Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Tour Scotland video of a Eurofighter Typhoon Jet flying above the countryside on visit to rural Perthshire, Scotland. Not a great video, however these planes fly over so quickly it is rare that I ever manage to video them in this way. Just happy to have seen them.
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Tour Scotland video of the moon rising above Friarton Bridge on visit to River Tay just outside Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish bridge which spans the River Tay forms part of the important east coast road corridor from Edinburgh through to Dundee and Aberdeen. It is the single largest structure on the M90.
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Tour Scotland video of the sun setting behind Smeaton's Bridge, known locally as the Old Bridge, on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This is a toll-free Scottish bridge in the city of Perth. It spans the River Tay, connecting Perth, on the eastern side of the river, to Bridgend, on its western side, carrying both vehicle and pedestrian traffic of West Bridge Street. The engineer of its construction was John Smeaton, for whom the bridge is named.
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Tour Scotland video of a morning drive on visit through rural Perthshire, Scotland. Driving this morning on rural country road in Perthshire on ancestry visit to Angus.
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Tour Scotland video of an honesty box in rural Perthshire, Scotland. Saw this box at a junction in the road. Plums, 2lbs for £1.50 with an honesty box for the money for the purchase. Nice to still see these in Scotland.
An honesty box is a method of charging for a service, or for a product such as home grown produce, which relies upon each visitor paying at a box using the honour system. Receipts are not issued and such sites are usually unattended. When used in camping sites and other park settings, they are sometimes referred to as an iron ranger as there is often an iron cash box instead of an actual park ranger. Such boxes are typically used in rural areas where the low number of customers and other visitors means that employing an attendant would not bring a positive return on investment. Many are also domestically run operations where attendance is not feasible.
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Tour Scotland video of tractor ploughing in rural Perthshire, Scotland. After recently harvesting Barley the Scottish farmer is now preparing the field for potato planting.
The Highland Potato Famine was a period of 19th century Highland and Scottish history, 1846 to roughly 1856, over which the agricultural communities of the Hebrides and the western Scottish Highlands saw their potato crop repeatedly devastated by potato blight. It was part of the wider food crisis facing Northern Europe caused by potato blight during the mid 1840s, whose most famous manifestation is the Great Irish Famine, but compared to its Irish counterpart it was much less extensive, and took many fewer lives, prompt and major charitable efforts by the rest of the United Kingdom ensured that there was relatively little starvation. The terms on which charitable relief was given, however, led to destitution and malnutrition amongst its recipients. A government enquiry could suggest no short term solution other than reduction of the population of the area at risk by emigration to Canada or Australia. Highland landlords organised the emigration of about 16,000 of their tenants, chiefly to Canada; many highlanders made their own way to other destinations in the Scottish Lowlands or further afield and it is estimated that about a third of the population of the western Highlands and the Hebrides migrated from the area between 1841 and 1861.
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Tour Scotland video of reflections below the old bridge on ancestry visit to Stirling, Scotland. This Scottish bridge was built around 1500 and was the lowest bridging point over the River Forth for almost four centuries. The southern arch was rebuilt in 1749, the original arch having been blown up in 1745 to prevent the Highland army entering Stirling. In 1297, William Wallace fought the Battle of Stirling Bridge against the English army, and won. It was a critical point in Scottish History, effectively marking the start of the Scottish resurgence that led to victory at Bannockburn 17 years later. The only downside of the battle was that the old timber bridge was destroyed, leaving Stirling without a crossing of the river. Doubtless ferryboats would have provided a service in the interim, but it is believed that the bridge was rapidly replaced. The original bridge was sited a little to the north of the current structures, but it's replacement may have been nearer the current site.
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Tour Scotland video of the Wallace Monument from Alloa Road on ancestry visit to Stirling, Scotland. The National Wallace Monument is a tower standing on the summit of Abbey Craig, a hilltop near Stirling. It commemorates Sir William Wallace, the 13th century Scottish hero.
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Tour Scotland travel video of a morning drive up Mar Place road to visit Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland. Stirling Castle is one of the largest and most important castles, both historically and architecturally, in Scotland. The castle sits atop Castle Hill, an intrusive crag, which forms part of the Stirling Sill geological formation. It is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position. Its strategic location, guarding what was, until the 1890s, the farthest downstream crossing of the River Forth, has made it an important fortification from the earliest times. Most of the principal buildings of the castle date from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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Old photograph of Glengorm Castle, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The Mishnish estate was purchased in 1856 by James Forsyth of Quinish. Forsyth was a hated figure on the island, he cleared the crofters from the area by bullying and concerted pressure. One old woman had a title to her land which Forsyth took from her and throwing it into the fire told her she had a week to leave. Upon his return he was meet by the woman and the local minister who had kept the original. Forsyth incadescent with rage decided to fence her in so that she could not leave to get provisions. However the woman managed very well it was said that men climb the cliffs near by to bring provisions. When Forsyth was building the castle he was told by an old woman he would never live in the place. He died just before it was opened. Forsyth when building asked an elderly woman what he should call his splendid new house, she said call it Glengorm, he did not understand that it means blue smoke a comment on the peat smoke that would no longer be seen from the houses of the people he had made homeless. Many of the folk moved into Tobermory to find work.
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Old photograph of Salen, Isle of Mull, Scotland. This Scottish village is on the east coast of the island, on the Sound of Mull, almost halfway between Craignure and Tobermory. The full name of the settlement in Gaelic is SÃ ilean Dubh Chaluim Chille. A minor road branches off here towards Gruline and various places on the west side of Mull.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Muir memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit and trip to Logie Kirk by Stirling. To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Archie Muir, born 1915, died 1999.
The Scottish surname Muir originated as name denoting someone who lived beside a moor. The name is derived from the Scots form of the Middle English more, meaning " moor" or "fen ". Muirs are thought to have descended from the Pictish Celts, of both Ireland and Scotland.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Christie memorial stained glass window on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Logie Kirk by Stirling. To the Glory of God and in memory of Joy Christie, born 1937, died 1992.
The Christie surname is a shortened form of Christian and possibly also of Christopher. Clan Christie was in the area of Fife in the 15th Century. Said to be a sept of the Clan Farquharson. Another tradition is that the name was given to descendants of Christianus, a younger son of Alwyn II, one of the first Earls of Lennox. Variations of Christie: Christy, Chrystie, Chrysty, McChristie, McChristy, Christe, Christi, Cristi, Christian and many more.
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Old photograph of cottages and church in Arbirlot located West of Arbroath, Scotland. In the 18th and 19th centuries Arbirlot was principally occupied by handloom weavers and farmers. It once had a meal mill, a slaughterhouse, two schools, a post office, a savings bank, an inn, a parish library as well as a number of shops. The parish is believed to be the original home of Clan Elliot, which was transplanted to the Scottish Borders to defend the newly crowned Robert the Bruce's Scotland from English invaders through an intricate network of peel towers. The Elliots joined the clans of Armstrong, Scott, Douglas, Kerr, Nixon, Hepburn and Maxwell in this effort. The Border Reivers and other titles such a Outlaws of the Marshes are most informative about the Elliots and their exploits after leaving the Arbirlot parish.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Bastable memorial stained glass window on ancestry history visit and trip to Logie Kirk by Stirling. To the Glory of God and in loving memory of our daughter Valerie Bastable, 1959 to 1991.
This unusual and interesting surname is of uncertain origin, but believed to be locational either from Barnstaple in Devonshire or Barstable Hall in Essex, England. The first recording of the Devonshire placename is spelt Beardastapol in 979, but had evolved into the form Barnestaple by 1086.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Kerr memorial stained glass window on ancestry, history visit and trip to Logie Kirk by Stirling. To the Glory of God and in loving memory of our parents William and Helen Kerr, Riverbank, 1905 to 1983. Clan Kerr is a Scottish clan whose origins lie in the Scottish Borders. During the Middle Ages it was one of the prominent border reiver clans along the present-day Anglo Scottish border. The surname name Kerr is rendered in various forms such as Kerr, Ker, Carr, Carre, and Cares. The name stems from the Old Norse kjrr which means marsh dweller, and came to Scotland from Normandy, the French settlement of the Norsemen. Another variant is found on the west coast of Scotland, particularly on the Isle of Arran, taken from the Gaelic ciar, meaning dusky. The Clan Kerr feuded in particular with the Clan Scott. The feud began on the 25 July 1526 when Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch launched an attack at the Battle of Melrose to rescue the young King James V of Scotland who was being held by the Douglas Earl of Angus at Darnick just west of Melrose, and in the ensuing fight Kerr of Cessford was killed.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Ewing memorial stained glass window on ancestry, history visit and trip to Logie Kirk by Stirling. To the Glory of God, and in memory of many of the family of Ewing, who have served God in this Parish during three centuries, and who rest therein, and more especially in memory of William Ewing of Craigmill, his wife, Margaret Anderson, and their sons Ralph and Archibald of Dunedin, New Zealand who gifted this window.
The surname Ewing is of Scottish origin, and is an Anglicised form derived from the Gaelic clan name Clann Eóghain meaning Children of Eóghain. The forename Eógan is thought to derive ultimately from the Greek eugenes, meaning, noble.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Tait memorial stained glass window on ancestry, history visit and trip to Logie Kirk by Stirling. In memory of John Tait, Elder of this church, and his brother James Tait, members of Logie Church from 1838 to 1878.
Tait is an Anglo Scottish surname, probably of Norse Viking origin, deriving from the pre 7th century Old Norse word " teitr ", meaning glad or cheerful. The name was first recorded in Scotland in 1329 when a debt due by the king was paid to Thomas Tayt, a clerk who was connected with the hospital of Montrose.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Dawson memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to Logie Kirk by Stirling. To the memory of John Dawson of Manor, died 28th of March, 1900. Dedicated by his daughters.
The Dawson surname is of English origins, and is a patronymic form of the medieval male given name Daw. This is a nickname form of David, adopted from the Hebrew male given name Dodavehu meaning " beloved of Jehovah ". This name was borne by the greatest of the early Kings of Israel, and led to its popularity, first among the Jews, and later among the Christians. In Britain the popularity of the name was increased by the fame of St. David, the patron saint of Wales, and by the fact that it was borne by two kings of Scotland as the name David.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the McNab memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit and trip to Logie kirk by Stirling. In memory of Alexander McNab of Techmuiry who died 27th of November, 1890. He was for 41 years an Elder in this parish. Gifted by the family of his brother William.
This ancient and historic surname is of Scottish origin, although popular in parts of Ireland. It derives from Mac an Abbadh, meaning the son of the abbot. The early clan chiefs were the lay abbots of the monastery of Glen Dochart, a valley which joins Glen Lochay at the head of Loch Tay in Highland Perthshire. Angus Macnab was brother in law of John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch who was murdered by Robert the Bruce in 1306. Macnab then joined forces with the Clan MacDougall in their campaign against the Bruce when Bruce was nearly captured at the Battle of Dalrigh. When the Bruce's power consolidated after his victory at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, the Macnab lands were forfeited and their charters were destroyed. The fortunes of the Clan Macnab were restored to some extent when Angus's grandson, Gilbert, received a charter from David II of Scotland in 1336. Gilbert was succeeded by his son, Sir Alexander Macnab, who died in about 1407. Robert Macnab, the fourteenth chief of Clan Macnab married a sister of John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland. This connection to the Clan Campbell constrained him from supporting the Jacobites in the rising of 1715, although many of his clansmen did take part. The fifteenth chief was a major in the Hanoverian government army and was captured at the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745. He was then held prisoner in Doune Castle.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Bennet memorial stained glass window on ancestry history visit and trip to Logie Kirk by Stirling. To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Adam Bennet, born 20th of May, 1790, died June 1st, 1879, and Margaret Bennet, born 7th January, 1823, died, 5th November, 1902. Both for over 60 years members of this church. Also in memory of David Halley, R.D. Copenhagen, born 11th of March, 1850, died 4th of January, 1895. Window gifted by Mima Halley in 1904.
Bennett, also spelled Bennet, is an English and Irish language surname, and, less commonly, given name; related to the medieval name Benedict, both ultimately from Latin Benedictus " blessed ". Bennett is the English spelling of the Anglo Norman name Benet. The oldest public record of the surname is dated 1208 in County Durham, England.
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Old photograph of cottages in Galabank near Galashiels, Borders of Scotland. This is where Robert Burns, the national poet, wrote the poem Braw Lads O Galla Water.
Braw, braw lads on Yarrow-braes,
They rove amang the blooming heather;
But Yarrow braes, nor Ettrick shaws
Can match the lads o' Galla Water.
But there is ane, a secret ane,
Aboon them a' I loe him better;
And I'll be his, and he'll be mine,
The bonie lad o' Galla Water.
Altho' his daddie was nae laird,
And tho' I hae nae meikle tocher,
Yet rich in kindest, truest love,
We'll tent our flocks by Galla Water.
It ne'er was wealth, it ne'er was wealth,
That coft contentment, peace, or pleasure;
The bands and bliss o' mutual love,
O that's the chiefest warld's treasure.
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Tour Scotland video of a rainbow over Smeaton's Bridge, known locally as the Old Bridge, on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This is a toll-free Scottish bridge in the city of Perth. It spans the River Tay, connecting Perth, on the eastern side of the river, to Bridgend, on its western side, carrying both automotive and pedestrian traffic of West Bridge Street. The engineer of its construction was John Smeaton, for whom the bridge is named.
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Tour Scotland travel video of The Allan Church on ancestry history visit and trip to Bannockburn village located just South of Stirling. This Scottish church was designed by John Henderson. The Allan Church sits at the heart of Bannockburn. The church, designed by John Henderson, is a hall church with gothic features on its entrance façade. The doorway has an ogee curved lintel. Above this is a square tower with a stone spire flanked with pinnacles. The interior has a gallery running round three sides. The furnishings are oak with Gothic details.
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Tour Scotland Winter travel video of Murrayfield United Free Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and small group trip to Bannockburn village located just South of Stirling, Scotland. This Scottish church was built in 1850 as a Free Church.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Charles Stirling memorial on ancestry visit and trip to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling. He was the fourth son of William Stirling of Keir born at Cawder on the 12th of May, 1771. He married Christian Erskine at Linlathen on the 14th of October 1817. He died at Cawder on the 30th of January, 1830, and is buried under this church.
The surname Stirling can be found in many different forms and spellings. From to time the surname was spelled Stirling, Sterling, Sturling, Strivelynd, and some of these versions are still used today. These changes in spelling frequently occurred, even between father and son. One clans woman was recorded as being born with one spelling of her name, married with another and died with yet another. More specifically the surname developed in the original territories of Stirling where the Stirlings of Cadder can claim an unbroken line of Chiefs from the year 1160 to the Present. Soon after 1160 a branch of the family settled at Dunmaglas in Nairnshire. The Stirlings of Keir although the most wealthy of the sundry Stirling lines were never the chiefly line. That honour was reserved to the Stirlings of Cadder. Even after the Keirs acquired the Cadder estates in 1534, the Chief of the Name stayed with the Cadder branch and came down to the Drumpelliers in 1818 where it resides to this day with Francis John Stirling Chief of the Name and Arms of Stirling.
Three Chiefs or chieftains swore allegiance to King Edward I of England on his brief conquest of Scotland in 1296. They were John Stirling of Moray, Andrew Strivelyn of Inverkeithing, Fife, and Henry Strivelyn of Stirlingshire. Sir John Stirling, Laird of Keir, represented Stirlingshire in the Scottish Parliament in 1524, Henry Stirling represented Ardoch in Dumbartonshire in 1621, Sir John Stirling of Garden represented Linlithgowshire in 1640, and Sir John Stirling of Keir represented Stirlingshire from 1669 to 1678. Amongst the roll of Scottish Baronets were Sir George Stirling of Glorat and Sir Henry Stirling of Ardoch, both in 1666. Their present family seats are at Faskine, Mansfield, Ardoch, Cadder and Muiravonside, Glorat, Garden, Gargunnock, Fairburn, Larbert, Auchyle and Kippendavie. Notable amongst the Clan at this time was Sir Henry Stirling of Keir.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Christian Erskine memorial on ancestry visit and trip to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling. She was the second daughter of David Erskine of Linlathen. She was born in Edinburgh on the 19th of October 1789. She married Charles Stirling at Linlathen on the 14th of October 1817. She died in Edinburgh on the 1st of December, 1866 and is buried under the church.
Erskine is a Scottish surname. The name is derived from a habitational name from a location; Erskine on the southern bank of the River Clyde, near Glasgow. This place was first recorded in 1225 as Erskin. Early spellings of the place include: Yrskin, Ireskin, Harskin and Irschen.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Children's memorial stained glass window on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling. This window is in memory of the sixteen children and the teacher who were killed in the Dunblane massacre by Thomas Hamilton before he committed suicide. It remains the deadliest massacre of children ever in the United Kingdom and one of saddest days in Scotland.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Hannah Ann Stirling memorial on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. She was the eldest daughter of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet, of Keir and Pollok who was a Scottish historical writer and art historian, politician and virtuoso. Her mother was Elizabeth Maxwell. Hannah was born at Kenmure on the 17th of August, 1816. She died at Carlsbad, Bohemia, on the 18th of July, 1843 and was buried under this church.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Lady Anna Marie Leslie Melville memorial on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. She was the second daughter of David Leslie Melville, 8th Earl of Leven and Elizabeth Anne Campbell. She was born at Melville on 31st of December, 1826. She married, in Paris, France, on the 26th of April, 1865, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet, of Keir and Pollok who was a Scottish historical writer and art historian, politician and virtuoso. She died at Keir on the 8th of December, 1874, and is buried under the church.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Foster memorial stained glass window on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Lecropt Kirk near Stirling. This window is in memory of Arthur Foster, a former Elder of the church, and his family. The surname Foster was first found in Newlands, a parish, in the historic county of Peeblesshire. The first on record was William de Forest who was a tenant of the Douglases in the barony of Newlands in 1376. In the same year, Hugh de Forest was a Douglas tenant in Drumcorke. A few years later, Morgan de Forest in Aberdeen was "cherged" with being a forestaller in 1402 and Master Thomas de Foresta, licentiate in decrees, was rector of the parish of Soudon (Southdean) in 1404.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Stewart memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit and trip to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling. This window is in memory of Doctor William Stewart and his wife Wilma. William was a distinguished scholar and Missionary. Doctor Stewart was minister at Lecropt from 1967 to 1978, having been previously Principal of Serampore College in India. Unity and Mission were ideals which were integral parts of the life and work of this distinguished scholar and missionary.
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Tour Scotland video of the Henderson memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling. This window is in memory of the five children of the Reverend Peter David R and Mrs E L Henderson.
Henderson is a common Scottish surname. The name is derived from patronymic form of the name Hendry, which is a Scottish form of Henry. Some Hendersons also derive their name from Henryson. The surname Henderson is borne by numerous unrelated families in Scotland. For example, the Hendersons of Fordell, in Fife, were the chief Lowland family of the name. This family descended from a family of Henrysons, from Dumfriesshire. A branch of Clan Gunn also bears the name. According to tradition, this family descends from Henry Gunn, a younger son of a chief of the Gunns who lived in the 15th century. The Hendersons of Glencoe in the Highlands derive their surname from the Gaelic MacEanruig. The surname was unknown in England prior to the 17th century and is first mentioned in a marriage document between one of the Borders Hendersons and the daughter of a Carlisle merchant at Hexham. The surname is rendered in Scottish Gaelic as: MacEanraig or MacEanruig, masculine, and NicEanraig or NicEanruig, feminine.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Young memorial stained glass window on ancestry, history visit and trip to Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling This window is in memory of Reverend Peter Young a Minister here from 1843 to 1893, and also in memory of his two sisters.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the stained glass window in the Chancel on ancestry genealogy, history visit and trip to Lecropt Kirk near Stirling. This window was gifted by Lawrence Pullar in 1911. The surname Pullar was first found in Yorkshire, England, but one of the earliest record of the name was Robert Pullen, died 1146, an English theologian and official of the Roman Catholic Church. He is generally thought to have been born in Poole, Devonshire and first educated in England. He was Archdeacon of Rochester in 1134. Shortly after this appointment, he went to Paris. There, he taught logic and theology tutoring John of Salisbury, who describes him as a man commended both by his life and his learning in 1141.
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Tour Scotland video of the exterior of Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. This is a Scottish church in Gothic revival style, built in 1825 to the designs of David Hamilton and William Stirling local architects. It is a parish church of the Church of Scotland. There has been a church at Lecropt prior to 1827, the old kirk was built in 1400 in what is now the Keir estate although nothing remains of the Kirk. It is known that there was a church at Lecropt prior to 1260.
Tour Scotland photograph of the exterior of Lecropt Kirk by Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland.
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Tour Scotland video of the interior of the Auld Kirk on ancestry visit Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Wonderful renovation work being carried out inside this old church by the Auld Kirk Charitable Trust. At Ferry-Port-On-Craig a church was erected on this site in 1607, and then rebuilt in 1794, with extensive additions in 1825.
Tour Scotland photograph of the interior of the Auld Kirk on ancestry visit Tayport, Fife, Scotland.
Tour Scotland photograph of the war memorial in the Auld Kirk on ancestry visit Tayport, Fife, Scotland.
Tour Scotland photograph of stained glass in the Auld Kirk on ancestry visit Tayport, Fife, Scotland.
Tour Scotland photograph of stained glass in the Auld Kirk on ancestry visit Tayport, Fife, Scotland.
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Old photograph of Kirkmadryne Church, Rhins of Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland. This Scottish parish church was in the old parish of Toskerton now generally called Kirmadrine, which was united to Stoneykirk in 1618. The old church was dedicated to St Medran of Muskerry and belonged to Whithorn Priory. The church there is now a memorial to the MacTaggarts of Ardwell. The 19th Century, Romanesque style burial chapel stands on the site of what is thought to be, one of the earliest Christian communities in Scotland. It was built for Lady MacTaggart Stewart of Ardwell and during its construction, older stones which date back to the 5th Century AD were discovered. The first tablet in the Chapel is n memory of Edward Orde MacTaggart Stewart of Ardwell, 2nd Baronet of Southwich and his wife Margaret. Elder daughter of the 3rd Baron and Baroness of Donington. The second tablet in the Chapel is dedicated to the Right Honorable Archibald Patrick Thomas, 17th Baron of Borthwick. The third tablet in the Chapel is dedicated to Lady Marianne Susanna MacTaggart Stewart of Ardwell.
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Old photograph of Torrance, Scotland. A Scottish town in East Dunbartonshire eight miles North of Glasgow city centre. Although weavers were among the earliest residents of the village, limestone, coal and ironstone extraction also began to emerge as a local industry.
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Old photograph of cottages in Kingston a small coastal village in Moray, Scotland. Kingston's past includes a large shipbuilding industry started in the 18th century. This used an enormous amount of timber from the local surrounding forests. In 1829, some of the village homes were lost in the great flood, the Muckle Spate which was a great flood in August 1829, which devastated much of Strathspey, in the north east of Scotland.
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Old photograph of Dalginross, Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village, an extension of Comrie, is located to the South of the River Earn. Highland Crofters who had been cleared from their land came to work here in the textile industry in the late 18th century.
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Old photograph of crofters cottages on Isle of Eriskay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Although only a small Scottish island, Eriskay has many claims to fame that have made the island well-known far beyond the Hebrides. It is associated with the traditional Hebridean song, the Eriskay Love Lilt; with the Eriskay pony and the Eriskay jersey, made without any seams. It is the real Whisky Galore island: it was just off Eriskay that the SS Politician ran aground in 1941 with its famous cargo. On August 2, 1745 the small frigate le Du Teillay landed Bonnie Prince Charlie with his " seven men of Moidart " on Eriskay to start the Forty Five Jacobite Rising. An important early documentary film, Eriskay: A Poem of Remote Lives, made by a German traveller, Werner Kissling, was set on the island.
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Old photograph of cottages and bridges in Lethnot located five miles from Edzell, Angus, Scotland. Two hundred years ago this was to be the shortest direct route to the south coming from Banffshire and Aberdeenshire, crossing the hills to Invermark, over again on to the road leading to Lethnot. In the same period this road had two names. The first was Priests Road because the Episcopalian minister of Lochlee and Lethnot travelled on it from the manse in upper Glenesk. The other name was the Whisky Road, the joy of bootleggers and the bane of the exciseman. There were dozens of stills on the hill burns, and several could be seen in the Lethnot area until just a few years ago. The making of illegal whisky slowly died away as the authorities became to clever in catching the bootleggers and by 1790 the majority of stills were ceased, with only a few left till around 1830.
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Old photograph of crofters cottages at Ardfarnal on the Isle of Jura, Scotland. In 1841, Ardfernal was home to 23 families, with a total population of 128 people. The community was diverse, supporting not only crofters, small farmers with specific land rights but also a weaver, a mason, a carpenter, shepherds, and a dress maker.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the interior of the Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Kilconquhar, East Neuk of Fife. The raised chancel area to the east of this Kirk has a communion table, two benches. an octagonal font, a lectern, and an elaborately carved pulpit. Women accused of being witches used to be thrown in Kilconquhar Loch, and if not drowned, this was seen as proof that they were witches and then they were burned at the stake! The spot where the church stands is thought to have been a Druidical place of worship and a burial ground long before the time of Christianity.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Old Testament Warriors stained glass window in the Parish Church on ancestry visit and trip to Kilconquhar, East Neuk of Fife In the south wall of the chancel is this six light window with four panels depicting Old Testament Warriors. To the Glory of God and in Celebration of the Ministerial Jubilee of the Reverend Alexander Legge, VD, 24th September, 1916. This window is gifted by Parishioners and friends. He was born in Banffshire on the 25th of July 1842, educated at Banff Academy and Edinburgh University. Ordained to Congregational Church, Peterhead, 1868. Translated to Congregational Church; Lancaster Road, Preston, 1874. Admitted as a licentiate of the Church of Scotland, 1878. Ordained to St. Andrew's Parish, Dundee, 1878. Minister of Kilconquhar, 1886; translated and admitted, 1886. He died on the 20th of March 1920 in Colinsburgh, Fife.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Acts of Charity stained glass window in the Parish Church on ancestry visit and trip to Kilconquhar, East Neuk of Fife. At the east end of the kirk, above the chancel, is this beautiful eight light stained glass window displaying The Acts of Charity.
Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
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Old photograph of the church in Dinnet, Royal Deeside, Scotland. This Scottish village is in the Marr area of Aberdeenshire. Approximately equidistant from Deeside towns Aboyne and Ballater and situated on the main A93 road in the valley of the River Dee.The original Dinnet Church was built in 1875 as a " Chapel of Ease " to Aboyne Parish Church. It was raised to a quoad sacra parish church in 1881, meaning it had its own defined parish boundaries and full church status.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the interior of St Margaret of Scotland Episcopal Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Tayport, Fife. This Scottish church was designed by architect T Martin Cappon from Dundee. Thomas Martin Cappon was born in Monifieth on 4 April 1863, the son of James Cappon, a Dundee shipmaster and whose grandfather, also James, had served under Lord Nelson, and his wife Janet Martin Educated at Newport Public School and Dundee High School, he showed an aptitude for drawing and was apprenticed in 1880 to Charles and Leslie Ower, studying in parallel under Sir Alfred Ewing at University College, Dundee, where he gained first place for surveying and levelling in 1885. Cappon thereafter had the offer of a good appointment in America but preferred to set up practice on his own account in Dundee at the end of his apprenticeship. His early domestic work of the late 1880s and early 1890s shows the influence of John Murray Robertson as well as that of the Owers, notably at his St Andrews houses.
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