Tour Scotland Video Perth and District Pipe Band Playing Scotland The Brave Christmas Market

Tour Scotland travel video of Perth and District Pipe Band playing Scotland The Brave on the High Street by the Christmas Market in the city centre on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire.
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Tour Scotland Video Perth and District Pipe Band Playing Amazing Grace Christmas Market

Tour Scotland travel video of Perth and District Pipe Band playing Amazing Grace on the High Street by the Christmas Market in the city centre on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire.
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Old Photograph Caiplie Caves Scotland

Old photograph of Caves of Caiplie located on the Fife Coastal Path between Anstruther and Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Caves were the site of early Christian worship, after this they were used by farmers to house livestock and included a doocot for housing pigeons, the caves are thought to have been abandoned since 1800.


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Tour Scotland Music Video My Johnny Was A Shoemaker

Tour Scotland music video recommendation. Barbara Dickson singing My Johnny Was A Shoemaker. Barbara Ruth Dickson, OBE, born in Dunfermline, Fife, on the 27th of September 1947 is a wonderful Scottish singer.

My Johnny was a shoemaker and did he love me
My Johnny was a shoemaker but now he's gone to sea
With pitch and tar to soil his hands
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
And sail across the stormy sea
His jacket was a deep sky-blue and curly was his hair
His jacket was a deep sky-blue, it was a do declare
For to reeve the top sails up against the mast
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
And sail across the stormy sea
Some day he'll be a captain bold with a brave and a gallant crew
Some day he'll be a captain bold with a sword and spy glass too
And when he has his gallant captain's sword
He'll come home and marry me, marry me
He'll come home and marry me.

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Old Photographs Isle Of Coll Inner Hebrides

Old photograph of the harboue on the Isle of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. This Scottish island was home to a branch of the Clan Maclean for 500 years, not all of which were peaceful. In 1590 the Macleans of Duart invaded their cousins on Coll with the intention of taking the island for themselves. A battle was fought at Breachacha Castle where the Coll clan overwhelmed the Duarts, chopped off their heads and threw them in the stream, which is still known as " the stream of the heads ". The Macleans of Coll retained their baronial fief and Castle of Breachacha until 1848 when Alexander Maclean of Coll emigrated to Natal, South Africa where he died unmarried.





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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Jam And Cream Doughnuts Christmas Food Market Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of jam and cream doughnuts at a Christmas Food Market in Princes Street Gardens below Edinburgh Castle on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. A doughnut or donut is a type of fried dough confectionery or dessert food. The doughnut is popular in many countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty outlets. Doughnuts are usually deep fried from a flour dough, and typically either ring shaped or without a hole, and often filled.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Cream Doughnuts Christmas Food Market Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of cream doughnuts at a Christmas Food Market in Princes Street Gardens below Edinburgh Castle on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Apple And Cream Doughnuts Christmas Food Market Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of apple and cream doughnuts at a Christmas Food Market in Princes Street Gardens below Edinburgh Castle on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Sprinkles And Chocolate Doughnut Christmas Food Market Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of chocolate doughnuts covered with hundreds and thousands at a Christmas Food Market in Princes Street Gardens below Edinburgh Castle on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. Each doughnut is covered with Sprinkles which are very small pieces of confectionery used as a decoration or to add texture to desserts, usually cupcakes, cookies, doughnuts, ice cream, frozen yogurt, and some puddings. Sprinkles generally require frosting, ice cream, or some other sort of sticky material in order to stick to the desired food surface. They can be most commonly found on smaller confections such as cupcakes or frosted sugar cookies, as these generally have more frosting and smaller diameter than do cakes.

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Old Photograph Whittingehame Church Scotland

Old photograph of Whittingehame church near East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland. This Gothic T-plan Scottish church was built in 1722, and added to by Barclay and Lamb in 1820 for James Balfour, grandfather of A J Balfour, Prime Minister of Britain from 1902 to 1905. The Eighteenth century burial enclosure of Buchan Sydserfs of Ruchlaw and good late 17th century headstones show that there was an earlier church on the site.



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Old Photograph Whittingehame House Scotland

Old photograph of Whittingehame House near East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland. James Balfour engaged James Dorward, from Haddington, to build a new neo-classical mansion and offices to designs by Sir Robert Smirke, Whittingehame House, completed about 1817, with additions and alterations by architect William Burn ten years later. Between 1939 and 1941, Whittingehame house was converted into a school for Jewish refugee children coming to Britain through the Kindertransport. The school, known as the Whittingehame Farm School, sheltered 160 children between the ages of 7 and 17.


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Old Photograph Whittingehame Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Whittingehame Castle located two miles South of East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built on lands belonging to the Cospatrick Earls of March. In the 14th century the lands were acquired by the Douglases. During the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots they were held by James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton. The property subsequently passed through the hands of the Setons, Hays and Balfours of Balbirnie, who occupy the castle still. Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905, belonged to this family.



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Tour Scotland Video Pictish Warrior Stone Abbot House Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Pictish Warrior stone in Abbot House on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. This stone of Pictish horsemen was discovered in nearby Inverkeithing. The Picts were a tribal confederation of peoples who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late Iron Age and Early Medieval periods. They are thought to have been ethnolinguistically Celtic. Where they lived and what their culture was like can be inferred from the geographical distribution of brochs, Brittonic place name elements, and Pictish stones. Picts are attested to in written records from before the Roman conquest of Britain to the 10th century, when they are thought to have merged with the Gaels. They lived to the north of the rivers Forth and Clyde, and spoke the now-extinct Pictish language, which is thought to have been closely related to the Brittonic language spoken by the Britons who lived to the south of them.

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Tour Scotland Video Annunciation Stone Abbot House Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the replica of the Annunciation Stone in Abbot House on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The stone is a graphic illustration of Luke, Chapter I, verses 28 to 38. With the angel Gabriel with outspread wings, and the Virgin Mary in an attitude of devotion. In his right hand the angel holds a sceptre, and in his left hand is a scroll, inscribed as follows:

AVE - GRATIA - PLENA - DNS - TECV

At the top is a human head and face with a crown of glory, the emblem of God the Father, and to the left, a dove. There is also shown a two-handed pot containing a lily, the emblem of purity. In the lower part of the stone is a shield bearing the arms of George Durie. The arms consist of a shield with a chevron between three crescents.

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Tour Scotland Video Crois Mhor Dunkeld Cathedral Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Crois Mhor on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Cathedral in Dunkeld, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. A Scottish cross made of driftwood said to have connections to the Isle of Islay and St Columba. Relics of Saint Columba, including his bones, were said to have been kept at Dunkeld until the Reformation, at which time they were removed to Ireland. Some believe there are still undiscovered Columban relics buried within the cathedral grounds.

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Tour Scotland Video Callanish Standing Stones Isle Of Lewis Outer Hebrides

Tour Scotland video of Callanish Standing Stones on the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Local tradition says that giants who lived on the island refused to be converted to Christianity by Saint Kieran and were turned into stone as a punishment. Another local belief says that at sunrise on midsummer morning, the " shining one" walked along the stone avenue, " his arrival heralded by the cuckoo's call. " This legend could be a folk memory recalling the astronomical significance of the stones.

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Old Photographs Larkhall Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, tram and people in Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Larkhall is located fourteen miles southeast of Glasgow. Traditionally a mining, weaving and textile area, most of Larkhall's traditional industries have now closed, including the Lanarkshire iron and steel works.



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Old Photographs Slamannan Scotland

Old photograph of houses, hotel and people in Slamannan located six miles East of Cumbernauld, Scotland. Former Cabinet Minister Viscount Horne was born in Slamannan in 1871, the son of the village's Church of Scotland minister. After study at the University of Glasgow, he became a successful QC and was elected to represent Glasgow Hillhead in Parliament, and served as Minister of Labour, President of the Board of Trade and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lloyd George after the First World War. He was ennobled in 1937 as Viscount Horne of Slammanan. Lance Corporal Samuel Frickleton, was born in Slamannan, in 1891, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Frickleton. The family emigrated to New Zealand to take advantage of the plentiful jobs on offer in the coal mining industry, and the following year saw the outbreak of the First World War. Corporal Frickleton was awarded the military's highest honour for his actions in the Battle of Messines. His bravery was so outstanding that his commanding officer claimed he could have won the Victoria Cross " twice over ".



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Tour Scotland Music Recommendation A Celtic Prayer

Tour Scotland Music recommendation, A Celtic Prayer by Karl Jenkins with London Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus, Laurence Cottle, Davy Spillane, Simon Halsey, Gareth Davies.

Deep peace of the running wave to you
Deep peace of the flowing air to you
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you

Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.

Deep peace of the shining stars to you
Deep peace of the gentle night to you
Moon and stars pour their healing light on you

Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.
Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.

Deep peace of Christ, The light of the world to you
Deep peace of Christ to you.
Deep peace of Christ, The light of the world to you

Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.

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Tour Scotland Video Little Bay Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video of the An t-Òban in Scottish Gaelic meaning Little Bay which is located in a beautiful setting in the Firth of Lorn on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and small group trip to Oban. The bay is a near perfect horseshoe, protected by the island of Kerrera, and beyond Kerrera the Isle of Mull. To the north is the long low island of Lismore, and the mountains of Morvern and Ardgour. The site where Oban now stands has been used by humans since at least mesolithic times, as evidenced by archaeological remains of cave dwellers found in the town Just outside the town stands Dunollie Castle, on a site that overlooks the main entrance to the bay and has been fortified since the 7th century. The modern town of Oban grew up around the distillery which was founded there in 1794, and the town was raised to a burgh of barony in 1811 by royal charter Sir Walter Scott visited the area in 1814, the year in which he published his poem The Lord of the Isles, and interest in the poem brought many new visitors to the town. The arrival of the railways in the 1880s brought further prosperity to local industry and giving new energy to tourism.

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Tour Scotland Video Loch Maree Wester Ross Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video of Loch Maree, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Wester Ross, Highlands Scotland. The waters of this Scottish loch were thought to have curative effects, with being submerged in the water thought to be a cure for lunacy. It has has its own monster in the form of the muc-sheilch. The loch is often referred to as the most beautiful loch in the Highlands. Wester Ross is featured in the lyrics to the song Letter from America by The Proclaimers, and Kishorn Commandos by North Sea Gas, which relate the wild lifestyle of construction workers on the Ninian Central Platform in Kishorn. Many other songs refer to or are named after areas, geographical features and villages of Wester Ross, notably Loch Maree Islands, which has been recorded by many artists including Calum Kennedy. Major outdoor scenes in the films Stardust and The Eagle of the Ninth were shot in Wester Ross. Wester Ross is the location for the adventures of John Macnab in the book by John Buchan.

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Tour Scotland Music Video Recommendation The Fishwives Choir

Tour Scotland Music video recommendation, When The Boat Comes In, Eternal Father by The Fishwives Choir. The choir singing for fishermen lost at sea. Trying to revitalise a lost fishing culture.



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Tour Scotland Music Videos Christmas Carols Edinburgh Castle

Tour Scotland video of Christmas Carol singing in the Great Hall on visit to Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video of Christmas Carol singing in the Great Hall on visit to Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Lumsden Scotland

Old photograph of children, cottages and houses in Lumsden located seven miles from Alford, Scotland. This Scottish village was founded around 1825 by Harry Leith Lumsden of Auchindoir on what was then a barren moorland.

Recorded in several spellings including Lumsden, Lumsdaine, and Lumsdon, this is a Scottish locational surname. which originates from a place called " Lumsden " in the parish of Coldingham, Berwickshire. The name derives from the Olde English pre 7th century " lumm " meaning a pool, plus "denu " a valley. In an early Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, reference is made to an Adam de Lummesdene of Berwickshire who rendered homage in 1296. In the early half of the 14th century a branch of the Lumsden family acquired land in Fife and in Aberdeenshire, near Aberdeen to which they gave their family name, whilst John de Lummysden witnessed a charter by Duncan, earl of Fife in 1335. An interesting name bearer was Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden, born 1821, died 1896, lieutenant general of the British army, and who served for many years in India. He introduced the khaki uniform into the Indian army, and it was subsequently adopted throughout the forces at the end of the 19th century. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Gillem de Lumisden. this was dated circa 1166, when he witnessed a charter by the earl of Dunbar to the Priory of Coldingham. This was during the reign of King William, the Lion, of Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Music Video Recommendation The Snowman IRN BRU

Tour Scotland Music recommendation, Walking In The Air, The Snowman. This video was by IRN BRU, a Scottish carbonated soft drink and was a Scottish parody commercial of the popular Christmas Cartoon, The Snowman. In the video the young boy and the snowman fly over Scotland, on a visit looking at the Falkirk Wheel, the Forth Bridge, Glasgow’s Buchanan St, the Princes St Gardens Ice Rink, the Loch Ness monster, a red deer, the Glenfinnan viaduct, Eilean Donan Castle, and Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall. When the boy refuses to share his IRN BRU with the snowman he’s dropped off in George Square in Glasgow.

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Tour Scotland Music Video Recommendation All Through The Night Alex Beaton

Tour Scotland Music recommendation, All Through The Night by Alex Beaton. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, to a Scottish father and an Irish mother, Beaton began his musical career as a member of The Cumberland Three, one of Britain's top folk groups in the early 1960s.

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Old Photograph Ollaberry Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages and church in Ollaberry village on the Northmavine peninsula of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Its name is derived from the Old Norse " Olafrsberg," meaning " Olaf's Hill. " Andrew Cheyne, the father of Sir William Cheyne, 1st Baronet the famous surgeon was from here. Sir William himself was born at sea off Tasmania.





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Old Photograph Rowanburn Scotland

Old photograph of Rowanburn located near Canonbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish village was founded as a coal mining community in the late 19th century to house miners from the Canonbie coalfield. The coal mines are now closed. To the south is the Riddings Viaduct, a nine span railway viaduct built in 1864 for the Border Union Railway.



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Old Photograph Drumtochty Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Drumtochty Castle near Auchenblae, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. During the Second World War, Drumtochty Castle was bought by the Norwegian government in exile and used as a boarding school for Norwegian children who were refugees from the German occupation of Norway. On the 1 May 1947, Robert and Elizabeth Langlands, opened a boys preparatory school at the Castle, having bought Drumtochty from the Norwegian government. The school closed in 1971.





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Old Photograph Forest of Birse Kirk Scotland

Old photograph of Forest of Birse Kirk in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish church or chapel was built in the early 1890s to act as a church and school for the remote and sparsely populated community. It replaced a late 18th century church built by local heritors. A small ruin close to the church was the school teacher's house, but this was abandoned in the 1890s and the church ceased to be a school in 1933. The church is still in use today for fairly regular services.



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Old Photographs Reawick Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages in Reawick village on mainland Shetland Islands, Scotland. The Umphray family were significant landowners in the Reawick area from the time of the Spanish Armada onwards.


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Old Photograph Cairnbaan Scotland

Old photograph of Cairnbaan, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish village is located on the Crinan Canal about half way between the two ends of the canal, where lie respectively the settlements of Ardrishaig and Crinan. The village has a hotel, built in the 18th century, which has featured in the television series The Tales of Para Handy, based on the novels of Neil Munro.



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Tour Scotland Video Merry Christmas Singers Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Merry Christmas singers in the city centre on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. A wonderful group of singers raising funds for Perth Amateur Operatic Society. In this video they are singing Hark The Herald Angels Sing, a Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems, having been written by Charles Wesley.

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Tour Scotland Video Merry Christmas Musicians Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Merry Christmas musicians on the High Street in the city centre on ancestry, genealogy history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. In this video a Santa answers the phone, aye, he must busy with phone calls at this time of year.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video The Royal Society Of Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of The Royal Society Of Edinburgh building, at the junction of George Street and Hanover Street in the New Town in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Royal Society of Edinburgh established in 1783, is Scotland's national academy of science and letters.

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Tour Scotland Video Christmas Trees Parish Church of St Andrew and St George Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of a festival of Christmas trees in the Parish Church of St Andrew and St George on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to George Street, New Town in Edinburgh. Andrew's and St George's West Church serves Edinburgh's New Town. It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The parish today constitutes the whole of the First New Town of Edinburgh and a small part of the early 19th century Second New Town of Edinburgh. The church building was completed in 1784. The church was the setting for the Disruption of 1843, one of the most significant events in 19th century Scotland. Due to increasing concern and resentment about the Civil Courts' infringements on the liberties of the Church of Scotland, around one third of the ministers present at the annual church's General Assembly walked out, cheered by onlookers outside, and constituted the Free Church of Scotland.

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Old Photograph Lochgoilhead Scotland

Old photograph of Lochgoilhead, Argyll, Scotland. The mountains above this Scottish village, located at the head of Loch Goil, were used for the scene in the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love in which Bond, played by Sean Connery, eliminated two villains in a helicopter by firing gunshots at them. A few miles north of Lochgoilhead, is a junction which on the left goes through Hell's Glen, Loch Fyne, Dunoon, Inverary, Lochawe, Oban, Tyndrum, Glencoe and Fort William. On the right it goes to Glen Croe, Loch Long, Arrochar and Tarbet, Loch Lomond, Glasgow and Crianlarich with the options of travelling to either Inverary and Lochawe, Oban and Fort William, Lochearnhead and Killin.



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Old Photograph Dalmuir Scotland

Old photograph of shops and houses in Dalmuir, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Before being annexed to the growing shipbuilding town of Clydebank, early Dalmuir was a town in its own right and host to Richard Collins paper mill, which opened in 1747 on the banks of the Duntocher Burn.



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Old Photographs Barrhill Scotland

Old photograph of Barrhill in South Ayrshire, Scotland. In 1665, by the side of Cross Water in Barrhill, John Murchie and Daniel Mieklewrick were found by soldiers to be in possession of Bibles and assumed to be Covenanters and shot to death. They were buried on the spot, and a memorial was built, known as The Martyrs' Tomb.



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Tour Scotland Video Walk Around The Kiss Sculpture National Gallery Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of a walk around The Kiss sculpture on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the National Gallery below the castle on Princess Street, Edinburgh. The Kiss by Auguste Rodin depicts the passionate adulterous embrace of Paolo Malatesta and his brother's wife Francesca da Rimini, characters in Dante's The Divine Comedy. The French sculptor, illustrator, graphic artist, and painter François Auguste René Rodin was born on November 12, 1840 in Paris. He is considered to be the founder of Impressionist style in the art of the sculpture.

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Tour Scotland Video Treasure Island Book Sculpture National Library Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the Treasure Island book sculpture on ancestry visit to the National Library in Edinburgh, Scotland. Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850 to Thomas Stevenson, a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife Margaret Isabella, née Balfour. He was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. At about age 18, Stevenson was to change the spelling of " Lewis " to " Louis ", and in 1873 he dropped " Balfour ". His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses.

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Tour Scotland Video Whisky Galore Book Sculpture National Library Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the Whisky Galore book sculpture on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the National Library in Edinburgh, Scotland. Whisky Galore is a novel written by Compton Mackenzie, published in 1947. The story was based on a real life incident that occurred in 1941 on the Hebridean island of Eriskay when the S.S. Politician ran aground. The famous tale of how a group of local Scottish islanders raided a shipwreck for its consignment of whisky has grown into a legend. Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool, County Durham, England, into a theatrical family of Mackenzies, many of whose members used Compton as their stage surname, starting with his grandfather Henry Compton, a well known Shakespearean actor of the Victorian era. His father, Edward Compton, and mother, Virginia Bateman, were actors and theatre company managers; his sister, Fay Compton, starred in many of J. M. Barrie's plays, including Peter Pan. He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in modern history.

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Tour Scotland Video Tam o' Shanter Book Sculpture National Library Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the Tam o' Shanter book sculpture on ancestry visit and trip to the National Library in Edinburgh. First published in 1791, it is one of the longer poems by Robert Burns, which includes a mixture of Scots and English language. It tells the story of Tam, a farmer who gets drunk with his friends in a public house and then rides home on his horse Meg. On the way he sees the local haunted church lit up with witches and warlocks dancing and the devil playing the bagpipes. He creeps into the churchyard to watch and on seeing a pretty witch in a short dress he shouts,` Weel done, cutty-sark ! ' ( cutty-sark meaning: short shirt ). Having drawn attention to himself the dancing stops abruptly and the witches chase him and Meg to the River Doon. The witches cannot cross the water but they come so close to catching Tam and Meg that they pull Meg's tail off just as she reaches the bridge over the Doon.

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Old Photograph Altnabreac Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Altnabreac located fourty one miles West of Wick, Scotland. The station was built by the Sutherland and Caithness Railway, opening the line on the 28th of July, 1874. One of the most isolated stations in Britain, it is a request stop used almost solely by walkers and those who enjoy visiting obscure locations. The Sutherland and Caithness Railway was a railway worked by, and later absorbed by the Highland Railway running through Sutherland and Caithness, Scotland. Caithness and Sutherland are former counties, and former districts of the Highland region.



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Old Photograph Croy Brae Scotland

Old photograph of Croy Brae located South of Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland. Croy Brae also known as the Electric Brae is a gravity hill in Ayrshire, where cars appear to be drawn uphill by some mysterious attraction. The Lowland Scots word brae means a hill, slope or brow, and the " electric " name was given when electricity was a new technology associated with strange forces. Though the road appears to be running uphill, a suitably free running vehicle will slowly move off from a standstill. It was widely believed that vehicles were being propelled uphill by a mysterious magnetic force, but the road's apparently uphill slope is an optical illusion. During the Second World War, the brae was visited by many American personnel from the airbase at Prestwick, and General Dwight D Eisenhower, who had a flat at nearby Culzean Castle, took visitors to see the phenomenon.


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Old Photograph Brig o' Turk Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Brig o' Turk, Trossachs, Scotland. In the mid nineteenth century this Scottish village was the location of a famous Victorian love triangle involving John Ruskin, his wife Effie Gray, and protégé John Everett Millais. Euphemia Chalmers " Effie " Millais, Lady Millais née Gray, born 7 May 1828, died December 1897, was the wife of the critic John Ruskin, but she left her husband without the marriage being consummated. She later married his protégé, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. This famous Victorian " love triangle " has been dramatised in plays, films and an opera.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video City Plumbing Supplies Singing For Teenage Cancer Trust Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of City Plumbing Supplies managers from across the country singing a Christmas Carol to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. Teenage Cancer Trust is a wonderful charity that brings young people together so they can be treated together, by teenage cancer experts, in the best place for them.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Scottish Piper Princess Street Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish Piper playing in front of the castle on Princess Street during the lead up to Christmas on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Merry Christmas Tree The Dome Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the wonderful Merry Christmas lights in the interior of The Dome Bar and Restaurant on visit to George Street, New Town in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Dome is a building on George Street in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. It currently functions as a bar, restaurant and nightclub, although it was first built as the headquarters of the Commercial Bank of Scotland in 1847.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Merry Christmas Lights The Dome Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the wonderful Merry Christmas lights on the exterior of The Dome Bar and Restaurant on visit to George Street, New Town in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Dome is a building on George Street in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. It currently functions as a bar, restaurant and nightclub, although it was first built as the headquarters of the Commercial Bank of Scotland in 1847.

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