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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Tour Scotland St Andrews Day Parade


The St Andrew's Day Parade, today, in Perth, Scotland. Perth and District Pipe Band, Glenalmond College Pipe Band, members of the Society of High Constables of the City of Perth, representatives from Perth Schools, Air Training Corps, Army and Sea Cadets, Scouts, Guides, Councillors, MPs, MSPs and the Lord Dean of Guild.

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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Tour Scotland St Andrew's Day


Tour Scotland St Andrew's Day. St Andrew's Day Celebrations in Blairgowrie and East Perthshire, Scotland. Massed Pipes and Drums in the Wellmeadow, including Blairgowrie and Rattray Pipe Band, Alyth and District Pipe Band, Forfar and District Pipe Band and the City of Brechin Pipe Band.

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Friday, November 28, 2008

Tour Scotland November Free Admissions


Tour Scotland November Free Admissions. To mark St Andrew's Day Historic Scotland is offering free entry to the following properties on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th November, 2008. This list may be subject to change. Aberdour Castle and Garden, Arbroath Abbey, The Blackhouse Arnol, Blackness Castle, Bothwell Castle, Caerlaverock Castle, Calanais Standing Stones, Cardoness Castle, Castle Campbell, Corgarff Castle, Craigmillar Castle, Craignethan Castle, Dallas Dhu Distillery, Dirleton Castle, Doune Castle, Dryburgh Abbey, Dumbarton Castle, Dunblane Cathedral, Dundrennan Abbey, Dunfermline Abbey and Palace, Dunstaffnage Castle and Chapel, Edinburgh Castle, Edzell Castle and Garden, Elgin Cathedral, Fort George, Glasgow Cathedral, Huntingtower Castle, Huntly Castle, Iona Abbey, Jedburgh Abbey, Linlithgow Palace, Maeshowe Chambered Cairn, Melrose Abbey, New Abbey Corn Mill, Rothesay Castle, St Andrews Castle, St Andrews Cathedral, Skara Brae, Smailholm Tower, Spynie Palace, Stirling Castle, Sweetheart Abbey, Tantallon Castle, Tolquhon Castle, Urquhart Castle.

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Tour Scotland Photographer


Tour Scotland Photographer. I normally shoot all the photographs and videos that can be viewed on all my Scottish websites. The photograph above, however, was taken by a friend of mine, and shows me taking photographs on the coastline of the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Tour Scotland Cameron Kirk


Tour Scotland Cameron Kirk, Fife, Scotland. Cameron Parish was anciently a part of the widely extended parish of St. Andrews. It became a separate and independent parish in 1645. The name of the parish was taken from the farm of Cameron upon which the manse and church were built.

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Monday, November 24, 2008

Friday, November 21, 2008

Tour Scotland Wormit Coastline


Tour Scotland Wormit Coastline. A beautiful November day. From the coastline at the village of Wormit, Fife, Scotland, you can get great views of the River Tay and the Tay Railway Bridge, with the city of Dundee in the background.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Tour Scotland A90 November


Tour Scotland A90 November. At Perth, the M90 Motorway becomes the A90 Road, running north east to Dundee. I took this photograph today just outside Perth whilst on a small group tour of Scotland.

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Tour Scotland Randolph St Buckhaven Fife Scotland


Tour Scotland Randolph St, Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland. Was very pleased to find this old photograph today. This is the street in which I was born in Scotland. Even though I didn't spend much of my life there, it is nice to come across such a photograph.

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Friday, November 14, 2008

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Tour Scotland Watchtower


Tour Scotland Watchtower. Coupar Angus graveyard includes this polygon shaped watchtower that was employed in the 19th century as a guard against body-snatchers.

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Tour Scotland Website

Hello Sandy, I have just spent a lovely afternoon with your website. Our family left Dundee in April, 1948, we lived at 68 Gardener Street, Lochee, Dundee. My Dad had a coal and kindling business in Lochee Road his name was William (wullie ) Stark. We migrated to Australia and at present I and my husband Peter are living in the top northwest corner of Victoria, in a town called Merbein, grapes and citrus are grown in this area, funny thing is the children next door were here this morning wanting me to speak with a Scottish accent!! Peter and I have 7 children and 23 grandchildren 4 great grandchildren. Even after all these years I still am a Scot at heart. Wish I could make that trip. Thank you for taking the time to provide so much information. Warmest Regards Edith Peterson.

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Tour Scotland Remembrance Sunday


Tour Scotland Remembrance Sunday. I took the above photograph in Kilrenny Cemetery in my home area. I have no connection to Private J Doig of the Black Watch who died on the 20th November, 1915, aged just 20. I do not know his story, but I honour him today, the second Sunday of November, Remembrance Sunday.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Tour Scotland Fall Leaves


Tour Scotland Fall Leaves. A very beautiful time of the year in Scotland. Beautiful photographs are easy to acquire, even for the beginner. I shot the photograph above in Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Tour Scotland Tay Railway Bridge South


Tour Scotland Tay Railway Bridge South. A video of the Tay Railway Bridge from the South Signal Box, Wormit, Fife, Scotland. Scottish Diesel passenger train crossing.

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: re-investgating the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879. Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the original Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal composed his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the poem about Britain’s worst-ever civil engineering disaster. Over 80 people lost their lives in the fall of the Tay Bridge, but how did it happen? The accident reports say that high wind and poor construction were to blame, but Peter Lewis, an Open University engineering professor, tells the real story of how the bridge so spectacularly collapsed in December 1879. Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: reinvestgating the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879
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Monday, November 03, 2008

Tour Scotland South Ayrshire


Tour Scotland South Ayrshire. Sir James Fergusson used to maintain that for anyone lucky enough to live in the Girvan valley the only joy of travel must be the pleasure of coming home. That deep affection, made so plain in the first chapter, written in 1938, was no doubt magnified by five years' absence during the war, and later by his twenty years as Keeper of the Records of Scotland, when he necessarily spent four days and nights of most weeks in Edinburgh. This anthology, mainly culled from Lowland Lairds, The White Hind and The Man Behind Macbeth, brings together those essays which deal more or less directly with the Girvan valley, the parts of it, at any rate, which demanded an historian's attention or awoke his curiosity. It is in no sense a full story of the valley: the principal estates lying on or near the river, like their people, make their appearance simply as the narratives dictate - Trochrague, Penkill, Killochan, Bargany, Dalquharran, Kilkerran, Kirkbride, Blairquhan. Fugitive pieces include an Ayrshire wine-merchant's letter book, which, like the study of the plague in Ayr, deserves its tenuous place in a book about the valley if only because, to all who lived nearby, wine shipped into the port of 'Ayr' was of as critical interest as the pestilence, at a time when whisky was seldom drunk outside the Highlands and smugglers supplied brandy at overwhelmingly competitive prices. Sir James Fergusson of Kilkerran 8th Bart, LLD FRSE, 1904-1973, was Keeper of the Records of Scotland 1949-69, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire, a member of the Royal Commission on Historic Manuscripts, a trustee of the Scottish National Galleries, Chairman of the Burns Monument Trust, and others. By the Water of Girvan: People and Places in South Ayrshire History
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Sunday, November 02, 2008

Tour Scotland Lost Argyll


Tour Scotland Lost Argyll. In Lost Argyll, Marian Pallister looks not only at the lost architectural heritage of Argyll but also at its lost industries, ferries, roads, bridges, and archaeological monuments. Poltalloch House, for example, built in the 1840s as a monument to commerce and investment, lies ruinous, its owners having stripped it of its roof to avoid paying crippling rates; Campbeltown once bristled with distilleries until a cocktail of economic factors left it with only two whilst others have been subsumed into the modern townscape; little remains of even the jetties at Loch Awe and West Loch Tarbert, two of the busiest waterways in times past. This largely rural county has seen its fair share of forts, castles and mansions rise and fall. Some were destroyed in battle; others simply lost the financial battle to remain standing in the face of increasing taxation. Vernacular architecture has also disappeared: the houses of the fishermen and those in agricultural settlements crumbled in the wake of depredations, clearances, afforestation and government demands on landlords to house tenants in fitting conditions. Lost Argyll
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