Old Photographs Ellon Scotland

Old photograph of Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is situated 16 miles North of Aberdeen. Places of interest within the town include the ruins of Ellon Castle, surrounded by walls known as the Deer Dyke, and the Auld Brig.



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Old Photographs Maud Scotland

Old photograph of Maud in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Maud rose to prosperity in the nineteenth century as a railway junction of the Formartine and Buchan Railway that ran through Maud to Fraserburgh and Peterhead, but has always been the meeting place of six roads.



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Tour Scotland Video Bass Rock Firth Of Forth East Lothian

Tour Scotland travel video of the Bass Rock in the Firth Of Forth of the coast near >North Berwick, Scotland. This a a steep sided volcanic rock, 351 ft high at its highest point, and is home to a large colony of gannets. The rock is currently uninhabited, but historically has been settled by an early Christian hermit, and later was the site of an important castle, which was, after the Commonwealth, used as a prison. The island was in the ownership of the Lauder family for almost six centuries, and now belongs to Sir Hew Fleetwood Hamilton-Dalrymple. A lighthouse was constructed on the rock in 1902, and the remains of a chapel are located there. The Bass Rock features in numerous works of fiction, including Robert Stevenson's Catriona.


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Tour Scotland Video Tantallon Castle

Tour Scotland travel video of Tantallon Castle on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip near North Berwick, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built in the mid 14th century by William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas. It was passed to his illegitimate son, later created Earl of Angus, and despite several sieges, it remained the property of his descendants for much of its history. It was besieged by King James IV in 1491, and again by his successor James V in 1528, when extensive damage was done. Tantallon saw action in the First Bishops' War in 1639, and again during Oliver Cromwell's invasion of Scotland in 1651, when it was once more severely damaged. It was sold by the Douglases in 1699 and fell into ruin.

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Tour Scotland Video Tantallon Castle Dovecote East Lothian

Tour Scotland video of Tantallon Castle Dovecote and the Bass Rock on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip near North Berwick, Scotland. A dovecote or dovecot, in Scots: doocot, is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. Dovecotes may be free-standing structures in a variety of shapes, or built into the end of a house or barn. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically in Western Europe and were kept for their eggs, flesh, and dung.


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Tour Scotland Photographs Glencoe Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland photograph of Glencoe, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Glencoe, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Glencoe, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video of a drive West through Glencoe, Scotland.

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"You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy. " This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions and was the beginning of the destruction of the Highlanders. John Prebble’s masterly description of the terrible events at Glencoe was praised as " Evocative and powerful " Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre.

Old Photograph Airthrey Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Airthrey Castle in Stirling, Scotland. The name appears in a charter of King David I, thought to be from before 1146. In 1370, the estate was granted to Sir John Herice, Keeper of the nearby Stirling Castle. Then the land passed to William Graham, 3rd Lord Graham, for gallantry he displayed in the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488, in which King James III was killed attempting to subdue a group of rebel barons. He was made Earl of Montrose in 1504 but died at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. The estate remained in the ownership of the Clan Graham down to James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, who fought a campaign in support of King Charles I from 1644 to 1650. By this time, the Airthrey Estate was in the ownership of a minor branch of the Grahams.



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