Tour Scotland Video Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument Dean Cemetery Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the Colonel Robert A. Smith monument on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. On September 14, 1862, Scottish born Colonel Smith was ordered to capture a vital bridge during the Battle of Munfordville. After three hours of combat, Confederate losses were 40 dead and 211 wounded. Smith himself was mortally wounded and in great pain until he died several days later. The Battle of Munfordville, also known as the Battle of Green River, was an engagement in Kentucky, USA, during the American Civil War. Victory there allowed the Confederates to temporarily strengthen their hold on the region and impair Union supply lines. In late August 1862, Confederate General Braxton Bragg's army left Chattanooga, Tennessee and marched into Kentucky. Pursued by Major General. Don Carlos Buell's Union Army, Bragg approached Munfordville, a station on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and the location of the railroad bridge crossing Green River, in mid-September. Colonel John T. Wilder commanded the Union garrison at Munfordville, which consisted of three regiments behind extensive fortifications. Wilder refused Brigadier General James R. Chalmers's demand to surrender on September 14. Union forces repulsed Chalmers's attacks that day, forcing the Confederates to conduct siege operations September 15 and September 16. Late on September 16, realizing that Buell's forces were near and not wishing to kill or injure innocent civilians, the Confederates sent another demand for surrender. Wilder entered enemy lines under a flag of truce, and Confederate Major General Simon B. Buckner escorted him to view the Confederate strength to convince him resistance was futile. Realizing the odds he faced, Wilder agreed to surrender. The formal ceremony took place the next day. With the railroad and bridge, Munfordville was an important transportation center, and Confederates' control hampered the movement of Union supplies and men. Three places in the National Register of Historic Places are related to the battle. The entire battlefield is listed in the National Register as the Battle of Munfordville Site. The Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument in Horse Cave marks the grave of a Louisiana soldier accidentally killed while clearing timber for the Confederate advance. The Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument is the only one still on the battlefield.

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Tour Scotland Video John Leishman Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the John Leishman gravestone on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Writer to the Signet, born 1801, died 1861, and of his wife Hannah Elizabeth Weatherley. Solicitors in Scotland were previously known as " writers "; Writers to the Signet were the solicitors entitled to supervise use of the King's Signet, the private seal of the early Kings of Scots. Records of that use date back to 1369. In 1532, the Writers to the Signet were included as Members in the newly established College of Justice, along with the Faculty of Advocates and the Clerks of the Court of Session. The Society was established in 1594, when the King's Secretary, as Keeper of the Signet, gave commissions to a Deputy Keeper and 18 other writers.

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Tour Scotland Video Major General William John Gairdner Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the Major General William John Gairdner gravestone on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh. He was born in 1789 and died in 1861 aged 72. A sculpture of his hat under a canopy, with his sword at the base. Jane Wishart, his wife, was born in 1822 and died in 1894 aged 72. William John Gairdner was born in September 1789, the son of Alexander Gairdner of Ladykirk, Markton, Ayrshire. Appointed a Cadet in the Honourable East India Company’s forces in 1807, he arrived in India in October 1808 and was posted to the 10th Native Infantry as an Ensign. Quickly in action against the Bhattis in the following year, Gairdner was transferred as an Ensign to the 2/10th Native Infantry for operations in the Oudh in 1813, seeing action in Rewah and at the storming of Etah, where he was wounded. Then in 1816, having been advanced to Lieutenant, he fought with the 2nd Brigade, Left Column in operations of the Nepal War; and in the same year he was also witnessed the Bareilly insurrection. Gairdner was Adjutant of the 2/10th Native Infantry from March 1817 to April 1824, a period that encompassed further active service in the Third Mahratta War, and, having transferred to the 14th Native Infantry in May 1824, he served in the First Burma War and was present at the engagements at Donabew on 2 April 1825 and at Prome on 1 December of the same year, latterly as a temporary Staff Assistant Commissary-General to Sir A. Campbell’s force. He became a Deputy Assistant Commissary-General in August 1831, was advanced to Major in June 1835 and returned home to Scotland on furlough 1836 to 1840. Back in India, Gairdner was advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1842 and appointed to the command of the 14th Native Infantry, which regiment he led in the Gwalior operations of the following year, not least at Maharajpoor; and again, between 1845 and 1846, he commanded the regiment in the First Sikh War and was present at Ferozeshuhur; his C.B. Military Companion’s breast badge, was gazetted in April 1846. Transferring to the 16th Native Infantry, Gairdner’s final stint of active service was against the Rajah of Sikkim’s forces in 1850; he was appointed Commanding Officer of the 63rd Native Infantry. soon after his advancement to full Colonel in September 1852 but returned home on furlough in the same year and died at Strathtyrum House, St. Andrews, Fife in February 1861. His advancement to Major-General dated from November 1854.

The Gairdner surname is of early medieval English and French origin, and is from occupational name derived from the Middle English and Old Northern French " gardin ", garden, itself a diminutive of the Germanic word, gard, an enclosure. The function of the gardinier, or jardiniere in modern French, of medieval times was an important one, since he was responsible for cultivating edible produce in an orchard or kitchen garden, what would now be a market gardener. The use of the word gardener, referring to one who tends ornamental lawns and flower beds is a much later application. Richard Gardiner was listed as a seaman aboard the Mayflower in 1620, which sailed for the New World. One Peter Gardner was one of the first emigrants to the New Virginia Colony in America in April 1635, leaving London, England, on the Elizabeth under Mr. William Staggs. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William le Gardinier, which was dated 1199.

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Tour Scotland April Video Forth Railway Bridge Firth Of Forth South Queensferry

Tour Scotland video of the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth of Forth near Hawes Pier on visit to South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland. Also called Queensferry or simply The Ferry, which is a former Royal Burgh in West Lothian now part of the City of Edinburgh. The bridge is a famous Scottish icon which spans the estuary from South Queensferry to North Queensferry in the Kingdom of Fife. The jetty at the Hawes Inn was designed by Rennie and Stevenson and was in use until the ferry closed in 1964.

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Tour Scotland April Video Cruise Boat Firth Of Forth South Queensferry

Tour Scotland video of a cruise boat on the Firth of Forth arriving a Hawes Pier on visit to South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland. Also called Queensferry or simply The Ferry, which is a former Royal Burgh in West Lothian now part of the City of Edinburgh. Behind the boat in the distance you can see the Forth Road Bridge and beyond the Kingdom of Fife.

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Tour Scotland Video Passenger Train Leaving Railway Station Dalmeny

Tour Scotland video of a passenger train leaving the railway station in Dalmeny by South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland. This Scottish train is just about to cross the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth of Forth.

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Tour Scotland Video Passenger Train Railway Station Dalmeny

Tour Scotland travel video of a passenger train arriving at the railway station on history visit and trip to Dalmeny by South Queensferry, near Edinburgh. This Scottish train has just crossed the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth of Forth. The current station is the second to serve the town. The first station was on the South Queensferry branch of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway which opened on 1 March 1866. The North British Railway closed the original station on 5 March 1890 to be replaced by the existing station at the same time as the opening of the Forth Bridge. The majority of trains calling at the station are part of the Fife Circle Line services, however there is a daily service between Glasgow Queen Street and Kirkcaldy that calls here and uses the line to Winchburgh Junction.

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Tour Scotland Video Skull And Crossbones Gravestone Churchyard Dalmeny

Tour Scotland travel video of a skull and crossbones gravestone in the churchyard on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Dalmeny by South Queensferry, near Edinburgh. Symbols of Mortality such as the Deaths Head; skull and cross bones are fairly common on gravestones from the late 17th century onwards.


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Tour Scotland Video Robert Ruthven Saddler Gravestone South Queensferry

Tour Scotland travel video of the Robert Ruthven, Saddler gravestone in the cemetery on ancestry, family genealogy, history visit and trip to South Queensferry, near Edinburgh. Robert J H Ruthven, Saddler, born 1866, died 1949, aged 83. Agnes G Stewart Saddler, born 1870, died 1957, aged 87, wife of Robert J H Ruthven Saddler.

This is a famous Scottish clan surname. It is locational from the barony of Ruthven in the former county of Angus. In the ancient charters of Scotland, the original family were recorded in the register of the abbey of Scone by Perth, Perthshire, as being witnesses to various transfers of land by the royal family of Scotland in the years between 1125 and 1150. Interestingly all the early personal names such as Thor and Swein are Scandanavian, showing the influence of Danish-Viking settlers in the region. The first of the clan to have held the title of de Ruthven', was Swan de Ruthven in the year 1211.

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Old Photograph Post Office Staff Perth Scotland

Old photograph of Post Office Staff in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Boat of Garten Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Boat of Garten in Badenoch And Strathspey, Scotland. The village transformed from a small agricultural settlement when the Highland Railway arrived, making Boat of Garten a significant hub and leading to new homes for railway workers. The settlement name derives from the nearby old ferry over the River Spey. It is also known as " Osprey village " due to its significant population of Ospreys. Boat of Garten is located between Aviemore and Grantown on Spey. It lies to the northeast of Aviemore, just north of Auchgourish and east of Kinveachy. Loch Garten lies to the southeast of the village.




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Old Photograph Cottages Enochdhu Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Enochdhu a hamlet located West of Kirkmichael, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Colinton Scotland

Old photograph of Colinton located South West of the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. Originally sited within a steep sided glen on a convenient fording point on the Water of Leith, and expanding from there, Colinton's history dates back to before the 11th century.



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Old Photograph Skerinish Scotland

Old photograph of Skerinish, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. On the coast near Skerinish Quay are the remains of a small promontory dun. The dun lies on the top of a small rocky stack. An earth bank cuts off access from the landward side and there are traces of walling around the remainder of the platform. A possible rock cut entrance leads down to the shore on the North West side. Dun is a generic term for an ancient or medieval fort. It is mainly used in the British Isles to describe a kind of hill fort and also a kind of Atlantic roundhouse. The term comes from Irish dún or Scottish Gaelic dùn, meaning, fort, and is cognate with Old Welsh din, whence Welsh dinas, meaning, city, comes.



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Old Photograph Rosebank Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Rosebank village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. With a population of around 200, Rosebank is one of the least populated settlements in South Lanarkshire. The hamlet is situated on the banks of the River Clyde, and was constructed by Lord Newlands of Mauldslie Castle, which stood in the Mauldslie Woods area across the Clyde for estate workers.



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Tour Scotland April Video Sunset Fairground South Inch Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland April video of sunset behind the Fairground on visit to South Inch Park in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Perth is a city in central Scotland, located on the banks of the River Tay. It is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and the historic county of Perthshire.

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Tour Scotland April Video Drive Towards Sunset Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland April video shot this evening of part the drive South along Friarton Road towards sunset on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Dailly Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Dailly located eight miles South of Maybole in South Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish village was laid out in the 1760s as a coal-mining village. In 1849 a fire broke out in Dalquharran Colliery, one of the nearby mines, and continued to burn for 50 years. Hew Ainslie was born in the parish of Dailly on 5 April 1792, to George Ainslie and a mother whose name is unknown. After a fair education, he became a clerk in Glasgow, a landscape gardener in his native district, and a clerk in the Register House, Edinburgh. In 1822, being then ten years married to his cousin, Ainslie emigrated to America, where he continued to live with varied fortune for the rest of his days, paying a short visit to Scotland in 1864. Upon travelling to the New World, he was attracted to Robert Owen's social system in New Harmony, Indiana, but after a short trial he connected himself with a firm of brewers; his name is associated with the establishment of various breweries, mills, and factories in the Western States. He died in Louisville, 11 March 1878


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Old Photograph Cranshaws Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Cranshaws Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle is thought to be the inspiration for Ravenswood Castle, the home of Edgar, hero of Sir Walter Scott's tragedy the Bride of Lammermoor. The lands of Cranshaws were originally part of the Barony of Bothwell, which barony was created for David Olifard, ancestor of the current chief of the Clan Oliphant, by King Malcolm IV in the middle of the 12th century. Occupancy was then granted to a younger Olifard son, with whose line the estate remained for some centuries. In 1329, the senior representative of the younger line but now 7th chief, William Oliphant, Lord of Aberdalgie, died and amongst the properties which he left was Cranshaws, which he had inherited from his Olifard forebears. In 1401 Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas bestowed Cranshaws upon Sir John Swinton, 14th of that Ilk whom the Earl calls " dilectus consanguineus nostra " meaning our beloved cousin " thus dispossessing the Oliphants. Following Swinton's death at the Battle of Homildon Hill the following year, the lands passed to his son Sir John Swinton, 15th of that Ilk, who is thought to have built the existing castle.



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Old Photograph Gairlochy Scotland

Old photograph of Gairlochy near Fort Augustus in the Highlands of Scotland. Between 1803 and 1822, the Caledonian Canal was built, passing through Gairlochy, over the original site of the River Lochy. Two locks were built for access onto Lochy Lochy, but only one, the Upper Lock, is still in use.



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Old Photographs Glenluce Scotland

Old photograph of Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland. Robert the Bruce stopped for a rest at Glenluce. This village is in the parish of Old Luce in Wigtownshire. It lies on the A75 road between Stranraer and Newton Stewart. Near to the village is Glenluce Abbey, a disused Cistercian monastery built in 1192 by Lochlann, Lord of Galloway. Following the Reformation it was abandoned, falling into its current ruinous state. Glenluce was served by Glenluce railway station from 1862 by the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway which provided a strategic link to Northern Ireland under British Rail. However, it was cut under the Beeching Axe in 1965.



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Tour Scotland April Video View South River Tay Queens Bridge River Tay Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland April video of the view South over the River Tay from Queens Bridge in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The opening ceremony of the new Queen's Bridge was by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, on 10th October, 1960.

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Tour Scotland April Video View North River Tay Queens Bridge River Tay Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland April video shot this morning of the view North over the River Tay from Queens Bridge in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Fair Maid's House Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Fair Maid's House in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The 15th Century Fair Maid's House on North Port is the oldest secular building in Perth. Bought by the Glovers Association in 1693 for use as a meeting house, the house was largely reconstructed in 1893. This was used as the home of Catherine Glover in the poem, The Fair Maid Of Perth which was written by Sir Walter Scott. RSGS has now opened an exciting new Visitor and Information Centre in the Fair Maid's House.

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Tour Scotland Video Moncrieff Coat Of Arms Easter Rhynd Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Moncrieff Coat Of Arms in the ruins of the old Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Easter Rhynd Perthshire, Scotland. The Moncreiffes are of great antiquity, and possibly descend through a female stem of the Celtic Royal Dynasty. The name Moncreiffe is derived from the Barony of Moncreiffe in Perthshire. During the Anglo-Scottish Wars in the 16th century the Laird of Moncreiffe was Chamberlain to young King James III of Scotland. He led the Clan Moncreiffe against the English when they fought at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513.

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Old Photograph Soldier And Fiancée St Andrews Scotland

Old photograph of a soldier and his fiancée in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Cottages Rattray Head Scotland

Old photograph of cottages at Rattray Head by Fraserburgh, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Cottages Hermiston Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Hermiston, Edinburgh, Scotland.



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Old Photographs St Cyrus Scotland

Old photograph of St Cyrus located in Southern Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The village's original name, Ecclesgreig is from the Gaelic Eaglais-creag or " Church of the Rock ", referring to its ancient church situated at the base of a prominent sea cliff. The remains of the Kaim of Mathers is located on rock pinnacles on the northern most part of the beach. Built by the Barclay family, it was used as a refuge by David de Berkely from the vengeance of the king when, around 1420, he was part of a group who murdered the local sheriff, John Melville of Glenbervie.



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Old Photograph Insch Scotland

Old photograph of Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Situated approximately 28 miles from the city of Aberdeen. In the Middle Ages, this Scottish village was home to a colony of Flemish merchants. Robert Daun was born in Insch 1785, the eldest son of Rev George Daun,the local minister, on 16 April 1785. He went to Elgin Grammar School and then studied Medicine at King's College, Aberdeen graduating MA in 1803. Having sat the relevant medical exams in London, in 1804 he received a commission as Assistant Surgeon aged only 19 in the army and travelled to India to work there, aiding in the Second Anglo-Maratha War. He served first with the 22nd Light Dragoons then the 59th Foot. He returned to Britain around 1812 and received his MD degree from Aberdeen University in 1813. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1814. He then joined the Scots Greys. This resulted in his being shipped with them to the Continent, and being with them at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Whilst not on the front line, his position as Surgeon to the regiment would have rendered him an unenviable task, in this, one of history’s bloodiest battles. Thereafter he joined the occupying army in Paris following Napoleon’s defeat.He was nomadic by nature living in London 1832 to 1835, St Andrews 1835 to 1839 and Aberdeen 1839 to 1861. In 1832 he was elected a Member of the Geological Society of London, England. He died peacefully at home in Edinburgh on 14 June 1871, aged 86. He is buried in Dean Cemetery in west Edinburgh. His wife, Helen Jamieson, died 1892, lies with him.


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Old Photographs Marykirk Scotland

Old photograph of a shop, vintage car, cottages, houses and people in Marykirk located six miles North East of Montrose, Scotland. The present parish church was rebuilt in 1806 replacing the previous church the remains of which can be found in the adjacent kirkyard. The older church was dedicated to St Mary and consecrated in 1242 by the Bishop de Bernham.



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Old Photograph East Linton Scotland

Old photograph of East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland. Originally called Linton, the village probably gets its name from the Linn, a waterfall, on the river which it grew alongside. It was later called East Linton to distinguish it from West Linton in Peebleshire when the railways were built. Civil engineer John Rennie, born 1761, died 1821, was born here, at Phantassie on Dunbar Road. He died at his home in London while working on the London Bridge project, a bridge he designed. The work was completed by his sons, George and Sir John Rennie.



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Old Photographs Ormiston Scotland

Old photograph of Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland. This Scottish village was the first planned village in Scotland, founded in 1735 by John Cockburn, born 1685, died 1758, one of the initiators of the Agricultural Revolution.





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Tour Scotland Spring Video Old Parish Church Easter Rhynd Perthshire

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of the old Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Easter Rhynd in Perthshire. This old Scottish church has not been used since 1841 and is now an ivy covered ruin. Originally a cell of the Priory of May, first mentioned in the reign of King David, 1124 to 53. The church was erected in the 17th century, but one or two re-used inscribed stones suggest an older structure on the same site.

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Tour Scotland Video Ferryman Gravestone Easter Rhynd Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a Ferryman gravestone in the old Parish Church graveyard cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Easter Rhynd in Perthshire. This is the gravestone of a ferryman, perhaps one of those who once operated the ferry across the mouth of the River Earn between Easter Rhynd and Ferryfield.

The River Earn leaves Loch Earn at St Fillans and runs east through Strathearn, then East and South, joining the River Tay near Abernethy. The Earn is about 46 miles long. It passes by Comrie, Crieff and Bridge of Earn.

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Tour Scotland April Video Drive To Easter Rhynd Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of part of a drive to Easter Rhynd in Perthshire, Scotland. This hamlet is located near to the River Tay and River Earn, East of Bridge of Earn and South East of Perth.

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Tour Scotland Video Classic Arrol Johnston Car Strathmore Angus

Tour Scotland video of a classic Arrol Johnston Car on visit to the Strathmore Vintage Vehicle Club near Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland. Arrol-Johnston, later known as Arrol-Aster, was an early Scottish manufacturer of automobiles, which operated from 1896 to 1931 and produced the first automobile manufactured in Britain. The company also developed the world's first "off-road" vehicle for the Egyptian government, and another designed to travel on ice and snow for Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole. George Johnston was by training a locomotive engineer from Neilson, Reid and Company Limited of Springburn, Glasgow. Johnston was commissioned by Glasgow Corporation Tramways in 1894 to build an experimental steam-powered tramcar to replace their fleet of horse-drawn trams.

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Tour Scotland Video Classic Beardmore Car Strathmore Angus

Tour Scotland video of a classic Beardmore Car on visit to the Strathmore Vintage Vehicle Club near Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland. William Beardmore and Company was a Scottish engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area. It was active from 1886 to the mid 1930s. It was founded and owned by William Beardmore, later Lord Invernairn, after whom the Beardmore Glacier was named.

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Tour Scotland Video Classic Galloway Car Strathmore Angus

Tour Scotland video of a classic Galloway Car on visit to the Strathmore Vintage Vehicle Club near Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland. Galloway was a Scottish car maker founded in 1920 as a subsidiary company to Arrol-Johnston. It was based at first at Tongland, Kirkcudbrightshire, and from 1923 at Heathall, Dumfries. It closed in 1928. The company was very unusual in the world of car making in that it was largely run and staffed by women. For a while the cars were advertised as " a car made by ladies for others of their sex ".

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Old Photographs Cottages Plockton Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Plockton, Wester Ross, Scotland. Most of the buildings date from the 19th and 20th centuries. It was a planned community based on fishing in an attempt to stem the tide of emigration from the Highlands. The village is a popular tourist resort, especially because the TV series Hamish Macbeth, starring Robert Carlyle, was filmed there, substituting for the fictional Lochdubh. Plockton was also used for various scenes in the film The Wicker Man and the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries TV series.





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Old Photograph Thatched Cottage Isle Of Lewis Scotland

Old photograph of a thatched crofters cottage on the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Lewis has a Presbyterian tradition and a rich history. It was once part of the Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles. Today, life is very different from elsewhere in Scotland, with Sabbath observance, the Gaelic language and peat cutting retaining more importance than elsewhere. Lewis has a rich cultural heritage as can be seen from its myths and legends as well as the local literary and musical traditions.



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Tour Scotland Travel Video Snow Graveyard Church Kirkton of Airlie

Tour Scotland travel video of the snow covered graveyard and church on ancestry visit to Kirkton of Airlie, in Angus, Scotland. The church is located within a kirkyard that is older than the current church, which largely dates to 1783. A number of earlier church buildings are associated with this site, including one dedicated to St Medan by Bishop de Bernham in 1242 and one built in 1603.

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Tour Scotland Easter Video Drive To Kirkton of Airlie

Tour Scotland Easter video of part of a drive to visit Kirkton of Airlie, Angus, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Easter Drive To Glamis Castle

Tour Scotland Easter video of part of a drive to visit Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland. There was a castle on this site in 1376, when it was granted by Robert I to John Lyon, Lord Glamis, who reconstructed the castle at that time. A rather cloudy Easter Sunday at Glamis Castle.

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Old Photograph Earl Haig Statue Edinburgh Castle Scotland

Old photograph of the Earl Haig statue at Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland. Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, born 19 June 1861, died 29 January 1928, was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war. He was commander during the Battle of the Somme, the Third Battle of Ypres, the German Spring Offensive, and the Hundred Days Offensive.



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Old Photographs Greenloaning Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, car and people in Greenloaning located five miles North of Dunblane, Scotland. Greenloaning is the home of the Greenloaning Robert Burns Club.



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Tour Scotland Video Low Tide Lifeboat Launch Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of a Low Tide launch of the Lifeboat with tractor pushing the carriage at the entrance to the harbour on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife. The Kingdom of Fife, Mersey Class Lifeboat is designated as a Fast Carriage Lifeboat (FCB) Though it is also capable of being launched down a slipway.

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Tour Scotland Video Low Tide Launch Outer Harbour Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of a Low Tide launch of the Lifeboat with tractor pushing the carriage in the Outer harbour in Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Dens Road Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of a Tram on Dens Road in Dundee, Scotland. Horse drawn trams were first introduced in 1877 by the Dundee and District Tramways followed by steam haulage in the 1880s. Dundee's trams came under municipal management in 1893. The City Corporation then replaced the steam and horse trams with electric traction between 1900 and 1902. The track was Standard gauge. The last trams built for Dundee were better known as the " Lochee " trams. They were built in 1930 by Brush of Loughborough, England. As the widest trams in the fleet, they were restricted to the Lochee Road route. They were withdrawn on the closure of the route in 1956.



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Old Photograph Calda House Scotland

Old photograph of Calda House near Ardvreck Castle, Sutherland, Scotland. Standing on a rocky promontory jutting out into Loch Assynt in Sutherland, north west Highland, Scotland. Ardvreck Castle is a ruined castle dating from the 16th century. Calda House nearby was built in 1726 by the Mackenzies who had seized Ardvreck from the MacLeods in 1672. It was destroyed in a fire in 1737. Originally two stories high, the house had about 14 rooms round a central chimney stack.



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