Tour Scotland Video Papil Pictish Symbol Stone

Tour Scotland travel video of the Papil Pictish Symbol Stone in the National Museum on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Edinburgh, Scotland. This stone was found in the churchyard to the south of Papil Kirk, Burra, Shetland Islands, in 1877. On this side of the cross there are monks depicted in their typical hooded garments and below a Pictish lion. Near the base of the stone there are two " bird men. " This stone is dated to the 8th century.

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Tour Scotland Video Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Stone

Tour Scotland travel video of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Stone in the National Museum on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Edinburgh. This stone was discovered at Hilton of Cadboll, on the East coast of the Tarbat Peninsula in Easter Ross. It is one of the most magnificent of all Pictish cross-slabs. On the seaward-facing side is a Christian cross, and on the landward facing side shown in the video are secular depictions. The latter are carved below the Pictish symbols of crescent and v-rod and double disc and Z-rod: a hunting scene including a woman wearing a large penannular brooch riding side-saddle. Like other similar stones, it can be dated to about 800 AD.

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Tour Scotland Video Iron Treasure Chest Museum Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of an iron treasure chest in the National Museum on ancestry, genealogy history visit and trip to Edinburgh. The lid of the this money chest has an elaborate lock covering the whole inner surface. The chest contained money for the colonization project that became known as the Darien Scheme or Darien Disaster which was an unsuccessful attempt by the Kingdom of Scotland to become a world trading nation by establishing a colony called Caledonia on the Isthmus of Panama in the late 1690s.

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Old Photograph Ruthwell Cross Scotland

Old photograph of Ruthwell Cross located in Ruthwell village on the Solway Firth, Scotland. In 1818, Reverend Henry Duncan, a local Minister, restored the Ruthwell Cross, one of the finest Anglo-Saxon crosses in the United Kingdom, now in Ruthwell church, which had been broken up in the Scottish Reformation. This cross is remarkable for its sculpture and inscriptions in Latin and Old English, some in Anglo-Saxon runes, which include excerpts from The Dream of the Rood, an Old English poem.




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Old Photograph Gravir Scotland

Old photograph of Gravir, a village on the shore of Loch Odhairn, Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Most of the plots of land used to be used for crofting, but this has declined in the last 50 years. The road leading to the village is the B8060, and continues on to Orinsay and Lemreway.



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Old Photographs Burghead Scotland

Old photograph of Burghead located eight miles North West of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. The present town was built between 1805 and 1809, destroying in the process more than half of the site of an important Pictish hill fort. This fort was probably a major Pictish centre and was where carved slabs depicting bulls were found; they are known as the " Burghead Bulls. " The town is mainly built on a peninsula that projects north-westward into the Moray Firth, meaning that most of the town has sea on three sides.


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Old Photograph St Duthus's Church Scotland

Old photograph of St Duthus's Church, Tain in Ross and Cromarty, The now ruined Collegiate Church of Tain, dedicated to Saint Duthus, is said to have been built by William, Earl of Ross, who died in 1371. In 1487, James III had it converted into a Collegiate Church. King James IV and V made pilgrimages to it.



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Old Photographs St Fillans Scotland

Old photograph of St Fillans, Perthshire, Scotland. The pre-Reformation church, St Fillan's Chapel, whose churchyard is the traditional burial place of the Stewarts of Ardvorlich, lies to the south of the River Earn, between St Fillans and the Iron Age Pictish hill fort of Dundurn. It is believed that the Irish missionary Saint Fillan lived on this hill. Not far from the foot of the hill is the Allt Ghoinean burn which is claimed to be the Gonan or Monan of Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake.

Old photograph of St Fillans, Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of St Fillans, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Helmsdale Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Helmsdale on the east coast of Sutherland, Scotland. The modern village was planned in 1814 to resettle communities that had been removed from the surrounding straths and valleys as part of the Highland Clearances. Helmsdale Castle, the remains of which were demolished in order to build the new A9 road bridge, was the location of the murder of the 11th Earl of Sutherland in 1567. The Earl and his Countess Marie Seton were poisoned by Isobel Sinclair.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Brochel Castle Island Of Raasay

Tour Scotland photograph of Brochel Castle on Isle of Raasay across from, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. A late 15th or early 16th century, now ruined, castle occupied until 1671. The castle stands on the north eastern shore of the Isle of Raasay. According to tradition it was built by Raasay's first Macleod chief Calum MacGillechaluim. It provided a strategic base for a dynasty of reiving seadogs to control their mainland possessions and the Inner Sound.

Tour Scotland photograph of Brochel Castle on Isle of Raasay across from Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Brochel Castle on Isle of Raasay across from Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Brochel Castle on Isle of Raasay across from Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Brochel Castle on Isle of Raasay across from Isle Of Skye, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Armadale Isle Of Skye

Tour Scotland video of photographs of Armadale on ancestry visit to the Sleat Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Clan Donald has a visitor centre situated next to the ruins of Armadale Castle and surrounded by large gardens. The village is also a small port, and has a regular Caledonian MacBrayne ferry service to Mallaig.

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Old Photograph Stone Of Destiny Arbroath Abbey Scotland

Old photograph of the Stone of Destiny at the Abbey on ancestry visit to Arbroath, Angus, Scotland. King Edward I of England took the stone on which Scotland's kings were traditionally crowned from Scone in 1296 and placed it under the throne at Westminster Abbey in London. In 1950, a group of Scottish students took it from Westminster and, on April 11, 1951, the missing stone was found lying on the site of the altar at Arbroath Abbey.



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Old Photograph Binnend Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Binnend, an abandoned industrial village near Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish village built in the early 1880s to house workers at the nearby shale oil extraction works. Production did not last long, and the mines closed in 1894. In 1891, the population was about 760 but it declined quickly; many people had left by the time that the mines closed, but the last inhabitant, George Hood, remained until 1954.



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Old Photograph Paddle Steamer Glencoe Scotland

Old photograph of the paddle steamer Glencoe on Loch Scavaig, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. The Glencoe was built in 1846 by Tod and MacGregor for Sir James Matheson and was initially named Mary Jane, after the owner's wife. The vessel was renamed Glencoe after being modernised in 1875 and was subsequently lengthened and converted to a saloon steamer, sailing on a number of different West Coast routes for David Hutcheson and Company, followed by MacBraynes.



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Old Photograph Rosehearty Scotland

Old photograph of Rosehearty located four miles West of Fraserburgh,Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Scottish village which is now named Rosehearty was founded by a group of shipwrecked sailors from Denmark in the 14th century. In 1424 the Fraser family built Pitsligo Castle a few hundred yards inland which was then later enlarged by the Forbes family in 1570. The remains of the Castle are visible from the village. Rosehearty didn't officially exist until it was granted a charter in the 1680s by King Charles II. Sir Walter Murdoch, born 1876, died 1970, was an Australian academic and essayist; Murdoch University in Western Australia is named after him; Walter Murdoch was born in Rosehearty and spend the first 10 years of his life there, the youngest of 14 siblings, before emigrating with his family to Melbourne in 1886; his father James Murdoch was the Free Kirk minister at Rosehearty.




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Old Photographs Reston Scotland

Old photograph of Reston, Berwickshire, Scotland. Originally shown as two separate farms, East and West Renton, in the 1600s, it grew into a single settlement by the mid 1700s. Its development was spurred by its location on the main road between Scotland and England. This Scottish village lies on the western bank of the Eye Water.



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Old Photograph Hutton Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Hutton, Berwickshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located one mile west of Paxton and two miles west of the border with Northumberland, England. Its closest market towns are Duns and Berwick-upon-Tweed. When the false warning of Napoleon's invasion in 1804 was sent out from the beacon station at Hume Castle, the volunteers from the area made Hutton their rallying point, and spent a night under arms in the old church. In more recent history it became popular with Polish soldiers after they were posted in nearby Winfield in World War II, after which some stayed to live in the village.



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Old Photographs Working Horses Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of working horses in Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of working horses in Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of working horses in Perthshire, Scotland.

Old photograph of working horses in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Bruichladdich Islay Scotland

Old photograph of Bruichladdich, Island of Islay, Scotland. Bruichladdich whisky distillery was begun in 1881 by the Harvey brothers on the shore of Loch Indaal, on the Rinns of Islay, the westernmost part of the island. The Harveys were a dynastic whisky family that had owned two Glasgow distilleries since 1770. All the distillery’s whiskies are sold as single malts, with those designated Bruichladdich being unpeated, those designated Port Charlotte being heavily peated and those designated Octomore being super heavily peated. Octomore is considered to be the most heavily peated single malt whisky in the world.




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Old Photograph Seggie House Scotland

Old photograph of Seggie House in Guardbridge near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The house originally belonged to William Haig who founded the Seggie Whisky Distillery in the village of Guardbridge. It was subsequently bought by the Adamsons who owned Guardbridge Paper Mill as well as most of the houses in the village and the surrounding farmland.



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Old Photograph Hamilton Scotland

Old photograph of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This is the fifth largest Scottish town, excluding cities, after Paisley, East Kilbride, Livingston and Cumbernauld. It is located twelve miles south east of Glasgow and thirty five miles south west of Edinburgh on the south bank of the River Clyde at its confluence with the Avon Water. Hamilton was the county town of Lanarkshire. Hamilton Palace was the largest non royal residence in the Western world, located in the north east of the town. A former seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, it was built in 1695, subsequently much enlarged, and demolished in 1921 due to ground subsidence. It is widely acknowledged as having been one of the grandest houses in Scotland, was visited and admired by Queen Victoria, and was written about by Daniel Defoe. David Livingstone, the missionary explorer, lived in Hamilton from 1862 until his death on 1 May 1873. His house still stands on 17 Burnbank Road and has a plaque about him living there.



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Tour Scotland Video Dunbarney Parish Church Bridge of Earn Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of photographs of the interior of Dunbarney Parish Church in Bridge of Earn by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Prior to 1684, Dunbarney parish church stood a mile to the west in the burial ground cemetery near the mansion of Dunbarney. In 1684 a church was erected a few yards from the present building. The present rectangular plan church was built in 1787. Pedimented bellcote added, interior recast and other alterations 1880. The pipe organ, built by John Miller, Dundee, was installed in 1929.

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Old Photograph Foula Scotland

Old photograph of the island of Foula located in the Atlantic ocean twenty miles west of Walls on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. In 1720, a smallpox epidemic struck the two hundred people living on Foula. Because the islanders were so isolated from the rest of the world, they had no immunity to smallpox, unlike most North European peoples at that time, and nine out of ten of the island's population died in the epidemic.


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Old Photographs Scalpay Scotland

Old photograph of cottages on the island of Scalpay near Island Of Harris, Scotland. Scalpay is home to many Gaelic singers and psalm presenters. The island used to have more than 10 shops over 30 years ago but due to lack of people and work, the last shop closed in 2007. There also used to be a salmon factory which was a major local employer from 2001 until its closure in 2005. In the spring of 2009, local newspapers reported that the factory was to reopen.





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Old Photograph Crofters Carrying Peat Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of crofters carrying Peat back to their cottages on Isle of Skye, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Kirn Scotland

Old photograph of Kirn by Dunoon, Scotland. This Scottish village on the Firth of Clyde had its own pier and was a regular stop for the Clyde steamer services.

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Old Photograph Lindores Village Fife Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Lindores village near Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. The battle of Black Earnside at which William Wallace defeated Aymer de Valence, the 2nd Earl of Pembroke, was fought near the village.


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Old Photographs Armadale Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of Armadale, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. This island village looks out over the Sound of Sleat, to Morar and Mallaig. Clan Donald has a visitor centre situated next to the ruins of Armadale Castle, and the nearby Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is a centre of Gaelic learning. The village is also a small port, and has a regular Caledonian MacBrayne ferry service to Mallaig. It is at the southern end of the A851 road. When walking on the beach near the pier, it is possible to see otters and seals.



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Old Photograph Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church Scotland

Old photograph of Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church which is located to the south of the town of Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, Scotland. This Scottish church is located to the south of Edinburgh. The church tower is unusually tall for a comparatively small church and its design was copied, on a larger scale, for Kilconquhar Parish Church in the East Neuk of Fife


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Old Photograph Dunscore Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Dunscore located nine miles North West of Dumfries, Scotland. Dunscore is the birthplace of the Church of Scotland missionary Jane Haining, one of only ten Holocaust victims from Scotland. Jane was born at Lochenhead Farm in Dunscore, Dumfriesshire. She was the fifth child of Thomas Haining, a farmer, and his first wife, Jane Mathison, a farmer's daughter. She grew up as a member of the evangelical Craig church in Dunscore, Reformed Presbyterian until 1876, then Free Church of Scotland until 1900, and then United Free Church). She was educated at the village school, and won a scholarship to Dumfries Academy in 1909. She trained at the commercial college of Glasgow Athenaeum, and worked for 10 years as a secretary at a thread maker's in Paisley. She lived in Pollokshields in Glasgow and attended Queen's Park West United Free Church. She volunteered for service as a missionary in 1932, becoming matron of the girls' home at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, Hungary. She was holidaying in Cornwall, England, in 1939 when the Second World War broke out and she immediately returned to Budapest. She was ordered to return to Scotland in 1940 but refused, determined to remain with her girls. After the German occupation of Hungary, its former allies in March 1944, she again refused to leave. She was arrested in April 1944 and detained by the Gestapo, accused, among other things, of working among Jews and listening to the BBC. She admitted all the charges, except those of political activity. She was detained at Fő utca prison in Buda, and then moved to a holding camp in Kistarcsa. She was sent to Auschwitz in May 1944, where she was tattooed as prisoner 79467. She sent a last postcard on 15 July 1944, and died " in hospital " at Auschwitz on 17 July 1944, of " cachexia following intestinal catarrh ", strangely her name is not recorded in the Auschwitz Death Books published by the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum. She is one of a total of ten Scots, including two or three women, thought to have died in the Nazi extermination camps.



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Tour Scotland Video Royal Regiment Of Scotland Pipe Band Crieff Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of The Royal Regiment Of Scotland Pipe Band marching through town to the Highland Games in Crieff in Perthshire, Scotland. Military Pipe Bands are known as the Pipes and Drums and are divided into two sections; the Pipers are under the direction of the Pipe Major and the Drummers are under the direction of the Drum Major. Pipers and Drummers are soldiers first and foremost.

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Tour Scotland Video City of Coventry Corps of Drums Crieff Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of City of Coventry Corps of Drums marching through town to the Highland Games in Crieff in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Comrie Pipe Band Highland Games Crieff Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Comrie Pipe Band marching through town to the Highland Games in Crieff in Perthshire, Scotland. These Scottish Highlands games started in 1870 and have occured every year since with the two exceptions of 1914 to 1918 and 1939 to 1949 when no gatherings took place.

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Old Photograph Calgary Bay Isle of Mull Scotland

Old photograph of Calgary Bay, Isle of Mull, Scotland. On the East side of the bay Calgary House was built in 1817. Colonel James MacLeod, Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police, was a summer guest here. In 1876, shortly after returning to Canada, he suggested its name for Fort Calgary which gave rise to the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada


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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Marquess of Atholl Dunkeld Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of photographs of the John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl, memorial on ancestry visit to the Chapter House in Dunkeld Cathedral , Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Marquess of Atholl Memorial Dunkeld Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl memorial on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Chapter House in Dunkeld Cathedral, Perthshire, Scotland. John, who was born on the 2nd of May 1631, and who died on the 6th of May 1703, was a leading Scottish royalist and defender of the Stuarts during the English Civil War of the 1640s, until after the rise to power of William and Mary in 1689. He succeeded as 2nd Earl of Atholl on his father's demise in June 1642 and as 3rd Earl of Tullibardine after the death of his first cousin the 2nd Earl in 1670. In 1660, Murray became a privy councillor, obtained a charter of the hereditary office of sheriff of Fife and in 1663 was appointed Lord President of the Court of Session. Murray became the first captain-general of the Royal Company of Archers in 1670. In 1672 he became Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland. In 1670 he succeeded to the earldom of Tullibardine on the death of his cousin, the 4th Earl and was created Marquess of Atholl and Viscount Glenalmond on the 7th of February 1676. On the 5th of May 1659, Lord Atholl married Lady Amelia Ann Sophia Stanley, daughter of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby and Charlotte de La Tremoille. They had twelve children, but four died young.

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Tour Scotland Video MG Car Rally Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the MG Car Rally on the grounds of Scone Palace< by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. MG enthusiasts from around Europe setting off in convoy from the grounds and driving through the historic archway of the Palace on their road trip to Aviemore. Cars included some from England, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany and France. The MG Car Company Limited was a British sports car manufacturer founded in the 1920s by Cecil Kimber. Best known for its two seat open sports cars, MG also produced saloons and coupés.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs MG Car Rally Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of photographs of the MG Car Rally on the grounds of Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Casting Peats Scotland

Old photograph of a Crofter Casting Peats on the the Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Beyond fuel, the peat fire was the heart of the home, around which families shared meals, stories, and songs.


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Old Photograph Amhuinnsuidhe Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Amhuinnsuidhe Castle on the Island Of Harris, Scotland. The house was built in 1865 for the 7th Earl of Dunmore, the then owner of the island. Amhuinnsuidhe was designed in the Scottish baronial style by architect David Bryce. In 1874, Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore, was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting in Disraeli's government, a post he held until 1880. In 1875 he was made Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire, which he remained until 1885. In 1882 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Inverness-shire Rifle Volunteers, later the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. He retired in 1896 and died on the 27th of August 1907.




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Old Photographs Easdale Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Easdale near Ellenabeich, Scotland. A small Scottish village on the isle of Seil, an island on the east side of the Firth of Lorn, 7 miles south west of Oban. A former slate mining village and one of the Slate Islands, in the Firth of Lorn. A ferry sails from Easdale to Ellenabeich which is separated from Easdale by only a narrow channel. Confusingly, Ellenabeich is sometimes known as Easdale as a result of its traditional connections with the island. Once the centre of the British slate industry, Easdale had a community of more than 500 working as many as seven quarries, some of which extended to 300 feet below sea level. Easdale slate helped to build major cities of the British Empire and can still be seen on rooftops as far afield as Melbourne, Nova Scotia, Dunedin and Dublin. The last slate was cut in 1950.



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Old Photograph Glengarnock Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses, shop and people in Glengarnock in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The River Garnock flows through the village, but the name Glen Garnock applies to the ravine at Glengarnock Castle two miles to the north. This Scottish village, 25 miles from Glasgow, was first known as Kilbirnie Ironworks village. The community at that time consisted of a number of migrant workers from Ireland and Lithuania who were brought in to man the iron works and were housed in the " raws ", rows of terraced cottages which have now been demolished.



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Old Photographs Glencaple Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Glencaple near Dumfries, Scotland. Located on the banks of the River Nith, it once served as a port for nearby Dumfries.



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Tour Scotland Video Brass And Banjo Band Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a Brass and Banjo band on the Royal Mile on visit to the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Street Acrobat Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a street acrobat on the Royal Mile on visit to the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Eugenio Martínez Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of Eugenio Martínez playing guitar on the Royal Mile on visit to the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Musical Megaphone Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a musician playing a megaphone on the Royal Mile on visit to the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Fiddle Music Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a musician playing Scottish fiddle music on the Royal Mile on visit to the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Nicky Kirk and Luc McNally Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of Nicky Kirk and Luc McNally busking on the Royal Mile on visit to the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Greyfriars Pipe Band Highland Games Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Greyfriars Pipe Band at the Pipe Band Competition on ancestry, genealogy, small group history visit and trip to the Scottish Highland Games in Perth, Perthshire. This fine band are based within Barlanark Greyfriars Parish Church, Hallhill Road, Barlanark, Glasgow.

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