a dormitory suburb of Glasgow, the town grew from a country village within the parish of New Kilpatrick to a minor industrial centre in the nineteenth century with paper mills and bleach works on the Allander River to the north east of the town centre. The land surrounding the village comprised several estates with tenant farms, amongst them Barloch, Clober, Craigton, Craigdhu, Dougalston, Douglas Mains and South Mains. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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