Old Photograph The Scores St Andrews Scotland

Old photograph of The Scores street in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The establishment of the present town began around 1140 by Bishop Robert on an L-shaped hill, possibly on the site of the ruined St Andrews Castle. According to a charter of 1170, the new burgh was built to the west of the Cathedral precinct, along Castle Street and possibly as far as what is now known as North Street. This means that the layout may have led to the creation of two new streets, North Street and South Street, from the foundations of the new St Andrews Cathedral filling the area inside a two sided triangle at its apex. The northern boundary of the burgh was the southern side of the Scores, the street between North Street and the sea, with the southern by the Kinness Burn and the western by the West Port. The burgh of St Andrews was first represented at the great council at Scone Palace by Perth, Perthshire, in 1357.



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Old Photograph Cottages Nine Mile Burn Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Nine Mile Burn located two miles North of Carlops, Midlothian, Scotland. The name Carlops derives from Witches' Leap as near the South of the village there are two exposed rock faces about 20 metres in height facing each other with a similar distance between them. Folklore maintained that witches would leap from one face to the other, over the chasm, for entertainment of an evening.



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Old Photograph Cottages Foulden Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Foulden in the Borders, Scotland. This Scottish village is located not far above the Whiteadder Water, and 7 miles west of Berwick-upon-Tweed. In the 17th century the barony of Foulden and its lands were conveyed to Sir John Wilkie, a rich burgess of Lanark. In 1696 John Wilkie's residence in Foulden had six taxable hearths, virtually everyone else in the vicinity having just one. Foulden remained with this family until they failed in the male line with James Bruce Wilkie of Foulden, a Captain in the King's Own Scottish Borderers Regiment, who died December 12, 1935.



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Old Photographs Leitholm Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, shop, car and people in Leitholm located four miles North of Coldstream, Borders, Scotland. This Scottish village was founded, along with Eccles, by settler John Edgar. Other places nearby include the Crosshall cross, Duns, Eccles, Ednam, Fogo, Greenlaw, Hume Castle, Polwarth, Westruther.



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Old Photograph Cottages Stobs Village Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Stobs village near Hawick, Borders Scotland. In 1914 men from all over the British Empire came to a Camp by Stobs to train as soldiers. So great were the numbers that men had to be accommodated in the town church in Hawick, public halls, and even a local mill was pressed into service. Among the many Scottish regiments to train at Stobs were the 12th Scottish Rifles, the 9th Royal Scots and the 13th Highland Light Infantry. But in late 1914, it was announced that Stobs Camp would house German prisoners of war. The POWs were put to work in construction, building a highly praised sewerage system for the camp. Other prisoners of war also worked on nearby farms.



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Tour Scotland Music Video If I Was A Blackbird

Tour Scotland Music recommendation, If I Was A Blackbird by Silly Wizard. A beautiful and sad song, sung by Andy M. Stewart of Silly Wizard.

I am a young sailor, my story is sad,
Though once I was carefree and a brave sailor lad,
I courted a lassie by night and by day,
Oh but now she has left me, and sailed far away.

Oh, if I was a blackbird could whistle and sing,
I'd follow the vessel my true love sails in,
And in the top riggin' I would there build my nest,
And I'd flutter my wings o'er her lilly white breast.

Or if I was a scholar and could handle the pen
Once secret love letter to my true love I'd send
And tell of my sorrow, my grief and my pain
Since she's gone and left me in yon flowery glen.

Oh, if I was a blackbird could whistle and sing,
I'd follow the vessel my true love sails in,
And in the top riggin' I would there build my nest,
And I'd flutter my wings o'er her lilly white breast.

I sailed o'er the ocean, my fortune to seek
Though I missed her caress and her kiss on my cheek
I returned and I told her my love was still warm
But she turned away lightly and great was her scorn.

Oh, if I was a blackbird could whistle and sing,
I'd follow the vessel my true love sails in,
And in the top riggin' I would there build my nest,
And I'd flutter my wings o'er her lilly white breast.

I offered to take her to Donnybrook Fair
And to buy her fine ribbons to tie up her hair
I offered to marry and to stay by her side
But she says in the morning she sails with the tide.

Oh, if I was a blackbird could whistle and sing,
I'd follow the vessel my true love sails in,
And in the top riggin' I would there build my nest,
And I'd flutter my wings o'er her lilly white breast.

My parents, they chide me, oh they will not agree
Saying that me and my false love, married should never be
Oh let them deprive me, or let them do what they will
While there's breath in my body she's the one I love still.

Oh, if I was a blackbird could whistle and sing,
I'd follow the vessel my true love sails in,
And in the top riggin' I would there build my nest,
And I'd flutter my wings o'er her lilly white breast.

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Old Photograph Stacking Peats Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter stacking Peats on the Shetland Islands, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland March Video Drive To Stormontfield Perthshire

Tour Scotland March video of a drive on a country road to visit Stormontfield located just North of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland March Video Drive To Murthly Perthshire

Tour Scotland March video of a drive on a rural road to visit Murthy, Perthshire, Scotland. Perth District Asylum, later known as Murthly Hospital, opened in the village in April 1864 for pauper lunatics. It was the second district asylum to be built in Scotland. It closed in 1984 and was later demolished.

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Tour Scotland March Video Community Archive Dunkeld Perthshire

Tour Scotland March video of the new Community Archive building on visit to Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. This building, open to the public, contains a fast growing collection of photographs, records and memorabilia relating to the Cathedral and community of Dunkeld and Birnam. Including census records and tombstone inscription of the graveyards in the parish. The regimental records The Scottish Horse are also held.

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Tour Scotland March Video Brae Road Dunkeld Perthshire

Tour Scotland March video of a drive along Brae Road to Brae Street to visit Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. Brae is the Lowland Scots word for the slope or brow of a hill.

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Old Photograph Queen Of Scots Steam Train Scotland

Old photograph of the Queen of Scots Steam Train below Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Sandgreen Scotland

Old photograph of Sandgreen near Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The general region of Dumfries and Galloway is historically significant, with Robert the Bruce having fought a battle nearby and murdered the Red Comyn in Dumfries in 1306 before becoming King of Scotland.

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Old Photograph Craigtoun Park Scotland

Old photograph of Craigtoun Park by St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Castletown Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Castletown in Caithness, Scotland. Much of the village is built on the old townland, or fermland, of Stanergill. The Stanergill Burn was the eastern boundary of the townland. It flows now through the eastern end of the village and so into Dunnet Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.




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Old Photograph Kettlebridge Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Kettlebridge, Fife, Scotland. Originally called Catul or Katel a name supposed to refer to some ancient unrecorded battle fought in its neighbourhood, the village stands on ground which of old belonged to the Crown, and hence assumed its alternative name of King's Kettle or Kingskettle. It was chiefly inhabited by handloom weavers.



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Old Photographs Train Station Glenfarg Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the train station in Glenfarg, Perthshire, Scotland. Opened in 1890, the Glenfarg Railway was a twin track line linking Mawcarse Junction with the Bridge of Earn. The line opened at the same time as the Forth Railway Bridge and helped to provide a direct rail link between Edinburgh and Perth.





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Old Photographs Thankerton Scotland

Old photograph of cottages un Thankerton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. To the west of Thankerton is a hamlet called Eastend, on the south edge of the Carmichael Estate, whose main house, Eastend House, was used by the Polish Army between August 1940 and May 1941. A stone in the house, with the Polish eagle on it, commemorates the event.



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Old Photographs Seamill Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and tearoom in Seamill located eight miles South of Largs in Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is named after one of its oldest buildings, the Sea Mill, a grain watermill that appears in Johannes Blaeu's Atlas of Scotland published in Amsterdam in 1654.



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Old Photograph Balcurvie Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Balcurvie village near Leven, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Collessie Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Collessie, Fife, ,Scotland. The Melville Tomb in the village was erected to the Melvilles of Halhill and contains the remains of Sir James Melville who died 13th of November 1617, aged 82. He had been a courtier to both Mary Queen of Scots and King James VI of Scotland.



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Old Photograph Repentance Tower Annan Scotland

Old photograph of the Repentance Tower by Annan near Dumfries, Scotland. Built in 1565 by John Maxwell, it served as a watchtower for Hoddom Castle. The tower takes its name from an inscription above the door.



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Old Photograph Paddle Steamer River Tay Perth Scotland

Old photograph of a Paddle Steamer on the River Tay by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Most of the pleasure sailings from Dundee were up Firth of Tay to relatively calm waters and hence many of the paddle steamers that plied on the Tay were more in the nature of river steamers The principal ports of call were: Balmerino just a short distance upstream on the Fife shore, Newburgh, a little further in North Fife and of course Perth.


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Old Photograph Botanic Gardens Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow Botanic Gardens is an Arboretum and public park located in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland. It features several glasshouses, the most notable of which is the Kibble Palace. The gardens were created in 1817, and run by the Royal Botanic Institution of Glasgow, founded by Thomas Hopkirk of Dalbeth, and were intended to supply the University of Glasgow. William Hooker was regius professor of botany at Glasgow University, and contributed to the development of the Botanic Gardens before his appointment to the directorship of Kew Gardens in London. The gardens were originally used for concerts and other events, and in 1891 the gardens were incorporated in to the Parks and Gardens of the City of Glasgow.




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Tour Scotland Video Floral Art Flower Show Bridge of Earn Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a Floral Art Display on Open Day at the Flower Show on visit and trip to Bridge of Earn, by Perth, Perthshire,
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Tour Scotland Video Flower Show Bridge Of Earn Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of an Open Day walk around the Flower Show on visit and trip to Bridge of Earn, by Perth, Perthshire. Show included Cut Flowers, Pot Plants, Fruit, Vegetables, Floral Art, Handicrafts, Bakery and much more.

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Tour Scotland Video Food Flower Show Bridge Of Earn Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the food available at the Flower Show on visit and trip to Bridge of Earn, by Perth, Perthshire. Homemade baked goods included rice crispy cakes, malteser cake, shortbread, buttered tea loaf, iced fruit cake, tiffin, cupcakes, banana loaf, scones, empire double biscuits.

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Tour Scotland Video Amaryllis Flower Show Bridge Of Earn Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Amaryllis flowering bulbs on Open Day at the Flower Show on visit and trip to Bridge of Earn, by Perth, Perthshire. The amaryllis originated in South America's tropical regions and has the botanical name Hippeastrum. The Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of the Western Cape region of South Africa.

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Old Photograph Glasgow Road Perth Scotland

Old photograph of Glasgow road, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Lochnaw Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Lochnaw Castle five miles from Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Agnews held this new castle till the end of the 19th century. The castle, located by the loch, is occupied as a private residence.




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Old Photographs Ballater Scotland

Old photograph of Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Balmoral Castle the British Royal Family's holiday home, lies approximately 10 miles to the west, and the family has visited the town frequently since the time of Queen Victoria.



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Old Photograph South Port Perth Scotland

Old photograph of South Port in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. In the 19th century there was a linen industry and also a dyeing industry in Victorian Perth. A bleaching industry also flourished in Perth in the 19th century. Whisky distilling was carried on a small scale for centuries but in the 19th century it became a major industry. General Accident insurance company was formed in 1885. There was also salmon fishing in the River Tay.



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Old Photograph Craigie Perth Scotland

Old photograph of Craigie, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Step Rock Bathing Pool St Andrews Scotland

Old photograph of the Step Rock Bathing Pool in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Step Rock in St Andrew's Bay where suspected witches were swum, was used as a swimming pool until 1978. The witch swimmings that took place there involved the right thumb bring tied to the left big toe and vice versa before the suspected witch was swum.


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Tour Scotland Carrickfergus Video

Tour Scotland Celtic music video recommendation. Cedric Smith and Loreena Mckennitt singing Carrickfergus. .

I wish I was in Carrickfergus
Only for nights in Ballygrand
I would swim over the deepest ocean
Only for nights in Ballygrand
But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over
And neither have I the wings to fly
If I could find me a handy boatman
To ferry me over my love and I
My childhood days bring back sad reflections
Of happy time there spent so long ago
My boyhood friends and my own relations
Have all passed on now like the melting snow
So I?ll spend my days in this endless roving
Soft is the grass and shore my bed is free
But to be home now in carrickfergus
On the long road down to the salty sea

And in Kilkenny it is reported
On marble stone there as black as ink
With gold and silver I would support her
But I'll sing no more now till I get a drink
For I'm drunk today and I'm seldom sober
The handsome rover from town to town
Ah but I am sick now my days are numbered
Come all me young men and lay me down
Come all me young men and lay me down

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Tour Scotland The Cruel Sister Video

Tour Scotland music video recommendation. Old Blind Dogs singing The Cruel Sister. Old Blind Dogs are a Scottish musical group which plays traditional Scottish folk music and Celtic music, with influences from rock, reggae, jazz, blues and Middle Eastern music rhythms.

There lived a lady by the north sea shore
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
Twa daughters were the bairns she bore
Fa la la la la la la la la la

One was as bright as is the sun
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
Sae coal black grew the elder one
Fa la la la la la la la la la

A knight came riding to the ladies' door
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
He travelled far to be their wooer
Fa la la la la la la la la la

He courted one, aye with gloves and rings
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
But he loved the other above all things
Fa la la la la la la la la la

"Sister, sister won't you walk with me
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
An' see the ships sail upon sea?"
Fa la la la la la la la la la

And as they stood on that windy shore
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
The elder sister pushed the younger o'er
Fa la la la la la la la la la

Sometimes she sank or sometimes she swam
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
Crying, "Sister, reach to me your hand"
Fa la la la la la la la la la

And there she floated just like a swan
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
The salt sea carried her body on
Fa la la la la la la la la la

Two minstrels walking by the north sea strand
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
They saw the maiden, aye float to land
Fa la la la la la la la la la

They made a harp out of her breast bone
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
The sound of which would melt a heart of stone
Fa la la la la la la la la la

They took three locks of her yellow hair
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
And wi' them strung that harp so rare
Fa la la la la la la la la la

The first string that those minstrels tried
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
Then terror seized the black-haired bride
Fa la la la la la la la la la

The second string played a doleful sound
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
"The younger sister, oh she is drowned"
Fa la la la la la la la la la

The third string, it played beneath their bow
Lay the bairn tae the bonnie broom
"And surely now her tears will flow"
Fa la la la la la la la la la

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Tour Scotland Caoineadh Cu Chulainn Video

Tour Scotland Celtic music video recommendation. Davy Spillane playing Caoineadh Cu Chulainn on the Uilleann Pipes. Davy was born in Dublin on the 6th of January 1959. At the age of 12 he started playing the uilleann pipes. His father encouraged him and inspired him with his love of all music genres.

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Tour Scotland Jamie Raeburn's Farewell Video

Tour Scotland music video recommendation. Tannahill Weavers singing Jamie Raeburn's Farewell. This Scottish e band was formed in 1968, practising in a back room of a rented Council house at 41 St. Ninian's Road, Hunterhill, Paisley and first performed at St. Peter's Folk Club, Glenburn, Paisley. The Club was run by Pat Doherty, father of Weavers' founding member Neil Doherty. They are named after Scottish poet Robert Tannahill, known as the 'Weaver Poet,' and have recorded several of his songs.

My name is Jamie Raeburn, in Glasgow I was born
My place and habitation I'm forced to leave with scorn
Frae my place and habitation, it's I must gang awa'
Far from the bonnie hills and dales of Caledonia

It was early on one morning, just by the break of day
The turnkey he came to us and unto us did say
Arise you hapless convicts, arise you one and a'
This is the day you are to stray from Caledonia

We all arose, put on our clothes, our hearts were full of grief
Our friends who stood around the coach could grant us no relief
Our parents, wives and sweethearts too, their hears were broke in twa
To see us leave the hills and dales of Caledonia

Farewell my dearest mother, I'm vexed for what I've done
I hope none shall cast up to you the race that I have run
I hope God will protect you when I am far awa'
Far from the bonnie hills and dales of Caledonia

Farewell, my honest father, you were the best of men
And likewise my own sweetheart, it's Catherine is her name
No more we'll walk by Clyde's clear stream or by the Broomielaw
For I must leave the hills and dales of Caledonia

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Tour Scotland Fine Flowers In The Valley Video

Tour Scotland music video recommendation. Barbara Dickson singing Fine Flowers In The Valley. Barbara Ruth Dickson, OBE, born in Dunfermline, Fife, on the 27th of September 1947 is a wonderful Scottish singer.

She sat down below a thorn
Fine flowers in the valley
And there she's kissed her babe newborn
And the green leaves they grow rarely

"Smile na sae sweet, my bonnie babe
Fine flowers in the valley
An ye smile sae sweet, ye will smile me deid"
And the green leaves they grow rarely

She's ta'en oot her wee pen knife
Fine flowers in the valley
And twined the sweet babe o' it's life
And the green leaves they grow rarely

She's howket a grave by the lecht o' the moon
Fine flowers in the valley
An' there she's buried her sweet babe in
And the green leaves they grow rarely

As she was going to the church
Fine flowers in the valley
She saw a sweet babe in the porch
And the green leaves they grow rarely

"O sweet babe, an' thou were mine
Fine flowers in the valley
I wad cleed thee in the silk sae fine"
And the grow leaves they grow rarely

O cruel mother, when I was thine
Fine flowers in the valley
Ye didna prove tae me sae kind
And the green leaves they grow rarely

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Tour Scotland Now Westlin Winds Video

Tour Scotland music video recommendation. Dick Gaughan singing Now Westlin Winds. Richard Peter Gaughan usually known as Dick Gaughan was born on the 17th of May 1948, in Glasgow, he is a fine Scottish musician, singer, and songwriter.

Now westlin winds and slaughtering guns
Bring autumn's pleasant weather
The moorcock springs on whirring wings
Among the blooming heather
Now waving grain, wild o'er the plain
Delights the weary farmer
And the moon shines bright as I rove at night
To muse upon my charmer
The partridge loves the fruitful fells
The plover loves the mountain
The woodcock haunts the lonely dells
The soaring hern the fountain
Through lofty groves the cushat roves
The path of man to shun it
The hazel bush o'erhangs the thrush
The spreading thorn the linnet
Thus every kind their pleasure find
The savage and the tender
Some social join and leagues combine
Some solitary wander
Avaunt! Away! the cruel sway,
Tyrannic man's dominion
The sportsman's joy, the murdering cry
The fluttering, gory pinion
But Peggy dear the evening's clear
Thick flies the skimming swallow
The sky is blue, the fields in view
All fading green and yellow
Come let us stray our gladsome way
And view the charms of nature
The rustling corn, the fruited thorn
And every happy creature
We'll gently walk and sweetly talk
Till the silent moon shines clearly
I'll grasp thy waist and, fondly pressed,
Swear how I love thee dearly
Not vernal showers to budding flowers
Not autumn to the farmer
So dear can be as thou to me
My fair, my lovely charmer

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Old Photograph Corsock Scotland

Old photograph of Corsock located eight miles North of Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The lands of Corsock belonged to the Neilsons from the 15th to the 18th century. John Neilson was a prominent Covenanter who hosted the first " Field-Meeting " or conventicle at Corsock. He was later executed in Edinburgh in 1666 for his involvement in the Pentland Rising.


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Old Photographs Balloch Scotland

Old photograph of Balloch at the foot of Loch Lomond, Scotland. Balloch is at the north end of the Vale of Leven, straddling the River Leven itself. It connects to the larger town of Alexandria and to the smaller village of Jamestown, both of which are located to its south.



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Old Photograph City Hall Perth Scotland

Old photograph of City Hall, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The City Hall, in West St John Street, was built in 1844.



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Old Photographs South Inch Park Perth Scotland

Old photograph of South Inch Park, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of South Inch Park, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Bus Crossing Bridge Dunkeld Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Stagecoach Bus crossing the River Tay on Telford Bridge on visit to Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. There are good bus services to Dunkeld from Perth, and onward to Pitlochry and Aberfeldy.

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TourScotland Video Passenger Train Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a passenger train arriving at the railway station in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Passenger services are operated by First ScotRail and East Coast, and the station is staffed throughout its opening hours. From Perth station, trains operate to: Edinburgh, via Fife; Glasgow, via Stirling; Inverness, via the Highland Main Line; and Aberdeen via Dundee. The overnight Caledonian Sleeper service between Inverness and London and the daily East Coast Highland Chieftain service between Inverness and London Kings Cross call at this Scottish train station.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive Kinnoull To Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video shot today of a drive in snow to from Kinnoull Hill to visit Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive To Kinnoull Hill Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video shot today of a drive in snow to visit Kinnoull Hill near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Tay Street Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of Tay Street, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Den Of Mains Scotland

Old photograph of Den of Mains, Dundee, Scotland. The name " Den o' Mains " comes from the wooded ravine, or " den," through which the Gelly Burn flows. " Mains " likely refers to the principal farm on the estate.


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