Old Photograph Stobs Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Stobs Castle near Hawick, Scotland. In 1666 Gilbert Eliott of Stobs, the grandson of Gibby wi' the gouden gartins, received a baronetcy; and his youngest great grandson, George Augustus, K.B., born 1718, died 1790, the gallant defender of Gibraltar, was created Lord Heathfield in 1787. George, born 25 December 1717, died 6 July 1790, was a British Army officer who served in three major wars during the eighteenth century. He rose to distinction during the Seven Years War when he fought in Germany and participated in the British attacks on Belle Île in France, and Cuba. Eliott is most notable for his command of the Gibraltar garrison during the Great Siege of Gibraltar, which lasted between 1779 and 1783 during the American War of Independence. He was celebrated for his successful defence of the fortress.



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Old Photograph Kelburn Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Kelburn Castle near Fairlie in Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle is the seat of the Earl of Glasgow. The Boyle family have been in possession of the lands of Kelburn since the 12th century. In the late 16th century a tower house was built. This replaced an earlier structure, and may incorporate parts of the earlier masonry its eastern part. In the 17th century, orchards and gardens are recorded at Kelburn. David Boyle, born 1666, died 1733, a member of the Parliament of Scotland, was created Earl of Glasgow in 1703. He began the new north-west wing of the house, which was completed circa 1722. George Boyle, 6th Earl of Glasgow, born 1825, died 1890, added the north-east wing in 1880.



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Old Photograph East Parish Church Cromarty Scotland

Old photograph of the East Parish Church and graveyard in of Cromarty, Scotland. This Scottish church stands on the site of an earlier medieval parish church. The post-Reformation church was significantly enlarged in 1739 when Alexander Mitchell and Donald Robson, masons, and David Sandieson and John Keith, wrights, added a north aisle to create a T-plan church. Further alterations followed in 1756 and 1799.



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Old Photograph St Mark's Episcopal Church Portobello Scotland

Old photograph of St Mark's Episcopal Church in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland. This Scottish church was one of the first Episcopal churches to be built in the Edinburgh area, St Mark's is a villa like neo Classical church, square in plan, of 1824, most notable for its dome and semi circular Doric porch.



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Old Photograph Hangman's House Stirling Scotland

Old photograph of the Hangman's House in Stirling, Scotland. Public execution in Stirling was usually handled by the Hangman or Staffman as he was known. This official had his own house on St John’s Street. In the 17th century, executions took place at the Mailing Gallows where the Black Boy Fountain now stands.



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Old Photograph Talmine Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages in Talmine, a crofting and fishing township, overlooking Talmine Bay, an inlet on the western shore of Tongue Bay, Northern Sutherland, Scotland.


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Old Photograph Craigenputtock House Scotland

Old photograph of Craigenputtock house in the parish of Dunscore located nine miles North West of Dumfries, Scotland. This Scottish house was the property for generations of the family Welsh, and eventually that of their heiress, Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle, born 1801, died 1866, descended on the paternal side from Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of John Knox. The Carlyles made this house their home in 1828, and remained there for seven years, before moving to Carlyle's House in Cheyne Row, London, England, Britain. Craigenputtock is where Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle was written. The property was bequeathed by Thomas Carlyle to the Edinburgh University on his death in 1881.



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Old Photograph Pomathorn Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Pomathorn near Penicuik, Scotland. The first railway to serve Penicuik in Midlothian was the Peebles Railway, opened in 1855, which had a station named Penicuik uphill from Pomathorn Castle, to the south of the town. This, now closed, station was quite far from the town centre, up a hill and did not serve any industries.



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Old Photograph Cluny Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Cluny Castle near Laggan and Kingussie on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Highlands of Scotland. This Scottish castle was built in 1805 for the MacPhersons of Cluny. The original tower of the Cluny MacPhersons was destroyed in the aftermath of the battle of Culloden in 1746 by government troops, due to MacPherson of Cluny's support of the Jacobite cause. Andrew Carnegie and his wife Louise leased Cluny Castle for nine summers in the late nineteenth century. Carnegie attempted to purchase the castle but the owner refused, and Carnegie subsequently bought Skibo Castle.


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Old Photograph Archerfield House Scotland

Old photograph of Archerfield House in the parish of Dirleton, East Lothian, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house was built in the late 17th century, and was once the seat of the Nisbet family, feudal barons and lairds of Dirleton. It has Palladian windows, and was substantially rebuilt by architect John Douglas in 1745, and added to and altered throughout the 18th century, notably by Scottish architect Robert Adam who remodelled the interiors in 1790.



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Old Photograph Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery Scotland

Old photograph of Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery on Hoy, Orkney Islands, Scotland. This Scottish cemetery was begun in 1915 when Scapa Flow was the base of the Grand Fleet. Lyness remained as a Royal Naval base until July 1946 and the cemetery contains graves from both wars.



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Tour Scotland Video Suitcase Guitar Player Royal Mile Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a suitcase guitar player. playing music at the Festival Fringe on The Royal Mile on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Maryhill Barracks Gates Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the gates to Maryhill Barracks in Glasgow, Scotland. These Scottish barracks were opened as Garrioch Barracks in 1872. Built to accommodate an infantry regiment, a squadron of cavalry and a battery of field artillery, it dominated the area which is now the Wyndford housing estate. The barracks replaced the previous Infantry Barracks at Duke Street in the East End of the city, which dated from 1795. Maryhill Barracks became the depot of the Highland Light Infantry, City of Glasgow regiment after the Childers Reforms of 1881. During the 1919 general strike in Glasgow, the soldiers at Maryhill Barracks were deemed to be unreliable and were confined to barracks while troops from elsewhere were brought in to impose order. It was in 1919 that Maryhill Barracks was used as a marshalling place for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders before embarking for India. It was also home to the Scots Greys and famously held Adolf Hitler's second-in-command Rudolf Hess during World War II after his supposed Peace flight to the UK in 1941, at a time when it was used as a prisoner of war camp. In 1942, the Free French leader, General Charles de Gaulle, visited French troops there. The Barracks were decommissioned and largely demolished in the early 1960s.



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Old Photograph West Sandwick Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages in West Sandwick on the Isle of Yell, Shetland Islands, Scotland. This is one of the few settlements in the west of the island. The area south of Southladie Flo is an important feeding area for locally breeding Red throated Divers. As recently as the 1800s, the behaviour of the red throated bird was used to forecast the weather; according to the conventional wisdom of the time, birds flying inland or giving short cries predicted good weather, while those flying out to sea or giving long, wailing cries predicted rain. In the Orkney and Shetland islands of Scotland, the species is still known as the " rain goose " in deference to its supposed weather predicting capabilities. The people of the nearby Faroe Islands believed that if the red throated bird sounded like a cat, then rain was imminent, while a call of gaa-gaa-gaa or turkatrae-turkatrae predicted fine weather.





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Tour Scotland Video Walk Through The Festival Fringe On The Royal Mile In Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a walk through the Festival Fringe on The Royal Mile on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video M71 Passenger Bus Drive From Kinross To Milnathort Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of an M71 passenger bus drive from Kinross to Milnathort in Perthshire, Scotland. A passenger bus drive from Kinross Park and Ride to Milnathort village in Perthshire. Kinross Park and Ride is west of the town centre, from Kinross express coach services operate south to Edinburgh and north through Milnathort to Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness in the Scottish Highlands

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Tour Scotland Video M71 Passenger Bus Drive From Halbeath Fife To Kinross Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of an M71 passenger bus drive from Halbeath Park and Ride by Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. A passenger bus drive from Halbeath Park and Ride in Fife, North to Kinross Park and Ride in Perthshire. Halbeath Park and Ride is a bus park and ride located just off the M90, to the east of Dunfermline, in Fife, for commuting journeys most commonly to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dunfermline and Perth. Kinross Park and Ride is west of the town centre, from Kinross express coach services operate south to Edinburgh and north to Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness in the Scottish Highlands

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Old Photographs Railway Station Bearsden Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Bearsden, Glasgow, Scotland. The naming of the town is unusual, in that the current title of the town, which was originally New Kilpatrick, was taken from the station name, rather than the town giving its name to the station. These days trains to Glasgow operate on a regular schedule, with a departure once every 15 minutes from Monday to Saturday during the daytime. Two trains per hour go via Glasgow Central on the Argyle Line, and on to Motherwell, while the other two travel via Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley on the North Clyde Line.





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Old Photograph Inveramsay Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station at Inveramsay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction Railway connected the Aberdeenshire town of Turriff with the Great North of Scotland Railway's main line at Inveramsay. A separate company, the Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension Railway, built extension to a station called Banff and Macduff. The junction railway, together with the junction station at Inveramsay, opened on 5 September 1857 and the extension opened on 4 June 1860. Both railways were absorbed by the Great North of Scotland Railway on 1 August 1866, and the line was extended to a new Macduff station in 1872. Following the grouping in 1923, the line became part of London and North Eastern Railway and was nationalised, becoming part of British Railways. The Macduff branch closed to passengers on 1 October 1951, completely to the north of Turiff on 1 August 1961 and the remaining line on 3 January 1966.


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Old Photograph Muckairn Church Scotland

Old photograph of Muckairn Church by Taynuilt, Argyll, Scotland. The modern parish church of Muckairn was built in 1829, but immediately south of it are the fragmentary remains of its medieval predecessor, which served the former parish of Muckairn or Kilespikeral. A number of medieval stone slabs or blocks with weathered decoration may be seen in the churchyard, while two medieval carved stones, probably from the earlier church, are built into the outer face of the south wall of the modern church.





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Old Photograph Mertoun Parish Church Scotland

Old photograph of Mertoun Parish Church near St Boswells in the Borders, Scotland. The original church of 1241, not on this site, was dedicated to St Ninian. The present church was built 1652, renovated 1820 and enlarged 1898 with the addition of the north aisle and vestry. Saint Ninian is a Christian saint first mentioned in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland. For this reason he is known as the Apostle to the Southern Picts, and there are numerous dedications to him in those parts of Scotland with a Pictish heritage, throughout the Scottish Lowlands, and in parts of Northern England with a Northumbrian heritage. In Scotland, Ninian is also known as Ringan, and as Trynnian in Northern England.



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Old Photograph Barjarg House Scotland

Old photograph of Barjarg house located four miles south east of Penpont which is two miles west of Thornhill north of >Dumfries, Scotland. The original L-planned tower, dates from the late 16th century, and is said to have been given by the Earl of Morton to Thomas Grierson in 1587. Subsequent owners included the judge Lord Tinwald and the minister Andrew Hunter.



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Old Photograph St Drostan's Episcopal Church Tarfside Scotland

Old photograph of St Drostan's Episcopal Church by Tarfside in Glenesk, Angus, Scotland. This Scottish church was built in 1879 by Lord Forbes in memory of his brother Alexander Penrose Forbes who was Bishop of Brechin.



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Old Photograph Milltimber Scotland

Old photograph of Milltimber now a suburb to the west of Aberdeen, Scotland. Along with the nearby settlements of Cults and Bieldside, it is now home to some of the most wealthy residents of Aberdeen.



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Old Photograph Cadder House Scotland

Old photograph of Cadder House by Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, Scotland. In antiquity, Cadder was the site of a Roman fort on the route of the Antonine Wall. Cadder House was a property held by the Stirling family for generations. Cadder is located five miles north of Glasgow city centre.



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Tour Scotland Video Atholl Street Dunkeld Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland video Atholl Street just over the bridge on ancestry visit to Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. Atholl Street on the A923 North road is the main street in Dunkeld. The alignment of the town was radically altered in 1809 by the building of a new stone bridge over the River Tay by Thomas Telford at the east end of the town, and the laying out of Atholl Street at right angles to the old alignment. This street, which retains much of its Georgian appearance, was part of the main route north to Inverness in the Highlands, until Dunkeld was bypassed in 1977, along with Birnam, by the A9.

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Tour Scotland Video Thomas Telford Bridge Over River Tay In Dunkeld Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Thomas Telford Bridge which spans the River Tay on ancestry visit to Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish bridge is considered to be one of the greatest civil engineering feats of the 19th century. Thomas Telford, born 9 August 1757, died 2 September 1834, was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, England. he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels. Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed The Colossus of Roads, and, reflecting his command of all types of civil engineering in the early 19th century, he was elected as the first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a post he retained for 14 years until his death.

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Tour Scotland Video Pipe Band World Highland Games Heavy Events Championship Dunfernline Fife

Tour Scotland video of a pipe band at the World Highland Games Heavy Events Championships in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry visit to to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Dunfermline is the ancient capital of Scotland, birthplace of Kings and Queens and the final resting place of King Robert The Bruce. The town was first recorded in the 11th century, with the marriage of Malcolm III, King of Scotland, and Saint Margaret at the church in Dunfermline. As his Queen consort, Margaret established a new church dedicated to the Holy Trinity, which evolved into an Abbey under their son, David I in 1128. Following the burial of Alexander I.

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Tour Scotland Video Drummers And Piper World Highland Games Heavy Events Championships Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland video of drummers and a Piper at the World Highland Games Heavy Events Championships in Pittencrieff Park on ancestry visit to to Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Dunfermline is the ancient capital of Scotland, birthplace of Kings and Queens and the final resting place of King Robert The Bruce.

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Tour Scotland Video Torrential Rain Old High Street Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of torrential rain in the old High Street on ancestry visit toPerth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Diabaig Scotland

Old photograph of a crofters cottage in Diabaig in wild and remote Wester Ross, Scotland. This remote Scottish coastal fishing and crofting township is located on the north shore of the sea loch of Loch Diabaig, an inlet off the north side of Loch Torridon. The villages of Alligin Shuas and Inveralligin lie to the South East along this road. A footpath continues along the coast from Diabaig, to the small settlement of Redpoint, near Gairloch. Loch Diabaig played the part of Loch Ness in the 1995 film of the same name. Ted Danson starred.





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Old Photograph Thatched Houses Ladywell Street Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of thatched houses in Ladywell Street in Glasgow, Scotland. Lady Well was an ancient holy well dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and was probably one of the sixteen public wells in Glasgow in 1736. It used to flow from the East bank of the Merchants' Park, but when this was converted to the Necropolis, the well became polluted and was closed. The Merchants' House, in 1836, built a niche on the spot to mark the site of its exit from the brae. This was rebuilt in 1874.



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Tour Scotland Video Drummers HM Royal Marines Band Mini Military Tattoo Dundee Tayside

Tour Scotland video of Drummers from HM Royal Marines Plymouth and Portsmouth Band in the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Drummers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo performing at the mini tattoo in Dundee.

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Tour Scotland Video Lone Piper Playing When The Battles Over Mini Military Tattoo City Square Dundee Tayside

Tour Scotland travel video of a lone Piper playing When The Battles Over from a balcony overlooking the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to and trip to Dundee. Lone bagpiper from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Dundee. The tune is a late 19th century composition by Pipe Major William Robb, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, the tune entered piping repertoire between the Boer and First World Wars.

When the Battle’s Over
I returned to the fields of glory,
Where the green grasses and flowers grow.
And the wind softly tells the story,
Of the brave lads of long ago.

March no more my soldier laddie,
There is peace where there once was war.
Sleep in peace my soldier laddie,
Sleep in peace, now the battle’s over.

In the great glen they lay a sleeping,
Where the cool waters gently flow.
And the gray mist is sadly weeping,
For those brave lads of long ago.

See the tall grass is there awaiting,
As their banners of long ago.
With their heads high forward threading,
Stepping lightly to meet the foe.

Some return from the fields of glory,
To their loved ones who held them dear.
But some fell in that hour of glory,
And were left to their resting here

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Old Photograph Rosneath Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Rosneath castle located near the village of Kilcreggan, Scotland. This, now demolished, Scottish castle was ruined and rebuilt many times; the final rebuilding came in 1803, three years after the previous building burnt down. Located further uphill from previous versions, it belonged to the Duke of Argyll whose family retained it until Princess Louise died in 1939. In stark contrast to the earlier castles, it was in the Romanesque style.





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Old Photograph Dougalstoun House Scotland

Old photograph of Dougalstoun House by Milngavie, Scotland. Dougalstoun, now demolished, early came into the family of Grahams, allied to the ancestors of the Montrose family, and at the beginning of the 19th century was owned by Henry Glassford, son of James Glassford, one of the great merchant princes and tobacco lords of Glasgow, who had lavished money in building the large mansion house, laying down ornamental water ponds and planting trees.



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Old Photograph Glenborrodale Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Glenborrodale castle by Loch Sunart in the south of the Ardnamurchan peninsula in Lochaber, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built as a guest house by Charles Rudd, the main business associate of Cecil Rhodes, and was later owned by Jesse Boot, who was the proprietor of the Boots chain of chemist shops. In May 1746, following the Jacobite rising of 1745 two French supply ships were attacked off Glenborrodale by three ships of the Royal Navy.


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Old Photograph Kilnave Chapel And Cross Islay Scotland

Old photograph of Kilnave Chapel and Cross, Isle of Islay, Scotland. This medieval chapel stands within a trapezoidal enclosure bounded by a wall of 19th century date, at the edge of a raised beach terrace close to the West shore of Loch Gruinart. The chapel is said to have been burnt by the MacDonalds when a party of MacLeans took refuge there after the battle of Traigh Ghruineard in 1598. This free standing ringless cross, probably of 5th century date, is carved from a thin slab of greenish Torridonian flagstone.



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Tour Scotland Video Pipers Playing Scotland The Brave Mini Military Tattoo City Square Dundee

Tour Scotland video of Pipers and the Royal Marines Band playing the music for Scotland The Brave and For We're No' Awa' Tae Bide Awa in the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Bagpipers and Portsmouth and Plymouth Royal Marines from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Dundee.

Hark! When the night is falling
Hear, Hear! the pipes are calling,
Loudly and proudly calling, down through the glen.
There where the hills are sleeping,
Now feel the blood a-leaping,
High as the spirits of the old Highland men.

Towering in gallant fame,
Scotland my mountain hame,
High may your proud standards gloriously wave,
Land of my high endeavour,
Land of the shining river,
Land of my heart for ever, Scotland the brave

High in the misty Highlands,
Out by the purple islands,
Brave are the hearts that beat beneath Scottish skies.
Wild are the winds to meet you,
Staunch are the friends that greet you,
Kind as the love that shines from fair maidens' eyes.

Far off in sunlit places,
Sad are the Scottish faces,
Yearning to feel the kiss of sweet Scottish rain.
Where tropic skies are beaming,
Love sets the heart a-dreaming,
Longing and dreaming for the homeland again

For we're no' awa' tae bide awa',
For we're no' awa tae le'e ye,
For we're no' awa' tae bide awa',
We'll aye come back an' see ye

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Tour Scotland Video Pipers Playing Auld Lang Syne Mini Military Tattoo City Square Dundee

Tour Scotland video of Pipers and the Royal Marines Band playing the music for Auld Lang Syne in the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Bagpipers and Portsmouth and Plymouth Royal Marines from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Dundee.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne

For auld lang syne, my jo,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

And surely ye’ll be your pint-stowp!
and surely I’ll be mine!
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

We twa hae run about the braes,
and pu’d the gowans fine;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
sin auld lang syne.

We twa hae paidl’d i' the burn,
frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
sin auld lang syne.

And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere!
and gie's a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll tak a right gude-willy waught,
for auld lang syne.

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Tour Scotland Video Skye Boat Song HM Royal Marines Band Mini Military Tattoo City Square Dundee Scotland

Tour Scotland video of the Royal Marines Band playing the music for the Skye Boat song in the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Portsmouth and Plymouth Royal Marines from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo playing at the mini tattoo in Dundee.

Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing,
Onward! the sailors cry;
Carry the lad that's born to be King
Over the sea to Skye.

Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar,
Thunderclouds rend the air;
Baffled, our foes stand by the shore,
Follow they will not dare.

Though the waves leap, so soft shall ye sleep,
Ocean's a royal bed.
Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep
Watch by your weary head.

Many's the lad fought on that day,
Well the Claymore could wield,
When the night came, silently lay
Dead in Culloden's field.

Burned are their homes, exile and death
Scatter the loyal men;
Yet ere the sword cool in the sheath
Charlie will come again.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Highland Dancing Mini Tattoo City Square Dundee Tayside

Tour Scotland video of Scottish Highland Dancing to the music of the Shetland Fiddlers in the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Traditional dancers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo at the mini tattoo in Dundee. Dancers from Scotland and New Zealand.

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Old Photograph Baledmund House Scotland

Old photograph of Baledmund House by Moulin near Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Baledmund has belonged to the Ferguson family from as early as 1715 when as a result of the Jacobite Rebellion, Finlay Fergusson of Baledmund was taken prisoner at the Battle of Preston. The Ferguson surname is of Old Gaelic origin, found in Ireland and Scotland, and is a patronymic form of " Fergus ", from an Old Gaelic personal name " Fearghus ", composed of the elements " fear ", man, and " gus ", vigour, force, with the patronymic ending " son ". This Gaelic personal name was the name of an early Irish mythological figure, a valiant warrior, and was also the name of the grandfather of St. Columba. Ferguson is by far the most popular and widespread form of Fergus. Some Irish bearers of the name Fergus claim descent from Fergus, Prince of Galloway who died in 1161. Ferguson is widespread in Ireland in Ulster, where it is of Scottish descent. The surname is first recorded in Scotland in the mid 15th Century where the Fergusons are classed among the septs of Mar and Atholl.



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Old Photograph Inchmurrin Island Loch Lomond Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage on Inchmurrin Island in Loch Lomond, Scotland. This Scottish island was formerly a deer park of the Dukes of Montrose, who had a hunting lodge built in 1793 and maintained a gamekeeper and his family there. There are ruins of Lennox Castle, probably built for Duncan, 8th Earl of Lennox whose seat was Balloch Castle at the south end of Loch Lomond. The castle here was probably a hunting lodge for the deer park established on the island by King Robert I of Scotland in the early 14th century. After her husband Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany, father Donnchadh, Earl of Lennox, and two sons were executed by James I in 1425, Isabella Countess of Lennox retired to the castle on Inchmurrin with her grandchildren. In 1417, Iain Colquhoun of Luss was killed here by robbers. Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, governor of Dumbarton Castle, was murdered at Inchmurrin in 1439, during a raid led by Lachlan MacLean. In 1617, James VI made his only return visit to Scotland, and included Inchmurrin in his itinerary to go hunting. Rob Roy raided the island. At one point, his men came to control all the boats on the River Endrick and Loch Lomond, which were later used to remove cattle from Inchmurrin. Inchmurrin was used as a mental asylum, and also unmarried pregnant women were sent here to give birth.



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Tour Scotland Video Opening Parade Mini Military Tattoo City Square Dundee Tayside

Tour Scotland video of the opening parade in the City Square at the mini Military tattoo on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Performers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo marching on parade at the mini tattoo in Dundee, including The Royal Regiment of Scotland, The Royal Army of Oman, Australian Federal Police, The Black Watch, Scottish Highland dancers, Shetland Fiddlers, Royal Marines Band, New Zealand Kapa Haka Dancers, Band of The Armed Forces of Malta, Nagaland Folkloric Group, Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Steel Orchestra, iNgobamakhosi Zulu Dance Troupe, The Band of the Armed forces of Malta.

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Old Photograph South Leith Parish Church Scotland

Old photograph of South Leith Parish Church in Edinburgh, Scotland. This Scottish church originally called the Kirk of Our Lady, is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. It is the principal church and congregation in Leith, in Edinburgh. Its kirkyard is the burial place for John Home, author of Douglas, and John Pew, the man from whom the author Robert Louis Stevenson reputedly derived the character of Blind Pew in the novel Treasure Island.



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Old Photograph St Columba’s Church Boat Of Garten Scotland

Old photograph of St Columba’s Church in Boat of Garten in Badenoch And Strathspey, Scotland. This Scottish church was built in the summer of 1900 at a cost of £820, and the church hall was added in 1934. After the Disruption of 1843, a schism within the established Church of Scotland, in which 450 evangelical ministers of the Church broke away, the men of the area engaged in a fanaticism, erecting the " Stone of the Spey " below Boat of Garten. The stone was inscribed by one William Grant and was erected in 1865 in memory of the wife of Patrick Grant. As it was associated with scandal, the district residents destroyed it and threw it into the river.



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Old Photograph Johnston Tower Scotland

Old photograph of Johnston Tower by Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish tower was built in 1813 by James Farquhar of Johnston on the Hill of Garvock. James, who came from an Aberdeen mercantile family, was in successful practice as a proctor in Doctors’ Commons, also called the College of Civilians, a society of lawyers practising civil law in London, England. He was in partnership with Joseph Sladen at 19 Bennett’s Hill until about 1820, when they were joined by John Irving Glennie. Since 1810, Farquhar had held the remunerative post of deputy registrar of the admiralty court, the duties of which were administered from his other office at 2 Paul’s Bakehouse Court. His elder brother William, born 1762, died 1838, was in partnership as a merchant at 12 St. Helens Place, Bishopsgate Street with their youngest half brother John Morice until about 1828. Their mother, widowed in 1768, had married David Morice, an Aberdeen advocate, in 1773. James died at his London home in Duke Street in September 1833.



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Old Photograph Tullich Kirk Scotland

Old photograph of Tullich Kirk near Ballater in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A Celtic chapel was established here by Nathalan, or Neachtan, who died in AD 678. The church was held by the Knights Templars and latterly by the Hospitallers, who built a fort around the church in the 13th century, traces of which still remain. The present, now ruined, building is a good example of a Medieval parish church. Against the north wall of the church is a worn Pictish stone carved with traditional Pictish symbols of a mirror, beast, double disc, and Z-rod. There is a Pictish cross slab five miles away at Kinord, and a stone circle at Tomnaverie, nine miles away.



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Old Photograph Tombae Scotland

Old photograph of Tombae church and school in Moray, Scotland. This Scottish church was designed by John Gall of Aberdeen, but completed in 1844 by Bishop James Kyle, replacing a simple mass house further upstream. The scenic rural site overlooks the River Livet, farmland and hills, now scantily populated. Gothic Revival church with pinnacled west front and lofty, elegant vaulted interior lit by large traceried windows. The former chancel served as the presbytery until 1862 when replaced by a neighbouring house, and then as a school until 1903.



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