Old Photograph Isle of May Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of the Robert Stevenson lighthouse on the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth about five miles from Anstruther the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse was built on the island in 1816 by Robert Stevenson. and is an ornate gothic tower on a castellated stone building designed to resemble a castle, 79 feet high and with accommodation for three light keepers and their families, along with additional space for visiting officials. The new lighthouse started operating on 1 September 1816.



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Old Photograph Fetterangus Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Fetterangus located North of Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The village of Fetterangus was established by James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour just over a mile north of his mansion house in 1752. The local area around the village is rich with prehistory and historical features. Somewhat to the south of Fetterangus are a number of prehistoric monuments including Catto Long Barrow, Silver Cairn and many tumuli. In the same vicinity of the Laeca Burn watershed is the point d'appui of historic battles between invading Danes and indigenous Picts.




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Old Photograph Road Hole St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a golfer on the Road Hole on the Old Golf Course in St Andrews. Fife. Scotland. This one of the one of the world's most famous golf holes. Golfers using the back tees cannot see where their tee shots land; which is not unusual except that they must take aim over a corner of The Old Course Hotel. Other than rough, the main hazard in front of the green is a sand trap known as the Road Hole Bunker. Over the back of the green, hazards include a tarmac roadway, as well as an old stone wall. Both are in play; a wayward shot can lead a player to take their next stroke off the roadway or to hit the face of the wall and take their chances with the ensuing bounce.



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Old Photographs Auchtermuchty Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. Auchtermuchty was the setting for The Wife of Auchtermuchty, a comic Scots poem of the late Middle Ages. The town was also used as the location for Tannochbrae in the 1990s ITV series Dr. Finlay.



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Old Photograph Myres Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Myres Castle by Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. The history of this Scottish castle is intertwined with the nearby Falkland Palace, since Myres was the heriditary home of the Macers, or Sergeants of Arms, of Falkland. The word " myres " is associated with a boggy place; in fact, Myres Castle is located within fields and policies with marginal drainage. Further drainage improvements to the fields were made as late as the 1970s. There exists an attractive pond in front of the Castle, which also serves to collect runoff. The lands of the present Myres estate originally part of the extensive properties of the Earl of Fife, the Myres portion being conveyed by marriage to Robert, Duke of Albany. In the year 1425, Murdoch, the son of Robert, forfeited the holding to the crown. From that time until the 16th century, the tenant farmers rents are recording in the rolls of the Royal Exchequer, indicating continuing ownership of the king. The first recorded tenant of the south quarter of Auchtermuchty, known as " the myres ", was Robert Coxwell who resided at the Scottish Royal Court.



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Old Photograph Stair House Scotland

Old photograph of Stair House in Ayrshire, Scotland. This late 16th or early 17th century house was the birthplace of John Dalrymple the Master of Stair, born 1648, died 8 January 1707, who was a Scottish noble who played a crucial role in the 1707 Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England, that created the Kingdom of Great Britain. Dalrymple is most remembered for his part in the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe. In 1695, the Scottish parliament demanded an enquiry into the massacre, and when the report from the enquiry was complete, they voted that " the killing of the Glencoe men was murder ". Responsibility for the crime lay with the King's Scottish ministers, but King William was guilty of a " great breach of duty " in shielding the Master of Stair from any punishment beyond dismissal from the Secretaryship of State. He returned to government in 1700 as a member of the Privy Council of Scotland. The Master of Stair, was created first Earl of Stair in 1703 by Queen Anne.



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Old Photograph Strichen Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people in Strichen village located eight miles from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish village got its name from Lord Strichen. It is situated on the River Ugie at the foothills of Mormond Hill. The Strichen White Horse is constructed of quartz on Mormond Hill. Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond MSP, lives in a converted mill in the village with his wife Moira.



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Old Photograph Strichen House Scotland

Old photograph of Strichen House located eight miles from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Strichen House, designed in 1821 in a commission for Thomas Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat, fell into ruin in 1954. As well as a country house it was variously used as a base for fishing, hunting, a hotel and an army barracks. Thomas Alexander Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat and 1st Baron Lovat KT, born 17 June 1802, died 28 June 1875, was a Scottish peer. He was also the 21st MacShimidh, the traditional Gaelic Patronym for the Chiefs of the Clan Fraser.



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Old Photograph Kinmundy House Scotland

Old photograph of Kinmundy House in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. South of the former weaver's hamlet of Durie in Buchan was the site of the now derelict Kinmundy House, once home to the Fergusons of Kinmundy. William Ferguson of Kinmundy, born 1823, died 1904, was Chairman of the Great North of Scotland Railway from 1879 to 1904. The original house was plundered and almost burnt by Gordon of Glenbucket's Highlanders in the Forty five, and only saved by the presence of mind of the Lady Kinmundy, whose husband was absent, and whose young son had been hurriedly despatched to a neighbouring farmhouse concealed in a clothes basket. She sent a message to the officer in command to the effect that it was strange conduct on the part of a gentleman so to treat a lady's house; that she had just been preparing some refreshment for his men when they set fire to the part of the house where it was to be served, and that if they wanted their dinner they had better put the fire out. The same good lady on another occasion, when a recruiting party were forcibly impressing the young men around, and some of them asked protection, is said to have put the house in a state of defence, and answered the summons to surrender the fugitives with the reply, " Her people had come there for safety, and safety they should have, and before they were got the house must be knocked down. "



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Old Photograph Wishart Arch Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of people by the Wishart Arch in Dundee, Scotland. Dundee became a walled city in 1545 during a period of English hostilities known as the rough wooing, Henry VIII's attempt to extend his Protestant ambitions north by marrying his youngest son Edward, Duke of Cornwall to Mary Queen of Scots. The Wishart Arch is thought to be the only remaining part of the wall. Mary maintained the alliance with the French, who captured Protestant opponents, including John Knox, at St Andrews Castle, in nearby east Fife, in July 1547. That year, following victory at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the English occupied Edinburgh and went on to destroy much of Dundee by naval bombardment. The Howff Burial Ground, granted to the people of Dundee in 1546, was a gift from Mary.




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Old Photograph Lochhouse Tower Scotland

Old photograph of Lochhouse Tower near Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotlan. Lochhouse Tower stands on low lying ground a mile South of Moffat, and was probably built in the 16th century by the Johnstones of Corehead, in Annandale. It was perhaps built about the time of the Act of Parliament of 1535; it is mentioned in 1567 as being occupied by a Johnstone. It is oblong on plan, with rounded corners. It measures 37ft by 27ft, with walls 6ft thick; the basement is vaulted. It stands three storeys high, with a flat roof; only the South gable of the garret remains. The interior has been much altered, though some original details have been revealed by recent work.



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Old Photograph Neil Armstrong Langholm Scotland

Old photograph of Neil Armstrong on a visit to Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. In 1972, astronaut Neil Armstrong, a descendant of the Clan Armstrong, was welcomed to the town, and made the first freeman of the burgh. He happily declared the town his home: " My pleasure is not only that this is the land of Johnnie Armstrong, rather that my pleasure is in knowing that this is my home town and in the genuine feeling that I have among these hills among these people. "



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Old Photograph Kytra Lock Scotland

Old photograph of Kytra Lock on the Caledonian Canal near Fort Augustus and Loch Ness, Scotland. The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William. The canal was constructed in the early nineteenth century by Scottish engineer Thomas Telford. Thomas was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels.



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Tour Scotland January Video Scottish Charity Air Ambulance Airport Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland January afternoon video of the Scottish Charity Air Ambulance helicopter landing at Perth Airport in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The ambulance returning from an emergency flight and visit to the Scottish Borders. Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance is a registered charity and receives no government or lottery funding. They rely 100% on public donations.

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Tour Scotland January Video River Tay In Spate Bridgend Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland January video of the River Tay in spate after heavy rain by Bridgend on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland January Video River Tay Flooding Bridgend Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland January video of the River Tay flooding after heavy rain by Bridgend on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Holes of Scrada Scotland

Old photograph of the Holes of Scrada, Northmavine, Shetland Islands, Scotland. The Holes of Scrada, stretching 132 yards inland were created when the roof of a deep and narrow sea cave collapsed. Northmavine is a peninsula on the northernmost part of the Shetland. Northmavine is in the north west of the island, and contains the villages of Hillswick, Ollaberry, and North Roe.





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Old Photograph Barony Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Barony Castle at Eddleston located four miles North of Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. The remains of a 16th century tower house, built by the Murrays of Blackbarony, form the oldest part of the building. Sir Alexander Murray, 2nd Baronet, purchased the nearby estate of Cringletie in 1666. Sir Archibald Murray, 3rd Baronet was a soldier and from 1689 served as " Sole Master of Work, Overseer, and Director-General of their Majesties' buildings " to King William II and Queen Mary II, filling the post which had been vacant since Sir William Bruce's dismissal in 1678. During the Second World War, Black Barony at Eddleston near Peebles was requisitioned for military use and in 1942 became The Polish Higher Military School used for staff officer training. Poland had been invaded by Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and Slovakia. Many Polish military personnel escaped via Romania to France and the United Kingdom. After the Fall of France in May 1940, many more Polish forces arrived in the UK. Most Polish land forces were deployed to Scotland and so Black Barony and other sites were requisitioned for the use of the Polish forces stationed in Scotland. These included the 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade commanded by General Stanisław Maczek, which formed the nucleus of the 1st Polish Armoured Division organised in February 1942. Polish forces were initially deployed throughout Scotland for the defence of Scotland's East Coast against possible invasion by Nazi German forces in Norway and Denmark. The Poles provided the defence of many areas and vital services such as patrolling and guarding beaches, ports, estuaries, airfields and radar sites. They operated anti-aircraft guns and barrage balloons and installed tank obstacles.



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Old Photograph Garrion Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of Garrion Bridge located eighteen miles South East of Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish village has grown around a main river crossing of the River Clyde in Lanarkshire. The area spans both sides of the river, with some of the houses actually located in South Lanarkshire. The success of the Clyde at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution was driven by the location of Glasgow, being a port facing the Americas. Tobacco and cotton trade began the drive in the early 18th century. However, the shallow Clyde was not navigable for the largest ocean going ships and cargo had to be transferred at Greenock or Port Glasgow to smaller ships to sail upstream into Glasgow itself.



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Tour Scotland Music Video Recommendation Ross Ainslie Wide Open

Tour Scotland music video recommendation of Ross Ainslie playing Wide Open. Ross Ainslie is one of Scotland’s finest traditional musicians and composers. He was born in 1983 in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland January Video Walk River Tay Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland January video of a walk by the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Presnerb Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Presnerb in Glenisla, Angus, Scotland. Glen Isla is the most westerly of the Angus Glens, and the only one that is a through route for cars. The Glen is thirty two miles north west of the city of Dundee. The countryside is mainly rough grassland and heather. The River Isla runs through the heart of the glen.



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Old Photographs Kinbuck Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Kinbuck village located four miles North of Dunblane, Scotland. Kinbuck was the location of the retreat of the Jacobite troops under the Earl of Mar following the Battle of Sheriffmuir on 13th of November 1715. Nearby is Kinbuck Bridge as well as Cromlix House, former seat of Viscount Strathallan and the Clan Drummond family.



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Old Photographs Insh Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Insh village located four miles East of Kingussie, Scotland. This Scottish village is probably best known as the location of the RSPB Insh Marshes Wildlife Reserve. It is close to Loch Insh where it is possible to take part in various watersports from Winsurfing to Sailing. There are lovely walks in the woods around Insh too.

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Old Photograph Belses Scotland

Old photograph of Belses located South of St Boswells in the Borders, Scotland. Belses was the site of a railway station on the former Waverley Line, a double track railway which linked Edinburgh with Carlisle, England. The NBR, North British Railway closed in 1969. The North British Railway was a British railway company, based in Edinburgh. It was established in 1844, with the intention of linking with English railways at Berwick. The line opened in 1846, and from the outset the Company followed a policy of expanding its geographical area, and competing with the Caledonian Railway in particular.



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Tour Scotland January Video Kingdom Of Fife Lifeboat Pittenweem

Tour Scotland January video of the Kingdom Of Fife Lifeboat on visit to Pittenweem in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Mersey Class Lifeboat is designated as a Fast Carriage Lifeboat though it is also capable of being launched down a slipway. This is the area in which I was raised in Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Winter Video Kingdom Of Fife Lifeboat Anstruther

Tour Scotland Winter travel video of the Kingdom Of Fife Lifeboat on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and small group trip to Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This is the town in which I was raised in Scotland.

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Old Photograph Newtonhill Scotland

Old photograph of Newtonhill village located six miles South of Aberdeen, Scotland. Newtonhill is situated about half a mile east of the ancient Causey Mounth road, which was built on high ground to make passable this only available medieval route from coastal points north to Aberdeen. This ancient passage specifically connected the Bridge of Dee via Portlethen Moss, Muchalls Castle and Stonehaven to the south. The route was that taken by William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and the Duke of Montrose when they led a Covenanter army of 9000 men in the first battle of the First Bishop's War in 1639.



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Old Photograph Butterstone Scotland

Old photograph of the Post Office cottage in Butterstone, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located on the A923 road from Dunkeld to Blairgowrie, 3 miles north east of Dunkeld. It stands to the north of the small Loch of Butterstone. The New School here was founded by Baroness Linklater of Butterstone, as a boarding school for children with special needs. Baroness Linklater remained Chairman of the Board of Governors of The New School until 2004 with the School being her central occupation and concern, as well as the wider issues of catering for children who find it impossible to cope in mainstream education but for whom special schools are not appropriate.



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Tour Scotland Video Kilduncan Pictish Stone St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Kilduncan Pictish Stone in the museum on ancestry, genealogy,history visit and trip to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Kil is a common Latinised version of the Gaelic Cil, and means a church. This may have been the gravestone of Donnchad, or Dunnichen, a saint of Iona in the eighth century AD. This was the most significant Pictish discovery in Scotland for over a century.

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Tour Scotland Video Royal Burgh Coat of Arms St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of a wood carving of the Royal Burgh Coat of Arms on ancestry, genealogy history visit and trip to the museum in St Andrews, Fife. These arms date from the 14th century. The arms show the local patron saint, St. Andrew of Scotland. The boar and oak tree recall the ancient history of the town, which was Muckross, meaning Headland of the boars. The motto means While I breathe I hope.

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Old Photograph Curling Blair Atholl Perthshire Scotland

Old Winter photograph of Curling in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland. One of the world's oldest team sports, curling originated in the 16th century in Scotland, where games were played during winter on frozen ponds and lochs. The earliest-known curling stones came from the Scottish regions of Stirling and Perth and date from 1511.



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Tour Scotland January Video Storm Waves Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland January video of storm waves on visit to Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Originally founded as a fishing village, Anstruther is home to the Scottish Fisheries Museum. Its main industry is now tourism. This is the town in which I was raised in Scotland.

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Tour Scotland January Video Storm Waves St Monans East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland January video of storm waves on ancestry visit to St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. St Monans, whose inhabitants formerly made their living mainly from fishing, is now a tourist destination situated on the Fife Coastal Path. The former burgh rests on a hill overlooking the Firth of Forth, with views to North Berwick, the Bass Rock and the Isle of May.

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Tour Scotland January Video Storm Waves Flooding Car Park Riverside Drive Dundee

Tour Scotland January video of storm waves and flooding at a car park by Riverside Drive road on visit to Dundee, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland January Video Flooding Bridgeview Station Restaurant Dundee

Tour Scotland January video of storm flooding by Bridgeview Station Cafe and Restaurant on Riverside Drive road on visit to Dundee, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland January Video Storm Waves Flooding Riverside Drive Dundee

Tour Scotland January video of storm waves and flooding on a drive along Riverside Drive road on visit to Dundee, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland January Video St Monans East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland January video of an ancestry visit to in St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This is where scenes were shot for The Railway Man film starring Colin Firth as Eric Lomax and Nicole Kidman as his wife Patti. The wedding scene was filmed at St Monans Kirk by the Fife Coastal Path. The film tells the story of Lomax's struggle to come to terms with his experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Burma.

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Old Photograph Stroma Scotland

Old photograph of fishing boats and fishermen on Stroma, an island the Pentland Firth between the Orkney Islands and Caithness, Scotland. The low lying island was inhabited from prehistoric times to 1962, when the last of its permanent inhabitants abandoned it for new homes on the mainland. Ancient stone structures on the islands testify to its earliest occupants. Most of the islanders had been fishermen and crofters, with some also working as maritime pilots to guide vessels through the treacherous waters of the Pentland Firth.




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Old Photograph Railway Station St Fillans Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in St Fillans, Perthshire, Scotland. The line to St Fillans was authorised in 1897 and finally opened on the 1st of October 1901. Following the take over by the Caledonian Railway on the 1st of August 1902, the line was completed to the renamed Balquhidder station on 1st of May 1905. The line was officially closed on 1 October 1951. A short section of the line between Balquhidder station and Lochearnhead has been converted into part of the Rob Roy Way; a cycle path that runs between Drymen and Pitlochry.



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Old Photographs Railway Station St Monans Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Thornton Junction, Leven, Crail, Leuchars Junction Fife coast line of the former North British Railway was opened as St Monance station by the Leven and East of Fife Regionon on 1st of September 1863. It was renamed St Monan's Station by the same company in October 1875 but resumed the original name in February 1936. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 6th of September 1965.



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Old Photograph East Kilbride Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish town is enclosed by the White Cart River to the west and the Rotten Calder to the east, the latter flowing northwards to join the River Clyde near Cambuslang. This area was previously the site of the small village of East Kilbride, prior to its post-war development. The modern settlement serves as a dormitory town for the city of Glasgow. East Kilbride takes its name from an Irish saint named St Bride or Brigit, who founded a monastery for nuns and monks in Kildare, Ireland in the 6th century. Irish monks introduced her order to Scotland. Kil, from the Gaelic cill, means church or burial place.



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Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve Piper Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve video of a Scottish bagpiper on visit to Newburgh Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Hogmanay New Year's Eve Fireworks Display Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the Hogmanay New Year's Eve Fireworks Display on visit to Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland New Year's Day Video Walk Beach St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland New Year's Day video of a walk on a beach by the West Sands on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland New Year's Day Video Coast And Castle St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland New Year's Day video of the coast and castle on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve Video Scottish Dance Music

Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve travel video of the Can You Reel It Ceilidh Band playing Scottish dance music on visit and trip to a pub in Scone by Perth, Perthshire. The dance is Strip the Willow with sets of 4 couples, men on the right and ladies on the left as viewed from the band.

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Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve Video Can You Reel It Ceilidh Band

Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve video of the Can You Reel It Ceilidh Band on visit to a pub in Scone by Perth, Perthshire.
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Old Photograph Bakehouse Close Scotland

Old photograph of Bakehouse Close in Edinburgh, Scotland. This area housed the quarters of the bakers and hammermen, metalsmiths, in addition to Huntly House owned by the Acheson family who were the household staff to King James VI and Charles I.




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Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve Video Oddfellows Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Year's Eve travel video of the start of the Oddfellows event on visit and trip to Newburgh, Fife. The Caledonian Lodge of Oddfellows based in Newburgh is the only Lodge of Oddfellows left in Scotland

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