Old Photograph Spinningdale Sutherland Scotland

Old photograph of Spinningdale, Sutherland, Scotland. Spinningdale is possibly named from the Norse for round valley, and is a hamlet on the north shore of Dornoch Firth in eastern Sutherland, Scottish Highlands.


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Old Photographs Golspie Scotland

Old photograph of Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland. This is a village in the Highlands, which lies on the North Sea coast in the shadow of Ben Bhraggie. Dunrobin Castle, the seat of Clan Sutherland, is nearby. Adam Beattie Gunn was born in Golspie on December 24, 1872. he was an American athlete who competed mainly in the "All rounder", the fore runner of today's Decathlon. Gunn took first place in the Amateur Athletic Union's U.S. All-around championships in 1901 and 1902. The 1901 title was won in Buffalo, New York which Gunn adopted as his home town. He competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St. Louis, Missouri in the All rounder which consisted of 100 yards run, shot put, high jump, 880 yards walk, hammer throw, pole vault, 120 yards hurdles, 56 pounds weight throw, long jump and 1 mile run, where he won the Silver medal. He died on August 17, 1935. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Strathardle Highland Gathering

Tour Scotland video of photographs of the Strathardle Highland Gathering in Kirkmichael, Perthshire, Scotland. A traditional games with Scottish dancing, pipe bands, shot put, caber toss, agricultural show and much more.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Cille Choirill Church Roy Bridge

Tour Scotland travel video of photographs of Cille Choirill Church and graveyard on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Roy Bridge Scotland. Situated above the River Spean in the Braes of Lochaber, this church is on the hill where St. Cairell had his cell is named after him in Gaelic, Cille Choirill, and is about one mile from Roy Bridge. It is a sacred site to the people, and has a 15th century church in his honour and an ancient burial ground. This Scottish church was used in the BBC TV series, Monarch of the Glen as Glenbogle Church.

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Tour Scotland Video Photography Parish Church Balquhidder

Tour Scotland travel video of photography of the Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Balquhidder, Scotland. Scottish parish church in dressed stone, built 1853 by David Bryce. The ruins of the old parish church are in the graveyard where there are many intriguing carved stones, including that of Rob Roy MacGregor.

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Old Photograph Herring Drifters East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of herring drifters outside the harbour in Cellardyke by Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. I was raised in this fishing village on the East coast. Cellardyke was formerly known as Nether Kilrenny, or Silverdyke, and the harbour as Skinfast Haven, a name which can still be found on maps today. The harbour was built in the 16th century and was rebuilt between 1829 to 1831. Around 200 fishing boats were once based here but much of the fleet was destroyed by a storm in 1898, with most of those left intact relocating a short way down the coast to Anstruther.



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Old Photographs Durisdeer Scotland

Old photograph of Durisdeer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. A Roman road once passed through the site of the village as a direct route fron Nithsdale to Clydesdale, and the remains of a small, but well preserved Roman fort are located about a mile up the Well Path to the north-east; the defensive ditch and rampart are clearly visible. The parish church, a category A listed building in the village, also serves Drumlanrig Castle, the 17th-century home of the Duke of Queensberry. Durisdeer Church was rebuilt by the third Duke in the 1720s, to designs by James Smith. Durisdeer was included in the 1978 film version of The Thirty Nine Steps, starring Robert Powell.



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Old Photograph River Tay Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Loch Scavaig Isle Of Skye

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of photography of Loch Scavaig from Elgol, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Isle of Skye. Elgol, Scottish Gaelic, Ealaghol, is a village on the shores of Loch Scavaig towards the end of the Strathaird peninsula on the Isle of Skye, in the Scottish Highlands. With the great Cuillin range behind this an area of spectacular scenery. The boat trip from Elgol across Loch Scavaig to Loch Coruisk and the base of the Cuillin has long been hugely popular with tourists. The scenery is simply stunning. A small selection of my personal photographs shot on small group tours of Scotland.

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Old Photograph Buckie Scotland

Old photograph of Buckie on the Moray Firth, Scotland. Once a thriving fishing and shipbuilding port, today Buckie is a small fishing town. George Imlach McIntosh, VC, was born in Buckie on 24 April 1897, he was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 20 years old, and a private in the 1/6th Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders, British Army during the First World War. For his bravery at the Battle of Passchendaele, he was awarded the VC. He died on 20 June, 1968. 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 Photographs Lybster Scotland

Old photograph of Lybster, Caithness, Scotland. The Sinclairs of Lybster have long roots running back to the Sinclair earls who ruled Caithness that was once a much larger area taking in much of Sutherland. Tracing further back the family has connections to the Norwegian earls who controlled the north of Scotland for centuries.



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Old Photographs Olnafirth Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of the Whaling Station at Olnafirth, Shetland Islands, Scotland. The most common whale hunted in Shetland in the old days was the Pilot Whale.



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Old Photograph Scots Guards Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of Scots Guards at a Military Camp outside Birnam, Perthshire, Scotland. The Scots Guards, part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. Their origins lie in the personal bodyguard of King Charles I of England and Scotland. Its lineage can be traced back to 1642, although it was only placed on the English Establishment, thus becoming part of what is now the British Army, in 1686. The Regiment is the oldest formed Regiment in the Regular Army in service today.



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Old Photograph Cottages Loch Of Strom Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of cottages by Loch of Strom, Shetland Islands, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Cottages Alloway Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland.On the left is Robert Burns Cottage.





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Tour Scotland Video Drive Through Glen Artney Strathearn

Tour Scotland video of drive East through Glen Artney in Strathearn, just South of Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Mary, Queen of Scots often hunted with Darnley around 1565 in the Royal forests in Glen Artney, south of Comrie. This later inspired Sir Walter Scott to use Glen Artney in The Lady of the Lake.

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Tour Scotland Video Moon Over Passenger Train Tay Bridge

Tour Scotland video of the moon above a passenger train on the Tay Railway Bridge by Dundee, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Cumberland Barracks Coupar Angus

Tour Scotland travel video of Cumberland Barracks on Calton Street on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Coupar Angus, Perthshire. These barracks were built to be used by the British Army in the suppression of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, which was the last major war and made an end of centuries of clan warfare in the high glens. The Cumberland also known as the Yeomanry Barracks were restored by the Burgh Council in 1974. The Jacobite rising of 1745 was the attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart. The rising occurred during the War of the Austrian Succession when most of the British Army was on the European continent. Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as " Bonnie Prince Charlie " or " the Young Pretender ", sailed to Scotland and raised the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands, where he was supported by a gathering of Highland clansmen. The march south began with an initial victory at Prestonpans near Edinburgh. The Jacobite army, now in bold spirits, marched onwards to Carlisle, over the border in England. When it reached Derby, some British divisions were recalled from the Continent and the Jacobite army retreated north to Inverness where the last battle on Scottish soil took place on a nearby moor at Culloden. The Battle of Culloden ended with the final defeat of the Jacobite cause, and with Charles Edward Stuart fleeing with a price on his head, before finally sailing to France.

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Tour Scotland Video St Magridin's Church North Fife

Tour Scotland video of St Magridin's Church at Abdie near Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish church, now roofless and unused, lies east-west and is a long, narrow medieval building. It was built in the 13th century and consecrated in 1242 by Bishop David de Bernham. It received significant additions in the seventeenth century. The church was abandoned in 1827 and was restored 1856 and then abandoned again. There are memorials on the north, east and west faces inside the old aisle. The church is surrounded by a graveyard. In common with most medieval churches, the majority of memorials are located on the south and east of the church.

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Tour Scotland Video Limekilns Boddin Point

Tour Scotland video of the Limekilns at Boddin Point, South of Montrose, Scotland. The kiln was built on the orders of local landowner, Robert Scott, of nearby Dunninald Castle, on the discovery of a rich seam of limestone. The kilns were built during a period when agrarian improvements and enclosure created an enormous demand for lime, which was used until the late 19th century to reduce acidity and improve the workability and drainage properties of heavy clay soils.

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Tour Scotland Video Dunninald Castle Angus

Tour Scotland video of Dunninald Castle, South of Montrose, Scotland. Dunninald has a history of at least a thousand years. The name is derived from the gaelic, dun a castle and ard, a high place. The first Dunninald was on the cliff high above the North Sea, so the name is a good description of the original site. A second house was built about 1590, to replace the old tower fortalice. By 1819 the second house was some 230 years old and the new owner, Peter Arkley, commissioned James Gillespie Graham to built a new house. This was designed in the gothic revival style and was completed in 1824. James Gillespie Graham specialised in the gothic revival style and built many houses and churches around Scotland. He designed the Glenfinnan Monument in 1815.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Croft Moraig Stone Circle Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of photographs of Croft Moraig Stone Circle in Perthshire, Scotland. Croft Moraig, near Aberfeldy in Perthshire, with its concentric rings and outliers on an artificial platform. The history of the site is known from an excavation in 1965: Aout 5000 years ago, a horseshoe arrangement of fourteen wide wooden posts was erected in an ellipse 7 metres by 8 metres. This was surrounded by a ditch. The posts were later replaced by eight stones of graded height. Another smaller stone stood just outside. Some neolithic pottery was found related to this phase of the site. A rubble bank was created outside the stones and cup-marked stones added that aligned with the southern moonset and the midsummer sunrise. A twelve metre diameter circle of twelve large stones was constructed and a couple of large outlying stones added.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Atholl Highlanders Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of photographs of the Atholl Highlanders in Perthshire, Scotland. The Atholl Highlanders are a Scottish infantry regiment. Based in Blair Atholl, the regiment is not part of the British Army. Instead, the regiment is in the private employ of the Duke of Atholl, making it the only legal private army in Britain and Europe. The regiment wears the tartan of the Clan Murray of Atholl.

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Old Photograph Picking Flowers Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of ladies picking wild flowers near Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Horse And Cart Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and cart in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Gilmerton Scotland

Old photograph of Gilmerton near Crieff, Scotland.

Old photograph of Gilmerton near Crieff, Scotland.

Old photograph of Gilmerton near Crieff, Scotland.

Old photograph of Gilmerton near Crieff, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Fonab Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Fonab Castle, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. The castle was originally built as a grand private residence for Lieutenant Colonel George Glas Sandeman, a member of the wealthy Sandeman port and sherry merchant family. The architect was Andrew Heiton, known for his work on various railway stations


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Old Photograph Foresty Workers Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of forestry workers near Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Dalguise Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Dalguise, Perthshire, Scotland. Located on the western side of the River Tay on the B898 road, north of Dunkeld, This is the place, in Dalguise House, where Beatrix Potter stayed in her childhood as a summer visitor, and acted as inspiration for some of her later stories.



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Old Photograph Bridge of Balgie Scotland

Old photograph of Bridge of Balgie, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Golf Course Blair Atholl Scotland

Old photograph of the golf course in Blair Atholl, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. The Blair Atholl Golf Club is a nine-hole course founded in 1896. The original course was extended to 18 holes for a period before returning to nine, and it has hosted notable golfers like Tom Morris and James Braid.
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Old Photographs Auchterarder Scotland

Old photograph of Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. The long High Street of Auchterarder gave the town its popular name of The Lang Toun or Long Town. The Jacobite Earl of Mar's army torched the town in 1716, but it quickly rose to prominence again thanks mainly to the handloom weaving industry. Robert Nisbet was born on 7 January 1814 in Auchterarder, the son of Christopher Nisbet and his wife, Margaret Sime. He was educated at the local school then studied Divinity at St Andrews University in Fife, and Edinburgh University. He was licensed to preach in 1836 and began as assistant minister in Lanark. In 1842 he took on the highly prestigious role of minister of West St Giles in Edinburgh. In 1853 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews. In 1863 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Thomas Stevenson. In 1848 he married Eliza Tawse, died died 1883, daughter of John Tawse of Stobshiel, born 1787, died 1861, an advocate living in Edinburgh. Their children included Christopher Charles Nisbet and John Tawse Nisbet. Their daughter Christian Nisbet married James Paisley son of Reverend Robert Paisley of St Ninians in Leith. Robert died at his home, 56 Great King Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town on 22 November 1874. In 1983 the A9 was diverted to the south, bypassing Auchterarder and Aberuthven, to improve the connection between Stirling and Perth. 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 Photographs Fortingall Scotland

Old photograph of thatched cottages, horse and cart and people in Fortingall near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland. The village of Fortingall, with its large hotel adjoining the churchyard, was built 1890 by shipowner and Unionist MP, Sir Donald Currie, born 1825, died 1909, who bought the Glenlyon Estate, including the village, in 1885. It was designed by the architect James M MacLaren, born 1853, died 1890, and built by John McNaughton. The thatched cottages are notable examples of a planned village built in vernacular style, combining both Lowland Scottish and English influences, notably from Devon.England, and are increasingly appreciated as one of the most important examples of arts and crafts vernacular style in Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Old Schoolhouse Cottown Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of The Old Schoolhouse in Cottown on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip near St Madoes in Perthshire. This building in the Carse of Gowrie is a rare example of a clay and thatch building. Cottown is a small hamlet next to the village of St.Madoes, approximately eight miles to the east of Perth. The building is thought to have been constructed between 1745 and 1770.

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Tour Scotland Video Hawk Stane St Madoes Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Hawk Stane, standing stone near St Madoes in Perthshire, Scotland. This stone in the Carse of Gowrie is connected with the Hays of Errol, and the Falcon Stone near Knapp.

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Old Photograph Teacher St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a Teacher in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Farmer's Wife Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a farmer's wife in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Teacher Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a young Scots teacher in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Scots Fishwife Portobello Scotland

Old photograph of a Scots Fishwife in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Scots Bicycles St Andrews Scotland

Old photograph of Scots with their bicycles in St Andrews, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Dunfermline Abbey Fife

Tour Scotland wee travel video of photography of the Abbey on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Dunfermline Abbey is a Church of Scotland Parish Church. The church occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts of a large medieval Benedictine abbey, which was sacked in 1560 during the Scottish Reformation and permitted to fall into disrepair. Part of the old abbey church continued in use at that time and some parts of the abbey infrastructure still remain to this day. Dunfermline Abbey is one of Scotland's most important cultural sites. The Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Trinity and St Margaret, was founded in 1128 by King David I of Scotland, but the monastic establishment was based on an earlier foundation dating back to the reign of King Malcolm Canmore. Saint Margaret of Scotland was buried here in 1093; on 19th June 1250. King Robert the Bruce was buried, in 1329, in the choir, now the site of the present parish church. Bruce's heart rests in Melrose, but his bones lie in Dunfermline Abbey, where, after the discovery of the skeleton in 1818, they were reinterred with fitting pomp below the pulpit of the New church. In 1891 the pulpit was moved back and a monumental brass inserted in the floor to indicate the royal vault.

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Old Photograph Crofting Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of crofting on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. As landowners sought higher profits, traditional farming farms were dismantled. Families were relocated to small crofts, frequently relying on fishing or kelp harvesting when farming failed.


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Old Photograph Coal Merchant Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a Coalman near Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Sculptured Stones Aberlemno Angus

Tour Scotland video of photographs of the Sculptured Pictish Stones at Aberlemno, Scotland. Aberlemno 1 is the central roadside stone. It is an unshaped standing stone, bearing incised Pictish symbols. Aberlemno 2 stone can be found in Aberlemno kirkyard, it is a shaped cross-slab, bearing Pictish symbols as well as Christian symbols in relief. On the rear of Aberlemno 2 is a scene showing human figures bearing weapons, apparently engaged in battle. Aberlemno 3 stone has an elaborately decorated ringed cross flanked by adoring angels on one side, and a hunting scene on the reverse, below two large Pictish symbols.

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Old Photograph Nelson's Tower Forres Scotland

Old photograph of Nelson's Tower on Cluny Hill on the South side of Forres, Moray, Scotland. At the top of Cluny Hill is Nelson's Tower, built in 1806 to commemorate Admiral Lord Nelson and his victory at Trafalgar.



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Old Photographs Meikleour Scotland

Old photograph of cottage and houses in the village of Meikleour in Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of the hotel in Meikleour in Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of the school in Meikleour in Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Prestonpans Scotland

Old photograph of shops, buildings and people in Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland. This Scottish town is the site of the 1745 Battle of Prestonpans, and has a history dating back to the 11th century. The town boasts some impressive examples of historical architecture, such as the Preston Tower and the doocot and the local Mercat Cross.



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Old Photograph Mellerstain House Scotland

Old photograph of the interior of Mellerstain House near Kelso, Scotland. Mellerstain was built between 1725 and 1778. The architect William Adam initially designed the east and west wings for George Baillie, born 1664, died 1738, and his wife Lady Grisell, born 1665, died 1746, daughter of Patrick Hume, Earl of Marchmont. Work ceased after the wings were completed, and it was another 45 years before George Baillie commissioned Robert Adam to design and build the main mansion house. George was the second son of Charles, Lord Binning, born 1697, died 1732, heir to the 6th Earl of Haddington, and he inherited the Mellerstain estate when his aunt Grisell, Lady Murray, died in 1759. He had changed his name from Hamilton to Baillie as a mark of respect. The mansion house is possibly the only remaining complete building designed by Robert Adam, as most of his other works were additions to existing buildings. The Adelphi Building, in London, England, was a speculative neoclassical terraced housing development by the Adam brothers but is now largely demolished, leaving Mellerstain House as an important record of Robert Adam's work. The interior is a masterpiece of delicate and colourful plasterwork, comprising a small sitting room, originally a breakfast room, a beautiful library, a music room, originally the dining room, the main drawing room, with original silk brocade wall coverings, a small drawing room, originally a bed chamber, and a small library, originally two dressing rooms. The main entrance hall leads to a long corridor with a staircase to the bedroom floor, from which there is a small back staircase leading to a large gallery room running north to south.



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Old Photograph McArthur's Head lighthouse Islay Scotland

Old photograph of McArthur's Head lighthouse, Island of Islay, Scotland. The lighthouse was designed and built by David and Thomas Stevenson. It was established to mark the southern entrance to the Sound of Islay, a vital shipping channel.


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Old Photographs Auchinleck Scotland

Old photograph of cottage and houses in Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Scotland. Near this Scottish village is Auchinleck House, past home of the lawyer, diarist and biographer James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck.




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