Tour Scotland Videos Union Of South Africa Steam Train Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Union Of South Africa steam train arriving at the railway station on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. 60009 Union of South Africa is an LNER Class A4 steam locomotive built in Doncaster in 1937.



Tour Scotland video of the Union Of South Africa steam train at the railway station on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland .

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Tour Scotland Video Thomas G Stewart Mathemetical Master Gravestone Rattray Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Thomas G Stewart, Mathemetical Master, gravestone on ancestry visit to the Parish Church graveyard in Rattray by Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Sacred to the memory of Thomas G. Stewart, Mathemetical Master in the Edinburgh Institution, who died from the effects of an accident 4th of March 1863, aged 24 years. This stone is erected by his fellow Masters and pupils who deeply deplore his untimely death.

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Tour Scotland Video Thomas Stewart Builder Gravestone Rattray Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Thomas Stewart, Builder, gravestone on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the Parish Church graveyard in Rattray by Blairgowrie, Perthshire. Erected by David A. Stewart in memory of his father Thomas Stewart, Builder, Rattray, who died 29th February 1864, aged 64 years. Also of his mother Susan Robertson, who died 19th December 1868, aged 57 years. The above David A. Stewart who died at Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 1875, aged 33 years. Also their son Alexander Stewart who died at Zlobane in the Zulu War 28th of March 1879, aged 42 years.

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Tour Scotland Video Thomas Robertson Gardener Gravestone Rattray Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Thomas Robertson, Gardener, gravestone on ancestry, genealogy, history, visit and trip to the Parish Church graveyard in Rattray by Blairgowrie, Perthshire. Thomas Robertson, Gardener, Rattray, who died 3rd of February 1889, aged 86 years. Also his spouse Margaret McQueen, who died 2th of May, 1835, aged 84 years.

The Robertson surname is spelt variously as Robertson, Roberts, Robarts and Robeson, and amongst the early records is one which shows that Thomas Robertson, a merchant Scot, had a safe conduct to travel to England in 1444, although legend has it, that the patronymic Robertson was adopted by a Scottish family, after King Robert the Bruce of Scotland in circa 1306, said that he regarded them as his children. Nicholas Robertson, aged 30, was an early emigrant to America. He embarked from London on the ship " Blessing " bound for New England in June 1635. Alexander Robertson, born 1670, died 1749, thirteenth Baron of Struan, became chief of the clan Robertson in 1688.

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Tour Scotland Video Druids Park Standing Stone Circle Murthly Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Druids Park Standing Stone Circle on ancestry visit to Murthly, Perthshire, Scotland. Prior to the laying out of the asylum at Murthly between 1863 and 1864, this stone circle stood out prominently in an open field but it is now surrounded by trees and plants. It is probable that the circle originally comprised 8 stones, of which 5 remain ranging from three to eight feet in height. In 1863 some cinerary urns were found within a few yards of the circle, some in groups of 2 and 3 and one series arranged in a circle. One example however, was buried alone, and contained partly burnt human bones, possibly of a child, together with a perforated bone object, probably a button or play thing.

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Tour Scotland Video Bradystone House And Garden Murthly Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Bradystone House and Garden on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Murthly, Perthshire, Scotland. The area was known as " Breadystown " before being referred to as New Delvin in an 1825 estate plan, later evolving into the name Bradystone House.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Highland Railway Signal Box Murthly Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the old Highland Railway Signal Box on ancestry visit to Murthly, Perthshire, Scotland. Built in late 19th century for the Highland Railway. Timber box on brick plinth with standard Highland Railway plank and strip cladding. 4 windows to front, of which outer ones slide behind inner, 2 windows at each end. At Perth end bracketed porch formerly with straight wooden stair along side.

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Tour Scotland Photograph St Vigeans Graveyard Arbroath Angus

Tour Scotland travel video of photography of St Vigeans graveyard and cemetery on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Arbroath, Angus, Scotland. St Vigeans Church, built of the local red sandstone, served as parish church to the inhabitants of Arbroath up to the Reformation. The 18th century headstones in the kirkyard, some of which are notably well carved, are interesting examples of folk-art, characteristic of Angus. There was once a legend that the kirk was built with stones used by an enslaved Kelpie, and for several years the local congregation would not enter the kirk during certain services for fear the building would collapse due to the Kelpie's curse.

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Tour Scotland Video Eems Chrystal Cargo Ship Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland video of the Eems Chrystal cargo ship leaving the harbour on the River Tay after a visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. It would have been a better video if the sun had been shining, oh well.

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Old Photograph Children Gorbals Scotland

Old photograph of children in the Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Hotel Glenisla Scotland

Old photograph of the hotel in Glenisla, Angus, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Persey Scotland

Old photograph of the hotel in Persey by Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Broughty Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Broughty Castle by Dundee, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Peel House Scotland

Old photograph of Peel House, Galashiels, Borders, Scotland. Lord Craigmyle handed over Peel House and its grounds on trust to be used as a hospital for service patients. Peel Hospital was built as an emergency medical service hospital and after the war, in 1948 when the NHS came into being, the hospital was used for a while for the the treatment of civilian patients. During the First World War, Lord Craigmyle served in the Royal Marine Artillery and was involved in the Battle of the Somme, he too had experienced the horrors and conditions of deadly warfare where around 450,000 British and Allied soldiers were killed. Thousands more were badly wounded or blinded, and many more suffered from mustard gas and shell shock.



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Old Photograph Langlea Scotland

Old photograph of Langlea, Galashiels, Borders of Scotland. Langlea is built on both sides of Melrose Road to the east of the town and north of the Gala Water and River Tweed.



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Old Photograph Gala House Scotland

Old photograph of Gala House, Galashiels, Borders, Scotland. This Scottish building was originally built as a tower house in 1487 by the Pringle family, who had been granted the lands of Gala by the Earl of Douglas. In 1583, Andrew Hoppringill carried out much improvement and extended the house as his family home. Further expansion took place in 1611, before Andrew returned to live at the family seat of Smailholm Tower in 1635, when his daughter, Jean, married Hugh Scott.



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Old Photographs Gauldry Scotland

Old photograph of Gauldry, Fife, Scotland.





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Old Photograph Salmon Fishermen River Spey Scotland

Old photograph of Salmon Fishermen on the River Spey near Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Blackhall Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Blackhall a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland.





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Tour Scotland Video Sea Mine War Memorial West Wemyss Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Sea Mine War Memorial on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to West Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Peter Graham, who was just 15, and coal miners Colin Smart, George Storrar, James Anderson and David Laing lost their lives after the device exploded near Lady's Rock. It is thought that they were trying to move the mine to prevent it being carried by the tide towards the village, where it could have claimed more lives.

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Tour Scotland Video Tractor McCormick Harvester Strathmiglo Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of a tractor and McCormick Harvester on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip Corston Mill by Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland. One of the events at the Fife Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally. Cyrus Hall McCormick, born February 15, 1809, died May 13, 1884, was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902. From the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, he and many members of his family became prominent residents of Chicago.

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Old Photograph The King's Theatre Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of The King's Theatre in Dundee, Scotland. The King's Theatre, Dundee, was a large scale touring venue for fifty years, and from time to time presented opera over most of that period. Unfortunately the owners closed it as a theatre venue in 1961, in order better to concentrate on wide screen cinema. It later became a bingo hall and is now a nightclub.



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Old Photograph Turriff Scotland

Old photograph of Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Knights Templar appear to have had a base in this area, and a nearby site is still known as Temple Brae.



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Old Photograph Horse And Cart Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and cart in Edinburgh, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Heavy Horses Strathmiglo Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of heavy horses pulling farm equipment on visit to the Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally at Corston Mill by Strathmiglo, Fife. One of the events at the Fife Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally.
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Tour Scotland Video Fowler Ploughing Engine Strathmiglo Fife

Tour Scotland video of a Fowler ploughing engine on visit to the Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally at Corston Mill, by Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland. One of the events at the Fife Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally. John Fowler, born 11 July 1826, died 4 December 1864, was an English agricultural engineer who was a pioneer in the use of steam engines for ploughing and digging drainage channels. His inventions significantly reduced the cost of ploughing farmland, and also enabled the drainage of previously uncultivated land in many parts of the world, Fowler was born in Melksham, Wiltshire, England, the third of five brothers. His father, John Fowler senior was a wealthy Quaker merchant, who had married Rebecca Hull.

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Tour Scotland Video Raspberry Picker Strathmiglo Fife

Tour Scotland video of a Raspberry harvester, picker on visit to the Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally at Corston Mill, by Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland. One of the events at the Fife Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally.

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Tour Scotland Video Narrow Tractors Strathmiglo Fife

Tour Scotland video of narrow tractors on visit to the Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally at Corston Mill, by Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland. One of the events at the Fife Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally.

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Tour Scotland Video Vintage Classic Cars Strathmiglo Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of vintage and classic cars on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally at Corston Mill, by Strathmiglo, Fife. One of the events at the Fife Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally.

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Tour Scotland Video St Andrews Pipe Band Bonnygate Cupar Fife

Tour Scotland video of St Andrews Pipe Band marching ahead of the Scottish Highland Games parade up the Bonnygate on ancestry visit to Cupar, Fife, Scotland. Parade included past Chieftains, Games President, Honorary President and Officials with Chieftain carrying Games Flag marched from the church to Duffus Park.

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Tour Scotland Video St Andrews Pipe Band Parade St John's Church Cupar Fife

Tour Scotland video of St Andrews Pipe Band leading the Scottish Highland Games parade from St John's Church on ancestry visit to Cupar, Fife, Scotland. Parade included past Chieftains, Games President, Honorary President and Officials with Chieftain carrying Games Flag marched from the church to Duffus Park.

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Tour Scotland Video St Andrews Pipe Band St John's Church Cupar Fife

Tour Scotland video of St Andrews Pipe Band playing outside St John's Church on ancestry visit to Cupar, Fife, Scotland. The Band wears the very striking Red Erskine tartan. This was the regimental tartan, pipers kilts and plaids, of the first Pipe Major who was a member of the Royal Highland Fusiliers. This choice of tartan is especially relevant since the Clan Erskine family home is just outside St Andrews.

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Old Photographs Longformacus Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Longformacus, Berwickshire, Scotland. The Southern Upland Way, a Long Distance Route which crosses southern Scotland, passes through the village, and the Sir Walter Scott Way from Moffat to Cockburnspath passes through Longformacus.



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Old Photograph Abbey St Bathans House Scotland

Old photograph of Abbey St Bathans House, Berwickshire, Scotland. While the village is named for a priory founded in the 12th century, the house itself was built for the Turnbull family much later and has been extended over the years, particularly in the 1870s.
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Old Photograph Abbey St Bathans Scotland

Old photograph of Abbey St Bathans, Berwickshire, Scotland. Abbey St Bathans was originally a priory of Cistercian Nuns. It was sanctified and then used as a retreat by the sisters who formed the community at Haddington and at Nunraw, under the patronage of Ada, Countess of Dunbar and her husband Patrick, Earl of Dunbar. Ada was an illegitimate daughter of William the Lion, King of Scots, and an unknown mistress. The date of her birth is unknown. In 1184 she married Patrick Dunbar, 5th earl of Dunbar and justiciary of Lothian. There were at least four children from this marriage, Ada, died in 1200, Her husband remarried, before 1208, Christian Fitz Walter, the widow of William de Brus.


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Old Photographs Morebattle Scotland

Old photograph of a vintage car, cottages and houses in Morebattle, seven miles South of Kelso, Scotland. James Thomson, the Ednam poet, was born in Morebattle. Robert Davidson, poet, lived and was buried in Morebattle, where he is commemorated.



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Old Photograph Townhead Scotland

Old photograph of houses and shop in Townhead in Glasgow, Scotland. Townhead has no fixed boundaries. In ancient times it was the undeveloped area north of the cathedral and town. It is bordered to the west by the area of Cowcaddens, to the north by Sighthill and the east by Royston and south by Merchant City.



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Old Photograph Cadger's Brig Scotland

Old photograph of Cadger's Brig, Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. A stone single arch footbridge of 13th century origin. Its name derives from it traditionally having been crossed by William Wallace when disguised as a cadger, hawker, on his way to where the English were camped, near Biggar.



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Old Photograph Wallace Monument Scotland

Old photograph of The Wallace Monument by Stirling, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Edinburgh Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Jimmy Shand Memorial East Wemyss Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Jimmy Shand memorial on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to East Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. James Shand was born in East Wemyss in Fife, son of a farm ploughman turned miner and one of nine children. The family soon moved to the burgh of Auchtermuchty. More than 330 compositions are credited to Jimmy Shand. He recorded more tracks than the Beatles and Elvis Presley combined and was truly the King of Scottish Dance music.

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Tour Scotland Video MacDuff's Castle East Wemyss Fife

Tour Scotland video of MacDuff's Castle on ancestry visit to East Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. The location of this Scottish castle is associated with the MacDuff Earls of Fife, the most powerful family in Fife in the middle ages, although nothing survives from this period. The present ruins are the remains of the home of the Wemyss family, who lived here from the 14th century, and their successors in the 16th century. It is thought that a castle may have been built here by the MacDuff Mormaers, or Earls, of Fife in the 11th century, at the time of King Macbeth of Scotland. The castle is supposedly haunted by a Grey Lady, said to be a Mary Sibbald who was found guilty of theft and died in the castle.

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Tour Scotland Video Coast And Castle Wemyss Fife

Tour Scotland video of the coast and castle on ancestry visit to Wemyss, Fife, Scotland. Wemyss Castle is located on the cliffs between the villages of East Wemyss and West Wemyss overlooking the Firth of Forth.. Accounts date the construction of the castle to the year 1421 when Sir John Wemyss decided to build a fortified castle to replace one destroyed by the Duke of Rothesay at Kilconquhar in 1402. The castle is thus the ancient seat of the Earls of Wemyss and their families. The castle is best known as the location where Mary, Queen of Scots, met her future husband Lord Darnley in 1565.

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Tour Scotland Video Mary Poppins Penguins Scarecrow Festival Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland video of Mary Poppins and Penguins on visit to the Scarecrow Festival in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Pirates Scarecrow Festival Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland video of Pirates on visit to the Scarecrow Festival in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Palnackie Scotland

Old photograph of Palnackie, Scotland. Palnackie village in the parish of Buittle in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, ScotlandPalnackie is a working sea port on the Urr Water which is visited by fishing boats and pleasure craft alike, it is also home to the Grande Internationale World Flounder Tramping Championships.



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Tour Scotland Video David Rattray Flax Spinner Gravestone Rattray Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the David Rattray, Flax Spinner, gravestone on ancestry visit to the Parish Church graveyard in Rattray by Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Erected by Helen Jamieson in memory of her husband, Flax Spinner, Bramble Bank, who died 23rd November, 1850, aged 58 years. Also of their five children who died in infancy. Also in memory of the above Jamieson who died 29th April, 1856, aged 59 years.

The surname Rattray is taken from the barony of Rattray in Perthshire. This barony has been in their possession since the eleventh century. The Rattray estate includes the ruins of a pictish fort dwelling. It stands on a sandy mound which is associated by local tradition with Pagan rites. The first recorded Laird of Rattray was Alan who witnessed charters by William the Lion and Alexander II of Scotland. During the Wars of Scottish Independence, Alan's grandson, Eustace Rattray, was captured at the Battle of Dunbar in 1296 and taken to England as a prisoner. Eustace's son was Adam Rattray who swore fealty to King Edward I of England, appearing on the Ragman Rolls of 1296. Adam was succeeded by his son, Alexander Rattray, who was amongst the barons who sat in the Parliament at Ayr to determine the succession to the throne in 1315. Alexander was succeeded by his brother, Eustace, the sixth Laird of Rattray, who was accused of being involved in a plot to depose Robert the Bruce, but he was latter acquitted.

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Tour Scotland Video John Coutts Schoolmaster Gravestone Rattray Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the John Coutts, Schoolmaster, gravestone on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the Parish Church graveyard in Rattray by Blairgowrie, Perthshire. In memory of Mr John Coutts. For 38 years the zealous and respected Schoolmaster of this Parish. Born in Glenshee in 1787, died in Rattray, 24th January, 1859, aged 72 years. This stone is erected by his brothers and sister.

Coutts and Couts are English language surnames derived from the Gaelic language. The names are derived from the Gaelic cuilt, meaning " nook" . It also was a habitational name from Cults, Aberdeen, Scotland. William Coutts, a Coutts of Auchintoul, was a vassal of the Clan Macdonald, settled in Montrose, in the 16th century and became a provost of the town. The Coutts are associated with the Clan Farquharson.

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Tour Scotland Video David Stewart Celtic Cross Gravestone Rattray Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the David Stewart, Celtic Cross, gravestone on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Parish Church graveyard in Rattray by Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. In memory of David Stewart, Draper, Rattray, who died March 1st, 1913, aged 82. And Amelia Fraser, his wife, who died August 18th, 1911, aged 79. Also their children; Annie Forbes, died January 4th, 1888, aged 4; Jessie Alexandra, died June 18th, 1889, aged 21

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Old Photograph Fitful Head Scotland

Old photograph of cottages below Fitful Head, Shetland Islands, Scotland. This is a headland located at the South West corner of the Shetland Mainland in Dunrossness.


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