Tour Scotland Travel Video Young Scot Jason Townsley Playing The Bagpipes Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Saturday afternoon travel video of young Scot Jason Townsley playing the bagpipes while Busking on the High Street in the City Centre on visit to the Fair City of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This young man is a piper with Vale of Atholl Pipe Band. Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities. In many countries the rewards are generally in the form of money but other gratuities such as food, drink or gifts may be given. Street performance is practised all over the world and dates back to antiquity. People engaging in this practice are called street performers or buskers.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Spring Drive To Driveway Of The Parish Church In Cortachy Angus

Tour Scotland travel video of a cloudy Spring road trip drive on the B955 road to the entrance driveway of the Parish Church in Cortachy, Angus, Scotland. The church was built in 1828 by David Paterson on the site of an older, medieval church. It stands on a small rise on the side of a steep river valley. It is surrounded by a small, curved graveyard. The Gothic church was built with red ashlar sandstone and encorporates a 17th century burial aisle, which was rebuilt in 1828. Cortachy is the ancestral home of the Clan Ogilvy and the Earls of Airlie. Earl of Airlie is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created on 2 April 1639 for James Ogilvy, 7th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie, along with the title Lord Ogilvy of Alith and Lintrathen. The title Lord Ogilvy of Airlie had been created on 28 April 1491. In the 14th and 15th centuries the Ogilvys became hereditary sheriffs of Angus. A son of Sir Walter Ogilvy of Auchterhouse was killed in a clan battle with the Clan Robertson in 1394 and Ogilvys also fought at the Battle of Harlaw in 1411. Sir Patrick Ogilvy commanded the Scottish forces that fought alongside Joan of Arc against the English, and he was styled Viscomte d'Angus. In 1425 Sir Walter Ogilvy, younger son of Ogilvy of Wester Powrie, was appointed High Treasurer of Scotland. The Clan Ogilvy, supported by men from the Clan Oliphant, Clan Seton, Clan Gordon and the Clan Forbes fought at the Battle of Arbroath on 24 January 1445 against the Master of Crawford and his Clan Lindsay. James Ogilvy, the eldest son of the fourth Lord was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547. In 1615 Saint John Ogilvie was hanged at Glasgow Cross. In 1639 the seventh Lord Ogilvy was created Earl of Airlie. The Clan Ogilvy supported the Stuart cause and joined the Earl of Mar in the Jacobite rising of 1715. David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie is the present chief of the Ogilvie clan and served as Lord Chamberlain to the Queen. Royal links were also reinforced when Angus Ogilvy, the brother of the chief, married HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent. There are many people of the Ogilvy or Ogilvie family living in various places all over the world, such as Australia, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United States, Canada, New Zealand, Argentina, Mexico and Cyprus.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Spring Drive Road To Glen Prosen Angus

Tour Scotland travel video of a cloudy Spring road trip drive on the single track road to Glen Prosen in Angus, Scotland. A glen in the southern Grampians, Glen Prosen occupies the valley of the Prosen Water in the Braes of Angus. Antarctic explorers Captain Robert Falcon Scott, born, 1868, died 1922, and Doctor Edward Wilson, born 1872, died 1912, used to often visit this area. Helen Porter Mitchell, better known as the Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba, born 1861, died 1931, was the daughter of a farmer who lived in the glen near Glackburn. Isobel Edwards was born on 12 November 1718 at Pearsie in the Glen. As of 29 January 1738, her married name was Wedderburn. She married Robert Wedderburn, son of Sir Alexander Wedderburn and Katherine Scott, on 1 February 1738. Isobel Edwards died on 6 January 1758 at age 39. Katharine Stormonth, was born on 1 November 1814. As of 1834, her married name was Maclagan. She married Reverend James Maclagan in 1834. James and Katharine had 6 sons and 4 daughters. As of 1870, Katharine Stormonth was also known as Wedderburn when she inherited the Pearsie property in the Glen from a cousin John Graham-Wedderburn following his death in 1870. On succeeding to Pearsie, Mrs. Maclagan was required, as a condition of the entail, to 'assume the name and arms of Wedderburn' and it is from Katharine and James that the Maclagan Wedderburn family descends. She died on 25 April 1891 at age 76.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Spring Drive On The Road To Alyth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring road trip drive on the single track road towards Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. Sunshine and climbing temperatures. Yellow fields of Rapeseed, Brassica napus, also known as rape, oilseed rape, rapa, rappi, rapaseed, and in the case of one particular group of cultivars, canola, is a bright yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae, mustard or cabbage family.

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Old Travel Blog Photograph Camus Cross Panmure Carnoustie Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Camus Cross, located on the Panmure Estate near Carnoustie, Scotland. The Camus Cross, otherwise known as the Camuston or Camustane Cross, is an Early Medieval Scottish standing stone. First recorded in the 15th century in a legal document describing the boundaries between Camuston and the barony of Downie, and described in the 17th century by Robert Maule, it is a freestanding cross, rare in Eastern Scotland. The cross is thought to date from the tenth century, and exhibits distinctive Hiberno Scottish mission influences, in common with several other monuments in the area. Tradition and folk etymology suggest that the cross marked the burial site of Camus, leader of the Norse army purportedly defeated by King Malcolm II at the apocryphal Battle of Barry. The name of the stone is likely to derive from the extinct village of Camuston, which has a Celtic toponymy.



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