Old Travel Blog Photograph Lifeboat Day Portpatrick Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Lifeboat Day at the harbour in Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village was founded on fishing, operating from the sandy, crescent shaped harbour that remains the focal point of the village today. Attempts were made to render it safer from the strong North Channel gales. In 1770 John Smeaton, the leading civil engineer of his day, was appointed to make further improvements. He constructed breakwaters that turned the sandy bay into an enclosed harbour. Strong westerly winds and waves eventually broke through this construction, and in 1821 John Rennie was appointed to create a new harbour defined by two new piers. Money and weather problems meant that these piers were never finished. The calm inner basin, now home to the port's lifeboat, was constructed between 1861 and 1863, too late to prevent the government switching the mail service to boats that plied between Stranraer and Larne in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.



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Tour Scotland Travel Video Scotland The Brave Bagpipes Music Mini Tattoo North Inch Park Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the music of Scotland The Brave being played on the bagpipes and by the massed bands at the Mini Tattoo and Perth Salute event in North Inch Park on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Scotland the Brave, Scottish Gaelic: Alba an Àigh, is a Scottish patriotic song. The earliest known version of the song appeared in 1911. The lyrics commonly used presently were written about 1950 by the Scottish journalist Cliff Hanley for the singer Robert Wilson as part of an arrangement by Marion McClurg. Scotland the Brave is also the authorised pipe band march of The British Columbia Dragoons of the Canadian Armed Forces, and also is played during the Pass in Review at Friday parades at The Citadel, and the Virginia Military Institute in in Lexington, Virginia, USA.

Hark when the night is falling
Hear! Hear the pipes are calling,
Loudly and proudly calling,
Down thro' the glen.
There where the hills are sleeping,
Now feel the blood a-leaping,
High as the spirits of the old Highland men.

Towering in gallant fame,
Scotland my mountain hame,
High may your proud standards gloriously wave,
Land of my high endeavour,
Land of the shining river,
Land of my heart for ever,
Scotland the brave.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Amazing Grace Bagpipes Music Mini Tattoo North Inch Park Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the music of Amazing Grace being played on the bagpipes at the Mini Tattoo and Perth Salute event in North Inch Park on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Amazing Grace is a tune and song that inspires hope in the wake of tragedy, becoming a sort of spiritual national anthem.

Amazing Grace, How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now am found
T'was blind but now I see
T'was Grace that taught my heart to fear
And Grace, my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed
Through many dangers, toils and snares
We have already come.
T'was grace that brought us safe thus far
And grace will lead us home,
And grace will lead us home
Amazing grace, Howe Sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now am found
T'was blind but now I see
Was blind, but now I see.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Youth Band From China Mini Tattoo North Inch Park Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the music of a Youth Band from China at the Mini Tattoo and Perth Salute event in North Inch Park on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The band also appeared at the International Youth Festival in the Concert Hall in Perth.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Bands Of The Royal Cavalry Of The Sultanate Of Oman Mini Tattoo North Inch Park Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the music of the bands of the Royal Cavalry of the Sultanate of Oman including their Pipe Band and Brass Band at the Mini Tattoo and Perth Salute event in North Inch Park on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. They also appeared at the 2018 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo on the Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle.

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