Tour Scotland Video Houses Cottages Harbour St Monans East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of houses and cottages by the harbour on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the old fishing village of St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This village on the Fife Coastal Path is named after the legendary Saint Monan. The village is rich in vernacular fisher cottages and merchant houses of the 17th to early 19th centuries, with characteristic old Scots features such as forestairs, crow-stepped gables, datestones, and pantiled roofs from the time when locals here made their living mainly from fishing.

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Old Photograph Tram Falkirk Scotland

Old photograph of a Tram in Falkirk, Scotland. The Falkirk and District Tramways operated a tramway service in Falkirk between 1905 and 1936. The company started services on 21 October 1905. Falkirk is situated in the Forth Valley, almost midway between Edinburgh and Glasgow.



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Old Photograph Tram Depot Coatbridge Scotland

Old photograph of staff in the Tram Depot in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Coatbridge is situated about 10 miles east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands. The town, with neighbouring Airdrie, is part of the Greater Glasgow urban area.



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Old Photograph Tram Racecourse Ayr Scotland

Old photograph of a Tram at the racecourse in Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Tram Ayr Scotland

Old photograph of passengers on a Tram in Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Tram To Rouken Glen Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of a Tram going to Rouken Glen in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, to the South West of Glasgow, Scotland. The 1906 Rouken Glen service was a red tram route that became service 8 in 1938; on March 14, 1959 it was replaced by bus service 38 and in June the 8A tram was replaced by the number 45 bus.



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Old Photograph Ingram Street Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of people, shops and Tram on Ingram Street in Glasgow, Scotland. Laid out in the late 18th century, it was named in 1781 to honor Archibald Ingram, born 1699, died 1770, a prominent merchant involved in the transatlantic tobacco trade.


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Old Photograph Coulter Scotland

Old photograph of the library in Coulter, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The Monks of Kelso and the Templars feature in the early history of Coulter, also known as Culter.



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Old Photograph Toftcombs House Scotland

Old photograph of Toftcombs House by Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Until 1832 the House formed part of a large estate belonging to Vice Admiral Charles Fleming of Biggar and Cumbernauld. At that time the House, known as Wester Toftcombs, the farm of Easter Toftcombs and Mid Toftcombs were bought by John Liddle of West Mains. These were tenanted by four generations of the Gladstone family, later made famous by the British Prime Minister, William Gladstone. Thereafter Toftcombs passed from John Liddle to Thomas Gibson, his son James Gibson and then the Trustees of Robert MacWharrie in 1897. In 1900 Toftcombs was bought by Sir Andrew Macdonald, Knight of Glengonar, former Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Although located in the Scottish Borders countryside, it is only 30 minutes from Edinburgh and 50 minutes from Glasgow.



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Old Photograph Bargany House Scotland

Old photograph of Bargany House located South West of Dailly eight miles South of Maybole in South Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish mansion house dates from around 1681 and was one of the first unfortified houses in Scotland. The building was constructed using stone from a ruined castle on the banks of the nearby Girvan River. It is also noted for the Duke's Bridge, a 1756 addition. It was home to the Dalrymple Hamilton family. The estate has other literary connections, one of the cottages on the Bargany estate was birthplace to two Victorian poets: Reverend Hamilton Paul, born 1773, died 1854, who was also a biographer of Robert Burns, and Hew Ainslie, born 1792, died 1878.



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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Lifeboat And Middle Pier Beach Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland Autumn video of the middle pier beach and lifeboat by East Shore Street on ancestry visit to Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Anstruther Lifeboat Station founded in 1865 now operates a 12m Mersey Class Fast Carriage Boat, FCB, RNLB The Kingdom of Fife.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Castle Street Beach Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of cottages and houses by Castle Street beach on ancestry history visit and trip to Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife. The name Anstruther was adopted as a familial name. Origins of the Clan Alexander I of Scotland granted the lands of Anstruther to William de Candela in the early 12th century. There are a number of suggested origins for William but research points to the Normans in Italy. It is known that King William I of England sought assistance from William, Count of Candela, who sent his son. It is likely that this son was William de Candela, who received the grant of land from Alexander. William de Candela's son, also William, was a benefactor to the monks of Balmerino Abbey. The site now occupied by the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther was a gift from William. The next generation of the family, Henry, no longer styled himself , de Candela, being described as 'Henricus de Aynstrother dominus ejusdem' in a charter confirming grants of land to Balmerino Abbey. Henry Anstruther accompanied King Lois IX to the crusades and swore fealty to King Edward I of England in 1292 and again in 1296. 16th Century & Anglo-Scottish Wars In 1483, Andrew Anstruther of Anstruther confirmed the right to a barony and fought against the English at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513 during the Anglo Scottish Wars. His second son, David, fought at the Battle of Pavia in 1520 in the service of Francis I of France in the French Scots Regiment. This line ended with the death of the last Baron d'Anstrude in 1928. Andrew's great great grandson was chosen as a companion to the young James VI of Scotland, who appointed him Hereditary Grand Carver, a title still held by the head of the family today. In 1595 he became Master of the Household. 17th Century & Civil War His son, William, accompanied James to London following the Union of the Crowns in 1603 where he was made a Knight of the Order of the Bath. The next son Sir Phillip Anstruther led the Clan and fought as Royalists during the civil war and received Charles II at Dreel Castle after his coronation at Scone by Perth, Perthshire in 1651. However Phillip Anstruther was later taken prisoner after the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The Chief of Clan Anstruther was Ian Anstruther of Anstruther, from 2002 to his death in 2007. The Chief's seat remains at Balcaskie Castle. Airdrie House and Newark Castle in Fife also belong to the Anstruthers. Sir Ian Anstruthur died 29th July 2007. The Clan Crest is two arms in armour holding a pole axe with both hands gauntleted. The Clan Motto is: Periissem ni periissem, meaning I would have perished had I not persisted.

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Old Photograph Elder Free Library Govan Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the Elder Free Library in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. The library was gifted to Govan by Mrs Elder and designed by J J Burnet. It was opened on 5 September 1903 by Andrew Carnegie, the Scots American industrialist and millionaire who had funded 3,000 public libraries including 380 in Britain.



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Old Photograph Deer Elder Park Govan Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of deer in Elder Park in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. Elder Park was established in 1885 by Mrs Isabella Elder as monument to her shipbuilder husband. Isabella Ure, born 1828, died 1905, was an important philanthropist who used her wealth and status for the benefit of the wider community, especially championing women's education. A solicitor's daughter, she married John Elder, partner in the marine engineering company of Randolph, Elder and Company in 1857. The firm prospered becoming John Elder and Company in 1868, and taking over the Fairfield shipbuilding yard in Govan. It soon became a world leading company. After John Elder's death in 1869 Isabella Elder supported many charitable causes, notably in Govan and in support of the education of women.



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Old Photograph Trinity Street Church Greenock Scotland

Old photograph of the interior of Trinity Street Church in Greenock by Glasgow, Scotland. The congregation was formed in 1791 when 360 people requested a new Secession place of worship, separating from the Cartsdyke Associate Session. The congregation was formally constituted in 1793. The original church was built on Nicolson Street, often referred to as the Nicolson Street Burgher Church. Due to the need for a larger space, a new church was built at a cost of £7,792 just east of the corner of Campbell Street and Union Street. The first service in this new, Gothic-style building was held in 1871.


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Old Photograph Henry Bell Monument Helensburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the Henry Bell obelisk monument on the esplanade by the seafront in Helensburgh, Scotland. Henry Bell, born 7 April 1767, died 14 March 1830, was a Scottish engineer known for introducing the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe. He was the fifth son of Patrick Bell and Margaret Easton. He was educated at the local parish school and was apprenticed to a stonemason in 1780. Three years later, he was apprenticed to his uncle, a millwright. He later learned ship modelling in Borrowstounness and in 1787, pursued his interest in ship mechanics in Bell's Hill with the engineer Mr James Inglis. This was followed by several years in London, England. He returned to Scotland around 1790, and moved to Glasgow, where he worked as a house-carpenter. His ambition was to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors and become a civil engineer, and to this end he joined the Glasgow corporation of wrights on 20 October 1797. In 1808, Bell moved to the modern town of Helensburgh, on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde, where his wife undertook the superintendence of the public baths, and at the same time kept the principal inn. In 1812 he built his steam boat the Comet, with an engine of three horsepower. The Comet, named after a great comet which had been visible for several months in 1811, was built by John Wood and Company, at Port Glasgow which lies three miles to the east of Greenock, as adjacent towns on the south bank of the River Clyde as it widens into the Firth of Clyde. The Comet made a delivery voyage from Port Glasgow 21 miles upriver to the Broomielaw, Glasgow, then sailed from Glasgow the 24 miles down to Greenock. Bell died at Helensburgh in 1830, aged 62.



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Old Photograph Moy Hall Inverness Scotland

Old photograph of Moy Hall, near Inverness, Scotland. The original Castle of Moy stood on an island in Loch Moy but in 1700 a house was built at the north end of the loch and has been the home of the chiefs of Clan Mackintosh since the fourteenth century. It was here that Charles Edward Stuart was entertained in 1746, by Lady Anne Mackintosh, a Jacobite supporter. Her husband, the clan chief, was fighting for the Government Army. Prince Charles escaped capture here. Lord Louden's government soldiers were sent from Inverness, to halt his progress. Lady Mackintosh, secretly informed about the planned capture, arranged for four of her men to hide by the roadside when the government troops approached. Setting off their pistols to fire one at a time, they were to shout for the clans of MacDonald and Cameron to advance, thus tricking the government army into thinking they had stumbled into the whole of the Jacobite Army. The trick worked, and Lord Louden's troops speedily retreated. The event is known as The Rout of Moy. The house was accidentally burned down in the time of Aeneas, the twenty-third chief. He had Moy Hall built in 1800. It was rebuilt in the 1870s by architect John Rhind who added the tower and two large wings. The Hall had sixty rooms. During the 1950s the building was found to have dry rot. Despite remedial treatment it was finally demolished and a new, much plainer house, designed by Gordon Gunn of George Gordon and Company was built in 1957.




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Old Photograph Victoria Road Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Victoria Road in Glasgow, Scotland. Victoria Road runs northeast from Queen's Drive, opposite the main entrance to Queen's Park.



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Old Photograph Gilnockie Tower Scotland

Old photograph of Gilnockie Tower located two miles North of Canonbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish tower is situated on the west bank of the River Esk. It was built around 1520 by Johnnie Armstrong, famous Border outlaw and younger brother of Thomas Armstrong of Mangerton. In 1528, the tower was burned by Sir Christopher Dacre, English Warden of the Western Marches, and in 1530 Johnnie and 50 followers were hanged by James V, after being tricked into joining a hunting party. The tower was rebuilt, but was damaged again by English raids in the 1540s, only to be rebuilt again. In 1978, the tower was a roofless ruin, when it was bought by Major T.C.R. Armstrong-Wilson, who undertook a full restoration. The tower now houses the Clan Armstrong centre.

Old Photograph Wamphray Glen Scotland

Old photograph of Wamphray Glen near Lockerbie, Scotland. Wamphray is the name of the surrounding parish and of the Wamphray Water, which flows South West through the Wamphray Glen to join the River Annan near the small village, or hamlet, of Newton.





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Old Photograph Bridge of Ess Scotland

Old photograph of Bridge of Ess near Aboyne in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This early 19th century Scottish bridge over the Water of Tanar was widened in 1894 by George Truefitt and Thomas Mawson.



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Old Photograph Law Mill St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Law Mill at the Lade Braes in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The first written record of a mill on this site is from 1570 when it was feued to David Orme of Priorletham by the Priory of St Andrews. It is possible that a mill has occupied this site since the 13th century. The mill was feued to Thomas Nicoll in 1848 and was to fall into decline from this period; the Nicoll family declared bankruptcy in 1913 after milling had stopped. The Lade Braes name derives from hillside, the word braes in Scots, and a course of water, lade, denoting the course built, initially by the Priory of St Andrews in the 13th century, to divert the water from the Kinness Burn to the many mills that once existed in the area. The Law Mill initially drew water from the Lumbo Burn before 1843 and after this date the diverted waters of the Kiness Burn were also used.





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Old Photograph Loch Na Keal Scotland

Old photograph of the single track road by Loch Na Keal, a sea loch on the Atlantic coastline of Isle of Mull, Scotland This is a coastline of cliffs, land slips and slopes that are monumental in scale, and covered in scree.


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Old Photograph North Parish Church Girvan Scotland

Old photographs of thatched cottages and North Parish Church in Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish church located on Montgomerie Street has a spire over 100 feet tall.



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Old Photograph Town Hall Earlsferry East Neuk of Fife Scotland

Old photograph cottages, houses and the town hall in Earlsferry, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish Town Hall, built between 1864 and 1872, has a sailing ship as its weather vane. As well as the plaque to the golfer James Braid, there is one which commemorates the Polish soldiers stationed in the town during the Second World War. Many of them stayed and married local women.


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Old Photograph Celtic Cross Campbeltown Scotland

Old photograph of the Celtic Cross in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. This cross dates from around 1380. The stone is eleven feet in height and includes the largest known disc head. It is formed from distinctive rock, a schist from Loch Sween, and intricately carved, with Celtic designs, featuring foliage, Saints, a mermaid, sea-monster and other animals. It was erected at a church at Kilkivan near Machrihanish and an inscription suggests it commemorates Sir Ivor MacEachern, its Minister, and was commissioned by his son Sir Andrew MacEachern. It seems to have been moved to Campbeltown after the Reformation.



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Old Photograph Toll House East Kilbride Scotland

Old photograph of the late 18th century Toll House cottage in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish town is enclosed by the White Cart River to the west and the Rotten Calder to the east, the latter flowing northwards to join the River Clyde near Cambuslang. This area was previously the site of the small village of East Kilbride, prior to its post-war development. The modern settlement serves as a dormitory town for the city of Glasgow. East Kilbride takes its name from an Irish saint named St Bride or Brigit, who founded a monastery for nuns and monks in Kildare, Ireland in the 6th century. Irish monks introduced her order to Scotland. Kil, from the Gaelic cill, means church or burial place.




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Tour Scotland Video Autumn Drive Road From Pittenweem to Colinsburgh East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of an Autumn drive on the B942 road from Pittenweem on ancestry visit to Colinsburgh in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Colinsburgh is named after Colin Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Balcarres, born 1652, died 1722, who gave the land on which it was built. It was here that the first meeting of the Presbytery of Relief was held in 1761 after its founders had broken from the Church of Scotland. Balcarres House just north of the village, is based on a mansion built in 1595 by John Lindsay, second son of the ninth Earl of Crawford. The house became the family seat of the Earl of Crawford.

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Tour Scotland Video Walk West Shore Street St Monans East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of a walk along West Shore Street by the harbour front on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the old fishing village of St Monans, East Neuk of Fife. This village on the Fife Coastal walking Path is named after the legendary Saint Monan. The village is rich in vernacular fisher cottages and merchant houses of the 17th to early 19th centuries, with characteristic old Scots features such as forestairs, crow-stepped gables, datestones, and pantiled roofs from the time when locals here made their living mainly from fishing.

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Old Photograph Kilmaron Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Kilmaron Castle near Cupar, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built around 1820 to the designs of James Gillespie Graham, born 1776, died 1855, for the Dundee linen manufacturer Sir David Baxter, born 1793, died 1872. Baxter was the second son of William Baxter, of Balgavies, Angus, and was born in Dundee on 15 February 1793. He was educated at one of the local schools. In 1833 he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of R. Montgomerie, of Barrahill, Ayrshire. He became partner in the linen manufacturing firm of Baxter brothers, which included his father and his two younger brothers. In 1828 an attempt had been made by him to introduce power-loom weaving, but after a short trial it was abandoned until 1836, when its revival was followed by complete and extraordinary success. Through the mechanical skill of his partner in perfecting the machinery, and the business capacity and tact of David Baxter, the firm speedily became one of the largest manufacturing houses in the world; and to its remarkable success may be in a large degree ascribed the position which Dundee attained as the chief seat of the linen manufacture in Britain in the nineteenth century.



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Old Photograph Dundas Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Dundas Castle near South Queensferry, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built in 1818 by the renowned architect William Burn. The Dundas family sold the property in 1875. In 1899 it was bought by Stewart Clark, in whose family the property remains. Clark was the owner of a Victorian textile company at Anchor Mills and became Deputy Lord Lieutenant in the County of Renfrewshire, was elected MP for Paisley by Glasgow and was respected for being a great philanthropist. During the Second World War, Dundas Castle served as the headquarters for protecting the Forth Bridge.



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Old Photograph War Memorial Invergordon Scotland

Old photograph of the War Memorial in Invergordon, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland.

World War 1 Roll of Honour

Lance Corporal; J Burton, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Sergeant, J. S. Calder, Seaforth Highlanders
Lance Corporal, D Clark, Royal Highlanders Black Watch
Lance Corporal, J Denoon, East Surreys
2nd Lieutenant, A. S. Douglas, Royal Highlanders Black Watch
Signaller, W. Duff, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, H, Dunn, Dragoon Guards
Private, R. C. Dunn, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, J. Farquhar, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, W. J. Forsyth, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Private, A. Fraser, Highland Light Infantry
Private, H. Fraser, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, H. Fraser, Royal Highlanders Black Watch
Lieutenant, T. W. George, Royal Flying Corps
Seaman, C. Graham, Mercantile Marine
Private, Patrick. Graham, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, Paul Graham, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, J. C, Grant, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Private, E. Hogg, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, J. Innes, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, D. Jack, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, J. Johnstone, Royal Scots
Private, W. N. MacAndie, Seaforth Highlanders
Corporal, Walter MacAndie, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, A. MacDonald, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, F. MacDonald, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Lance Corporal H. MacGlashan, 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles
Engineer A. MacGregor, Mercantile Marine
Private, A. MacGregor, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Private, L. MacIntosh, Seaforth Highlanders
Sergeant, W. MacIntosh, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, A. S. Mackay, Royal Scots
Seaman, W. Mackay, Mercantile Marine
Private, F. M. Mackay, Seaforth Highlanders
Driver, T. T. Mackay, Royal Field Artillery
Sapper, A. M. Mackenzie, Canadian Engineers
Private, D. Mackenzie, Royal Scots
Private, D. Mackenzie, Royal Highlanders Black Watch
Private, H. Mackenzie, Seaforth Highlanders
Lance Corporal, K. MacLean, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, J. MacLennan, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
2nd Lieutenant, D. A. MacLeod, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Seaman, M. MacLeod, Mercantile Marine
Midshipman, T. MacLeod, Royal Navy
Private, F. MOTHERWELL, Gordon Highlanders
Driver, D. Munro, Machine Gun Corps
Private, D. Munro, 1st South African Regiment
Captain, H. Munro, Mercantile Marine
Corporal, J. Munro, 48th Highlanders, CEF
2nd Lieutenant, M. S. Munro, Rifle Brigade
Sergeant M.M., W. A. Munro, 3rd Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force
Gunner, J. Munro, Royal Field Artillery
Seaman D. Murray, Mercantile Marine
Private, J. Mustard, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Private, J. Noble, South African Scottish
Sergeant, D. Noble, Royal Highlanders Black Watch
Lance Sergeant, T. Rae, Seaforth Highlanders
Sergeant, W. Rae, Seaforth Highlanders
Lieutenant, A. B. Ross, Royal Irish Rifles
Private, D. Ross, Rand Rifles, South African Forces
Rifleman, D. Ross, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Private, A Ross, Seaforth Highlanders
Lieutenant, J. G. Ross, Seaforth Highlanders
Lance Corporal, J. Ross, Seaforth Highlanders
Sergeant, R. M. Ross, Seaforth Highlanders
Sergeant, R. Ross, Seaforth Highlanders
2nd Lieutenant, A. Sutherland, Gordon Highlanders
Private, C. Sutheland, Seaforth Highlanders
Sergeant, T. Sutherland, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, N. Thompson, Seaforth Highlanders
Private, W. H. Woodland, Royal Navy

The distance from Glasgow and Paisley to Invergordon is 190 miles



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Old Photograph Lachlan Macquarie Mausoleum Scotland

Old photograph of the Major General Lachlan Macquarie Mausoleum on the island of Isle of Mull, Scotland. Lachlan Macquarie was born on 31 January 1762, on the island of the Ulva off the coast of the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, a chain of islands off the West Coast of Scotland. He was descended from the Scottish Highland family clan MacQuarrie which possessed Ulva, Staffa, and a region of the Isle of Mull for over one thousand years, and his forebears were buried on Iona. He left the island of Mull at the age of 14 and soon volunteered for the army. He joined the 84th Regiment of Foot on 9 April 1777, travelling with it to North America in 1777 to take part in the American War of Independence. On 18 January 1781, he was promoted to lieutenant and transferred to the 71st Highland Regiment of Foot, and served with them in New York, Charleston, USA, and Jamaica. In 1807 on 8 May he was appointed Governor of New South Wales on the east coast of Australia. In 1793 he married Jane Jarvis, daughter of the Chief Justice of Antigua. Three years later she died of tuberculosis. Macquarie returned to Scotland, and died in London, England, in 1824. He was buried on the Isle of Mull in a remote mausoleum with his wife and son. His grave in Mull is inscribed " The Father of Australia. "


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Old Photographs High Street Blairgowrie Scotland

Old photograph of the shops, vehicles, houses and people on the High Street in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The town expanded hugely in the 19th century thanks to the employment provided by the many textile mills which were built along the River Ericht. Soft fruit growing, mainly raspberries and strawberries developed in the 20th century and became a very important part of the town's economy. Berry pickers were brought in by bus from Perth and Dundee, and large encampments were set up on farms for pickers from further afield, mainly from the Glasgow area, who made this their annual holiday. They were joined by the travelling community who congregated here for the berry season. The coming of the railway revolutionised the textile and soft fruit trade, but the last train ran in 1960.



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Old Photograph Bridge of Tilt Scotland

Old photograph of Bridge of Tilt village located a few miles North West of Pitlochry, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. The villages of Calvine, Struan, Pitagowan, Bruar, Aldclune and Killiecrankie all within 4 miles of the village.



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Old Photograph New Abbey Scotland

Old photograph of thatched cottages and people in New Abbey village located around 8 miles South West of Dumfries, Scotland. This Scottish village has a wealth of history including the ruined Cistercian abbey Sweetheart Abbey, founded by Lady Devorgilla in 1273 to commemorate the death of her husband John Balliol. The monks named the abbey dulce cor meaning Sweetheart Abbey.





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Tour Scotland Autumn Video Drive Coastal Road From Pittenweem to Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a road trip drive on the A917 coastal road from Pittenweem on ancestry visit to the fishing village of Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife. Anster is my home town where I was raised in Scotland.
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Tour Scotland Video Autumn Walk Along Shore Street From The Fish Bar In Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of an Autumn walk along Shore Street from The Fish Bar by the harbour front on ancestry visit to the fishing village of Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish fish and chip shop has served has served Prince William, Tom Hanks, Tim Hinkley and Robert De Niro to name just a few famous folks who have visited. Anster is my hometown where I was raised in Scotland

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Old Photograph War Memorial Callander Scotland

Old photograph of the War Memorial in Callander, Trossachs, Scotland.

World War 1 Roll of Honour

Anderson Donald
Baxter John S.
Bell William
Biggs William
Blair Duncan
Blair James
Brickman Frederick W.
Brickman Hugh M.
Brickman Noel
Buchanan John
Buchanan John
Cameron John K.
Cameron John M.
Campbell Duncan
Campbell John
Campbell John
Campbell Victor R.W.
Dow Stewart
Drummond John J.
Duncanson George O.
Ferguson Finlay
Ferguson John
Ferguson Robert
Hamilton Arthur B. Baillie
Liles James D.
Lindsay David
Lister John R.
MacDonald Archibald R.
MacDonald Ian B.
MacDonald James
MacFarlane Walter
MacTavish Daniel
McAlpine Alpine
McAlpine David
McIntyre Donald
McIntyre William
McKay James
McKay John
McLaren Robert
McMichael Walter B.
McMurtrie Thomas
McNab Robert L.
McNicol Duncan
McVean Hugh
McVean John
Miller William B.
Motherwell James
Nicol James
Rennie Ebenezer L.
Robert Waugh
Roberts Edwin A.
Roberts Lawrie P.
Robertson John
Russell William
Shanklands James
Skinner Robert L.G.
Stevenson Alexander
Stewart John
Stewart Peter M.
Sutherland Malcolm
Tait Robert W.
Taylor Duncan
Thomson Hugh
Waugh Andrew
Wright Alexander
Wright James M.

World War 2 Roll of Honour

Baillie-Hamilton Neil A.
Cairns Gordon
Cardie James
Cotterill Colin W.
Dewar Denis
Dunlop Hamish B.
Lawson Robert
Lamie Frederick T.
Leckie James
MacGregor Alexander
McKiggan Hugh
Stewart James M.
Wilson Jock

The distance from Callander to Glasgow and Paisley is 42 miles

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Old Photograph Aboyne Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Aboyne Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In 1242, after the expulsion from Scotland of John and Walter Byset of Clan Bissett, who had been alleged of the murder of Patrick, Earl of Atholl, at Haddington, East Lothian, Aboyne Castle passed to the Knights Templar in that year. It passed next to the Frasers of Cowie, before passing yet again, this time by marriage, to Sir William de Keith, Great Marischal of Scotland around 1355. In 1449, De Keith's great granddaughter, Joan, brought the castle by marriage to Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly. Its present owner is the Marquis of Huntly whose family has owned it since the early 15th century.



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Old Photograph Dalguise Castle Scotland

Old photograph of the castle in Dalguise, Perthshire, Scotland. Located on the western side of the River Tay on the B898 road, north of Dunkeld, This is the place, in this 18th Century mansion house, where Beatrix Potter stayed in her childhood as a summer visitor, and acted as inspiration for some of her later stories.



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Old Photograph St Ronan's Well Scotland

Old photograph of St Ronan's Well, Innerleithen near Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. Originally constructed by the Earl of Traquair in the 1820s to provide a comfortable retreat for visitors to the spa, it was largely rebuilt and extended in 1896 to accommodate indoor bathing facilities and a bottling plant. The spa was frequented by Sir Walter Scott as a boy.



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Old Photograph Cathkin Braes Scotland

Old photograph of a house in Cathkin Braes which is an area of hills to the south east of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Cathkin Braes lies to the south of the districts of Castlemilk, Fernhill and Burnside, and to the east of Carmunnock. Rising to over 200m in elevation, it includes the highest point in the Glasgow City area. It was a rallying point in the Radical War. The Radical War also known as the Scottish Insurrection of 1820, was a week of strikes and unrest, a culmination of Radical demands for reform in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which had become prominent in the early years of the French Revolution, but had then been repressed during the long Napoleonic Wars. On Monday 3 April work stopped, particularly in weaving communities, over a wide area of central Scotland including Stirlingshire, Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, with an estimated total of around 60,000 stopping work. Reports came in that men were carrying out military drill at points round Glasgow, foundries and forges had been raided, and iron files and dyer's poles taken to make pikes. In Kilbarchan soldiers found men making pikes, in Stewarton around 60 strikers was dispersed, in Balfron around 200 men had assembled for some sort of action. Pikes, gunpowder and weapons called wasps, a sort of javelin and clegs, a barbed shuttlecock to throw at horses, were offered for sale. Rumours spread that England was in arms for the cause of reform and that an army was mustering at Campsie commanded by Marshal MacDonald, a Marshal of France and son of a Jacobite refugee family, to join forces with 50,000 French soldiers at Cathkin Braes under Kinloch, the fugitive Radical laird from Dundee. In Paisley the local reformers' committee met under command of their drill instructor, but scattered when Paisley was put under curfew. Government troops were ready in Glasgow, including the Rifle Brigade, the 83rd Regiment of Foot, the 7th and 10th Hussars and Samuel Hunter's Glasgow Sharpshooters. In the evening 300 radicals briefly skirmished with cavalry, but no one came to harm on that day.



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Old Photograph Guild Hall Stirling Scotland

Old photograph of the Guildhall in Stirling, Scotland. Cowane's Hospital was a 17th century almshouse in the Old Town of Stirling. It was established in 1637 with a bequest of 40,000 merks from the estate of the merchant John Cowane, born 1570, died 1633. During the later 17th and early 18th century the hospital was well used by pensioners, though a strict set of rules seems to have discouraged some from taking up residence. Further improvements to the gardens were ordered in 1712 when Thomas Harlaw, gardener to the Earl of Mar, was appointed to draw up plans for the site. Around 1720 the hospital was converted, by removing internal partitions, into a hall for use of the Merchant Guildry. The building was subsequently referred to as the Guildhall. In 1832 the building was pressed into service as an isolation hospital during a cholera epidemic which killed around one third of Stirling's population. The hospital building itself is now used as an arts venue, and remains in use by the Merchant Guildry.



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Old Photograph Traquair Church Scotland

Old photograph of Traquair church just South of Innerleithen near Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. In early times here the village bore the name Kirkbryde or Strathquair, the Kirkbryde coming from the local church which was dedicated to St. Bride, or Bridget. As early as the 12th century, Traquair was of some importance, important enough to be raised to the status of a Sheriffdom. There is reputed to have been a religious establishment at Traquair since 1116, in the See of St. Kentigern of Glasgow. It was dedicated to St. Bride whose holy well was in the glebe. The present church building was built in 1778 on top of those ancient and historic foundations.



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Old Photograph Lincluden Abbey Scotland

Old photograph of Lincluden Abbey near Dumfries, Scotland. The foundation of the priory is accredited to Uchtred, died 1174, who had co-ruled Galloway with his brother Gille Brigte. Uchtred did not have the benefit of the relative peace of his father's reign in Galloway. Fergus of Galloway, died 1161, had founded such establishments such as Soulseat Abbey, St Mary's Isle Priory, Dundrennan Abbey, the foundation at Kirkcudbright, Kirk of St. Cuthbert, and re-established the foundation at Whithorn, the historic community of St Ninian. Uchtred's focus of power was in eastern Galloway, while his brother's was in the west, their reigns were marked by turbulent relationships between themselves, the Irish Kings of Ailech, the King of Scots, William the Lyon, and the King of England, Henry II. Lincluden was the only monastic house that Uchtred would found, meeting his death at the hand of his brother in 1174. Prior to the foundation of Lincluden, there had been only been houses of Monks in Galloway, Uchtred's new house was the first nunnery within the Lordship. The first intake were probably Cluniac sisters from France or England, later being supplemented by local novices. In the late 14th century the area became part of the fief of Archibald the Grim, Lord of Galloway, and latterly 3rd Earl of Douglas. The nuns at Lincluden had reputedly broken their vows of chastity and were guilty of licentious behaviour, Douglas with an eye on the revenues from the priory, sat in judgement over them and found them guilty. He dismissed the nuns from the priory. Pehaps penitent at the expulsion of the nuns, Earl Archibald ordered the construction of a new church to be built, and set up a College consisting of a Provost and twelve Canons. Earl Archibald and his successors spent a great of money on ornamenting the church, and there are many fine armorial carvings still within the ruins. Still extant is the tomb of Princess Margaret, Countess of Douglas and Duchess of Touraine, the daughter of King Robert III of Scotland and wife of Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas. The abbey was eventually abandoned around 1700.



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Old Photograph Pluscarden Priory Scotland

Old photograph of Pluscarden Priory located South West of Elgin, Moray, Scotland. In 1454, following a merger with the priory of Urquhart, a cell of Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Pluscarden Priory became a Benedictine House. The years immediately preceding the Scottish Reformation, and those after, saw the decline of the priory. By 1680 it was in a ruinous condition. Some work to arrest the decay took place in the late 19th century but it wasn't until 1948 when restoration of the priory was begun by monks from the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, England. In 1966 the priory received its independence from the mother-house and was elevated to abbatial status in 1974.



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Old Photograph Keir House Scotland

Old photograph of Keir House and garden near Stirling, Scotland. This Scottish house is located in the parish of Lecropt, North West of Bridge of Allan, in the former county of Perthshire. The estate was home to the Stirling family from the 15th to the 20th century. The Keir estate was acquired by the Stirling family in 1448, and a house was built on it in the 16th century. The Stirlings supported the Jacobites during the 18th century rebellions, and the estate was forfeited. However, they continued to live at Keir, and built the present house in around 1760. Income from the family's estates in Jamaica funded agricultural improvements and landscaping of the grounds. Additions were made to the house, including the South West wing to designs by David Hamilton, completed in 1831. In 1847 Sir William Stirling Maxwell inherited the estate, and began a remodelling of the house and grounds. Architects Alfred Jenoure and William Stirling II worked on the house, while formal gardens were laid out by James Niven. A chapel was added in 1912, designed by Rowand Anderson and Paul, and with interior mosaic decoration by Boris Anrep. Sir William's grandson David Stirling, founder of the Special Air Service, was born at Keir in 1915.



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Old Photograph Pass of Melford Scotland

Old photograph of tourists on a horse and carriage tour through the Pass of Melford from Oban, Scotland. The circular route went by Loch Feochan and the Pass of Melford to Loch Anne and was a popular day trip.



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Tour Scotland Video Corrente Corelli Violin Music St Ninian's Cathedral Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a young Scottish female violinist playing Corrente Corelli violin music on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to St Ninian's Cathedral in Perth, Perthshire.
Arcangelo Corelli, born 17 February 1653, died 8 January 1713, was an Italian violinist and composer of the Baroque era. His music was key in the development of the modern genres of sonata and concerto, in establishing the preeminence of the violin, and as the first coalescing of modern tonality and functional harmony. According to the poet Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, who presumably knew the composer well, Corelli initially studied music under a priest in the nearby town of Faenza, and then in Lugo, before moving in 1666 to Bologna.

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