Old Photograph Road To Glen Shiel Highlands of Scotland

Old photograph of the single track road to Glen Shiel in the Highlands of Scotland. The military road connecting Fort Augustus to the Bernera barracks in Glenelg was built between 1750 and 1784 by William Caulfeild, the successor to General Wade. The Battle of Glen Shiel took place on 10th June 1719 midway up the glen. It was fought between the British government and an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards, and resulted in a victory for the British forces. It was the last close engagement of British and foreign troops on mainland British soil. The natural strength of the Jacobite position, which was positioned on easily defendable crags in the glen, had been increased by hasty fortifications. A barricade had been constructed across the road, and along the face of the hill on the north side of the river entrenchments had been thrown up. Here the main body was posted, consisting of a Spanish regiment, Clan Cameron of Lochiel with about 150 men, about 150 of Lidcoat’s and others, Rob Roy MacGregor with 40 men, 50 men of Clan Mackinnon and 200 from the Clan MacKenzie. British forces included 150 grenadiers under Major Milburn, Montagu’s Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence, a detachment of 50 men under Colonel Harrison, Huffel's Dutch Regiment, four companies of Amerongen's regiment from the Clan Fraser, Clan Ross and the Clan Sutherland, 80 men of Clan MacKay, Clayton’s Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Reading and about 100 men of the Clan Munro under George Munro of Culcairn.



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Old Photograph Bow Bridge ElginScotland

Old photograph of the Bow Bridge near Elgin, Moray, Scotland. This bridge carries Old Mills Road across the River Lossie to the North West of Elgin. The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Elgin to the South and Spynie to the North.

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Tour Scotland Video West Fife Schools Pipe Band Highland Games Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland video of the West Fife Schools Pipe Band at the Highland Games on ancestry visit to Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. West Fife Schools Pipe Band, formerly Inverkeithing High School Pipe Band, consists of pipers and drummers from a number of schools in the West Fife area.

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Tour Scotland Video Methil and District Pipe Band Highland Games Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Methil and District Pipe Band at the Highland Games on ancestry visit to Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. The objectives of the Band are to advance education of the public in the art of music and in particular pipe band music by the presentation of concerts and other related activities.

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Old Photograph James Watt Dock Scotland

Old photograph of the James Watt Dock in Greenock by Glasgow, Scotland. The James Watt Dock was Greenock's answer to Queen's Dock in Glasgow. It was intended accommodate the largest vessels using the River Clyde. It was also to be the only true wet dock on the river. The scheme was approved by the Greenock Harbour Trust in June 1878; the foundation stone was laid in August 1881 and the dock was opened in August 1886. Its cost had risen from an estimated £208,000 to over £850,000 on completion. Trade to did not readily move to the dock, which remained consistently underused. It caused considerable embarrassment to the Greenock Harbour Trust, and was to be the last new work at Greenock for nearly 80 years.



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Old Photograph Roman Bridge Bothwell Haugh Scotland

Old photograph of the Roman Bridge which spans the South Calder river near Bothwell Haugh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is likely that this bridge was restored by James Hamilton in the late 17th century. While it may have originated as a medieval pack-horse bridge, a Roman bridge must have existed here or near here next to the Roman bathhouse, fort and road.



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Old Photograph Viaduct Glenluce Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train crossing the viaduct in Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland. This bridge no longer used by trains spans the Water of Luce, while the main road passes below in a sweeping curve between its arches. This viaduct was built for the Portpatrick Railway and opened on 12th March 1861. It was built by James Falshaw and Company.



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Old Photograph Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1878 Miss Kate Cranston opened her first tearoom, the Crown Luncheon Room, on Argyle Street, Glasgow. She set high standards of service, food quality and cleanliness, and her innovation lay in seeing the social need for something more than a restaurant or a simple " tea shop ", and in putting equal attention into providing amenities designed in the latest style. Her first tearoom was decorated in a contemporary baronial style. On 16th September 1886 she opened her Ingram Street tearoom and in 1888 commissioned George Walton to decorate a new smoking room in the Arts and Crafts style in one of her tea rooms. In 1892 she became happily married to John Cochrane, but continued to trade under the name of Miss Cranston's Tearooms. She opened new tearooms in Buchanan Street in 1897, designed by George Washington Browne, expanded to take over the whole building in Argyle Street by 1898, then completed her chain of four establishments with the Willow Tearooms by Charles Rennie MacKintosh in Sauchiehall Street, opening in 1903. While other cities offered very expensive and very basic tea rooms by 1901, Kate Cranston set the standard in Glasgow for more welcoming establishments. Rooms were provided for ladies only and for gentlemen only, as well as luncheon rooms where they could dine together and smoking rooms and billiards rooms for the gentlemen. Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms became social centres for all, for business men and apprentices, for ladies and ladies' maids. The Ladies Rooms were a particular success, newly allowing respectable women to get out and meet together without male company. Unlike cafes or tearooms in other cities, there was no intrusive supervision and those having tea had an assortment of Scones and cakes to hand, with a discreet notice reminding newcomers to remember the amount consumed.



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Old Photograph Darnaway Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Darnaway Castle, also known as Tarnaway Castle located three miles from Forres, Moray, Scotland. This was Comyn land, given to Thomas Randolph along with the Earldom of Moray by King Robert I. The castle has remained the seat of the Earls of Moray ever since. Rebuilt in 1810, it retains the old banqueting hall, capable of accommodating 1,000 men.



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Old Photograph Glencoe House Scotland

Old photograph of Glencoe House in the Highlands of Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was designed by Rowand Anderson, it was built in 1895 by Lord Strathcona for his wife, Isabella. Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal was a Scottish born Canadian who became one of the British Empire's foremost builders and philanthropists. He became commissioner, governor and principal shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company. He was president of the Bank of Montreal and with his first cousin, Lord Mount Stephen, co-founded the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was born 6 August 1820, on Forres High Street, in Moray. He was the second son of Alexander Smith and his wife Barbara Stuart, daughter of Donald Stuart of Leanchoil, Upper Strathspey, descended from Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany.His father, whose family had lived at Archiestown Cottage as crofters at Knockando, became a saddler at Forres after trying his hand at farming and soldiering. He emigrated to Lower Canada in 1838 to work for the Hudson's Bay Company, becoming a clerk for the organization in 1842.



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Old Photograph Public Library Fraserburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the Public Library in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Fraserburgh Library was built in 1904 with funding from Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848. Carnegie started work as a telegrapher, and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges, and oil derricks. He accumulated further wealth as a bond salesman, raising money for American enterprise in Europe. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J. P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million. It became the U.S. Steel Corporation. After selling Carnegie Steel, he surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American for the next couple of years.



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Old Photograph Forest Of Birse Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Forest of Birse Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built about 1600 for the Gordons of Cluny who owned the surrounding Forest of Birse. The Bishops of Aberdeen, who had a grant of the forest as early as 1242, also had a hunting seat in the forest, believed to be on the site of this castle. The Forest of Birse consisted of twenty-four towns, or farms, eighteen of which between 1574 and 1636 came into the hands of Gordon of Cluny. About 1610 this family, by building a castle, encroached upon the forest. The inhabitants of the other six farms claimed rights over the whole forest about 1640 they vindicated their rights by burning the castle and turning the tilled land into commonage and so held it for eighty years.



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Old Photograph Colzium House Scotland

Old photograph of Colzium House near Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The present house dates from 1783 and was extended and modernised in 1861. The first building here was a large L plan tower house built by the Livingstons of Callendar in the mid 15th century to replace the ancient motte. The Civil War Battle of Kilsyth was fought just a mile to the east. A substantial hall house was added in 1575. The nearby castle was demolished by the third Viscount of Kilsyth in 1703, immediately prior to his accession to the title. The family lost the estate due to their Jacobite sympathies, and it then became the property of the Edmonstone family.



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Tour Scotland Video Kirkcaldy and District Pipe Band Highland Games Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Kirkcaldy and District Pipe Band at the Highland Games on ancestry visit to Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. Kirkcaldy and District Pipeband has existed for 30 Years, with various name changes, and is an active Grade 3 Band.

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Tour Scotland Video City Of St Andrews Pipe Band Highland Games Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland video of the City of St Andrew Pipe Band at the Highland Games on ancestry visit to Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. The Band was formed in 1972 and is based in St Andrews in the North East of Fife. It first competed in 1974 and since those early days has competed at all levels and won many contests and major championships.

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Tour Scotland Video Kinross and District Pipe Band Highland Games Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Kinross and District Pipe Band from Perthshire at the Highland Games on ancestry visit to Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. The Kinross Pipe Band was formed in the summer of 1946 to play at local galas, festival events and pipe band competitions.

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Tour Scotland Video Kelty And Blairadam Pipe Band Highland Games Markinch Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Kelty and Blairadam Pipe Band at the Highland Games on ancestry visit to Markinch village in Fife, Scotland. The popular Markinch Highland Games are held in John Dixon park.

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Tour Scotland Video May Morning Drive To Visit Blackford Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a May morning drive West from Perth on the A9 road on ancestry visit to Blackford, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video May Morning Drive Ancestry Visit To Forteviot Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a May morning drive on ancestry visit to Forteviot, Perthshire, Scotland. Forteviot was the site of an important Pictish settlement in the reign of King Oengus. With the defeat of the Picts by the Scots in the ninth century, Kenneth mac alpin had his palace there. The present church building, the third, was erected in 1778.

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Tour Scotland Video Royal Visit Crieff Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Royal visit to Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Poppies Branklyn Garden Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Poppies on visit to Branklyn Garden in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Meconopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae. It was first described by French botanist Viguier in 1814 who named it as poppy like. The species have attractive flowers and have two distinct ranges. A single species, Meconopsis cambrica, poppy of Wales, is indigenous to England, Wales, Ireland, and the fringes of Western Europe, although recent studies suggest that it does not belong in the genus. The other 40 or so species are found in the Himalayas. Within the Himalayan types there is much debate as to what constitutes a particular species as many readily hybridise with each other and produce viable seed. It is likely that some individually named species are in fact a single species but with an under-appreciated morphological diversity.

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Tour Scotland Video May Walk Branklyn Garden Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a May walk on visit to Branklyn Garden in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This excellent Scottish garden has a superb collection of rhododendrons, alpines, and herbaceous and peat‑garden plants and Himalayan blue poppy.

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Old Photograph Pitcorthie House Scotland

Old photograph of Pitcorthie House located North of Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. A Georgian Neo-Classical mansion of ashlar construction with four bays either side of the entrance with single storey wings. The entrance lay behind a massive full height Doric collonade portico and was the residence of George Simson Esq. who died at Pitcorthie on 7 July 1848 age 82. This Scottish mansion house is particularly similar in style to both Camperdown House in Dundee, designed by William Burn, and Balbirnie house in Markinch, designed by Richard Crighton, both fine estates, which had family connections to the Simsons. Early in 1901 Andrew Grant Member of Parliament took over Pitcorthie. died at Pitcorthie House, on 23rd October 1924.




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Tour Scotland Video Heavy Rain Falling On Garden Outside Cottage In Scone By Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of heavy rain falling on the garden outside my cottage in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Photographs Pipe Band Championship Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of photographs of the Pipe Band Championship in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry visit to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Pittencrieff Park played host to hundreds of pipers and drummers on Saturday 24th May when Dunfermline staged the 2014 Dunfermline Pipe Band Championship. Held under the auspices of the national body, the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association. A Drum Major event also took place.

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Tour Scotland Video Squirrels Pittencrieff Glen Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland wildlife camera travel video of squirrels in Pittencrieff Glen on ancestry, history visit and trip to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The Glen is a public park in Dunfermline which was purchased in 1902 by the town's most famous son, Andrew Carnegie, and gifted to the people of Dunfermline in a ceremony the following year.

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Tour Scotland Video Photographs Vintage Tractor Run West Huntingtower Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of photographs of a vintage tractors run on a rainy day visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Members of the Scottish Vintage Tractor and Engine Club set off from West Huntingtower and drove through rural Perthshire. They were raising funds for the charity Children's Hospice Association Scotland. CHAS is the only charity in Scotland that provides vital hospice services for children and young people with life shortening conditions.

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Tour Scotland Video Charity Vintage Tractor Run West Huntingtower Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a vintage tractors run on a rainy day visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Members of the Scottish Vintage Tractor and Engine Club set off from West Huntingtower and drove through rural Perthshire. They were raising funds for the charity Children's Hospice Association Scotland. CHAS is the only charity in Scotland that provides vital hospice services for children and young people with life shortening conditions.

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Tour Scotland Video Greyfriars Pipe Band Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of Greyfriars Pipe Band at the Pipe Band Competition in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. This band is based within Barlanark Greyfriars Parish Church, Hallhill Roadd, Barlanark, Glasgow. Barlanark is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is east of the districts of Budhill, Shettleston and Springboig, north west of Baillieston, west of Springhill and Swinton and south of Easterhouse, Easthall and Wellhouse, separated by Edinburgh Road the A8. The name Barlanark is an apparently hybrid Gaelic Brythonic name suggesting the hill at the clearing from the Gaelic bàrr and Brythonic lanerc meaning clearing. Barlanark housing scheme was developed in response to the city's grave post war housing needs: In 1952 and 1953 over 2300 3/4-bedroom apartments were constructed and rented out as accommodation to Corporation tenants. There were also 5 apartment semi detached houses, and 3 apartment terraced houses built, next to the Estate of Barlanark House, which was constructed by David Hamilton in 1822, and demolished in 1954.

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Tour Scotland Video Bo'ness Pipe Band Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of Bo'ness Pipe Band at the Pipe Band Competition in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry visit visit and trip to Dunfermline, Fife. Bo’ness Federation pipe-band was formed in 1919. The first Pipe major was Willie McComb, after he was demobbed from the army at the end of the first World War he went back to working as a miner in Longriggend. Borrowstounness commonly known as Bo'ness is a coastal parish in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on a hillside on the south bank of the Firth of Forth within the Falkirk council area, 16.9 miles north west of Edinburgh and 6.7 miles east of Falkirk.

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Tour Scotland Video Peebles Ex-Servicemen's Pipe Band Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of Peebles Ex-Servicemen's Pipe Band at the Pipe Band Competition in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry, history visit and trip to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The first Peebles Pipe band was under the leadership of Pipe Sergeant John Sterricks, Ex-Royal Scots, and on Sunday the 16th June 1919 a procession headed by the Pipe band marched along the High Street to the Parish Church. Traditionally, a person born in Peebles was called a gutterbluid, although few people can now claim that distinction as Peebles no longer has a hospital. Most babies are now born in Edinburgh or Borders General Hospital at Melrose.

Notable Peebles people include;

Eric Bogle, folk musician resident in Australia, born in Peebles.
Scott Brash, olympic gold medallist.
John Buchan, author, practised law in Peebles, and his house, opposite the old Sheriff Court, bears a commemorative plaque.
Robert Chambers, publisher and author of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.
William Chambers, publisher, brother of Robert.
John Mathison, New Zealand MP was born in Peebles.
Mungo Park, practised medicine, and his house on the north of the Cuddy bears a commemorative plaque.

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Tour Scotland Video Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty Song Balhousie Castle Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of The Scottish Hydro Singers singing Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty, on ancestry visit to Balhousie Castle in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

Jack Dunn, son of a gun, over in France today,
Keeps fit doing his bit up to his eyes in clay.
Each night after a fight to pass the time along,
He's got a little gramophone that plays this song:

Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there,
Drop me ANYWHERE,
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!

I should love to see my best girl,
Cuddling up again we soon should be,
WHOA!!!

Tiddley iddley ighty,
Hurry me home to Blighty,
Blighty is the place for me!

Bill Spry, started to fly, up in an aeroplane,
In France, taking a chance, wish'd he was down again.
Poor Bill, feeling so ill, yell'd out to Pilot Brown:
"Steady a bit, yer fool! we're turning upside down!"

Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there,
Drop me ANYWHERE,
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!

I should love to see my best girl,
Cuddling up again we soon should be,
WHOA!!!

Tiddley iddley ighty,
Hurry me home to Blighty,
Blighty is the place for me!

Jack Lee, having his tea, says to his pal MacFayne,
"Look, chum, apple and plum! it's apple and plum again!
Same stuff, isn't it rough? fed up with it I am!
Oh! for a pot of Aunt Eliza's raspb'ry jam!"

Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there,
Drop me ANYWHERE,
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!

I should love to see my best girl,
Cuddling up again we soon should be,
WHOA!!!

Tiddley iddley ighty,
Hurry me home to Blighty,
Blighty is the place for me!

One day Mickey O'Shea stood in a trench somewhere,
So brave, having a shave, and trying to part his hair.
Mick yells, dodging the shells and lumps of dynamite:
"Talk of the Crystal Palace on a Firework night!"

Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there,
Drop me ANYWHERE,
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!

I should love to see my best girl,
Cuddling up again we soon should be,
WHOA!!!

Tiddley iddley ighty,
Hurry me home to Blighty,
Blighty is the place for me!

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Tour Scotland Video Pack Up Your Troubles Song Balhousie Castle Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of The Scottish Hydro Singers singing Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile, on ancestry visit to Balhousie Castle in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The song is best remembered for its chorus:

Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile,
While you've a lucifer to light your fag,
Smile, boys, that's the style.
What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while, so
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Bride Arriving At St John's Kirk in Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish Bride arriving for her wedding in St John's Kirk on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. St John's Kirk located on South St John's Place is architecturally and historically one of the most significant buildings in Perth. The settlement of the original church dates back to the mid 12th century.

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Tour Scotland Video Lambs On The Road Eastern Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of lambs on the road on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Eastern Perthshire, Scotland. Stay alert when you drive on narrow Scottish roads, weather, animals and other drivers can make country roads unpredictable. Keep your wits about you.

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Tour Scotland Video May Morning Drive To Visit Littleton Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a May morning drive on ancestry visit to Littleton in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video May Morning Drive To Visit Knapp Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a May morning drive on ancestry visit to Knapp in Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located two miles North of Inchture and and around nine miles West of Dundee.

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Tour Scotland Video Of A May Morning Drive To Visit Abernyte Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a May morning drive on ancestry visit to Abernyte in Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located two miles North West of the former Inchture railway station, and around seven miles West of Dundee.

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Old Photograph Cleland Scotland

Old photographs of a horse and cart, shop and staff, and houses in Cleland near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish village has a strong coal mining heritage, and is a typical example of a working class village in North Lanarkshire and the Glasgow area.



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Old Photograph Ettrickbridge Scotland

Old photograph of cottage, houses, horse and cart, cyclist and people in Ettrickbridge located seven miles from Selkirk, Scotland. There have been settlements in the area for over a century, but in recent years the population has increased steadily. The village was known as Kirkhope until the late 1700s.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Elie Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Elie, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Thornton Junction to Crail, St Andrews and Leuchars Junction on the Fife coast of the former North British Railway was opened, by the Leven and East of Fife Railway, on 1 September 1863. It closed to regular passenger traffic, with the St Andrews to Leven portion of the line on on 6 Septenber 1965.



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Old Photograph Appletreehall Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, horses and people in Appletreehall village located two miles North East of Hawick, Scotland. This Scottish village is located in the historic county of Roxburghshire. Nearby are Branxholme, Broadhaugh, Roberton, Wilton and Wilton Dean. Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh is a historic county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire to the north west, and Berwickshire to the north. To the south east it borders Cumberland and Northumberland in England.

Robert Livingston the Elder was born on December 13, 1654, in the village of Ancrum, near Jedburgh, in Roxburghshire. He was a New York colonial official, fur trader, and businessman; he was granted a patent to 160,000 acres along the Hudson River, and became the first lord of Livingston Manor. In 1663, his father, John Livingston, was sent into exile due to his resistance to attempts to turn the Presbyterian national church into an Episcopalian institution. The exiled family settled in Rotterdam, in the Dutch Republic, where English merchants also worked. Robert became fluent in the Dutch language, which helped him greatly in his later career in New York and New Jersey, part of the former Dutch colony of New Netherland. Following the death of his father in 1673, Robert Livingston returned to Scotland for a time. He sailed for Boston to find his fortune in North America. Livingston's father was well known in Puritan Boston, and a merchant advanced the young son enough stock and credit to undertake a trading venture to Albany, New York. Livingston arrived in Albany in late 1674. With his business and language skills, in August 1675 he became secretary to Nicholas Van Rensselaer, director of Rensselaerswyck, who died a few years later in 1678. In 1686, he and his brother in law, Pieter Schuyler, persuaded Governor Thomas Dongan to grant Albany a municipal charter like that awarded to New York City a few months earlier. Appointed as clerk of the city and county of Albany, Livingston collected a fee for each legal document registered. With Pieter Schuyler, he led the opposition in Albany to Leisler's Rebellion. He served as Secretary for Indian Affairs from 1695 until his death. In 1679, Livingston married Alida Schuyler, born 1656, died 1727 widow. She was the daughter of Philip Pieterse Schuyler, vice director of Fort Orange, giving Livingston an important connection in the community. Robert Livingston amassed one of the largest fortunes in 17th century New York. They had nine children together: Johannes Livingston, Margaret Livingston, Joanna Philipina Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert Livingston, owner of the Clermont estate who married Margaret Howarden, Hubertus " Gilbert " Livingston, who married Cornelia Beekman, granddaughter of Wilhelmus Beekman, Mayor of New York[, William Livingston, Joanna Livingston and Catherine Livingston.



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Old Photograph Bridge of Gaur Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Bridge of Gaur in Rannoch, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. There was once a military barracks at Bridge of Gaur, the barracks were built in 1746 in response to the Jacobite uprisings, and to overawe the Robertson clan, though, by a strange quirk of fate, they would later become the residence of the chief. Following the defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746, " Butcher Cumberland ordered his troops to show no quarter to any remaining Jacobite rebels. The Hanoverian Army, known as Redcoats, then embarked upon the pacification of Jacobite areas of the Highlands. Numerous barracks were constructed throughout the Highlands to house the Government troops, including one at the head of Loch Rannoch at Braes of Rannoch which is now called Bridge of Gaur.



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Old Photograph Ampherlaw House Scotland

Old photograph of Ampherlaw House by Carnwath near Lanark, Scotland. This Scottish house was originally built some time in the early 16th century and the members of the Somerville family who held the Ampherlaw estate were cadets of the Lords Somerville of Carnwath and Linton. After the siege of Cowthally Castle in 1597, which later fell into ruins, three important stones were retained and erected at Ampherlaw. One is a marriage stone from 1569, another is of Dame Janet Maitland depicted as Charity and finally, there is a statue of Mary Queen of Scots, playing the lute. This is especially suitable, as the Somerville family were supporters of the cause and assisted in raising an army for her in 1568 at Hamilton. William Somerville Esq. of Ampherlaw, although the eldest son and born at Ampherlaw, was passed over for his younger brother, in the Scottish manner of succession to land and titles, and chose to emigrate to Tasmania with his wife and several children. Their ship was the ill-fated Catherine Sharer, which blew up in June 1855 in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel at night on its approach to Hobart. The unhappy emigrants were clad only in their nightclothes, so urgent was their escape. The ship was smuggling gunpowder, which was believed to have been ignited by a disaffected sailor.



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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Cup Winners St Johnstone Open Top Bus Parade Royal Hotel Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Scottish Cup Winners St Johnstone FC Open Top Bus Parade led by Perth and District Pipe Band arriving outside the Royal Hotel on Tay Street on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Fans lined the streets to celebrate the victory at Celtic Park against Dundee United which secured Saints their first major trophy in their 130 year history.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Cup Winners St Johnstone Open Top Bus Parade High Street Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Scottish Cup Winners St Johnstone FC Open Top Bus Parade coming down the High Street on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Thousands of fans lined the streets to celebrate the victory at Celtic Park against Dundee United which secured Saints their first major trophy in their 130 year history.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Cup Winners St Johnstone Open Top Bus Parade Charlotte Street Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Scottish Cup Winners St Johnstone FC Open Top Bus Parade coming down Charlotte Street to the old bridge on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Ardmillan Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Ardmillan Castle in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Originally a 16th Century tower house with a Georgian mansion house added to one side. The whole castle was gutted by fire in 1972, and in 1990 the ruins were completely demolished. Mary Queen of Scots, on 7 August, 1563, spent that night at Ardmillan Castle just south of Girvan. Her host John Kennedy of Ardmillan was the cousin of Thomas Kennedy of Bargany. Thomas’s own castle of Ardstinchar at Ballantrae was the queen’s lodging on the night of 8 August, and the following day she passed out of Ayrshire, never to return, and continued on through Wigtownshire.



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Old Photograph St Duthac's Collegiate Church Tain Scotland

Old photograph of St Duthac's Collegiate Church in Tain in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. This Scottish church is said to have been built by William, Earl of Ross, who died 1371. In 1487, King James III had it converted into a Collegiate Church. James IV and V made pilgrimages to it. William died without male issue. The earldom of Ross and the chiefship of Clan Ross were then separated. The chiefship of the Clan Ross passed to Earl William's brother Hugh Ross of Rariches, 1st of Balnagown, who was granted a charter, in 1374, for the lands of Balnagowan. The earldom of Ross passed through a female line, and that later led to dispute between two rival claimants, the Lord of the Isles and the Duke of Albany. This resulted in the Battle of Harlaw in 1411 where the Clan Ross fought as Highlanders in support of the Lord of the Isles against an army of Scottish Lowlanders who supported the Duke of Albany,



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Old Photograph Tor Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Tor Castle near Fort William, Scotland. An Iron Age fort previously occupied the site of this now ruined Scottish castle. According to local tradition, the fort once belonged to Banquo who features in MacBeth.There has been a castle at the site since at least the eleventh century. The castle was subsequently held by the Clan Mackintosh until it was seized by the Clan Cameron, who built a massive tower house and courtyard. Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, 13th chief of Clan Cameron rebuilt the castle in 1530. The Camerons used the castle as a refuge from attacks by the Clan MacDonald of Keppoch.



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