Tour Scotland Video Putting The Shot Highland Games Blackford Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Putting the Shot at Blackford Highland Games, Perthshire, Scotland. The famous Blackford Highland Games have been held since 1870 on the park, an area of land loaned to the community by the landowner. A condition of the loan is that the Highland Games are held there annually in May.

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Tour Scotland Video Cruise Firth Of Forth From South Queensferry

Tour Scotland travel video of a cruise on the Firth of Forth from visit and trip to South Queensferry near Edinburgh, Scotland. The cruise departed from Hawes Pier at South Queensferry not far from Edinburgh, cruised under the Forth Railway Bridge built in the Victorian era and passed Inchcolm Island viewing the former Augustinian Abbey, one of the best preserved group of monastic buildings in Scotland. Inchcolm is sometimes referred to as the Iona of the East because of its connection with the Christian Missionary Saint Columba.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive Through Carse Of Gowrie Perthshire May 24th

Tour Scotland video shot today of a drive through the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The Carse of Gowrie consists of a stretch of low lying country in the southern part of Gowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It stretches for about 20 miles along the north shore of the Firth of Tay between Perth and Dundee. The area offers high quality agricultural land and is well known as a major area for strawberry, raspberry and general fruit growing. Fruit is easy to cultivate in the area because of a southerly aspect and low rainfall.

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Tour Scotland Video Parish Church Kirkton of Auchterhouse Angus

Tour Scotland video of the Parish Church at Kirkton of Auchterhouse, Angus, Scotland. Built 1630 with stone from earlier churches of 1275 and 1426. Partially rebuilt 1775.Situated on south side of Sidlaw Hills. There is documentary evidence of a church located here in 1238, which was dedicated to St Mary. A 15th century charter attests to the foundation of a chaplainry in the church. In 1426 the original structure was replaced by an impressive Gothic church. This lasted until 1630, when the present building was erected. However, structural failure necessitated its reconstruction, using the same stones, in 1775. The church building in the 17th century appears to have been an uncomfortable place, with small windows only partially glazed and no solid floor or heating. Rushes covered the soil floor and there were no pews.

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Tour Scotland Video Parish Church Kilspindie Carse Of Gowrie Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Parish Church and cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Kilspindie, Perthshire. Records show there has been a chapel in Kilspindie since 1214, the present church dates from 1670. The union of Kilspindie and Rait Churches took place around 1619. Past history links William Wallace to Kilspindie Church, the west wall between the graveyard and the neighbouring orchard of Kilspindie Farmhouse contains the Wallace Doorway through which he is reputed to have walked to services.

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Tour Scotland Video Parish Church Liff Near Dundee Tayside

Tour Scotland video of the Parish Church and cemetery at Liff near Dundee, Scotland. Liff Church was built in 1839 by William MacKenzie and is a rectangular plan Gothic structure with a tower and spire at the east end. The church is located in the small hamlet of Liff, a rural area close to Dundee. It lies in an impressive graveyard which contains a hearse house and large family monuments. The church has stugged sandstone walls with droved ashlar dressings and corner stones ( quoins ). The nave roof is slated.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive To Evelick Castle Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a drive to Evelick Castle in the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The ruins of Evelick Castle, the ancient seat of the Lindsays, and the birthplace of Helen Lindsay, wife of John Campbell, of Glenlyon, whose daughter, Helen, according to the session records, was married on the 22nd of September, 1663, to the famed Rob Roy MacGregor. This castle looks out across the Tay from high on the Sidlaw hills in Perthshire, some 5 miles east of Perth. It is built on the L-plan, with the two blocks meeting in such a way as to form a second re-entrant angle at the back. There is a circular stair tower in the main re-entrant angle, in the base of which is the main doorway. The castle is defended by a considerable number of gunloops. The building is sadly in a state of steady collapse, and would be a prime candidate for restoration.

It was probably built in the early 16th century, by an offshoot of the Lindsays of Crawford. In 1666, Andrew Lindsay of Evelick was created a baronet, and his 2nd son Thomas was the victim of a particularly brutal murder here at the hands of his step-brother James Douglas. During a game, Douglas stabbed Lindsay 5 times, then held the dying youth under water in a burn before finally dashing his brains out with a rock. No doubt Douglas suffered from a dysfunctional family and a disadvantaged childhood! The last of the Lindsays of Evelick drowned in 1799.


Evelick Castle in the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Videos University Students Diving Of The Long Pier St Andrews Fife May 23rd

Tour Scotland video shot today of University Students diving of the long pier in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. It was a hot and beautiful afternoon in St Andrews and many students took the opportunity to cool off be jumping and diving into the sea.



Tour Scotland video shot today of University Students diving of the long pier in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video shot today of University Students diving of the long pier in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Carlungie Earth House Angus

Tour Scotland travel video of Carlungie Earth House on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and small group trip to Angus, Scotland. The Carlungie Earth House is a complex series of underground structures that date from the Iron Age. It is located 2.5 miles northeast of Monifieth in Angus. Earth Housea are examples of souterrains, probably used to store food.

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Tour Scotland Video Parish Church Murroes Angus

Tour Scotland travel video of Murroes and Tealing Parish Church and burial ground on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Angus, Scotland. Murroes and Tealing Parish Church was built in 1848 by William Scott on the site of a much older ecclesiastical building. The earliest date for a church here is 1211 when Gilchrist, Earl of Angus, granted the church to Arbroath Abbey. There are a number of carved stones from the earlier church (or churches) encorporated into the 19th century church, and an original burial vault from the earlier building survives. Murroes and Tealing Parish Church is built of stugged and snecked rubble sandstone with a slate roof. It is T-plan, with a northern aisle, and built in the Victorian Gothic style.

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Tour Scotland Video Black Watch Memorial Dundee Tayside

Tour Scotland video of the Black Watch Memorial in Dundee, Scotland. The larger than life bronze statue of a Black Watch soldier which stands at Powrie Brae against the backdrop of the Angus countryside and commemorates the sacrifice of over 440 soldiers of the fourth and fifth Battalion Black Watch who died in the Second World War. The Black Watch lost nearly 1400 men during WW2, almost a third of them from the fourth and fifth battalions.

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Tour Scotland Night Video River Tay Perth Perthshire May 22nd

Tour Scotland video shot this evening of the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Shot this video at 10.30pm this evening. The church is St Matthews Church. It was a very beautiful evening in Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Morning Video River Tay Perth Perthshire May 22nd

Tour Scotland video shot this morning of the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Shot this video at 10am this morning. The church is St Matthews Church. It was a very beautiful morning in Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Smile In Your Sleep Video

Tour Scotland Smile In Your Sleep Video. Hush, hush, time to be sleeping. Hush, hush, dreams come a creeping. Dreams of peace and of freedom. So smile in your sleep, bonny baby.

Once our valleys were ringing
With songs of our children singing
But now sheep bleat till the evening
And shielings lie empty and broken
Hush, hush, time to be sleeping
Hush, hush, dreams come a-creeping
Dreams of peace and of freedom
So smile in your sleep, bonny baby.

Where is our proud highland mettle
Our troops once so fierce in battle
Now stand, cowed, huddled like cattle
And wait to be shipped o'er the ocean
Hush, hush, time to be sleeping
Hush, hush, dreams come a-creeping
Dreams of peace and of freedom
So smile in your sleep, bonny baby.

No use pleading or praying
For gone, gone is all hope of staying
Hush, hush, the anchor's a-weighing
Don't cry in your sleep, bonny baby

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Tour Scotland Hieland Sodger Video

Tour Scotland Hieland Sodger Video. High up amang yon Hieland hills. There lived a canny maiden. She's gone oot ane fine summer's night. For to watch all the soldiers paradin'.

And they looked sae braw as they marched awa'
The drums, they did rattle, and the pipes, they did blaw
Which caused young Mary for to weep and say
" I'll follow my Hieland sodger "

Ah but Mary dear, my wage, it is small.
And what if in battle I should fall.
I hae to gang hame to your Hieland hall.
Think nae mair on a soldier laddie.

I hae twenty pounds in the store.
And I hae a herd 'bout ten times more.
I'll gie it to the laddie I adore.
And follow my Hieland laddie.

High up amang yon Hieland hills.
There lived a canny maiden.
She's gone oot ane fine summer's day.
For to watch all the soldiers paradin'

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Old Photographs Stornoway Scotland

Old photograph of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. The town was founded by Vikings in the early 9th century, under the Old Norse name Stjórnavágr. This town, and what eventually became its present day version, grew up around a sheltered natural harbour well placed at a central point on the island, for the convenience of people from all over the island, to arrive at the port of Stornoway, either by family boat or by horse drawn coach for ongoing travel and trade with the mainland of Scotland and to all points South. In the mid 19th century, the ownership of Stornoway, and by extension the Isle of Lewis, passed from the MacKenzies of Seaforth to Sir James Matheson.



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Tour Scotland Video Walk Scottish Bluebells Wood Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a walk through a Scottish Bluebells wood near Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Fisherman Catching Trout River Tay Dunkeld Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a fisherman catching a trout in the River Tay by Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Violin Player Dunnottar Castle Stonehaven Aberdeenshire

Tour Scotland video of a young Scottish violin player at Dunnottar Castle, Scotland. A young man from Stonehaven playing the violin above the ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky outcrop on the north-east coast of Scotland, about two miles south of Stonehaven. Dunnottar was besieged by Montrose in 1645, and again in 1651 by Cromwell. The property of the Clan Keith from the 14th century, and the seat of the Earl Marischal, Dunnottar declined after the last Earl forfeited his titles by taking part in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715

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Old Photograph Parkhead Cross Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Parkhead Cross, Glasgow, Scotland. Parkhead Cross is a major junction in the Parkhead area in the East End of the city. It is the meeting point of Gallowgate, Duke Street, Westmuir Street, Tollcross Road and Burgher Street, which together form a turreted Edwardian five-way junction, including several fine buildings making the junction notable such as the former Glasgow Savings Bank. The junction can become very busy due to traffic for Football games at nearby Celtic Park.



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Old Photograph Bishopbriggs Scotland

Old photograph of Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, Scotland. This part of Scotland was once in the historic parish of Cadder, originally lands granted by King William the Lion to the Bishop of Glasgow, Jocelin, in 1180. Bishopbriggs' close geographic proximity to Glasgow now effectively makes it a suburb and commuter town of the city.



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Old Photograph Cenotaph George Square Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the Cenotaph in George Square, Glasgow, Scotland. The Cenotaph is the official memorial to the city's dead in both World Wars. Its design incorporates a colossal truncated obelisk carved with a figure of St Mungo, a 'great stone' sarcophagus and two recumbant lions.


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Old Photograph Crofters Torrin Scotland

Old photograph of crofters and cottages at Torrin, Isle of Skye, Scotland. This Scottish crofting and fishing village lies on the eastern shore of Loch Slapin, five miles south west of Broadford on the road to Elgol. The village boasts good views of Blaven and Loch Slapin. Crofting evolved from a turbulent period in the nineteenth century during the Highland Clearances. It was largely a means to sustain populations. In the 21st century, it is found predominantly in the rural Western and Northern isles and in the coastal fringes of the western and northern Scottish mainland. The Crofters' Holdings Scotland Act of 1886 provided for security of tenure, a key issue as most crofters remain tenants. The Act encouraged tenants to improve the land under their control, as it ensured that the control could be transferred within families and passed to future generations. Croft work was hard, back-breaking work, mainly done by women which yielded a subsistence living.



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Old Photograph Bay Portree Scotland

Old photograph of the Bay at Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. The current name of this coastal village, Port Rìgh translates as " king's harbour ", possibly from a visit by King James V of Scotland in 1540. However this etymology has been contested, since James did not arrive in peaceful times. The older name appears to have been Port Ruighe, or " slope harbour. " Portree was the last meeting place of Flora MacDonald and Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1746.



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Old Photograph Church Portree Scotland

Old photograph of the Church and Bank at Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. In the 1700s, the town was a popular point of departure for Scots sailing to America to escape poverty. This form of use repeated during the famine in the 1840s. Both times, the town was saved by an influx of boats, often going between mainland Scotland and the Outer Hebrides, who used Portree's pier as a rest point. The town also began exporting fish at this time, which contributed greatly to the local economy.
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Old Photograph Quarry Broadford Scotland

Old photograph of workers at the Marble Quarry near Broadford, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Marble was discovered near Kilchrist in Strath Suardal about 3 miles south west of Broadford around 1907. A large factory was built near the quarry for cutting and polishing the quarried blocks. A light railway extended 4 miles from Broadford pier to the quarries, and there was a branch line to the factory. The railway was operated by a Hunslet Engine Company steam locomotive named Skylark, which was acquired second hand from Ireland.



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Old Photograph Whisky Distillery Tobermory Isle Of Mull Scotland

Old photograph of the Whisky Distillery at Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The distillery was founded as Ledaig distillery in 1798 by John Sinclair, ten years after the founding of Tobermory by the British Fisheries Society. Sinclair had originally arrived in the village as a merchant dealing with soda ash from burning the locally available kelp. In April 1797, he applied for 57 acres to the south of the harbor in order to build houses and a distillery. The current buildings were constructed and were licensed in 1823. It was acquired by John Hopkins & Company in 1890, and by Distillers Company in 1916 before closing in 1930 following a drop in the demand for whisky due to ten years of prohibition in the United States. In 1972 it was reopened under the name of Ledaig Distillery Tobermory Ltd. In May 1975, production had to stop for a month as storage space for the whisky had run out. It closed again until 1989, and in 1991 it was purchased by Burn Stewart Distillers. Burn Stewart Distillers were bought out by Trinidad–based CL Financial in 2002, including the distillery at Tobermory and Deanston. It remains the only whisky distillery on the Isle of Mull, in the main village of Tobermory at the northern tip of the island.



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Old Photograph Mill Road Broadford Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people on Mill Road, Broadford, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Like many places in Skye, Broadford derives its name from Old Norse. To the Vikings, this was Breiðafjorðr, meaning the wide bay The Gaelic name is of modern derivation and assumes that the " ford " element meant a river crossing. West of Broadford in Glen Suardal, on the lower slopes of Beinn na Caillich, is Goir a' Bhlàir, The battle concerned was apparently a decisive action by the Gaelic Clan Mackinnon against the Norsemen All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Tour Scotland Video Walk Gardens Falkland Palace Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of a walk in the gardens of the Palace on ancestry, genealogy, Outlander, history visit and trip to Falkland in Fife. A former royal palace of the Scottish Kings. The Scottish Crown acquired Falkland Castle from MacDuff of Fife in the 14th century. In 1402 Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany imprisoned his nephew David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, the eldest son of King Robert III of Scotland, at Falkland. The incarcerated Duke eventually died there from neglect and starvation. Mary, Queen of Scots, was a frequent visitor to Falkland Palace.
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Tour Scotland Photograph And Video Field Of Yellow Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of a field of yellow in North East Fife, Scotland. Field of yellow near Brunton in North Fife. The plants are 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.



Tour Scotland video of fields of yellow in North East Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph And Video Balcomie Golf Course Crail East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of the golf course at Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Balcomie Links one of Scotland’s most finely polished, golfing gems. This traditional, classic links course was laid out by the old master himself, Tom Morris, and opened in 1895. Created in the days when course design was governed by the natural lie of the land and not the mechanical earth mover, Balcomie has the unusual combination of three par fives, six par threes and nine par fours, producing a tough par of 69. Located 9 miles South of St Andrews. Golf Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Old Golf Course St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Old Golf Course on history visit and trip to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Golfers completing their round of golf on the 18th Green. Cloudy and breezy this afternoon, which is often the way the weather is in St Andrews.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Neist Point Lighthouse Isle Of Skye

Tour Scotland photograph of Neist Point, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Neist Point is the most westerly point on the Duirinish peninsula on the Isle of Skye. It projects into The Minch and provides a popular walk and viewpoint. Neist Point Lighthouse, designed by David Alan Stevenson, was first lit on 1 November 1909. Neist Point is the most westerly point on the Duirinish peninsula on the Isle of Skye. It projects into The Minch and provides a popular walk and viewpoint. Neist Point Lighthouse, designed by David Alan Stevenson, was first lit on 1 November 1909. David was born on 21 July 1854 the son of David Stevenson and his wife, Elizabeth Mackay. His early years were spent at their home at 8 Forth Street in the eastern section of the New Town in Edinburgh. He was part of the famous Stevenson family of lighthouse engineers, including his brother, Charles Stevenson, uncle Thomas Stevenson, and grandfather, Robert Stevenson. His cousin was the author, Robert Louis Stevenson. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and then Edinburgh University. He retired aged 83 in March 1938. Stevenson died at his home, " Troqueer " in the Kingsknowe area of Edinburgh on 11 April 1938. He is buried in Dean Cemetery.


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Old Photograph Fishermen Lower Largo Scotland

Old photograph of fishermen mending fishing nets in Lower Largo, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This ancient fishing village, in the parish of Largo, Lower Largo is famous as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, who provided inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.



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Old Photographs Scalloway Scotland

Old photograph of Scalloway, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Built in 1600 by Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney, the remains of Scalloway Castle is the most notable feature of the village.



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Old Photograph Inver Dunkeld Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Inver by Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. Niel Gow, born 1727, died 1807, was the most famous Scottish fiddler of the eighteenth century. Gow was born in Inver, Perthshire, as the son of John Gow and Catherine McEwan. He started playing the fiddle when very young and at age 13 received his first formal lessons from one John Cameron. In spite of being something of a musical prodigy, he originally trained as a weaver, but eventually gave up that trade to become a full time musician.



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Old Photograph Ettrick Scotland

Old photograph of people and cottages in Ettrick, Borders, Scotland. The area around Ettrick has several literary connections. The poet James Hogg, born 1770, died 1835, known as the Ettrick Shepherd, was born at a farm in Ettrick, by Ettrick Hall, and is buried in Ettrick Kirkyard cemetery. James was a a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self educated through reading. He was a friend of many of the great writers of his day, including Sir Walter Scott, of whom he later wrote an unauthorized biography. He became widely known as the Ettrick Shepherd, a nickname under which some of his works were published. His father, Robert Hogg, born 1729, died 1820, was a tenant farmer while his mother, Margaret Hogg, née Laidlaw, born 1730, died 1813, was noted for collecting native Scottish ballads. Margaret Laidlaw's father, known as Will o' Phawhope, was said to have been the last man in the Border country to speak with the fairies. James was the second eldest of four brothers, his siblings being William, David, and Robert. Robert and David later emigrated to the USA, while James and William remained in Scotland for their entire lives. Laverlaw, the fictional estate of Sandy Arbuthnot, Lord Clanroyden, in the works of John Buchan, is set near Ettrick. Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour in Kidnapped hails from the fictitious village of Essendean in Ettrick Forest. It is also mentioned in the traditional Scottish folk song, Ettrick Lady, recorded by The Corries. The Ettrick valley was used as the setting for the story No Advantages, from Alice Munro's short story collection, The View from Castle Rock. Ettrick was also home to one of Scotland's most enduring pastor theologians, Thomas Boston, born 1676, died 1732, minister from 1707. His seminal work, Human Nature in its Fourfold State, was widely read throughout Scotland by people of all classes and is still in print today.




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Old Photograph Drumlithie Scotland

Old photograph of Drumlithie located seven miles South of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Previously a weaving village, Drumlithie has a small steeple at its heart which was rung to signal the start and end of the working day. Drumlithie is noted for its appearance in the classic Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel, Sunset Song, while neighbouring Glenbervie is the final resting place of the great grandparents of famous Scottish poet Robert Burns. Drumlithie is also twinned with Couture D'Argenson in France.





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Old Photograph Black Watch Soldier Dingwall Scotland

Old photograph of a Black watch soldier from Dingwall, Scotland. The Black Watch was formed at Aberfeldy in Perthshire in the early eighteenth century as an independent security force, or 'watch', to guard the approaches to the lawless areas of the Scottish Highlands.



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Old Photograph Black Watch Soldier Dunfermline Scotland

Old photograph of a Black Watch soldier from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The Black Watch was raised in an unique way. In the wake of the 1715 Jacobite rebellion companies of trustworthy Highlanders were raised from loyal clans, Campbells, Grants, Frasers, Munros. Six companies were formed from 1725 and stationed in small detachments across the Highlands to prevent fighting between the clans, deter raiding and assist in enforcing the laws against the carrying of weapons.



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Old Photograph Black Watch Soldiers Kirkcaldy Scotland

Old photograph of Black Watch soldiers from Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The Black Watch was an infantry unit born in the aftermath of the First Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. The regiment went on to fight in nearly all the British Army's campaigns and is now part of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. In the aftermath of the First Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, Independent Companies of militia were raised from loyalist Highland clans for policing and peacekeeping duties. These companies were commonly known in Gaelic as Am Freiceadan Dubh, or The Black Watch, due to their unpopular nature and their dark green government-issue tartan - the regiment wore kilts as part of its everyday uniform until 1940.



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Old Photograph Butchers Shop Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of a Butchers Shop in Glasgow, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Huntingtower Castle Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Huntingtower Castle on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Castle was built in stages from the 15th century by the Clan Ruthven family and was known for several hundred years as the Palace of Ruthven. In the summer of 1582, the castle was occupied by the 4th Lord Ruthven, who was also the 1st Earl of Gowrie, and his family. Gowrie was involved in a plot to kidnap the young King James VI, son of Mary, Queen of Scots. During 1582 Gowrie and his associates seized the young king and held him prisoner for 10 months. This kidnapping is known as the 'Raid of Ruthven' and the Protestant conspirators behind it hoped to gain power through controlling the king. James eventually escaped and actually forgave Gowrie, but after a second abortive attempt by Gowrie and others to overthrow him, Gowrie was finally executed and his property, including Huntingtower, was forfeited to the crown. The Castle and lands were restored to the Ruthven family in 1586. However in 1600, the brothers John and Alexander Ruthven were implicated in another plot to kill King James VI and were executed. This time, the king was less merciful: as well as seizing the estates, he abolished the name of Ruthven and decreed that any successors would be ineligible to hold titles or lands. Thus the House of Ruthven ceased to exist and by royal proclamation the castle was renamed Huntingtower. The Castle remained in the possession of the crown until 1643 when it was given to the family of Murray of Tullibardine, from whom the Dukes of Atholl and Mansfield are descended. John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl resided in the Castle, where his wife Lady Mary Ross bore a son 7 February 1717. The Castle began to be neglected and after Lady Mary died in 1767, it was abandoned as a place of residence except by farm labourers. Today, the Castle can be visited by the public and is sometimes used as a venue for marriage ceremonies. It is in the care of Historic Scotland and is open to the public.


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Old Photograph Carluke Scotland

Old photograph of Carluke, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. In a charter by Robert I, dated 1315, Carluke is written "Carneluk"; at different periods it appears as Carlowck, Carlowk, Carluk, Carlook, Carlouk and Carluke. Car or Caer tells us that it is a height or strong position and Luke suggests that it may be dedicated to the saint of that name, however there is evidence that the earliest church was dedicated to St. Andrew. The town was chartered as a Royal Burgh in 1662. Carluke expanded during through the industrial age, with work involving corn milling, cotton weaving, coal mining and the manufacture of bricks, glass, confectionery and jam.


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Old Photograph Duniquaich Tower Scotland

Old photograph of Duniquaich Tower above Inveraray, Scotland. A stone built watchtower on the summit of Duniquaich hill. Built in 1748, Roger Morris was the architect and William Douglas the stonemason.

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Old Photograph Kildonan House Scotland

Old photograph of Kildonan House, Ayrshire, Scotland. This house was the home of Captain David Euan Wallace, MC, MP, PC, born 1892, died 9th February 1941. He was a British Conservative politician who briefly served as Minister of Transport during World War II. He was the son of John Wallace, of Glassingall, Dunblane, Perthshire. Wallace gained the rank of Captain in the service of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards Reserve, acted as a special Commissioner for the North-East coast and acted as Aide-de-camp to the Governor General of Canada in 1920 and was decorated with the award of the Military Cross.



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Old Photograph Soldiers Forres Scotland

Old photograph of a Seaforth Highlander soldier from Forres, Moray, Scotland. The Seaforth Highlanders was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army, mainly associated with large areas of the northern Highlands of Scotland. The regiment existed from 1881 to 1961, and saw service in World War I and World War II, along with many numerous smaller conflicts. In 1961 the regiment was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders to form the Queen's Own Highlanders, Seaforth and Camerons, which merged, in 1994, with the Gordon Highlanders to form the Highlanders, Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons. This, however, later joined the Royal Scots Borderers, the Black Watch, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment, and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to create the present Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Old photograph of soldiers in Forres, Moray, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Black Watch Soldiers Montrose Scotland

Old photograph of Black Watch soldiers from Montrose, Angus, Scotland. The Black Watch was formed at Aberfeldy in Perthshire in the early eighteenth century as an independent security force, or ' watch ', to guard the approaches to the lawless areas of the Scottish Highlands. The battles which have contributed most to The Black Watch history have been those in which the odds have been most formidable. From Fontenoy to Fallujah with Ticonderoga, Waterloo, Alamein and two World Wars in between the Black Watch has been there when the world’s history has been shaped.



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Old Photograph Black Watch Soldier Perth Scotland

Old photograph of a Black watch soldier from Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Black Watch boasts a history of honour, gallantry and devoted service to King, Queen and country. The battles which have contributed most to The Black Watch history have been those in which the odds have been most formidable. From Fontenoy to Fallujah with Ticonderoga, Waterloo, Alamein and in and two World Wars in between.



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Old Photograph Black Watch Soldier Birnam Scotland

Old photograph of a Black Watch Soldier from Birnam, Perthshire, Scotland. On the outbreak of the First World War there were seven Black Watch battalions, for in addition to the Regular 1st and 2nd Battalions and 3rd, Special Reserve Battalion there were a further four Territorial ones which had become part of the Regiment in 1908. They were the 4th Dundee, 5th Angus, 6th Perthshire and the 7th Battalion from Fife.



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