Tour Scotland Video The Old Man Of Storr Isle Of Skye

Tour Scotland video of photographs of the Old Man Of Storr, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. The Storr is a rocky hill on the Trotternish peninsula. The hill presents a steep rocky eastern face overlooking the Sound of Raasay, contrasting with gentler grassy slopes to the west. The area in front of the cliffs of the Storr is known as the Sanctuary. This has a number of weirdly shaped rock pinnacles, the remnants of ancient landslips. The most famous of these, and by far the largest and most apparent when approaching from the south, is known as the Old Man of Storr, in gaelic, Bod an Stòir, meaning literally The Penis of Storr. A small selection of my personal photographs shot on small group tours of Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Sandwood Bay Sutherland

Tour Scotland video of photographs of Sandwood Bay in Sutherland, Scotland. On the North West coast of the Scottish Highlands. This area is best known for its mile long beach and Am Buachaille, a sea stack, and lies about 5 miles south of Cape Wrath. A small selection of my personal photographs shot on small group tours of Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Creag Mhor Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland video of photographs of Creag Mhor seven miles North of Tyndrum in the Highlands of Scotland. This Scottish mountain stands in the ancient Forest of Mamlorn deer forest, it is located 7 miles north east of Tyndrum. A small selection of my personal photographs shot on small group tours of Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Strome Castle

Tour Scotland travel Blog photography of Strome Castle located three miles West of Lochcarron on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Wester Ross, Highlands. Originally built by the Macdonald Earls of Ross. Later in 1472 the castle was owned by the Clan MacDonald of Lochalsh and Alan MacDonald Dubh, 12th Chief of the Clan Cameron was constable on behalf of the MacDonalds of Lochalsh. In 1539 King James V of Scotland granted the castle to the Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry and Hector Munro, chief of the Clan Munro was constable of the castle for the MacDonalds of Glengarry. Later in 1602 the castle was besieged by Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, chief of the Clan Mackenzie, assisted by their allies the Clan Matheson. After the MacDonalds surrendered it was demolished and blown up. The MacDonnells of Glengarry built a new castle called Invergarry Castle.


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Tour Scotland Photographs of Blackwater Dam

Tour Scotland photograph of Blackwater Dam above Kinlochleven, Scotland. Blackwater Reservoir is a reservoir created behind a dam in the mountains above Kinlochleven. The dam was built using hand tools, without the benefit of mechanical earth moving machinery, and has been described as the last major creation of the traditional navvy whose activities in the construction of canals and railways left an indelible mark on the British countryside. Navvy is a shorter form of the word navigator, and was used to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects. The term was coined in the late 18th century in Great Britain when numerous canals were being built.

Tour Scotland photograph of Blackwater Dam above Kinlochleven, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Blackwater Dam above Kinlochleven, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photography Video Old Parish Church Peebles Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland wee travel video of photography of the Old Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. The church was constructed between 1885 and 1887. It includes some features from an earlier parish church built on the site in 1784. The architect was William Young of London who designed the church in a Gothic style.

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Tour Scotland Video Eurofighter Typhoon Jet Fighter Landing Leuchars Fife

Tour Scotland video of a Eurofighter Typhoon Jet Fighter landing at RAF Leuchars near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Lobster Boat Chaters St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of the lobster boat Chaters leaving the harbour on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The earliest records of lobster fishing in Scotland date back to the 12th century when lobster was caught by hand using crooks and hoop nets. With the development of baited traps, exploitation on a more commercial basis was developed, and today creel fishing for the European lobster, Homarus gammarus, supports very important local fisheries around the Scottish coast.

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Tour Scotland Video Walk East Sands Beach St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of a walk on the East Sands beach on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.This beach is located on the south side of the old harbour close to the East Sands Leisure Centre.

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Old Photograph Badachro Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Badachro located three miles South of Gairloch, Scotland. The name Badachro derives from the Gaelic phrase meaning " clump of the cattle fold," originally referring to a small hamlet in the hills east of the bay. Approximately 2 miles to the SE are located the Fairy Lochs, the site of a 1945 plane crash which is now a designated war grave. The crash site has been preserved as a memorial to the USAAF servicemen who lost their lives in the accident, and is accessible by a rough track near the Shieldaig Lodge Hotel.




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Old Photograph Ploughing Shetland Scotland

Old photograph of ploughing on the Shetland Islands, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Well Of The Dead Culloden Scotland

Old photograph of the Well Of The Dead on the battlefield at Culloden, near Inverness, Scotland. This is the spot where many of the wounded Clansmen crawled to die.

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Old Photograph Inverey Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Inverey, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. John Lamont a highly regarded astronomer was born at Corriemulzie near Inverey the son of Robert Lamont, forester to James, 2nd Earl Fife, and his wife Elizabeth Ewan. In 1798, Inverey was added to Mar Estate by James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife.




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Old Photograph Blacklunans Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage in Blacklunans near Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The wider Strathardle area near Blacklunans saw events like the plague around 1500 and feuds, with local lords involved in uprisings like the 1715 Jacobite rebellion.


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Old Photograph Auchencrow Scotland

Old photograph of houses and cottages in Auchencrow in the Borders of Scotland. James Hutton, the founder of modern geology, farmed two miles to the west of this Scottish village. James, born 3 June 1726, died 26 March 1797, was a Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist. He originated the theory of uniformitarianism, a fundamental principle of geology, which explains the features of the Earth's crust by means of natural processes over geologic time.



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Old Photograph Bridge of Gairn Scotland

Old photograph of Bridge of Gairn near Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Gairnshiel Bridge, often called the Bridge of Gairn, was built in 1751 by order of Major William Caulfield as part of a military road system for the Scottish Highlands.>


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Old Photographs St Boswells Scotland

Old photograph of St Boswells in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish village is known for being on the route of St Cuthbert's Way, a long distance footpath linking Melrose Abbey to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne off the Northumberland coast in north east England. The name commemorates Saint Boisil, an Abbot of Melrose. The village has an annual gypsy fair, originally a focus for the trade of horses. This fair once attracted Gypsies from most parts of Scotland, northern England and Ireland.



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Old Photograph Currie Scotland

Old photograph of Currie located South West of the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. There has been a Christian community in this area for more than 1,000 years. In 1018, the archdeacons of Lothian set up their headquarters in the area. John Bartholomew's Civic and Ecclesiastical maps of the 13th century do not show Currie, but the Index of Charters 1309 to 1413 records Currie as being favourite hunting grounds for the Lords and Knights of Edinburgh Castle.




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Old Photograph Bracora Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Bracora, Loch Morar, Lochaber, Scotland. During the period of the Highland Clearances, many residents Scots emigrated to Canada. Boats left in 1790, 1802, and 1826, carrying people to Quebec, Glengarry in Ontario, and the Strait of Canso in Nova Scotia, Canada, respectively. In common with Loch Ness, occasional reports of large unidentified creatures in the loch's waters are made. The monster has been dubbed Morag. Loch Morar's fishing population is believed to be limited to Atlantic Salmon, brown trout and sea trout, Arctic char, eel, stickleback, and minnow.



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Tour Scotland Video Mylnefield Lilies Parkhead Gardens Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Mylnefield Lilies on visit to Parkhead Gardens in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. These lilies were developed by Christopher North, who died aged 87, and who was head of plant breeding at the Scottish Horticultural Research Institute, at Mylnefield, Dundee. Parkhead Gardens in Perth are most definitely worth a visit, and can be viewed only by prior arrangement.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Parkhead Gardens Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of photographs of visit to Parkhead Gardens in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Interesting plants and shrubs and a rare national collection of the Mylnefield Lilies. Parkhead Gardens in Perth are most definitely worth a visit, and can be viewed only by prior arrangement.

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Old Photographs Walkerburn Scotland

Old photograph of houses in Walkerburn in the Borders, Scotland. This Scottish village was founded in 1854 around the mill to house the workers. The village is now home to the Scottish Museum of Textiles.




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Old Photograph Kirkbean Scotland

Old photograph of Kirkbean near the Solway Firth in, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Among its most famous sons was John Paul Jones, the founder of the United States Navy, who was born in Arbigland, Kirkbean on July 6th, 1747. The Kirbean cemetery is the burial place of Jean Thurot, born 1755, died 1833, son of the famous Francois Thurot, French Naval Commodore and Privateer. Kirkbean is also the birthplace of another great seafarer, John Campbell, who was born in 1720 and who went on to become a British naval officer, navigational expert and colonial governor of Newfoundland in Canada. The parish was also the departure point for thousands of Scots seeking a better life in the American and Australian colonies during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Convicts were also transported to Australia from here, making the parish a rich source of genealogy history with many hundreds of thousands of people worldwide having a connection to this beautiful part of Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Highland Dancing Kirriemuir Angus

Tour Scotland video of Scottish Highland dancing on visit to the Agricultural Show in Kirriemuir, Scotland. Highland dance or Highland dancing is a style of competitive solo dancing developed in the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the context of competitions at public events such as the Highland games, where it is often performed to the accompaniment of Highland bagpipe music. It is now seen at nearly every modern day Highland games event.

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Tour Scotland Video Sheep Shearing Kirriemuir Angus

Tour Scotland video of Sheep Shearing on visit to the Agricultural Show in Kirriemuir, Scotland. Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a shearer. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year, a sheep may be said to have been " shorn " or " sheared ", depending upon the local dialect. The annual shearing most often occurs in a shearing shed, a facility especially designed to process often hundreds and sometimes more than 3,000 sheep per day.

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Tour Scotland Video Strathmore Pipe Band Kirriemuir Angus

Tour Scotland video of Strathmore Pipe Band on visit to the Agricultural Show in Kirriemuir, Scotland. The band practice on Tuesdays evenings and offers tuition in piping, snare drumming and tenor drumming at East and Old Church Hall, Chapel Street, Forfar.

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Old Photograph Pitcaple Scotland

Old photograph of Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire, Scotland This Scottish village is located on the River Urie 4 miles north west of Inverurie. Pitcaple is in Chapel-of-Garioch parish, Aberdeenshire. Alexander Leslie was born in 1625, in Pitcaple. His father, John Leslie 7th Laird of Pitcaple, was 30 and his mother, Agnes Ramsey, was 21. He had at least 1 son with Elizabeth Copland. He died on 28 May 1663, in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the age of 38.


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Old Photograph Udny Green Scotland

Old photograph of Udny Green, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The parish church here was built by John Smith in the early 1820s in a Todor Gothic style.



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Old Photograph Old Deer Scotland

Old photograph of Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Saint Columba and his nephew Drostan founded a monastery here in the 6th century, of which no trace remains. The Book of Deer is a most interesting relic of the monks, which was discovered in 1857 in the Cambridge University library by Henry Bradshaw. It was probably stolen during the Wars of Scottish Independence by English troops. It is a small manuscript of the Gospels in the Vulgate, fragments of the liturgy of the Celtic church, and notes, in the Gaelic script of the 12th century, referring to the charters of the ancient monastery, including a summary of that granted by David I of Scotland. These are among the oldest examples of Scottish Gaelic. The manuscript is also adorned with Gaelic designs. It had belonged to the monks of Deer and been in the possession of the University Library since 1715. It was edited by John Stuart for the Spalding Club, by whom it was published in 1869 under the title The Book of Deer (Leabhar Dhèir in Gaelic).




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Old Photographs Oldmeldrum Scotland

Tour Scotland travel of old photography of Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire. commonly known as #Meldrum, a village and parish in #Formartine area of #Aberdeenshire. Each summer on the third Saturday in June the village is host to the popular Meldrum Sports, which began in 1930 and features highland games, highland dancing, piping, five-a-side football, displays, stalls and a beer tent. Home to one of the oldest whisky distilleries

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Old Photograph Oyne Scotland

Old photograph of Oyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The village has limited local resources. It once had a railway station, and now has a daily bus service to Inverurie 8 miles away and to Huntly. The area is popular with commuters to Inverurie, Huntly and Aberdeen, a journey of around 30 minutes. The area has a number of large private houses such as Westhall House, which was a small hotel until the 1990s. The Horn family were lairds of Westhall.

The Huntly surname of English and Scots origin, from places so called in Gloucestershire, England, and Berwick, and Aberdeen in Scotland. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century " hunta ", a hunter, and " leah ", a wood or clearing in a wood.



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Old Photograph Echt Scotland

Old photograph of Echt, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Echt has a number of prehistoric remains, including the so called Barmekin of Echt which is on a hill to the northwest. There is also the Cullerlie stone circle near Sunhoney Farm, which may date from the Bronze Age.



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Old Photograph New Byth Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in New Byth, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located a few miles northeast of Cuminestown and was built in the 18th century.



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Old Photographs Alford Scotland

Old photograph of Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish village gave its name to a battle of the Battle of Alford in 1645. It is also the home of the world popular Aberdeen Angus cattle breed. It is thought that the original breeding ground of the cattle was Buffal, located between Tough, Tulloch, and Craigievar nearby Alford.



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Tour Scotland Video July Day Tour East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of photographs of a July day along the coast on visit to the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Including; Elie beach, Earlsferry, St Monans harbour, St Monans Church, Crail harbour, Pittenweem, Isle of May, Cellardyke, Anstruther harbour.

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Tour Scotland Video Arched Screen Abbotsford House Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of a view from the South East of the arched screen at Abbotsford House near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Abbotsford is the house built and lived in by Sir Walter Scott, the 19th century novelist, and author of timeless classics such as Waverley, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and The Lady of the Lake.

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Tour Scotland Video South East View Abbotsford House Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of a view from the South East of Abbotsford House near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Abbotsford is the house built and lived in by Sir Walter Scott, the 19th century novelist, and author of timeless classics such as Waverley, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and The Lady of the Lake.

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Old Photograph Methlick Scotland

Old photograph of a car, houses and cottages in Methlick, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The name Methlick is believed to derive from Gaelic words meaning " the Vale of honey ". The area has ancient roots, with Christianity reputedly established in the 5th century by St. Ninian, and later dedicated to St. Devenick in the 9th century.



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Old Photograph Penpont Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Penpont two miles west of Thornhill which is located north of Dumfries, Scotland. Penpont is notable as the birthplace of Joseph Thomson, the geologist and explorer after whom Thomson's Gazelle is named.



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Tour Scotland Video East Sands And Harbour St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of photographs of the East Sands beach and harbour on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Railway Station Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Duart Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, Scotland. This Scottish castle dates back to the 13th century and is the seat of Clan MacLean. It is also featured in the Disney Pixar Movie Brave. In 1350 Lachlan Lubanach Maclean of Duart, the 5th Clan Chief, married Mary, daughter of the John of Islay, Lord of the Isles and she was given Duart as her dowry. In 1647, Duart Castle was attacked and laid siege to by the Argyll government troops of Clan Campbell, but they were defeated and driven off by the Royalist troops of Clan MacLean. The castle was used as a location in the 1999 film Entrapment, starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The castle also features prominently in the 1971 film When Eight Bells Toll, starring Anthony Hopkins.



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Old Photographs St Margaret's Hope Scotland

Old photograph of St Margaret's Hope on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. This is the main village on South Ronaldsay, and is named either after Margaret, Maid of Norway, who may have died there, or Saint Margaret, Queen of Scotland, the wife of Malcolm III.



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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Eurofighter Typhoon Jet Fighter Landing RAF Leuchars

Tour Scotland video of photographs of a Eurofighter Typhoon Jet Fighter landing at RAF Leuchars on visit near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Eurofighter Typhoon Jet Fighter Landing At RAF Leuchars

Tour Scotland video of a Eurofighter Typhoon Jet Fighter landing at RAF Leuchars near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Unstan Chambered Cairn Scotland

Old photograph of Unstan Chambered Cairn on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. This tomb was built on a promontory that extends into the Loch of Stenness near the settlement of Howe and the town of Stromness. It's possible that Unstan was in use well into the second millennium BC; an arrowhead was discovered in the tomb that is characteristic of the Beaker People who lived from the Late Neolithic into the Bronze Age.



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Old Photographs Burning Kelp Scotland

Old photograph of crofters burning kelp on Island Of Harris, Scotland. Seaweed was gathered and laid out to dry before being burned in a kelp kiln. Kelp making was the changing or conversion of seaweed into ash, which was used in many things, particularly the production of soda and iodine.

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Old Photograph Voe Scotland

Old photograph of whales on the shore in Voe, Shetland Islands, Scotland. The first evidence for whaling in Scotland is from Bronze Age settlements where whalebones were used for constructing and decorating dwelling places. Commercial whaling started in the Middle Ages, and by the 1750s most Scottish ports were whaling, with the Edinburgh Whale Fishing Company being founded in 1749. The last company still engaged in whaling was Christian Salvesen, which exited the industry in 1963. Although whaling in now considered to be a controversial trade, for many centuries it was a vital element of the Scottish economy.



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Old Photograph Royal Infirmary Perth Scotland

Old photograph of the Royal Infirmary in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The current Perth Royal Infirmary was built on a site on Glasgow Road between 1912 and 1914. An extension containing operating theatres and kitchens was added between 1934 and 1935.



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Tour Scotland Video Lobster Boat Artic Tern St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of the lobster boat Artic Tern returning to the harbour on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The earliest records of lobster fishing in Scotland date back to the 12th century when lobster was caught by hand using ‘crooks’ and hoop nets. With the development of baited traps, exploitation on a more commercial basis was developed, and today creel fishing for the European lobster ( Homarus gammarus ) supports very important local fisheries around the Scottish coast.

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