Old Photographs Inverkip Scotland

Old photograph of Inverkip located four miles South West of Greenock, Scotland. This Scottish village was made a burgh of barony before the Act of Union in 1707, with the parish containing all of Gourock, Wemyss Bay, Skelmorlie and part of Greenock. Inverkip Parish Church dates from 1804 and is near the site of an earlier twelfth century kirk. The graveyard contains the tomb of the chemist Dr James Young who was nicknamed Paraffin Young because of his pioneering work in oil technology. He lived at nearby Kelly House.



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Old Photograph Little Cumbrae Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Little Cumbrae lighthouse and the Lighthouse Keepers Cottages on the island of Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde, in North Ayrshire, Scotland. James Ewing built the first Little Cumbrae lighthouse on the top of Lighthouse Hill in 1757. This was the second lighthouse in Scotland. An open fire was lit at the top of a circular stone tower. Remains of this old structure can still be seen. The traditional Cumbrae Lighthouse was built in 1793 by Thomas Smith under commission from the Commissioners of the Northern Lights. The lighthouse lies on a broad raised beach on the western shore of the island looking out into the Firth. It had a foghorn, slipway, jetty, and boathouse. The original oil lamps were replaced by Argand lamps in 1826 and a solar-powered light was installed in 1974. The 1793 tower has been unused since 1997.



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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Photograph Sunday Morning Drive To Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a Sunday morning drive on ancestry visit to Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Highland Cow Listening To Bagpipe Music Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video of a Highland Cow listening to bagpipe music on visit to Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Pipers Playing Scottish Soldier Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of pipers playing Scottish Soldier on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Scone Palace by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.
There was a soldier, a Scottish soldier
Who wandered far away and soldiered far away
There was none bolder with good broad shoulder
He fought many affray, and fought and won

He’d seen the glory, he’d told the story
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious
But now he’s sighing, his heart is crying
To leave those green hills of Tyrol

(Chorus)Because those green hills are not highland hills
Or the island hills, they’re not my land’s hills
And fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of home

And now this soldier, this Scottish soldier
Who wandered far away and soldiered far away
Sees leaves are falling, and death is calling
And he will fade away in that far land

He called his piper, his trusty piper
And bade him sound a lay
A pibroch sad to play
Upon a hillside, a Scottish hillside
Not on those green hills of Tyrol

(Chorus)

And now this soldier, this Scottish soldier
Will wander far no more and soldier far no more
And on a hillside, a Scottish hillside
You’ll see a piper play his soldier home

He’s seen the glory, he’s told the story
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious
The bugle’s ceased now, he is at peace now
Far from those green hills of Tyrol

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Tour Scotland Video Pipers Playing Marie's Wedding Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of pipers playing Marie's Wedding on visit and trip to Scone Palace, Perthshire, Scotland. Pipers from Glenalmond College raising funds by Scone Palace for Rachel House Children's Hospice in Kinross. Mairi's Wedding, also known as Marie's Wedding, the Lewis Bridal Song, or Mairi Bhan, is a Scottish folk song originally written in Gaelic by John Roderick Bannerman, born 1865, died 1938, for Mary C. MacNiven. born 1905, died 1997, on the occasion of her winning the gold medal at the National Mòd in 1934. In 1959, James B. Cosh devised a Scottish country dance to the tune, which is 40 bars, in reel time.

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Tour Scotland Video Pipers Playing Green Hills of Tyrol Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of pipers playing The Green Hills of Tyrol on visit and trip to Scone Palace by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Pipers from Glenalmond College and the Order of St John raising funds by Scone Palace for Rachel House Children's Hospice in Kinross.

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Old Photograph Lunna House Scotland

Old photograph of Lunna House on the Shetland Islands, Scotland The earliest part of this Scottish house was built in 1660 for Robert Hunter. In 1845 Robina Hunter inherited the property. The following year she married Robert Bell, Sheriff at Lerwick, and a son of the surgeon Joseph Bell. Their son Robert Bell Hunter, 8th Laird of Lunna, sold the property in 1893 to John Bruce of Sumburgh. Bruce had the house extended in the 20th century. During the Second World War, Lunna House became a base for the Shetland Bus, a clandestine operation to transfer men and materials between Shetland and Nazi-occupied Norway.



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Old Photographs Cumnock Scotland

Old photograph of Cumnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish town housed many miners, and also served as the market town for the other, smaller towns in the district, like Auchinleck, Lugar, Muirkirk, New Cumnock and Ochiltree. The father of the Labour Party, James Keir Hardie, lived in the town for a large part of his life, and a statue to him sits outside the town hall. William Wallace allegedly spent three months in this area in 1296), according to the poem, The Wallace, by Blind Harry. Cumnock is also in the heart of Robert Burns country.




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Old Photographs Fettercairn Scotland

Old photograph of Fettercairn located North West of Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A memorial archway erected in this Scottish village in 1864 commemorates the 1861 visit by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, while staying at Balmoral Castle. Historically Fettercairn lies at the southern end of the Monboddo Estate, where the Scottish philosopher and precursor of evolutionary thought Lord Monboddo lived. Fettercairn houses the Fettercairn distillery that produces the Fettercairn 1824 single malt whisky.



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Tour Scotland Video Tide West Sands St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of the sight and sounds of the tide coming in at the West Sands beach on ancestry history visit and trip to coast of St Andrews, Fife. St Andrews West Sands Beach is famous for the opening scenes of the film Chariots of Fire. The beach extends for almost two miles of uninterrupted sand, backed with dunes and the world-renowned golf courses. It is very popular for walking and running as well as for swimming.
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Tour Scotland Video Morning Creel Boat Harbour St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland Autumn morning travel video of a Creel boat leaving the harbour on ancestry history visit and trip to St Andrews, Fife. Britain, United Kingdom. St Andrews harbour is an estuary haven formed in the tidal mouth of the Kinness Burn. A fishing harbour is mentioned as early as 1222, and another medieval record dates from 1363. The long pier was rebuilt in 1656 with stone largely taken from the Castle. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.

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Tour Scotland Video Morning Drive To The Pends St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland Autumn morning travel video of part of a road trip drive to and through The Pends on ancestry history visit to St Andrews, Fife. The arched Pends was the former entrance to the St Andrews Priory.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Morning Drive To St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland Autumn morning video of part of a drive on the B939 road from Pitscottie on ancestry visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Morning Drive To Pitscottie Fife

Tour Scotland video of part of an Autumn morning drive from Ceres on ancestry visit to Pitscottie near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Pitscottie is famous for Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, born in 1532, died in 1580, who was a Scottish chronicler, author of The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436–1565, the first history of Scotland to be composed in Scots rather than Latin. Of the family of the Lindsays of the Byres, a grandson of Patrick Lindsay, 4th Lord Lindsay, Robert was born at Pitscottie, in the parish of Ceres, Fife, which he held in lease at a later period.

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Old Photograph Killearn Scotland

Old photograph of shops, cottages and people in Killearn located fifteen miles North of Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish village is seven miles east of Loch Lomond, on the northwest flank of the Campsie Fells; most predominantly under the shadow of the volcanic plug of Dumgoyne. The Glengoyne whisky distillery, the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, the West Highland Way long distance walking trail and the Endrick Water, river, are situated close to the village.



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Old Photographs Stanley Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland. The village of Stanley gains its name ultimately from Lady Amelia Stanley, the daughter of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby. In the 1600s the area around Stanley was part of the estate of Earls of Atholl and was also the location of Inverbervie Castle. In 1659 the castle was renamed Stanley House in honour of the wedding of John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl and Lady Stanley. When the village was built in the 1700s it took the name Stanley after the nearby house. John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl, decided, in the 18th century to harness of the nearby River Tay to power a cotton mill., Richard Arkwright, an inventor of cotton-spinning machinery was persuade by, George Dempster, when Dempster was visiting Cromford in Derbyshire, to come to Scotland to set up a cotton mill in Stanley as well as one at New Lanark. Stanley Mills, opened in 1787 and by its 10th year employed 350 people. The village was built to house the workers of the mill. Work on the village began in 1784. It was designed by the Duke of Atholl’s factor James Stobie. By 1799 the Village’s population was around 400, however, in 1831 it had reached around 2000 residents about half of whom worked in the mill.



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Tour Scotland Video Interior Song School St Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the interior of the Song School by St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Edinburgh. The Song School within the nearby Cathedral precinct is used by the Choristers for daily practice, where they are surrounded by beautiful murals by Phoebe Anna Traquair. It was these murals added between 1888 and 1892, which won Traquair national recognition. Within a tunnelled ceiling interior the East Wall depicts the cathedral clergy and choir. The South depicts Traquair's admired contemporaries such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and George Frederic Watts; the North, birds and choristers sing together. The West shows the four beasts singing the Sanctus.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Deflating Hot Air Balloon Scone Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of deflating a Virgin Hot Air Balloon in a field on visit to Scone, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Sanctuary Windows St Michael and All Saints Church Tollcross Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the Altar and stained glass windows in the Sanctuary of St Michael and All Saints Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Tollcross, Edinburgh, Scotland. After the defeat of the Jacobite rising in 1745 and the death in 1788 of King Charles III the Episcopal Church made its peace with the government and most of the laws against it were repealed. Some Episcopalian congregations which were not Jacobite then joined the Church. At Aberdeen in 1784 Samuel Seabury, who had studied medicine at Edinburgh, was consecrated by Scottish Bishops as the first bishop of the American Episcopal Church. This is sometimes seen as the foundation of the worldwide Anglican Communion of which the Scottish Episcopal Church is a member.

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Tour Scotland Video Saint Drostan Window St Michael and All Saints Church Tollcross Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the Saint Drostan stained glass window in St Michael and All Saints Church on ancestry history visit and trip to Tollcross, Edinburgh. Drostan was one of the twelve companions who sailed from Ireland to Scotland around 563 with St Columba. These twelve became known as the Brethren of St Columba. He accompanied that saint when he visited Aberdour in Buchan, about 45 miles from Aberdeen. When St Drostan died at Glen Esk his remains were conveyed back to Aberdour where they were deposited in a tumba lapidea or stone coffin. Here his bones were said to work miraculous cures upon the sick and afflicted. The Breviary of Aberdeen celebrates his feast on 15th December. The monastery of Old Deer, which had fallen into decay, was rebuilt for Cistercian monks in 1213 and so continued until the Reformation.

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Old Photograph Braal Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Braal Castle located by the River Thurso north of the village of Halkirk, Caithness, Scotland. This ruined Scottish castle, which dates back to the mid 14th century, was originally known as the Castle of Brathwell. In 1450, the castle was bestowed by James II upon Sir George Crichton, Lord High Admiral of Scotland, who was briefly created Earl of Caithness in 1452. In 1455, the earldom and castle were granted by James II to William Sinclair, Baron of Roslin and Lord Chancellor of Scotland. The castle passed to the Sinclairs of Ulbster, a branch of the Sinclair Earls of Caithness, in the 18th century.



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Old Photograph Samuel Rutherford Crockett Monument Scotland

Old photograph of the Samuel Rutherford Crockett monument at Laurieston by Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. S. R. Crockett, born 24th September 1859, died 16th April 1914, was a Scottish novelist. He was born at Duchrae, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, the illegitimate grandson of a farmer. He was raised on his grandfather's Galloway farm, and graduated from Edinburgh University during 1879. His first successful story of The Stickit Minister was published during 1893.



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Old Photograph Jeanie Deans Tombstone Scotland

Old photograph of grave of Jeanie Deans in the parish of Irongray about six miles from Dumfries, Scotland. Jeanie Deans is a fictional character in the novel The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott. She was one of Scott's most celebrated characters during the 19th century; she was renowned as an example of an honest, upright, sincere, highly religious person. She became so popular that her name was given to ships, railway locomotives, pubs and many other things. He wrote in his introduction to the book that he had learned the story from an unsigned, undated letter, whose writer had learned it in turn from a Mrs. Helen Lawson Goldie of Dumfries. The original of Jeanie Deans was Helen Walker, whose experience was more austere than the fiction Scott wrote. Helen Walker died in late 1791. Sir Walter Scott erected a monument at Helen Walker's grave in the parish of Irongray, about six miles from Dumfries.


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Old Photograph Kirkbride Scotland

Old photograph of the old parish church and burial ground in Kirkbride, South Ayrshire, Scotland. A pre-reformation, now ruined, church, which ceased to be used for regular public worship many years ago. This Scottish church is said to have been founded by the Earl of Carrick in 1193. The parish was united with Maybole soon after 1571. During the late 12th century or early 13th century, the church was granted to the nunnery of North Berwick by Duncan of Carrick; by 1408-9 it was a pendicle of the church at Maybole. The parish was united with Maybole shortly after 1571.



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Tour Scotland Video Jesus Saith Window St Michael and All Saints Church Tollcross Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the Jesus Saith stained glass window in St Michael and All Saints Church on ancestry history visit and trip to Tollcross, Edinburgh.
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Old Photograph Barnhill Perth Scotland

Old photograph of Barnhill, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. In the old days Barnhill was a separate village connected to Perth by a succession of bridges and ferries. The parish of Kinnoull included Barnhill, Corsiehill and part of Kinfauns. In 1795 the population of the parish was 1,465 and by 1811 was 2,431.



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Tour Scotland Video He Is Risen Window St Michael and All Saints Church Tollcross Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the He Is Risen stained glass window in St Michael and All Saints Church on ancestry history visit and trip to Tollcross, Edinburgh.

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Tour Scotland Video Rebecca Window St Michael and All Saints Church Tollcross Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the Rebecca at the Well and Our Lord and the Samaritan Woman at the Well stained glass windows in St Michael and All Saints Church on ancestry visit and trip to Tollcross, Edinburgh. Rebecca appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. Rebecca and Isaac were one of the four couples believed to be buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs, the other three being Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, and Jacob and Leah.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video St. Cecilia's Hall The Cowgate Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of St. Cecilia's Hall on ancestry visit to the Old Town in Edinburgh, Scotland. By Robert Mylne it was built for the Musical Society of Edinburgh in 1763. This was my first visit here and I will be back again to view their wonderful collection of musical instruments. Worth more than one visit.

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Tour Scotland Video Magdalen Chapel The Cowgate Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of Magdalen Chapel on ancestry history visit and trip to the Old Town in Edinburgh. A 16th century Scottish almshouse chapel built with monies left by Michael MacQueen in 1537. Work was completed in 1544 and it operated as a hospital almshouse, dedicated to Mary Magdalen, under the control of MacQueen's widow, Janet Rynd until her death in 1553, when it passed to the Incorporation of Hammermen, metalworkers. It is now the headquarters of the Scottish Reformation Society..

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Old Photograph Mintlaw Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This was a planned Scottish village built around 1813 by James Ferguson the third Laird of Pitfour. Victorian times saw the coming of the railway, the Maud to Peterhead line being built in the 1860s. Mintlaw was a scheduled stop on this line. The station was built a little to the west of the village; perhaps because this was more convenient for the Ferguson family of Pitfour and the Russell family of Aden. Mintlaw Station was the postal address for this whole district for many years until it closed in the 1960's.




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Old Photographs Milnathort Scotland

Old photograph of Milnathort, Perthshire, Scotland. Located on the A91, the main Stirling to St Andrews road, Milnathort was developed as a market town with cotton weavers and makers of tartan shawls and plaids.



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Old Photograph Polwarth Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Polwarth in the Borders, Scotland. Polwarth Parish Church was built in 1703, replacing a 13th century building. Polwarth Castle was situated halfway between Polwarth village and Polwarth Parish Church and no remains are visible these days. Little is known either about the Polwarth family, who held the lands associated with the castle until the sixteenth century. The first record of them is in a charter dating from the reign of King Alexander II.



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Old Photograph Letham Angus Scotland

Old photograph of Letham located five miles from Forfar in Angus, Scotland. Nearby is the village of Dunnichen, which is widely believed to be the site of the Battle of Nechtansmere, and the villages of Bowriefauld and Craichie. To the north of the village there is a Pictish stone with a cup and ring marking, locally known as the Girdlestane. Pictish stones have been found in many sites in Angus.



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Old Photograph Birkhall House Scotland

Old photograph of Birkhall House located South West of Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This property built in 1715, was acquired in 1849, by Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria. It became the Deeside home of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in 1930, and later of Charles, Prince of Wales. He also spent his second honeymoon here in 2005. In 2011, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, celebrated New Year's Eve here.



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Old Photograph Drumlemble Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, horse and carriage and people in Drumlemble located four miles from Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village consists of the main settlement of Drumlemble and the two outlying settlements of Easter and Wester Drumlemble.



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Old Photograph Crailing Scotland

Old photograph of Crailing located four miles East of Jedburgh, Borders, Scotland. This Scottish village played an important role in the early history of Clan Oliphant. David Olifard, who is commonly held to be the progenitor of the clan, in 1141 got lands at Crailing from King David I of Scotland whose life David Olifard had saved.



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Old Photograph Lempitlaw Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage, people and horse and carriage in Lempitlaw located three miles East of Kelso, Scotland. The barony of Lempitlaw was granted to Richard Germyn by King David I of Scotland. In the 13th century, Richard Gernun granted the church to the Holy Trinity of Soutra. Later, Sir Walter Scott, the " Bold Buccleuch," held lands including Lempitlaw in the 1500s. By the 19th century, the barony belonged to the Duke of Buccleuch.


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Old Photographs Muasdale Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and Blacksmith in Muasdale on the Kintyre peninsula Argyll, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Tongue Scotland

Old photograph of the village of Tongue, Northern Sutherland, Scotland. This Scottish village saw a key battle between a Jacobite treasure ship and two ships of the Royal Navy in 1746, which resulted in the Jacobite crew trying to slip ashore with their gold. They were then caught by the Navy, supported by local people who were loyal to Hanover, which cost Bonnie Prince Charlie valuable support prior to Culloden.


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Old Photograph Tongue House Scotland

Old photograph of Tongue House located half a mile from the village of Tongue, Northern Sutherland Highlands, Scotland. This is the historic seat of the Clan Mackay. The territory of the Clan Mackay consisted of the parishes of Farr, Tongue, Durness and Eddrachillis, and was known as Strathnaver, in the north west of the county of Sutherland. However, it was not until 1829 that Strathnaver was considered part of Sutherland when the chief sold his lands to the Earls of Sutherland and the Highland Clearances then had dire consequences for the clan. In the 17th century the Mackay chief's territory had extended to the east to include the parish of Reay in the west of the neighbouring county of Caithness. The chief of the clan is Lord Reay and the lands of Strathnaver later became known as the Reay Country.



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Old Photograph Coldbackie Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages at Coldbackie located two miles North East of Tongue, Northern Sutherland, Scotland. This is one of a series of crofting townships, running from Tongue, through Coldbackie, StrathTongue, Dalharn, Blandy and Scullomie to the deserted township of Slettel that sit on the eastern fringes of the Kyle of Tongue. South of here lies the area known as Braetongue.



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Old Photograph Westerwick Scotland

Old photograph of Westerwick on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Westerwick is separated from Silwick by the Ward of Silwick and is about three miles from Skeld, on the West Shetland Mainland. This was the birthplace of Thomas Alexander Robertson, better known as the poet Vagaland. He was the second son of Thomas Robertson of Skeld and his wife Andrina Johnston. Tragically his merchant seaman father drowned before his first birthday, and his mother moved with her two sons to Stove in Walls. He took his MA at Edinburgh University and was offered the possibility of postgraduate work at Oxford, which he turned down for financial reasons, instead becoming a teacher at the Lerwick Central School and carer to his ailing mother.





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Tour Scotland Video Celtic Cross War Memorial Invergowrie Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Celtic Cross War Memorial on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Invergowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. We Shall Remember Them. Including; Benjamin Anderson, Hunter Anderson, John Carey, James Cattanach, Peter Dalrymple, Robert R. Davidson, James F. Doig, William Grant, James D. Hay, William M. Hay, George B. Maitland, William B. Melville, John Montgomery, James Morris, William F. Murray, William McIntosh, William R. Mckelvie, George Pratt, William R. Rew, David Riddle, John Robertson, George Sadler, William Sadler, Alexander Scott, John Scott, Walter Scott, David C. Skinner, Charles S. Stewart, Robert Carr, Arthur Cooper, Norman Cooper, David Crichton, John Inglis, Thomas M. McNiven, Alexander Mitchell, James Mitchell, Arthur Robertson, Thomas Shepherd, Richard Sinclair, David L. Singers, Adrian Young, Robert A. Burns.

The distance from Glasgow and Paisley to Invergowrie is 76 miles

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Tour Scotland Photographs Video Sir Stanley Davidson Grave Currie Kirk Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the Sir Leybourne Stanley Patrick Davidson burial vault on ancestry visit to the graveyard at Currie Kirk by Edinburgh, Scotland. Stanley was born on March 3, 1894 in Sri Lanka, to Sir Leybourne Francis Watson Davidson and Jane Rosalind Dudgeon Davidson. During the beginning of World War I in 1914, he enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders of British army and was seriously wounded in 1915. After recovering from his injuries he resumed his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh and in 1919 graduated with first class honours. He married Isobel Margaret in July 27, 1927 at Edinburgh and was resident of the Woodhall House, Edinburgh from 1953 to 1957. He died on September 27, 1981. His best known writing was his medical textbook Principles and Practice of Medicine, which was first published in 1952.

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Tour Scotland Video Sundial Graveyard Currie Kirk Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of a sundial on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the graveyard at Currie Kirk by Edinburgh, Scotland. To the Heritors, Ministers, Elders and inhabitants of the Parish of Currie as a testament of respect and gratitude. This sundial carved by Robert Palmer.

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Old Photographs Dunecht House Scotland

Old photographs of Dunecht House located West of Aberdeen, Scotland. Built in 1820 as the family home of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, the house has a grand ballroom, chapel and observatory and is surrounded by extensive gardens. It also has an observatory, built by James Ludovic Lindsay, the 26th Earl of Crawford.


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Old Photograph Dornock Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Dornock located two miles East of Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village is famous for the Battle of Dornock during the Wars of Scottish Independence. In 1333, William of Lochmaben, Sir Ralph Dacre and Sir Anthony Lucy led an English force of 800 men into Dumfriesshire. William Douglas, Lord of Liddesdale and 50 Scottish defenders along with Sir Humphrey Boys and Sir Humphrey Jardine moved to intercept them. On the 25th of March 1333, the small Scottish force intercepted the English at the village of Dornock. Little is known about the battle itself, as it was reportedly over very quickly, but 24 Scots were killed and Douglas was taken prisoner. England reported only two losses.



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Old Photograph Eckford Scotland

Old photograph of Eckford near Jedburgh, Borders, Scotland. On 17 October 1557 a Scottish army led by the Earl of Huntly halted at Eckford. There the Scottish lords held a consultation, and considering the time of year, the foul weather, and English preparations against them, decided not to attack Wark as Mary of Guise had instructed them. The next day they crossed the border and approached Wark Castle with their artillery but then returned to Scotland.



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