Tour Scotland Photograph And Video Parish Church Crail East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of the interior of the Parish Church on ancestry visit to Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. There has been a church at this location since at least the twelfth century. The earliest known parish church on this site was a two celled Norman building. It was consecrated in 1243 to Saint Maelrubha and after a successful petition by the Prioress of Haddington, became Collegiate in 1517, by which time it was known as St. Mary's. Between its foundation and 1815 there were many modifications and additions. In 1815 Robert Balfour undertook the first major renovation and a second was carried out by Judith Campbell in 1963.

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Tour Scotland Video Pictish Cross Slab Parish Church Crail East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of a Pictish Class III Cross Slab stone in the Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The stone was retrieved in 1815, having been used as a paving stone in the floor for more than fifty years. A Pictish stone is a type of monumental stele, generally carved or incised with symbols or designs. A few have ogham inscriptions. Located in Scotland, mostly north of the Clyde Forth line and on the Eastern side of the country, these stones are the most visible remaining evidence of the Picts and are thought to date from the 6th to 9th century, a period during which the Picts became Christianized. The earlier stones have no parallels from the rest of the British Isles.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video St Michael's Episcopal Church Earlsferry East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel Blog photography ot St Michael's Episcopal Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Elie and Earlsferry, East Neuk of Fife. One of the few remaining iron churches in Scotland.

Tour Scotland Video Saint Andrew Window St James's Episcopal Church Dollar

Tour Scotland travel video of the Saint Andrew stained glass window on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to St James's Episcopal Church in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. About the middle of the 10th century, Andrew the Apostle became the patron saint of Scotland. Several legends state that the relics of Andrew were brought by divine guidance from Constantinople to the place where the modern town of St Andrews in Fife stands today

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Tour Scotland Video Armitage Window St James's Episcopal Church Dollar

Tour Scotland travel video of the Julie M. Armitage memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit and trip to St James's Episcopal Church in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. This window was given by her sisters, Clarice, Fanny and Nora.

Recorded in a number of spellings including Armitage, Armytage, Armatidge, Hermitage and others, this is an Anglo French surname. It derives from the Old French word " hermite ", from the Greek " eremos ", meaning solitary, and was originally given either as a topographical name to someone who lived by a hermitage, or a place of learning, or as a locational name from any of the places named with the above word. These places include Hermitage in Durham, Northumberland, Dorset, Berkshire and Sussex, and Armitage in Staffordshire. Early examples of the surname include: Hugh del Hermytage in Warwickshire; Willelmus del Ermytache in Yorkshire; and John de Armitage in Sheffield. In April 1596, William Armitage, was rector of Billingford, Norfolk, England.

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Tour Scotland Video Raeburn Window St James's Episcopal Church Dollar

Tour Scotland travel video of the Raeburn memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit and trip to St James's Episcopal Church in Dollar, Clackmannanshire. Sir William Hannay Raeburn, 1st Baronet, born 11th August 1850, died 12th of February 1934, was a Scottish shipping businessman and Unionist Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament between 1918 and 1923. He married Sarah Manifold, the daughter of John Thorburrow Manifold, on 28th September 1876. She died on 18 January 1882.

The Raeburn surname first appears in records in the early 14th Century, while Andrew de Raburn, burgess of Glasgow, and John of Raburn, a witness there, appear in Glasgow records in 1430 and 1454, respectively. Thomas Raburn was vicar in the choir of Glasgow in 1468, according to Glasgow Episcopal Registers.

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Old Photographs Greenlaw Scotland

Old photograph of Greenlaw, Berwickshire, Scotland. Greenlaw was first made the county town of Berwickshire in 1596, and was the first town to take on the role since the English took Berwick in 1482. At that time, Greenlaw was situated about a mile south of the present village, atop a hill, the Green Law. This area is now known as Old Greenlaw. Thomas Gibson was born in Greenlaw on 8th of January 1825, the son of Thomas Gibson, and his wife Helen Lunham. He was educated at the free church school in Greenlaw. He came to Canada West in 1854. He served as reeve for Howick Township for 7 years. He ran unsuccessfully in Huron North in 1867. The township of Gibson, now part of the Township of Georgian Bay in the Muskoka District, was named after him. He died in January 1901 and is buried in Wroxeter, Ontario with his wife Elizabeth.


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Tour Scotland Video Brown Window St Mungo's Parish Church Alloa Clackmannanshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Brown memorial stained glass window on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to to St Mungo's Parish Church in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. This window, the Gethsemane window, is dedicated to the wife of James Brown.

Brown is an English language surname in origin chiefly descriptive of a person with brown hair, complexion or clothing. It is one of the most common surnames in English speaking countries. It is the second most common surname in Canada and Scotland, third most common in Australia and fourth most common in England and the United States. It is particularly clustered in southern Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Bryson Window St Mungo's Parish Church Alloa Clackmannanshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Bryson memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit and trip to St Mungo's Parish Church in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. This window, The Tie Deum window, is dedicated to Alexander Bryson, former minister of the church.

Notable people with the Bryson surname include;

Alexander Bryson, born, 12 October 1816, died 7 December 1866, was a Scottish biologist, geologist and horologist who served as president of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts and as president of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh.

Rear Admiral Andrew Bryson, born 25 July 1822, died 7 February 1892, was an officer in the United States Navy. He fought in the American Civil War and served as commander of the South Atlantic Squadron.

George Bryson, born, December 13, 1813, died, January 13, 1900, who was a Scottish born businessman and political figure in Quebec. He was born in Paisley, by Glasgow, the son of James Bryson and Jane Cochrane, and came to Upper Canada with his parents in 1821. In 1835, he moved to the area near Fort-Coulonge in Lower Canada, where he entered the timber trade. In 1845, he married Robina Cobb. Bryson was mayor of Mansfield-et-Pontefract from 1855 to 1857 and from 1862 to 1867. He also served as justice of the peace, postmaster for Fort Coulonge and warden for Pontiac County. In 1857, he was elected to represent Pontiac in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.

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Tour Scotland Video Bruce Window St Mungo's Parish Church Alloa Clackmannanshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Bruce memorial stained glass window on ancestry history visit and trip to St Mungo's Parish Church in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. This window, The Good Shepherd, window is dedicated to William Duncan Bruce and his wife.

The Bruce surname, so celebrated in the history of Scotland, is of Norman French origin, and is a locational name either from an extensive fortress, built by Adam de Brus at Brix between Cherbourg and Valognes, Normandy. Robert, The Bruce, born 1274, died 1329, was crowned king of Scotland in 1306, and consolidated Scottish independence when he defeated the English forces of King Edward 11 at Bannockburn in 1314. His brother, Edward, was crowned King of Ireland in 1315. The Bruce family hold the titles of barons of Kinloss, barons of Aberdare, earls of Elgin, and earls of Kincardine.

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Tour Scotland Video Brodie Window St Mungo's Parish Church Alloa Clackmannanshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Brodie memorial stained glass window on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to St Mungo's Parish Church in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. It was was installed and dedicated to Peter Phillip Brodie, former minister of the church and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

The church is named after St. Mungo, also known as St. Kentigern, patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow. It belongs to the Church of Scotland Presbytery of Stirling and serves the parish of Alloa. A chapel dedicated to St. Mungo is thought to have been erected during the fourteenth or fifteenth century, which became dependent upon the Parish of Tullibody. Alloa had grown into a parish in its own right by 1600 when the Act of Assembly united the two parishes. In 1680, the original chapel was rebuilt and enlarged. The current church replaces the old parish church from the seventeenth century which had been deemed much too small for the congregation for over seventy years and was declared ruinous and unsafe in August 1815. The condition of the old church was so bad that services were often being held in the open air rather than risking injury to the congregation.

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Old Photographs Tiree Scotland

Old photograph of cottages on the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. This Scottish island is known for its vernacular architecture, including blackhouses and white house, many retaining their traditional thatched roofs, as well as its unique 'pudding' or spotted houses where only the mortar is painted white. Its name derives from Tìr Iodh, meaning land of the corn, from the days of the 6th century Celtic missionary and abbot St Columba. Tiree provided the monastic community on the island of Iona, south east of the island, with grain. In 1770, half of the island was held by fourteen farmers who had drained land for hay and pasture. Instead of exporting live cattle, which were often exhausted by the long journey to market and so fetched low prices, they began to export salt beef in barrels to get better prices. The rest of the island was let to 45 groups of tenants on co-operative joint farms: agricultural organisations probably dating from clan times. Field strips were allocated by annual ballot. Sowing and harvesting dates were decided communally. It is reported that in 1774, Tiresians were 'well clothed and well fed, having an abundance of corn and cattle.

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Old Photograph Craigo Scotland

Old photograph of Craigo located five miles North West of Montrose, Scotland. Craigo developed in the 19th century as a textile village.



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Old Photograph Orphir Scotland

Old photograph of Orphir round church on mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland. This is the remains of the only surviving circular church in Scotland. It was built in the first half of the 12th century and dedicated to St Nicholas. John Rae, born 30th September 1813, died 22nd July 1893, was a Scottish doctor who explored Northern Canada, surveyed parts of the Northwest Passage and reported the fate of the Franklin Expedition. He was born at the Hall of Clestrain in the parish of Orphir. After studying medicine at Edinburgh University he went to work for the Hudson's Bay Company as a doctor, accepting a post as surgeon at Moose Factory, Ontario, where he remained for ten years.



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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Interior Parish Church Clackmannan

Tour Scotland travel video of photographs of the interior of the Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Designed by James Gillespie Graham, this fine building probably replaced the medieval church built on the site in 1249. The stained glass is impressive and all of mid 20th century date; there are windows by Herbert Hendrie, Douglas Hamilton, Gordon Webster and Sadie McLellan, the last one donated by the Buick family of Hilton Fireclay, Brick & Tile Works in Alloa. The Coronation window, the only one in the county, is in the east wall of the gallery.

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Old Photographs Girvan South Ayrshire Scotland

Old photographs of Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish town was originally a fishing port, it is now also a seaside resort with beaches and cliffs. In 1668, Girvan became a municipal burgh incorporated by charter. It lies 22 miles south of Ayr, and 29 miles north of Stranraer, a principal ferry port from Scotland to Northern Ireland. Girvan is twinned with Torcy, Seine-et-Marne, in France, in honour of a Scottish knight named Sir Thomas Huston originally from Girvan, who fought the English as part of the Auld Alliance during the Hundred Years War. Rewarding him for his bravery during the capture of Meaux in 1439, the King of France granted him the fiefdom of Torcy.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Sunday Afternoon Drive To St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of part of a Sunday afternoon drive on the B9131 road from Anstruther to visit St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.


Tour Scotland video of part of a Sunday afternoon drive on the B9131 road from Anstruther to visit St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Sunday Afternoon Drive To Crail East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of part of a Sunday afternoon drive on the A917 coast road from Anstruther to visit Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.


Tour Scotland video of part of a Sunday afternoon drive on the A917 coast road from Anstruther to visit Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Sunday Afternoon Drive To St Monans East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of part of a Sunday afternoon drive on the A917 coast road from Elie to visit St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.


Tour Scotland video of part of a Sunday afternoon drive on the A917 coast road from Elie to visit St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Sunday Afternoon Drive To Tayport Fife

Tour Scotland photograph of part of a Sunday afternoon drive on the B495 road to visit Tayport, Fife, Scotland.


Tour Scotland video of part of a Sunday afternoon drive on the B495 road to visit Tayport, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Sunday Afternoon Drive Tay Bridge To Dundee

Tour Scotland photograph of part of a Sunday afternoon drive over Tay Bridge from Fife to visit Dundee, Scotland.


Tour Scotland video of part of a Sunday afternoon drive over Tay Bridge from Fife to visit Dundee, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Bowhill Scotlamd

Old photograph of Bowhill, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish village was one of the many mining villages in this area of Fife. Bowhill mine had one of the worst disasters in Fife mining history when 10 men losts their lives in October 1931.




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Old Photograph Morningside Scotland

Old photograph of Morningside, Edinburgh, Scotland. Morningside Road was an ancient route from the city to the south west of Scotland and Carlisle. By one definition, Morningside was formerly home to the author J. K. Rowling, writer of the Harry Potter series of books. However, her house in Abbotsford Crescent was, strictly speaking, in the Merchiston area bordering Morningside to the north. The house, which stands close to the homes of fellow authors Alexander McCall Smith and Ian Rankin, was sold in November 2012.




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Old Photograph Stockbridge Scotland

Old photograph of Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland. Originally a small outlying village, it was incorporated into the City of Edinburgh in the 19th century. Donald Mainland was born in Edinburgh in 1902, the son of William Mainland, a confectioner running a shop at 140 St Stephen Street in the Stockbridge area. He studied Medicine at Edinburgh University and graduating MB ChB and gaining a doctorate in 1930. He gained fame in Scotland lecturing in Anatomy at Edinburgh University and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1938. In 1949 he emigrated to Nova Scotia to take on the role of Professor of Anatomy at Dalhousie University. His personality clashed with his junior colleague, Dr Richard Holbourne Saunders, who then replaced him, and one year later he was appointed Professor of Biostatics in the Department of Preventative Medicine at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City in the United States. In 1953 he moved to the Department of Medical Statistics as its Chairman. He died in 1985.



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Old Photographs Princes Street Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of Princes Street below Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland. Princes Street was originally to have been called St Giles Street after the patron saint of Edinburgh. However, King George III rejected the name, St Giles also being the patron saint of lepers and having association with a slum area of London.The street is named after King George's two eldest sons, the Prince George, Duke of Rothesay, later King George IV, and the Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany.

Old photograph of Princes Street below Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Old photograph of Princes Street below Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Old photograph of Princes Street below Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Old photograph of Princes Street below Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Old photograph of Princes Street below Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Bruce Window Parish Church Clackmannan

Tour Scotland travel video of the Bruce memorial stained glass window on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Parish Church in Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The gift of Victoria Bruce in memory of her sister, Jean Bruce, who served for twenty three years as Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Mary, at Buckingham Palace.

A lady-in-waiting or Court Lady is a female personal assistant at a court, royal or feudal, attending on a queen, either if she is the queen regent or the queen consort, a princess, or a high ranking noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman from a family in " good society ", but who was of lower rank than the woman on whom she attended. Although she may or may not have received compensation for the service she rendered, a lady-in-waiting was considered more of a companion to her mistress than a servant.

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Tour Scotland Video Buick Window Parish Church Clackmannan

Tour Scotland travel video of the Buick memorial stained glass window on ancestry history visit and trip to the Parish Church in Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire. The gift of sisters Margaret and Mary Buick.

The Buick surname is of English locational origin, from a place named Bewick in either Northumberland or the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Bewick in Northumberland is recorded as Bowich in the Pipe Rolls of that county in 1167 and in the East Riding of Yorkshire as Biuuich in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name derives from the old English pre 7th Century " beo " meaning bee and " wic " a farm; hence a " bee farm ", apparently originally it was a station for the production of honey. Early recordings of the surname from All Saints church records, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland include; Annes Buick, daughter of Christopher Buick, christened on October 7th 1604; the marriage of Edward Buick and Margret Manwell on August 21st 1608 and the christening of Ellinor Buick, daughter of Robert Buick on August 22nd 1613. In the modern idiom, the name is found as Buick, Bowich, Bewick and Bewicke.

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Tour Scotland Video Ferguson Window Parish Church Clackmannan

Tour Scotland travel video of the Ferguson memorial stained glass window on ancestry, history visit and trip to the Parish Church in Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire. The gift of Miss Eliza Ferguson in memory of her parents, her father, Henry, who worked in the local wool mill, and Isabella, her mother, who was a seamstress.

Spinning and weaving went hand in hand with agriculture in Clackmannanshire. There would be little work carried on in the woollen mills during sowing or harvest time but after shearing, local farmers would bring in their fleeces to be processed and take them away as blankets and tweed cloth. Many communities had their own local district woollen mill, but the majority of these disappeared between the two World Wars.

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Old Photographs Newtyle Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Newtyle, Angus, Scotland. The original village of Newtyle was centred around the church and what are now Kirkton Road and Smiddy road. Hatton Castle to the south and Newbigging to the north lie within the parish boundary.



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Tour Scotland Video Athos Cargo Ship Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Athos cargo ship docking at the harbour on visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. All the cargo ships arriving in Perth have to dock by this method, that is, by reversing into the harbour. Located at Friarton, opposite Moncreiffe Island, one mile South of the town centre, Perth Harbour is effectively the highest point of the River Tay navigable by sea going vessels, 30 miles inland from the North Sea. This modest harbour was built in the 1840s for Perth Harbour Commissioners to plans which had been drawn up by Robert Stevenson, born 1772, died 1850, and his son Alan, born 1807, died 1865. Stevenson's plan was not fully implemented due to financial difficulties; a permanent navigable channel in the River Tay was never completed and the harbour was smaller than intended. In part due to the coming of the railway, the Harbour Commissioners were bankrupted in 1854 and the harbour was taken over by Perth Town Council, whose successors still run it today in the form of Perth and Kinross Council. Quays were added in 1898 and 1939, which remain in use today, and significant improvements were carried out in 1955

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Old Photograph Abercrombie Scotland

Old photograph of Abercrombie located one mile North of St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The land around this Scottish village was formerly owned by the Sandilands family and Sir James Sandilands was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Abercrombie in 1647. Lord Abercrombie wasted his estates following the death of his father and had to sell his properties in Fife in 1649. The title became extinct on the death of the second Lord Abercrombie in 1681.



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Old Photograph St Peters Old Parish Kirk Scotland

Old photograph of St Peters Old Parish Kirk, Duffus, Moray, Scotland. This, now ruined, Scottish church was in existence in 1226, though the porch on the south side was built in 1524. The graveyard was formerly surrounded by a path made by a party of Cromwell's Ironsides. The Ironsides were troopers in the Parliamentarian cavalry formed by English political leader Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century, during the English Civil War. The name came from " Old Ironsides ", one of Cromwell's nicknames.



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Old Photograph Blackford Scotland

Old photograph of Blackford located five miles from Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. Blackford was first known as a ford over the Allan Water. There is a legend that a King Magnus lost his wife Queen Helen in a storm and she is buried on a nearby hill.



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Old Photograph Craichie Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in Craichie located three miles South East of Forfar, Scotland. This Scottish village was mentioned in 1329 in the " Registers of the Abbey of Arbroath ". The Registers recorded that they were owned by Walter de Tulloch in 1438, and Alexander of Sturrock in 1509.



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Old Photograph Beaton's Mill Scotland

Old photograph of Beaton's Mill near Bannockburn village located just South of Stirling, Scotland. This is where King James III of Scotland was murdered on the 11th of June 1488, following the Battle of Sauchieburn, itself fought near the south bank of the Bannock Burn. The Battle of Sauchieburn was fought on 11 June 1488, at the side of Sauchie Burn, a stream about two miles south of Stirling, Scotland. The battle was fought between the followers of King James III of Scotland and a large group of rebellious Scottish nobles including Alexander Home, 1st Lord Home, nominally led by the king's 15 year old son, Prince James, Duke of Rothesay.



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Old Photograph Bannockburn Village Scotland

Old photograph of Bannockburn village located just South of Stirling, Scotland. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the Wilson family, of Bannockburn, designed and wove tartans for the British army. Many of the so-called Clan tartans were created by the Wilsons in response to the needs of the Clan chiefs who, without their own authentic tartans, approached the Wilsons for suitable patterns. The visit of King George IV to Edinburgh in 1822, and his insistence that the Clan chiefs attend his banquets and levees in their Clan tartans, prompted this reaction. The Wilson family ceased business in 1924. Land in the vicinity of Bannockburn village, probably between the Pelstream and Bannock burns, was the site of the Battle of Bannockburn fought in 1314, one of the pivotal battles in the Wars of Independence between the kingdoms of Scotland and England.





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Old Photograph Battle of Pinkie Cleugh Scotland

Old photograph of the site of the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh near Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. This battle which took place on the 10th of September 1547, was part of the conflict known as the Rough Wooing. It was the last pitched battle between Scottish and English armies, and is seen as the first modern battle in the British Isles. It was a catastrophic defeat for Scotland, and became known there as Black Saturday.



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Old Photographs Moffat Scotland

Old photograph of Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish town is the ancestral seat of Clan Moffat. During the 17th century Moffat began to grow from a small village into a popular spa town. Moffat was also a notable market town in the wool trade, and this is commemorated with a statue of a ram by William Brodie in the town's marketplace. The ram was presented to the town by William Colvin, a local businessman, in 1875. Robert Burns visited for the waters and frequented the local bars.



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Old Photograph Corrie Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats in Corrie located six miles North of Brodick, Island Of Arran, Scotland. This Scottish village used to be a regular stop for steamers circumnavigating the island, passengers embarking by way of a rowing boat from the the ferry rock located midway between the village's two quays. The southernmost quay is known as the sandstone quay" This harbour and quay used to be the location where sandstone blocks from the nearby quarry were shipped to the mainland, and huge pieces of stone can still be seen. The northernmost quay is Corrie port and was also used for shipping products to other locations on the island, the mainland and other islands. Small coastal cargo vessels of a type known as the Clyde puffer were a common sight in the port and the sandstone quay during their heyday.



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Old Photograph Eastriggs Scotland

Old photograph of Eastriggs near Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The town of Eastriggs was created as a result of the shell and ammunition crisis of June 1915 which prompted the newly founded Ministry of Munitions to create a new cordite factory. Officially designated H.M. Factory Gretna, the factory was spread over a nine mile site stretching through Gretna to Longtown, Cumbria. This required a huge influx of labour, and 30,000 men and women came from all over the British Commonwealth to serve as construction and factory workers.




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Old Photographs Town Yetholm Scotland

Old photograph of Town Yetholm, Borders, Scotland. This Scottish village is located in the valley of the Bowmont Water opposite Kirk Yetholm. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the area was heavily influenced by the Border Reivers.



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Old Photograph Parish Church Kilfinan Scotland

Old photograph of the parish church in Kilfinan, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village and church have important links with the Clan Lamont and the Clan McEwen. The church has been a place of worship since 1235 and the foundations are from this date. The church was rebuilt in 1759. The church dates back to before the Reformation and houses the Lamont vault which contains an 11th century cross interred remains of the clan’s chiefs. It contains an 11th century cross inspired by the Iona Cross alongside burial stones and other fine pieces of early Christian stonework that date as far back as the ninth century. Although much altered, the church bears much of its original layout with its low ceilings and long and narrow aisle.



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Old Photograph Muckle Roe Scotland

Old photograph of Muckle Roe island in St Magnus Bay, Shetland, Scotland. In 1970 a bridge was built between Muckle Roe and the Shetland Mainland over Roe Sound, which was followed by a reversal in the population decline seen in the 19th and earlier 20th centuries.





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Old Photograph Urafirth Scotland

Old photograph of Urafirth, Shetland, Scotland. Urafirth is a small community in Northmavine, a peninsula of Shetland.



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Old Photograph Glasford Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Glasford, Isle of Luing, Firth of Lorn, fifteen miles South of Oban, Scotland. In the early part of the Christian era Luing would have formed part of the Gaelic kingdom of Dalriada. From the 9th to 13th centuries almost all of the Hebrides came under the control of Norse settlers and formed part of the Kingdom of the Isles. However, when Edgar of Scotland signed a treaty with Magnus Barefoot in 1098, formally acknowledged the existing situation by giving up Scottish claims to the Hebrides and Kintyre, Luing and Lismore were retained by the Scots.




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Old Photograph Ballochmyle Viaduct Scotland

Old photograph of Ballochmyle Viaduct near Mauchline, Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish viaduct over the River Ayr was designed by John Miller of Edinburgh for the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway. This railway was the northern part of the line from Glasgow to Carlisle via Kilmarnock. The stone bridge was begun in 1846 and was completed in less than two years though the railway itself was not completed until 1850.



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Old Photographs Southmuir Kirriemuir Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses and people in Southmuir, Kirriemuir, Scotland. In the 19th century this area had many workers involved in the home weaving industry.




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Old Photograph Mulben Scotland

Old photograph of Mulben located four miles West of Keith, Moray, Scotland. Upon the arrival of the railway in 1858 linking it with Keith in the east and Elgin to the west this Scottish village grew allowing the establishment of a primary school and a small number of services. Although the railway still remains, the station closed in 1964. Close by is the Glentauchers Whisky Distillery to the east which opened in 1898 and the Auchroisk distillery to the west which opened in 1974.



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Old Photograph Culbokie Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Culbokie, Gaelic Cùil Bhòcaidh, located near Dingwall, Scotland. The land here was primarily owned by the Fraser family of Culbokie from the 1500s until the late 1600s, when it passed to the Mackenzies of Findon and later the Scatwell Mackenzies. In 1681, Charles II granted the right to hold regular fairs in Culbokie. By the mid-1700s, it was a major trading hub for livestock, whisky, and merchandise, with markets sometimes lasting four days.


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Old Photograph Dunphail Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Dunphail near Forres, Moray, Scotland. A green mound, which existed outside a garden in Dunphail until the late 18th century, was said to be the grave of some 14th century Cummings who had been beheaded.


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