Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old travel Blog photograph of a Scottish soldier at Barry Buddon Training Camp by Carnoustie, Scotland. Barry Buddon dates back to around 1850 when the area was used by the Forfarshire Rifle Volunteers, the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, the Panmure Battery of the Forfarshire Artillery Brigade, and a Royal Naval Reserve Battery. In 1897 the Earl of Dalhousie sold the site to the War Office for use as a military training area. 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 photograph of children playing Rounders in a park in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Rounders, Irish: cluiche corr, is a bat and ball game played between two teams. It involves hitting a small, hard, leather cased ball with a rounded end wooden, plastic or metal bat. The players score by running around the four bases on the field. The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket Book where it was called baseball. In 1828, William Clarke in London published the second edition of The Boy's Own Book, which included the rules of rounders and also contained the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base running game played on a diamond. The following year, the book was published in Boston, Massachusetts, America. The first nationally formalised rules were drawn up by the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland in 1884. After the rules of rounders were formalised in Ireland, associations were established in Liverpool, England; and Scotland in 1889. Both the New York game and the now defunct Massachusetts game versions of baseball, as well as softball, share the same historical roots as rounders. It was a popular game among British and Irish school children, and especially among girls.
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Old photograph of a horse and cart and forestry worker near Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. Craigvinean near Dunkeld is one of Scotland’s oldest managed forests. It was created in the 18th Century by the 3rd Duke of Atholl. Originally it was planted with Larch seeds brought from the alps.
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Old photograph of the Parish Church in Ardrishaig, Argyll, Scotland. Gothic tower fronted nave church of 1860 with low semi octagonal transepts and vestibule added 1904. The octagonal castellated stage of the tower and the sharp spire were added in 1868. Edwardian Art Nouveau patterned stained glass in all windows. This Scottish village is located at the southern entrance to the Crinan Canal, on the side of a hill bordering Loch Fyne immediately to the south of Lochgilphead.
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Old photograph of Muckairn Parish Church and cemetery in Taynuilt, Scotland. Built in 1829 the church stands adjacent to the ruins of Killespickerill, once the seat of the Bishop of Argyll. Typical rural kirk of the reformed tradition: rectangular with large round headed windows and a bellcote. Two stones of antiquity are built into the walls of the present church. Tombstones from the 14th century can be seen in the graveyard.
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