Old Photograph Tower of Scolty Scotland

Old photograph of the Tower of Scolty located South of Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish tower on Scolty hill was built in 1840 as a memorial to General Burnett who fought alongside Wellington. Burnett is an English surname. It is derived from a nickname from the Old French burnete, brunette, which is a diminutive of brun meaning " brown ", " dark brown ". Another proposed origin of the name is from burnete, a high quality wool cloth originally dyed to a dark brown colour.



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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Small Group Ancestry Auchmithie Angus

Tour Scotland wee video of photographs from a small group ancestry tour of Auchmithie, location of the Scarlett Johansson film, Under the Skin in Scotland. Scarlett Johansson was in this wee village in Scotland filming her movie Under the Skin. Auchmithie was chosen because of the backdrop its picturesque, but rugged harbour could provide. A former fishing village located three miles north east of Arbroath. It sits atop a red sandstone cliff, high above a shingle beach. The Arbroath Smokie originated in Auchmithie. Sir Walter Scott stayed in the Waverley Hotel in Auchmithie and described Auchmithie in his novel The Antiquary published in 1816, under the name Musslecrag. Under the Skin is based on a novel of the same name by Michel Faber, who lives in the Black Isle. The book tells of an alien, Johansson's character in the film, who picks up hitchhikers on the A9 road in the Highlands to harvest body parts.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Czech Special Operations Executive Memorial Arisaig

Tour Scotland photograph of the Czech Special Operations Executive Memorial in Arisaig, Lochaber, Scotland. In memory of all Czech and Slovak soldiers who trained here from 1941 to 1943 As S.O.E. Agents.

NA PAMĚŤ VŠECH ČESKÝCH A SLOVENSKÝCH VOJÁKŮ,
KTEŘÍ ZDE V LETECH 1941 – 1943 PROŠLI VÝCVIKEM S.O.E.
THANKS TO GENEROSITY OF MANY DONORS
DÍKY ŠTĚDROSTÍ MNOHA DÁRCŮ
PATRONS / ZÁŠTITU UDĚLILI
VÁCLAV KLAUS, PRESIDENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
AND THE RIGHT HON GEORGE REID, PRESIDING OFFICER,
THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT 2003 to 2007.

Tour Scotland photograph of the Czech Special Operations Executive Memorial in Arisaig, Lochaber, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of the Czech Special Operations Executive Memorial in Arisaig, Lochaber, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photographs Glen Forlsan Lochaber

Tour Scotland photograph of Glenforlsan in West Lochaber, Scotland. The Hydro Station in Glen Forslan is a privately financed mini-hydro scheme, generating electricity at the point where Glen Forslan meets Glen Moidart in Inverness-shire, Scotland. It was commissioned in spring 2010.

Tour Scotland photograph of Glenforlsan Loch in West Lochaber, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Glenforlsan Loch in West Lochaber, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Glenforlsan Power Station in West Lochaber, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photographs of The Prince's Cairn at Loch nan Uamh Lochaber

Tour Scotland photograph of The Prince's Cairn at Loch nan Uamh in Lochaber, Scotland. On 19 September 1746, Charles Edward Stuart arrived from Cluny's Cage, that refuge on Ben Alder, accompanied by Donald Cameron of Lochiel, John Roy Stewart, and others. There they found L'Heureux, the French frigate that was to carry him to safety. All that day, the 19th, they embarked the refugees that were to accompany the Prince into exile, and on the 20th they sailed away from Scotland. The Prince never saw it again, except perhaps in his dreams which may have helped to mitigate the bitterness of his later life. Loch nan Uamh is also the place where the Prince first set foot on mainland Great Britain on 25 July 1745 and the place from where Charles escaped to the Hebrides after the Battle of Culloden. " On the evening of 26 April 1746 the Prince, Colonel John William O’Sullivan, Captain Felix O’Neil, Father Allan MacDonald, Donald MacLeod " The Faithful Palinurus ", Ned Burke and several boatmen set out to sea from the shore of Loch nan Uamh. The weather was terrible and the boat began to fill with water. Even MacLeod who knew the seas well thought all was lost. The sailors prayed for deliverance, prompting the Prince to comment that while the clergyman who was with them ought to pray, the rest would be better employed bailing out the water. Next morning they struggled into a creek at Roisinis on the north-east point of Benbecula." The cairn can be found just off the A830 road, sometimes known as the Road to the Isles. (The nearest railway station is Beasdale about 2.5 miles to the West.) The cairn was erected by the 1745 Association on 4 October 1956.

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Old Photograph Ardtreck Point Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Ardtreck Point lighthouse by Loch Bracadale, a sea loch on the West coast of Isle Of Skye, Scotland. The original Ardtreck Point lighthouse was a cast iron tower that was replaced by a modern, solar-powered light in 2002. It is located on the Minginish Peninsula on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, near the village of Portnalong.
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Tour Scotland Video Small Group Ancestry Tour Of Isle Of Skye

Tour Scotland wee video of photographs from a small group ancestry tour of Isle of Skye, Scotland. Includes visit to Armadale Castle and Gardens, Elgol, Loch Scavaig, Loch Slapin, Loch Harport, Broadford, Kyleakin, Cuillins, Staffin, Lochalsh, Castle Moil, Uig, Trotternish Ridge, Quiraing, Talisker, Old Man Of Storr and much more

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Small Group Ancestry Tour Of Scotland 1

Tour Scotland wee video of photographs from a small group ancestry tour of Scotland. Includes visit to Anstruther, Applecross, Blair Castle, Broadford, Castle Campbell, Castle Moil, Holyrood Church Stirling, Kyleakin, Commando Monument, Crail, Dunkeld, Dunning, Edradour Whisky Distillery, East Neuk of Fife, Eilean Donan Castle, Elgol, Fort Augustus, Glencoe, Invermoriston, Isle of Skye, Kyleakin, Leuchars, Loch Ness, Loch Tay, Loch Tummel, Perthshire, Plockton, Portree, Scottish Highlands, St Andrews, St Monans, Stirling and more

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Old Photograph Pirniehall House Scotland

Old photograph of Pirniehall House, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Pirniehall was built originally in 1896 as a mansion house for , on an estate purchased from the Duke of Montrose. The architects were John Archibald Campbell and Andrew Edwin Martin. It was altered during the 1970s and 80s for use as a residential education facility.




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Old Photograph Panmure House Scotland

Old photograph of Panmure House North of Carnoustie, Scotland. This was a Scottish 17th century country house in the Parish of Panbride, Angus. It was the seat of the Earl of Panmure. It was rebuilt in the 19th century, and demolished in 1955. The Panmure estate was inherited by the Maule family in 1224, and the remains of Panmure Castle are located close to the site of the house. Panmure House was designed by the king's master mason John Mylne, although he died in 1667, before it was completed. The client was George Maule, 2nd Earl of Panmure. born 1619, died 1671. On Mylne's death, the work was continued by Alexander Nisbet, an Edinburgh mason, and the interior was fitted out by James Bain, the king's wright. Sir William Bruce was sometimes credited with the design in the past, and he did apparently advise the Earl after Mylne's death, but he only designed the gates and gate piers. After the death of the 3rd Earl, his son James, now 4th Earl, added the wings. The 4th Earl was deprived of his titles and estates after taking part in the Jacobite Rising of 1715, although Panmure passed to his relatives, the Earls of Dalhousie. Between 1852 and 1855, the house was extended on the instigation of Fox Maule, by the architect David Bryce in the Scottish Baronial style.



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Old Photograph Calderwood Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Calderwood Castle, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle was situated near the banks of the Rotten Calder Water, in what is now Calderglen Country Park. Constructed in the fifteenth century by the Maxwell family, the original building collapsed in 1773. A new castle was later rebuilt on the same site, but it eventually fell into disrepair, with the final vestiges of the castle being demolished with explosives in 1951. The Maxwell Baronetcy of Calderwood was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1627 for Sir James Maxwell, died 1670. The 2nd baronet died without issue, and was succeeded by a son of Colonel John Maxwell who died in Dunbar in 1650. The 6th baronet also died without issue, and was succeeded by the son of Alexander Maxwell of Leith, third son of 4th baronet. This line too were failed, when his grandson, the tenth Baronet died in 1885. The next holder was the afromentioned 9th Baron, who succeeded as eleventh Baronet. The title passed to the 10th Baron and continued to his descendant.



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Tour Scotland Video Andrew Baird Leif Erikson Pub Perth Perthshire

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Tour Scotland travel video of the sight and sounds of Andrew Baird singing a cover version of Leif Erikson by Interpol in a pub on visit and trip Perth, Perthshire.

She says it helps with the lights out
Her rabid glow is like braille to the night.
She swears I'm a slave to the details
But if your life is such a big joke, why should I care?

The clock is set for nine but you know you're gonna make it eight.
So that you two can take some time, teach each other to reciprocate.

She feels that my sentimental side should be held with kid gloves
But she doesn't know that I left my urge in the icebox
She swears I'm just prey for the female,
Well then hook me up and throw me, baby cakes, cuz I like to get hooked.

The clock is set for nine but you know you're gonna make it eight.
All the people that you've loved they're all bound to leave some keepsakes.
I've been swinging all the time, think it's time to learn your way.
I picture you and me together in the jungle it would be ok.

I'll bring you when my lifeboat sails through the night
That is supposing that you don't sleep tonight

It's like learning a new a language
Helps me catch up on my mime
If you don't bring up those lonely parts
This could be a good time
It's like learning a new language

You come here to me
We'll collect those lonely parts and set them down
You come here to me

She says brief things, her love's a pony
My love's subliminal

She says brief things, her love's a pony
My love's subliminal

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Tour Scotland Video Louis Davidson In the Ghetto Greyfriars Bar Perth Perthshire

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Tour Scotland video of Louis Davidson singing a cover version of In The Ghetto by Elvis Presley in the Greyfriars Bar on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

As the snow flies
On a cold and gray Chicago mornin'
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries
'cause if there's one thing that she don't need
it's another hungry mouth to feed
In the ghetto

People, don't you understand
the child needs a helping hand
or he'll grow to be an angry young man some day
Take a look at you and me,
are we too blind to see,
do we simply turn our heads
and look the other way

Well the world turns
and a hungry little boy with a runny nose
plays in the street as the cold wind blows
In the ghetto

And his hunger burns
so he starts to roam the streets at night
and he learns how to steal
and he learns how to fight
In the ghetto

Then one night in desperation
a young man breaks away
He buys a gun, steals a car,
tries to run, but he don't get far
And his mama cries

As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man
face down on the street with a gun in his hand
In the ghetto

As her young man dies,
on a cold and gray Chicago mornin',
another little baby child is born
In the ghetto

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Old Photograph Glen Caladh Castle Scotland

Old photographs of Glen Caladh Castle located North of the Isle of Bute, Scotland. During World War II, the castle was requisitioned for use as a training establishment by Combined Operations, becoming the Beach Pilotage School from 1942 until 1945, and as a military headquarters for units stationed in the area. The property was designated HMS James Cook, a reference to the advances in navigation skills that the founder of Australia introduced into the Royal Navy, and reflected the task of training the operators of troop landing craft to land their cargoes safely. Located just to the east, below the castle, Glen Caladh Harbour provided a convenient location to carry out training practice. The property was demolished in 1960, having been rendered unsafe by dry rot.



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Old Photograph Carraig Fhada Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Carraig Fhada Lighthouse by Port Ellen, Islay, Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse was built in 1832 by Walter Frederick Campbell in memory of Lady Ellenor Campbell, his wife. There is a plaque above the door with the following inscription:

Ye who mid storms and tempests stray in
dangers midnight hour.
Behold where shines this friendly ray and
hail its guardian tower.

Tis but faint emblem of her light my fond
and faithful guide.
Whose sweet example meekin bright led
through this worlds eventful tide my happy course aright.

And still my guiding star she lives in realms
of bliss above.
Still to my heart blest influence gives and
prompts to deeds of love.

Tis she that bids me on the steep kindle this
beacons flame.
To light the wanderer o`er the deep who safe
shall bless her name.

So may sweet virtue lead your way that
when life`s voyage is o`er.
Secure like her with her you may attain the
heavenly shore.



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Old Photograph Inglismaldie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Inglismaldie Castle near Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Inglismaldie was a fine old 16th and 17th century Scottish castle on the L-plan with angle-turrets and crow-stepped gables to which a long plain building was added at a later date. It has now been restored and converted into a modern mansion.



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Old Photograph Knock Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Knock Castle by Largs in Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built by the boat building Steele family in 1851, with a further wing added in the early twentieth century. The ruins of the seventeenth century Knock Old Castle are within the grounds. It was designed by J. T. Rochead and built in 1851 in a castellated Tudor revival style. it was extended in 1908. It was built for Robert Steele, a Greenock merchant, and his initials and crest are carved on the parapets.



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Old Photograph Tarbert Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Tarbert Castle, located on the southern shore of East Loch Tarbert, in Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish castle was a strategic royal stronghold during the Middle Ages and one of three castles at Tarbert. The castle overlooks the harbour and although pre 14th century in construction, the tower dates back to 1494 and the visit of James IV to the Western Highlands. In 712, Tarbert was burned by King Selbach mac Ferchair of Cenél Loairn and of Dál Riata and in 731 by his son, Dúngal mac Selbaig. King Edward II of England handed control of the castle to the Scottish King John II de Balliol in 1292. A fortified structure was built in Tarbert during the 13th century. It was reinforced with the addition of an outer bailey and towers in the 1320s by Robert the Bruce, to protect it against the Lords of the Isles. A towerhouse was added in the 16th century, which is the most noticeable part of the remains. The castle occupies high land above the village, providing views up Loch Fyne and beyond to the Firth of Clyde. This castle was captured from John MacDonald of Islay, Lord of the Isles by James IV of Scotland as part of his campaign to destroy the power of the Lords of the Isles in 1494. In 1687 the castle was involved in another skirmish when Walter Campbell of Skipness Castle seized it as a stronghold for Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll as part of actions in support of the Monmouth Rebellion in England.



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Tour Scotland Video Tunna Music Pub Perth Perthshire

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Tour Scotland travel compilation video of the sight and sounds of Tunna playing traditional music on visit and trip to a Pub in Perth, Perthshire. Karys Watt playing the fiddle and David Macfarlane playing guitar from the folk band Tunna. Stringed instruments have been known in Scotland from at least the Iron Age; the first evidence of lyres outwith the Greco-Roman world were found on the Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, dating from 2300 BC, making it Europe's oldest surviving stringed instrument. Bards, who acted as musicians, but also as poets, story tellers, historians, genealogists and lawyers, relying on an oral tradition that stretched back generations, were found in Scotland as well as Wales and Ireland.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Dollar Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. This Scottish train station was part of the Devon Valley Railway, which closed to passengers in 1964.



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Tour Scotland Video Blues Music And Songs Pitcairngreen Perthshire

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Tour Scotland wee compilation video of Blues music and songs by the Boos Bros on visit to the Pitcairngreen Inn near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Carlowie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Carlowie Castle by Kirkliston village located ten miles from Edinburgh in West Lothian, Scotland. Kirkliston was the location of the first recorded Parliament in Scottish history; the Estates of Scotland met there in 1235, during the reign of Alexander II of Scotland. Carlowrie Castle, with its Italianate front façade, high balustraded turreted tower and heavy rows of corbals was completed in 1852.



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Old Photograph Barochan House Scotland

Old photograph of Barochan House near Houston village which is located six miles north-west of Paisley, Scotland. Barochan is a small village and rural area to the north-east of Houston. The surrounding country contains Barochan House, a former tower house dating back to the 16th century, and Barochan Hill which was the site of a Roman fort and used for light anti-aircraft defences during the Second World War. The hamlet surrounds the former Mill of Barochan on the Barochan Burn. Nearby was the original site of the Barochan Cross, a Celtic Christian cross possibly carved in the 8th century. It was moved a short distance in the late 19th century before being taken to Paisley Abbey for preservation.



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Tour Scotland Video Lunchtime Music And Songs Cathedral Perth Perthshire

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Tour Scotland travel compilation video of lunchtime music and songs on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Cathedral in Perth, Perthshire.
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Old Photograph Crofters Orphir Scotland

Old photograph of crofters digging for potatoes near Orphir on mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Potatoes arrived in Scotland in the late 16th century, but didn't gain widespread acceptance until the early 18th century, especially in the Highlands. Initially met with suspicion, their nutritional value and ability to grow in small spaces made them a staple, particularly for crofters.


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Old Photograph Graemeshall Mansion House Scotland

Old photograph of a Graemeshall Mansion House in Holm, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Dating back to 1626, Graemeshall Mansion House is the former home of the Lairds of Graemeshall. The lairds of eighteenth century Orkney were a local elite, whose more enterprising members showed some capacity to initiate or obstruct changes in accordance with their own interests. At first they were usually merchant lairds of Scottish descent and connections, episcopalian and Jacobitein outlook, still feuding among themselves and restive under the lordship of the Earl of Morton who held the Earldom estates of Orkney and Shetland.



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Tour Scotland March Video Coast And Cottages Pittenweem East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland March video of the coast and cottages on ancestry visit to Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland March Video Walk Old Golf Course St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland March video of a wee walk on the old golf course on visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Forgue Scotland

Old photograph of the village of Forgue, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Forgue Parish Church is a rural church set high on a knoll, overlooking the small hamlet of Forgue. It sits within a rectangular graveyard, on the site of an earlier church. The former manse is a short distance to the north-west and a narrow path from the manse to the church gave access for the minister. There is open farmland around the church and it overlooks a wide valley dotted with farms and cottages. The church was built in the early 19th century to replace an older church known as St Margaret's.



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Tour Scotland Video North Aisle Stained Glass Windows Cathedral Glasgow

Tour Scotland travel video of stained glass windows in the North Aisle on ancestry visit to the Cathedral in Glasgow, Scotland. The history of the cathedral is linked with that of the city, and is allegedly located where the patron saint of Glasgow, Saint Mungo, built his church. The current congregation is part of the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Glasgow. Glasgow Cathedral is located north of High Street and east of Cathedral Street, beside the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

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Tour Scotland Video Cross And Stained Glass Windows Blacader Aisle Cathedral Glasgow

Tour Scotland travel video of a Cross and stained glass windows in the interior of Blacader Aisle on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and and small group trip to the Cathedral in Glasgow. Robert Blackadder, born 1445, died 1508. was Glasgow's first Archbishop and was University Chancellor from 1483 until his death. Previously Bishop of Aberdeen, Blackadder became Bishop of Glasgow in 1483. He sided with the future King James IV and rebel nobles who defeated and killed King James III at the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488, and a grateful James IV petitioned the Pope for the see of Glasgow to be elevated to the status of archbishopric. In spite of opposition from the Archbishop of St Andrews, Blackadder became Archbishop of Glasgow in 1491. Archbishop Blackadder was responsible for the building of the Rood Screen at the entrance to the choir of Glasgow Cathedral, and the Fergus Aisle, which became known as Blackadder's Aisle. He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1508.

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Old Photograph Cluny Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Cluny Castle located South of Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle has been owned by three separate branches of Gordon families over the centuries, it was used to shelter Jacobite rebels in the mid 18th century. Extensive additions were made in 1820 to the design of architect John Smith when it was in the ownership of Colonel John Gordon. Two wings of the castle and the adjoining private chapel were destroyed by fire in 1926 but the damage was restored.



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Old Photograph Blackhall Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Blackhall Castle by Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built in 1771, and demolished in 1946. It was held by the Clan Russell and then by the Clan Hay. The surname Russell appears to be derived from rous which means red. The name was commonly found amongst the Normans and French people as the personal name of Rufus. Between 1164 and 1177 Walter Russel witnessed a charter in favour of Paisley Abbey near Glasgow. Mentioned in a charter of about 1180 is John, son of Robert Russel of Duncanlaw. In 1259 Robert Russel witnessed a deed relating to the lands of Threipland. In 1296 Robert Russel appears on the Ragman Rolls giving homage to Edward I of England. The name of Russel came to Aberdeenshire with one Rozel who was an English baron who fought at the siege of Berwick and the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333. Rozel subsequently settled in Scotland and obtained the estate of Aden. His family was styled Russel of that Ilk.



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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Waterfall Highlands

Tour Scotland video of Scottish waterfall not far from Loch Ness on visit to the Scottish Highlands, Scotland. The Scottish Highlands are a historic region of Scotland. The region became culturally distinguishable from the Lowlands from the later Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands. The term is also used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the South East from the Northwest Highlands. The Scottish Gaelic name of A' Ghàidhealtachd literally means " the place of the Gaels " and traditionally, from a Gaelic speaking point of view, includes both the Western Isles and the Highlands.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Eagle Loch Ness Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland video of Scottish Eagle by Loch Ness on visit to the Scottish Highlands, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Isle of Mingulay Scotland

Old photograph of the Isle of Mingulay located twelve miles South of Island of Barra, Scotland. This Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides is known for its important seabird populations, including puffins, Black-legged Kittiwakes, and razorbills, which nest in the sea-cliffs, some of the highest in the British Isles. Between the 15th and 19th centuries Mingulay was part of the lands of Clan MacNeil of Barra, but subsequently suffered at the hands of absentee landlords. Islanders subsisted through a combination of fishing, hunting seabirds, weaving and crofting until most of the population of about 140 left between 1910 and 1912.



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Old Photograph Killantringan Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Killantringan lighthouse located on the coast two miles North West of Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse was built in 1900 by David A Stevenson. MV Craigantlet, a German owned, Cyprus registered container ship, ran aground on 26 February 1982 at Killantringan Lighthouse in Portamaggie Bay, Wigtownshire in southwestern Scotland. The 800 ton cargo ship was bound to Liverpool from Belfast at the time. The lighthouse keeper raised the alarm, and Craigantlet's crew was rescued via airlift by a Sea King from 819 Squadron based at the stone frigate HMS Gannet at Glasgow Prestwick International Airport.



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Old Photograph Hoxa Head Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Hoxa Head lighthouse located above Scarf Skerry, overlooking Scapa Flow, West of St Margaret's Hope on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse on South Ronaldsay, was built in 1901 by the brothers Charles and David Stevenson.



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Tour Scotland March Video Snow Falling On Scottish Snowdrops Parkland Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland March video of snow falling on Scottish snowdrops on visit to the parkland at Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Fiery Cross Stained Glass Window Abbey Church Culross Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Fiery Cross stained glass window in the Abbey Church on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Culross, Fife, Scotland. In Scotland a s fiery cross, or cross of shame, was used to rally clan members to arms. The practice is described in the novels and poetry of Sir Walter Scott. A small burning cross or charred piece of wood would be carried from town to town. A widely known use was in 1745, during the Jacobite rising although it was used more recently in Canada, among Scottish settlers during the War of 1812, and among Clan Grant in 1820. In 1820, over 800 fighting men of Clan Grant were gathered, by the passing of the Fiery Cross, to come to the aid of their Clan Lord and his sister in the village of Elgin.

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Old Photograph Makerstoun Scotland

Old photograph of Makerstoun located four miles West of Kelso, Borders, Scotland. Built in 1808, the Makerstoun church, bell tower on the south wall, recently repaired, has 1808 inscribed on it.



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Old Photographs Port Appin Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Port Appin fishing village in Argyll, Scotland. Elizabeth Macquarie, maiden name Campbell, wife of the fifth governor of New South Wales, Australia, was born in the area. During his term the governor named the towns of Appin and Airds after his wife's birthplace and her family's estate respectively. The Appin Murder occurred on 14 May 1752 near Appin in the west of Scotland, and it resulted in what is often held to be a notorious miscarriage of justice. It occurred in the tumultuous aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The murder inspired events in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped. On 14 May 1752, Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure, 44, the government-appointed Factor to the forfeited estates of the Stewart Clan in North Argyll, Scotland, was shot in the back by a marksman in the wood of Lettermore near Ballachulish. The search for the killer targeted the local Clan, the Jacobite Stewarts of Appin, who had recently suffered evictions on Campbell's orders. James Stewart was arrested for the crime and tried for the murder. Although it was clear at the trial that James was not directly involved in the assassination, he had a solid alibi, he was found guilty as an accessory; an aider and abetter, by a jury consisting of people from the locality where the crime occurred. The presiding judge was pro Hanoverian Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Chief of Clan Campbell. Eleven Campbell clansmen were on the 15 man jury. James Stewart was hanged on 8 November 1752 on a specially commissioned gibbet above the narrows at Ballachulish, now near the south entrance to the Ballachulish Bridge. He died protesting his innocence and recited the 35th Psalm before mounting the scaffold. To this day in the Highlands, it remains known as " The Psalm of James of the Glens. "


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Tour Scotland Video Sandy Stirton The Times They Are A Changin Pub Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the sight and sounds of Sandy Stirton singing a cover version of The Times They Are A Changin by Bob Dylan in a Pub on visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire.

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

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Old Photograph Crofter Dyeing Wool Portnalong Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter dyeing wool in her cottage at Portnalong by Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Crofter Spinning Wool Portnalong Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter spinning wool outside her cottage at Portnalong by Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Crofter Portnalong Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter packing wool at Portnalong by Portree, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Gaelic: Port nan Long, meaning " harbour of the ships " is a crofting township in north west Skye founded in 1921–1923, settled by families from Lewis and Harris


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Old Photographs Auchencairn Scotland

Old photograph of children, shops, houses and cottages in Auchencairn village located on the coast of the Solway Firth at the head of Auchencairn Bay and on the A711 road between the town of Dalbeattie to the east and Kirkcudbright to the west in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. At the top end of the village stands a dead tree; it is all that remains of a farm called the Ringcroft of Stocking, the site of the Mackie Poltergeis' incident in 1695. Over a period of several months, the inhabitants, a farmer Andrew Mackie and his family, reported mysterious occurrences such as stones being thrown at them, cattle being moved and buildings being set alight. The family and others also reported a ghost taking form and speaking. Several clergymen came to pray at the site, but no change was immediately evident; in the next few months the strange occurrences stopped but the farm was eventually abandoned due to the incident. The incident was made known when the details were published by the Reverend Telfair a year later with the support of 14 eyewitnesses.



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Tour Scotland Video Neolithic Skara Brae Orkney Islands

Tour Scotland travel video of the Neolithic village on ancestry, history visit and small group trip to Skara Brae located on Bay of Skaill on the West Coast of the mainland Orkney Islands, Scotland. Older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids, it has been called the Scottish Pompei" because of its excellent preservation. In the winter of 1850, a severe storm hit Scotland, causing widespread damage and over 200 deaths. In the Bay of Skaill, the storm stripped the earth from a large irregular knoll known as " Skerrabra ". When the storm cleared, local villagers found the outline of a village, consisting of a number of small houses without roofs. William Watt of Skaill, the local laird, began an amateur excavation of the site, but after four houses were uncovered, the work was abandoned in 1868. The site remained undisturbed until 1913, when during a single weekend the site was plundered by a party with shovels who took away an unknown quantity of artefacts. In 1924, another storm swept away part of one of the houses and it was determined the site should be made secure and more seriously investigated. The job was given to University of Edinburgh's Professor Vere Gordon Childe who travelled to Skara Brae for the first time in mid 1927.

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Old Photograph Balvenie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Balvenie Castle located near Dufftown, in the heart of Speyside, Scotland. This Scottish castle was originally known as Mortlach, it was built in the 12th century by a branch of the powerful Comyn family, the Black Comyns, and extended and altered in the 15th and 16th centuries. The castle fell out of use in the early 14th century when the Comyns were reduced by Robert the Bruce. At some point in the 14th century the castle and the lordship of Balvenie passed into the earldom of Douglas. Nothing is documented as to how the Black Douglases first acquired the castle but the most likely account is that it came with the marriage of the heiress Joanna Murray to Archibald 'the Grim' , 3rd Earl of Douglas in 1362. His son and successor Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas granted his younger brother James 'the Gross' the lordship of Balvenie in 1408. James's main residence was at Abercorn Castle, a coastal fortress to the west of Edinburgh and Balvenie Castle's use was as temporary accommodation when the need arose.




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Old Photograph Carnasserie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Carnasserie Castle located one mile North of Kilmartin village in Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built by reforming churchman John Carswell, who was Rector of Kilmartin, Chancellor of the Chapel Royal at Stirling, and later titular Bishop of the Isles. Carswell published the first book to be printed in Scottish Gaelic, a translation of John Knox's Book of Common Order. Construction began in 1565 using masons brought from Stirling. Although the castle was notionally built for Carswell's patron, the Earl of Argyll, he intended it as a personal residence for himself. On Carswell's death in 1572, the castle passed to his patron, the Earl of Argyll. Later, in 1643, the 8th Earl of Argyll sold Carnasserie to Sir Dugald Campbell, 3rd Baronet of Auchinbreck. Following the 9th Earl's failed uprising in support of the Monmouth Rebellion, against King James VII in 1685, the castle was blown up by Royalist forces. Although the outer walls remain largely undamaged, the ruins were never repaired. In the 19th century the estate was sold to the Malcolms of Poltalloch, who also own nearby Duntrune Castle.



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