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 photograph of people Pony Trekking in Glenisla, Angus, Scotland. Glen Isla is the most westerly of the Angus Glens, and the only one that has a through route for cars. The head of the glen lies close to the border with Aberdeenshire. The area is also a favourite destination for lovers of walking, hiking wildlife and nature.
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Tour Scotland video of the Bagpipes and drums music of Perth and District Pipe Band from Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The objects of Perth & District Pipe Band are to promote the playing of the Highland Bagpipe and Pipe Band Drumming; to provided tuition in piping and drumming; and to perform as a Pipe Band in the community and in competitions. The band wore the Royal Stewart tartan until the early 1990s where it was changed to the New Perthshire Muted.
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Old photograph of Collynie farm near Tarves, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. William Duthie of Collynie was the founder of Collynie, a famous Aberdeenshire cattle breeding establishment. He became one of the greatest breeders of this type of cattle in the world.
Early examples of the Duthie surname recordings in a number of spellings including Dovey, Duffy, Duthy, Dowie, Dowey, and Duthie, include John Mc John Dowy of Boespick and Thomas McAllester Dowie of Dalquhalliche, Scotland, who in 1613 were fined for trying to re-establish the outlawed Clan Macgregor. Other recordings include John Duffy who is given as living in Chaplains Choise, Virginia, America, on February 16th 1623, making him one the very first settlers in New England, and Alexander Duthie who was a sugar planter in Jamaica in 1769. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Marjory Duthe, which was dated 1492, in Holme, Orkney Islands, during the reign of King James 1V of Scotland
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Old photograph of Forse House on the A99 road near Wick in Caithness Scotland. Originally built by Captain John Sutherland in 1753 to replace the family’s crumbling cliff top castle, it remained as a family home up to 1905. After which the house has seen a variety of uses, including a poor house, an infirmary, a care home, and a hotel. The Sutherlands of Forse were a minor Scottish noble family. Kenneth Sutherland, 1st of Forse was the second son of William de Moravia, 5th Earl of Sutherland. They were a cadet branch of the Clan Sutherland. The Sutherland Lairds of Forse were seated at Forse Castle lived there until about the year 1660. In the early 16th century the Earldom of Sutherland passed through a female heiress to the Gordon family. Later, during the late 16th century the Sutherland Lairds of Forse supported the Earl of Caithness in a feud against the Gordon family who had taken over as Earls of Sutherland, and Nicolas Sutherland, brother of the Laird of Forse was killed at the Battle of Clynetradwell in 1590. John Sutherland of Forse was a Captain in Loudon's Highlanders regiment during the Jacobite rising of 1745. Upon the death of William Gordon, 18th Earl of Sutherland in 1766, George Sutherland of Forse made a claim for the Earldom, based on his descent from William, 5th Earl of Sutherland who died in 1370. However, the House of Lords found the case in favour of Elizabeth, only surviving daughter of the 18th Earl.[6] The last Sutherland Laird of Forse in the direct line died in 1909, leaving two daughters but no son.
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Old photograph of the Coaching Inn in Strathy, Sutherland, Scotland. Strathy, from Scottish Gaelic Srathaidh, meaning place of the strath, is a scattered community in Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands on the A836 road some twenty miles west of Thurso. The village itself includes at least three distinct areas: Strathy East, on the right hand side when passing through the village in the direction of Bettyhill, accessed by two roads leading towards Strathy Beach, Strathy West, immediately to the south of Strathy East and Strathy Point. These generally enclose the rest of the village, mainly comprising Steven Terrace. If welcoming signposts are taken to represent the limits of the village, Strathy is contained in these areas. However, some would say that Strathy also takes in the settlement of Baligill to the east, and also Brawl, Aultiphurst and Laidnagullin to the west, essentially the entire community found between the Baligill Burn and the Armadale Big Burn.
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