Tour Scotland Video Marching Pipe Bands Mini Military Tattoo Stirling

Tour Scotland video of marching pipe bands on Port Street at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Stirling, Scotland. Pipers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Stirling, including The Royal Regiment of Scotland, The Royal Army of Oman, Australian Federal Police, The Black Watch

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Tour Scotland Video HM Royal Marines Plymouth Band Mini Military Tattoo Stirling

Tour Scotland video of HM Royal Marines Plymouth Band on Port Street at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Stirling, Scotland. Musicians and dancers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Stirling. The band from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo marching and playing at the mini tattoo in Stirling. This fine band is based at HMS Raleigh in Torpoint, Cornwall, England.

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Tour Scotland Video Band Of The Armed Forces Of Malta Mini Military Tattoo Stirling

Tour Scotland video of the Band Of The Armed Forces Of Malta with dancers on Port Street at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Stirling, Scotland. Musicians and dancers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Stirling.

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Old Photograph Ardler Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Ardler, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located three miles to the east of Coupar Angus, and approximately equidistant between the latter and Meigle.



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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Highland Dancers And Shetland Fiddlers Mini Military Tattoo Stirling

Tour Scotland video of Scottish Highland Dancers and Shetland Fiddlers in their Shetland Island jumpers on Port Street at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Stirling, Scotland. The Shetland Fiddlers' Society is a group of fiddlers from Shetland that play regularly for Shetland Folk Dance and perform at events such as Shetland’s Folk Festival and Accordion and Fiddle Festival. The society had its origin in May 1960, when the first big post-war social event organized in Shetland took place. Known as the Hamefarin, it was an organized return trip to their native isles made by some 150 Shetlanders who had emigrated and settled worldwide in such countries as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA.

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Old Photograph Blanefield Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and people in Blanefield, Scotland. To the West of this Scottish village is the volcanic plug Dumgoyne, Glengoyne Whisky Distillery and the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. The West Highland Way, a long distance walking trail passes close to the village. A rise in population during the early 19th century was due in part to the development of a large calico printfield at Blanefield, employing 78 adults and 45 children under 14, and two bleachfields at Dumbrock, employing 67 adults and 14 children under 14, working 10 or 11 hours each day, 6 days a week.



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Old Photograph Gartly Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Gartly located South of Huntly in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located on the River Bogie, a tributary of the River Deveron. The River Bogie, also known as the Water of Bogie, is a river in North West Aberdeenshire, It is noted for its brown trout fishing. During the 19th century, the Bogie provided the linen bleachfields of Huntly, then a major textile centre, with water. Bogieside, the area along the banks of the river, is often referred to in local literature and folk songs, such as Adieu tae Bogieside and Bogie's Bonnie Belle.



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Old Photograph Craighall Castle Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Craighall Castle near Ceres, Fife, Scotland. A charter dated 1507 by Andrew Kinninmond was signed at Craighall and the lands and house of Craighall were held by that family until sold to Sir Thomas Hope who built the present mansion in 1637, incorporating the older tower. The tower was removed after the old granary was burnt down about 1954. Craighall Castle has now been demolished and most of the stones removed.

The surname Hope may be of native Scottish origin, being derived from the Scottish Borders family of Hop or Hoip. In 1296 John de Hop of Peeblesshire and Adam le Houp both appear on the Ragman Rolls submitting to King Edward I of England. It has been suggested that the name may be from the H'oublons of Picardy family in France. The French word oublon means hop, which when translated into English becomes Hope. The immediate ancestor of the principal line of the clan was John de Hope who is said to have come to Scotland from France in 1537 as part of the retinue of Magdalen, the first wife of James V of Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Antwerp and District Pipe Band Scottish Highland Games Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Antwerp and District Pipe Band at the Scottish Highland Games on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to North Inch Park in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This wonderful band is from Belgium. The members travel many miles for band practice and competitions. The Antwerp & District Pipe Band is also a very international band, with players from the Netherlands, Scotland, Canada, Germany and France.

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Tour Scotland Video Stuart Higlanders Pipe Band Scottish Highland Games Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Stuart Highlanders Pipe Band at the Scottish Highland Games on ancestry visit to North Inch Park in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This wonderful band is from New England, USA. Founded in 1964, The Stuart Highlanders Pipe Band is a prize-winning performing and competing Scottish Highland Bagpipe band based in the greater Boston metropolitan region. Over fifty two years since the band’s founding, the band has actively pursued its mission to spread a greater appreciation for the art of Scottish bagpipes and drums and Scottish culture in general. Now with many dedicated members, the band continues its mission spreading the art of quality piping and drumming across the globe.

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Tour Scotland Video Mackenzie Caledonian Pipe Band Scottish Highland Games Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Mackenzie Caledonian Pipe Band at the Scottish Highland Games on ancestry visit to North Inch Park in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This wonderful band is from Dundee. The MacKenzie Pipe Band dates back to the days just after World War I, giving soldiers home from the war an outlet for their piping and drumming skills.

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Tour Scotland Video Vale of Atholl Pipe Band Scottish Highland Games Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Vale of Atholl Pipe Band at the Scottish Highland Games on ancestry visit to North Inch Park in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This wonderful band is from Highland Perthshire. The band was founded in 1906 as the Vale of Atholl Pipers Association, with the Marquess of Tullibardine as patron and led by pipe major Mitchell Pirnie. The band started in competing in competition in 1931 under the leadership of Robert Pirnie, and played at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Ian Duncan, brother of Gordon Duncan, joined the band in 1965 and took over as pipe major in 1973. The band first entered competitions organised by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association in 1977, starting in Grade 4, but by 1983 the band had been promoted to Grade 1. The band came second in the Champion of Champions table during the 1980s, and won the European and British Championship titles in 1988 and 1989 respectively. In 1993, the band reached a sponsorship agreement with Macnaughtons of Pitlochry, and changed its tartan from traditional Murray of Atholl tartan to the Muted Macnaughton. Andy Renwick succeeded Ian Duncan as pipe major at the end of 2000, and in 2002 the band secured a sponsorship deal with Robert Wiseman Dairies, changing its name to Robert Wiseman Dairies-Vale of Atholl Pipe Band.

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Tour Scotland Video New Zealand Police Pipe Band Scottish Highland Games Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of New Zealand Police Pipe Band at the Scottish Highland Games on ancestry visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. This wonderful band is a seven time winner of the New Zealand grade one championships. The Band is based at the Royal New Zealand Police College, 20 minutes north of Wellington.

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Tour Scotland Video St.Thomas Alumni Pipe Band Scottish Highland Games Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of St.Thomas Alumni Pipe Band at the Scottish Highland Games on ancestry visit to North Inch Park in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This wonderful band is based out of Houston, Texas, USA. The band competes annually at the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Scotland and is currently the only band within its grade that represents Houston.

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Old Photograph Cairnpapple Hill Scotland

Old photograph of Cairnpapple Hill located two miles North of Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. A Scottish hill with a dominating position in central lowland Scotland with views from coast to coast. It was used and re-used as a major ritual site over about 4000 years, and in its day would have been comparable to better known sites like the Standing Stones of Stenness. Neolithic rituals began about 3500 BC with signs of small hearths, and precious objects left on the hill, presumably as offerings, including fine pottery bowls and stone axe heads imported from Cumbria and Wales.



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Old Photograph Ballatrich Scotland

Old photograph of Ballatrich or Ballaterach, a farm house in Glenmuick parish near Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This is the place where Lord Byron spent part of his boyhood. George Gordon Byron, born 22 January 1788, died 19 April 1824, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an Anglo Scottish poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric poem She Walks in Beauty. He was the son of Captain John Mad Jack Byron and his second wife, the former Catherine Gordon, a descendant of Cardinal Beaton and heiress of the Gight estate in Aberdeenshire. Byron received his early formal education at Aberdeen Grammar School.



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Old Photograph Aldbar Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Aldbar Castle located three mils South West of Brechin in Angus, Scotland. This castle, sometimes called Auldbar was a 16th century four-storey tower house, greatly extended in the baronial style during the 19th century, which was demolished in 1965. Originally the property of the Crammond family, it was sold to John Lyon, 8th Lord Glamis in 1575. Subsequently the castle passed through the hands of the Sinclairs, Youngs and the Chalmers family, who were responsible for the extensions added in 1810.



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Old Photograph Auchen Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Auchen Castle near Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The original Scottish castle here dates back to 1220, built by Sir Humphrey de Kirkpatrick when he was Senestal of Annandale. The Kirkpatrick family was a close ally of Robert the Bruce and King Robert would have been entertained at Auchen Castle often. The Kirkpatrick clan has long since moved from their seat at Auchen Castle and their estates and holdings came under the ownership of the Clan Johnstone. The Johnstone's remain Lords of Annandale to this day, and the castle as we know it today was largely completed in 1849 by General Johnstone. Through marriage, the castle then went on to Sir William Younger, 1st Baronet, of Auchen Castle of the Youngers brewery family.



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Old Photograph Balnamoon House Scotland

Old photograph of Balnamoon House by Menmuir village located in Angus, Scotland. James Carnegy-Arbuthnott, Laird of Balnamoon, favoured the Jacobite cause and was known as the Rebel Laird. He was Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s Deputy-Lieutenant of Forfarshire and an officer in Lord Ogilvy’s Angus regiment. He survived the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and fled to Glen Esk where he was harboured by locals until he was betrayed by the local Presbyterian minister. Sent for trial in London, he was acquitted on a misnomer.



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Old Photograph Castle of Park Scotland

Old photograph of Castle of Park near Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle was begun in 1590 for Thomas Hay, the son of one of the Commendators of Glenluce Abbey, and his wife Jonet MakDouel. It was completed by 1599. The building was extended in the 18th century, and was used by the Hay family until Sir John Dalrymple-Hay sold the Park estate in 1875; it was then left uninhabited until it was restored in the 1950s and 1960s.



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Old Photograph Kames Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Kames Castle near Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute, Scotland. Originally the seat of the Bannatyne family, Kames is one of the oldest continuously inhabited Scottish houses. Sir William Macleod Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne, born 1743, died 1833, was a distinguished lawyer and judge in Edinburgh. He lost his fortune and was forced to sell Kames in 1812. Kames was the birthplace, and early home of the critic and essayist John Sterling. Thomas Carlyle in his biography refers to the castle as " a kind of dilapidated baronial residence to which a small farm was then attached. "



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Old Photograph Closeburn Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Closeburn Castle near Thornhill north of Dumfries, Scotland. The Kirkpatrick family was confirmed in their lands of Closeburn in 1232 by King Alexander II. The Scottish tower house castle was probably built in the late 14th century, although some sources give a date as early as 1180 or as late as 1420. Sir Roger de Kirkpatrick was with Robert the Bruce at Dumfries in 1306, and assisted in the murder of John " the Red " Comyn. His son, also Sir Roger, commanded a force which recaptured Caerlaverock and Dalswinton castles from the English in 1355. He was then murdered by Sir James Lindsay at Caerlaverock in 1357.



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Old Photograph Ashintully Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Ashintully Castle, located near Kirkmichael, north of Blairgowrie, in Strathardle, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built in 1583 as a fortified tower house by the Spalding family; the Feudal Barons of Ashintully. The Spalding Barons were chiefs of the Spalding Clan and followers of the Duke of Atholl, the Chief of the Murray Clan. The Spaldings of Ashintully and their cadet branches were Jacobites, or followers of the House of Stuart. The castle is reputed to have many ghosts, one of whom being a figure dressed in green known as Green Jean, who is thought to be the spirit of a young woman murdered by her uncle. It is said that her footsteps can still be heard as she walks the castle in sadness. In some tales she was murdered in a green dress, and then stuffed unceremoniously up the chimney by a servant. She is also said to wander the family burial ground. Green Ladies are common ghosts in Scottish castles, with a surprising number of them called Jean or Jeanie, suggesting a supplanted tradition. The castle is also thought to be haunted by the ghost of a tinker, hanged for trespassing by one of the Spalding Barons. He cursed the family, warning that the family line would soon come to an end, the prophecy being fulfilled a short time after his death. He is said to haunt the spot near where he was hanged, by an avenue of tall trees. The Spalding family must have had something of a reputation for cruelty, as the other ghost said to haunt the grounds is that of a misshapen servant, murdered by another member of the family. He is known as Crooked Davie on the account of his hunched back.



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Old Photograph Ravenstone Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Ravenstone Castle near Whithorn in Wigtownshire, Scotland. This, now ruined Scottish castle also known as Ravinstone, or Remeston was one of the principal buildings in the parish, belonging to Robert Stewart, brother of the Earl of Galloway; it is first mentioned soon after 1455, and it is called Lochtoun alias Remistoun in 1585. It was extensively altered during the 18th century reconstruction, but retained two barrel vaulted basements, a number of original windows, and two gun loops. Earl of Galloway is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1623 for Alexander Stewart, 1st Lord Garlies, with remainder to his heirs male bearing the name and arms of Stewart.



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Old Photograph Newark Castle Port Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Newark Castle in Port Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built in 1478 by George Maxwell when he inherited the Barony of Finlanstone or Finlaystone in the parish of Kilmacolm. The original castle had a tower house within a walled enclosure or barmkin entered through a large gatehouse. All that remains of the outer defensive wall is from one of the original corner towers. In the late 16th century the castle was inherited by Sir Patrick Maxwell, a powerful friend of king James VI of Scotland who was notorious for murdering two members of a rival family and beating his wife who left him after having 16 children. In 1597 Sir Patrick expanded the building, constructing a new north range replacing the earlier hall in the form of a three storey Renaissance mansion. In 1668 the Glasgow authorities purchased 18 acres of land around Newark Castle from Sir George Maxwell who was then the laird, and developed the harbour into what they called " Port Glasgow ". The last Maxwell died in 1694 and the castle had a series of non-resident owners. An early tenant was a rope maker called John Orr who also dealt in wild animals such as big cats and bears which he obtained from ships visiting the Clyde and often housed in the castle cellars.



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Old Photograph Edinample Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Edinample Castle near Balquhidder and Lochearnhead, Scotland This is a late 16th century Scottish castle on the southern shores of Loch Earn. The castle takes the form of a Z-plan tower house, originally built by Black Duncan Campbell, Donnchadh Dubh, of Glenorchy. It is built on land acquired by the Campbells after their campaign for proscription, and subsequent demise of the MacGregors. It is said that Black Duncan pushed the castle's builder off the roof, in part to avoid paying him, but also because he omitted to construct the ramparts that had been requested. It is also said that the ghost of the builder has been seen walking on the roof.





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Tour Scotland Video Linn Of Dee River Dee Near Braemar Aberdeenshire Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland video of Linn Of Dee on the River Dee near Braemar on ancestry visit to Aberdeenshire, Scotland. At Linn of Dee the river passes east through a 300 metre natural rock gorge. The River Dee rises at approximately 4,000 feet in elevation on the plateau of Braeriach in the Cairngorm Mountains, the highest source of any major river in the British Isles. Emerging in a number of pools called the Wells of Dee the young Dee then flows across the plateau to the cliff edge from where the Falls of Dee plunge into An Garbh Choire. The river is then joined by a tributary coming from the Pools of Dee in the Lairig Ghru and then flows south down the Lairig Ghru between Ben Macdui and Cairn Toul, tumbling over falls in the Chest of Dee on its way to White Bridge and the confluence with the Geldie Burn. At Linn of Dee the river passes east through a 300 metre natural rock gorge. Between there and Braemar, Lui Water, formed by Luibeg and Derry burns, and Quoich Water join the growing River Dee. The River Clunie enters the Dee at Braemar. The Dee is a popular salmon fishing river, having a succession of varied pools, intersected by sharp rapids.

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Old Photograph Deanston Mill Scotland

Old photograph of Deanston Cotton Mill on the south bank of the River Teith by Doune, Scotland. This Scottish Mill was built by the Buchanan brothers of Carston, Killearn near Glasgow. in 1785, and utilised the River Teith to power the mill. In 1808 James Finlay and Company bought the mill and developed it into the industrial leader of its time, which included the construction of a 1500 yard long Lade. James Smith, a manager of the mill, was a successful entrepreneur and inventor. He built unusually designed accommodation over four levels for his workforce, called the divisions, which was new in its day. At its peak, the mill had over 1000 workers and had the largest waterwheel in Europe, Hercules. The cotton mill closed in 1965. On the site, the Deanston Whisky Distillery opened in 1966.



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Old Photograph Polmood Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Polmood near Tweedsmuir in the Borders, Scotland. Polmood was for many centuries the centre of the Hunter family in the lowlands and the earliest record was a charter dated 1057 to Norman Hunter of Polmood. It was once a Peel tower, part of a chain of beacons running down the Tweed Valley. Polmood is commemorated in The Piper of Polmood a piece based on old Scottish folk tunes by Victor Babin.



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Old Photograph Auskerry Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of the lighthouse on Auskerry a small island in the eastern Orkney Islands, Scotland. Auskerry is located in the North Sea south of Stronsay. The lighthouse lights the north entrance to the Stronsay Firth. It was built in 1866 by engineers David and Thomas Stevenson. Thomas, born 22 July 1818, died 8 May 1887, was a pioneering Scottish lighthouse designer and meteorologist, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, as well as the Stevenson screen used in meteorology. His designs, celebrated as ground breaking, ushered in a new era of lighthouse creation. He served as president of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, as president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and was a co-founder of the Scottish Meteorological Society.



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Tour Scotland Video St Salvator's Chapel North Street St Andrews Fife

Tour Scotland video of St Salvator's Chapel on North Street on ancestry visit to St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. This is one of two collegiate chapels belonging to the University of St Andrews, the other being St Leonard's Chapel. It was founded in 1450, built in the Late Gothic architectural style, and refurbished in the 1680s, 1860s and throughout the 20th century. It is currently the chapel of the United college as well as being the major university chapel.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Music Wind Ensemble Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish music wind ensemble on ancestry visit to a church in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. A concert band, also called wind ensemble, symphonic band, wind symphony, wind orchestra, wind band, symphonic winds, symphony band, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, along with the double bass.

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Old Photograph Culcreuch Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Culcreuch Castle by Fintry near Loch Lomond, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built in 1296 by Maurice Galbraith. It was the clan seat of Clan Galbraith from 1320 to 1624, when it was sold to a cousin, Alexander Seton of Gargunnock, to settle a financial debt. In 1632, it was purchased by Robert Napier, a younger son of John Napier, the 8th Laird of Merchiston. The Napier family held the estate for five generations. The castle was used to garrison Oliver Cromwell’s troops in 1654. In 1796, the castle was sold to Alexander Spiers of Glasgow, who built a cotton mill and a whisky distillery in Fintry.



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Old Photograph Netherhall House Largs Scotland

Old photograph of Netherhall House by Largs in Ayrshire, Scotland. This was once the home of Lord Kelvin famous Glasgow scientist who was most well known for his Kelvin temperature scale based on absolute zero. He is buried in Westminster Abbey, London, England, beside Sir Isaac Newton.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Portgordon Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Portgordon near Buckie on the Moray Firth, Scotland. This intermediate station was opened, first as Port Gordon Station, on 1 May 1886. It was renamed Portgordon Station by the London and North Eastern Raliway before 1938 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 May 1968.



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Tour Scotland Video Highland Cathedral Agricultural Show Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video Perth and District Pipe Band playing Highland Cathedral on visit to the agricultural show in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The show is a two day event held on the South Inch Park in Perth.

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Tour Scotland Video Shetland Ponies With Riders Agricultural Show Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Shetland Ponies and riders on visit to the agricultural show in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The show is a two day event held on the South Inch Park in Perth. Shetland ponies originated in the Shetland Islands, located north east of mainland Scotland. Small horses have been kept on the Shetland Isles since the Bronze Age. were first used for pulling carts, carrying peat, coal and other items, and plowing farm land. Then, as the Industrial Revolution increased the need for coal in the middle of the 19th century, thousands of Shetland ponies traveled to mainland Britain to be pit ponies, working underground hauling coal, often for their entire, often short, lives. Coal mines in the eastern United States also imported some of these animals. The last pony mine in the United States closed in 1971.

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Tour Scotland Video Orange Sheep Listening To Bagpipes Agricultural Show Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of an orange sheep listening to bagpipe music on visit to the agricultural show in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The show is a two day event held on the South Inch Park in Perth.

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Tour Scotland Video Junior Show Jumping Perth Agricultural Show Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of junior show jumping on visit to the agricultural show in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The show is a two day event held on the South Inch Park in Perth.

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Old Photograph Menstrie Clackmannanshire Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and children in Menstrie in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Located about five miles East North East of Stirling. It is one of a string of towns that, because of their location at the base of the Ochil Hills, are collectively referred to as the Hillfoots Villages or simply The Hillfoots. The people of Menstrie once processed wool from sheep farmed on the Ochils. In 1800, businessmen from Tullibody set up a carding and spinning mill on the east side of the Menstrie Burn to exploit its soft water and power, absent from their own village.



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Old Photograph Skerryvore Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Skerryvore lighthouse located twelve miles South West of the Isle of Tiree located South West Of Coll which is West of Isle Of Mull, Scotland. With increasing sea trade from Scotland to North America in the early 19th century it became imperative to clearly mark the reef which had claimed many ships. Skerryvore was constructed of Mull granite by a team headed by Alan Stevenson, uncle of Robert Louis Stevenson, the writer, from 1838 to 1844.



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Old Photograph Pentland Skerries Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Pentland Skerries Lighthouse on Muckle Skerry off the north coast of Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse was constructed in 1794 by the Commissioners of the Northern Lights. The engineers were Thomas Smith and his stepson Robert Stevenson, this was the first light that Stevenson officially worked on.



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Old Photograph Hyskeir Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Hyskeir Lighthouse located on rocks approximately five miles south west of the Isle of Canna, the westernmost of the Small Isles archipelago in the Scottish Inner Hebrides of Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse was established in 1904. It marks the southern end of the Minch, warning of the presence of the Mills Rocks, Canna and Hyskeir itself. It was designed by David and Charles Stevenson and constructed by MacDougall contractors from Oban. The white tower was manned until March 1997, becoming one of the last lighthouses in Scotland to be automated.



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Old Photograph Lighthouse Flannan Isles Scotland

Old photograph of the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles located twenty miles West of Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Designed by David Alan Stevenson, the tower was constructed for the Northern Lighthouse Board between 1895 and 1899 and is located near the highest point on Eilean Mòr. Just over a year after it was commissioned a mysterious event took place here. The steamer Archtor on passage from Philadelphia, America, to Leith passed the islands in poor weather and noted that the light was not operational. This was reported on arrival at Oban although no immediate action seems to have been taken. The island lighthouse was manned by a three man team, Thomas Marshall, James Ducat and Donald Macarthur, with a rotating fourth man spending time on shore. The relief vessel, the lighthouse tender Hesperus, was unable to set out on a routine visit from Lewis planned for 20 December due to adverse weather and did not arrive until noon on 26 December. On arrival, the crew and relief keeper found that the flagstaff was bare of its flag, none of the usual provision boxes had been left on the landing stage for re-stocking and, more ominously, none of the lighthouse keepers were there to welcome them ashore. Jim Harvie, captain of the Hesperus, gave a strident blast on his whistle and set off a distress flare, but no reply was forthcoming. The island was scoured every corner for clues as to the fate of the keepers but no bodies were found. The Northern Lighthouse Board investigation by Robert Muirhead concluded, " From evidence which I was able to procure I was satisfied that the men had been on duty up till dinner time on Saturday the 15th of December, that they had gone down to secure a box in which the mooring ropes and landing ropes were kept, and which was secured in a crevice in the rock about 110 feet above sea level, and that an extra large sea had rushed up the face of the rock, had gone above them, and coming down with immense force, had swept them completely away.



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Old Photograph Fowlis Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Fowlis Castle located five miles North West of Dundee. Scotland. In 1448, King James I dated a charter at Fowlis. King James IV resided there in 1497. The castle was occupied by the Grays until after the erection of the more modern building which is a tower house dating from the seventeenth century. It was held by the Maule family and then by the Mortimers before coming to the Gray family in 1337. Sir Alexander Gray of Broxmouth was made Lord Gray of Fowlis.



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Old Photograph Raith House Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Raith House, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish mansion was built by Alexander, Lord Raith between 1692 and 1694, the work of that time being represented by the central portion of the present house, oblong on plan. The old house has been altered, but the ground floor vaulting remains. The outside walls are harled but the dressings are left exposed.



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Old Photograph River Kelven Maryhill Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the River Kelvin by Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish river rises on the moor south east of the village of Banton, east of Kilsyth. At almost 22 miles in length it first flows south to Dullatur Bog where it falls into a man made trench and takes a ninety degree turn flowing west through Strathkelvin and along the northern boundary of the bog parallel with the Forth and Clyde Canal. Its first important confluence is with the Chantyclear Burn which originates from the ridge of Dullatur. It then continues its westward flow being joined by the Shawend Burn to the west of Craigmarloch bridge. The next important tributary is the Garrel at a point South East of Kilsyth south of Dumbreck Marsh. The Kelvin then passes through the large flood plain north of Twechar where is fed by the Dock Water, Queenzie Burn, the Cast Burn and the Board Burn before reaching Kirkintilloch at its confluence with the more substantial waters of the Glazert and Luggie, it then flows past Torrance, meanders through Balmore Haughs, to the south of Bardowie where it joins the Allander Water after which it takes a South Westerly direction towards Maryhill, Hillhead, through Kelvingrove Park before falling into the River Clyde at Yorkhill Basin in the city of Glasgow.



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Old Photograph Duncan Napier Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of Duncan Napier in Edinburgh, Scotland. Duncan was a Victorian botanist and herbalist. His early start in life was hard as he was orphaned at an early age. From his youth he was fascinated by plants and nature. His interest in herbal medicine started when he found a book about it on an Edinburgh market stall. He had been apprenticed to a baker and, possibly due to the flour dust, had developed a chronic cough. After reading the book's recipes he experimented and made a Lobelia Cough Syrup that cleared up his cough within six months. He opened his first herbal shop on Bristo Place, Edinburgh in May 1860.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video The Jellyman's Daughter Southern Fried Music Festival Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of The Jellyman's Daughter singing at the Southern Fried Festival on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This wonderful duo are from Glasgow.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Different Lonesome Red Pine Timber Company Southern Fried Festival Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Red Pine Timber Company singing Different Lonesome at the Southern Fried Festival on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Red Pine Timber Company are quickly becoming one of Scotland’s premier live bands.

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