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The History Scotland Lectures 2: Coastal History in Scotland
LECTURE 2: Coastal History in Scotland.
Dr David Worthington (chaired by Professor John M. MacKenzie)
Highland Archive and Registration Centre, Inverness, 30 August 2018.
For more on The History Scotland Lectures, a collaboration between History Scotland and the University of Dundee's Centre for Scottish Culture visit:
1930's tour in Scotland. Film 3116
Scotland.
Edinburgh, St. Giles Cathedral. Parliament Square. Law courts. Mercat cross. Castle. Douglas Haig memorial. Mons Meg cannon. Scottish War chapel. Calton Hills. Holyrood House. Forth Bridge. Queensferry Pier.
Gleneagles Hotel, exterior and interior. Dining room and swimming pool. The grounds. Golf course and golfers.
River with 1280 bridge. Salmon fishing.
Dumfries. Robert Burns' house, mausoleum and statue. River at Dumfries.
Ayr. Bridge and river. Alloway. Sheep. Tam O'Shanter's church.
Oban. Family on the beach. Piper procession. Scottish and highland sports. Piper and audience.
Inverness Highland Games 2018
Sarah, Lisa and Harvey visit the Highland Games in Bught Park Inverness 2018
Inverness Botanic Gardens - Spring Gardening Tips
Prepare your garden for spring, with the help of Sarah from Inverness Botanic Gardens.
INVERNESS, SCOTLAND, UK.
WILDLIFE PARK, INVERNESS, SCOTLAND, UK.
culloden exhibition 3 (LONG).AVI
I recently went to Culloden battlefield (near Inverness) in Scotland. Since last visit they've added an impressive visitors centre, which included this surround video experience. It was better in person, but you get a flavour of it still in this video.
(Normally I put my travel clips on Flickr but this one was too long to fit, so putting it here instead. If you want to see more photos/videos from Culloden they're here:
Easter 1959 in Scotland - 4 Aberdeen and Inverness
Our Easter 1959 visit to Scotland now takes us to Aberdeen station where Black 5 no 44801 departs with a train for the south, probably to Perth via Forfar. Note the tablet exchange apparatus on the cabside, common for Scottish based engines which did much running over single track main lines. A WD, no 90041, working tender first, makes an unusual station pilot before we go out into the wilds near Keith to see a Standard class 4 tank on a short passenger train. Finally we see another Black 5 leaving Inverness on the Aberdeen line and passing under the former Highland main line here which sweeps around to the north before crossing the Aberdeen line in order to reduce the initial gradient on the climb to Culloden.
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Old Photographs Drumnadrochit Highlands Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Drumnadrochit, Scottish Gaelic, Druim na Drochaid, a village in the Highlands located on the west shore of Loch Ness, at the foot of Glen Urquhart. The village lies on the A82 road, near a junction with the A831, adjoining the villages of Milton to the West and Lewiston to the South. Drumnadrochit lies at the head of Urquhart Bay on Loch Ness and is the focal point for interest in the Loch Ness Monster. Drumnadrochit is on the route of the Great Glen Way, the 73 mile long distance path from Fort William to Inverness. John Rhodes Cobb was born in Esher, Surrey in 1899. Not content with holding the Land Speed Record, Cobb turned his attention to water. Cobb made his record attempt on 29 September 1952 over a measured mile from Urquhart Castle. According to the generally accepted rules of the time for speed records, two runs were required. On the first run, his jet propelled boat Crusader travelled at 206.89mph, making Cobb the first man in history to reach 200mph. Tragedy struck on the second run, however, when Crusader hit a boat wake that should not have been there and nosedived suddenly into the depths of the loch, killing Cobb instantly.
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Inverness 2010 - Around Town
Views around Inverness 18th April 2010.
Music - Come By The Hills Medley.
Jim and Charlie Home Recording 1990
Edinburgh Old Town tour. Cemetery fragment ( guillotine & Cpt. John Porteous ). Scotland
Yeah, the angle is not the perfect one, my camera is not the best one, this excerpt of the tour might not be the best one out of it, but who cares? I didn't want to leave the tour without taking some shots, and I was sorry I missed the writers fragment ( near the Writers museum ). We had a great time, we took a glimpse of the impressive history of this great city and area - City of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Our tour guide was Johnney, a very knowledgeable guy and a showman as well ( a stand up comedian, radio host, history buff and happy traveller all wrapped into one convenient Scottish package. Johnney studies history and politics at Edinburgh University and when he’s not telling stories or doing bad impressions he can be found pursuing his hobby of muggle Qudditch, in fact he captains the Edinburgh Qudditch team! Johnney enjoys meeting new people and travelling so expect warmth and a whole hat of stories. ).
This is part of Sandemans
The Scottish Maiden (supposedly based on the Halifax Gibbet) was introduced to Edinburgh by James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton in the 16th century and remained in use until 1716. The scaffold itself is now housed in the National Museum of Scotland
Edinburgh (/ˈɛdɪnbərə/; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland, situated in Lothian on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. It is the second most populous city in Scotland and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. The population in 2013 was 487,500.
Edinburgh has been recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century (after Scone, Perth, Roxburgh, and Stirling, respectively) but political power moved south to London after the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the Union of Parliaments in 1707. After nearly three centuries of unitary government, a measure of self-government returned in the shape of the devolved Scottish Parliament, which officially opened in Edinburgh in 1999. The city is also the annual venue of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and home to many national institutions such as the National Museum of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery. Edinburgh's relatively buoyant economy, traditionally centred on banking and insurance but now encompassing a wide range of businesses, makes it the biggest financial centre in the UK after London. Many Scottish companies have established their head offices in the city.
Edinburgh is rich in associations with the past and has many historic buildings, including Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood Palace, the churches of St. Giles, Greyfriars and the Canongate, and an extensive Georgian New Town built in the 18th century. Edinburgh's Old Town and New Town are jointly listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city has long been known abroad as a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scots law, the sciences and engineering. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583 and now one of four in the city, was placed 17th in the QS World University Rankings in 2013. The city is also famous for the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe, the latter being the largest annual international arts festival in the world. In 2004 Edinburgh became the world's first UNESCO City of Literature, an accolade awarded in recognition of its literary heritage and lively literary activities in the present. The city's historical and cultural attractions, together with an annual calendar of events aimed primarily at the tourist market, have made it the second most popular tourist destination in the United Kingdom after London, attracting over one million overseas visitors each year.
Edinburgh, 1930's - Film 93919
Inter-title: Edinburgh. The castle. Princes Street. The Scott Monument. Princes street with trams. A river in Highlands. Possibly Grandtully Falls? Forth rail bridge. Another rail bridge.
Old Photographs Inverness Scotland
Old photographs of Inverness, Scotland. Inverness on the River Ness, is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is regarded as the capital of the Highlands of Scotland. Medieval Inverness suffered regular raids from the Western Isles, particularly by the MacDonald Lords of the Isles in the fifteenth century. In 1562, Mary, Queen of Scots, was denied admittance into Inverness Castle, but the Clan Munro and Clan Fraser took the castle for her. Inverness played a role in the first Jacobite rising in 1689. In early May, it was besieged by a contingent of Jacobites led by MacDonnell of Keppoch
A Passage to Inverness (1977)
A half-hour drama by Chris Thomson for BBC2's Centre Play strand.
Carlton earns his living as a male stripper - his aunt was an incorruptible memsahib.
As the old lady lies on her deathbed, the conflicting values of the past and the present confront one another.
Starring Dorothy Reynolds and Joseph Blatchley.
First shown on BBC2 at 7.40pm on Tuesday 12th July 1977.
Steam Through the Scottish Highlands preview
is the website where you can order this DVD for just £8. You will then be transported on arguable Britain's most scenic railway, the West Highland extension from Fort William to Mallaig. This is a ltravelogue. Though most topics are about the railway itself, Clive Anderson also visits a distillery, the Genfinnan Visitor Centre and a herring factory. Take a look at the preview to see the fabulous weather that this was filmed during - on board the train as well as from the air. Available on DVD or to download at video125.tv
BVYM Two Scottish Holidays, 1968 & 1969
In those I had a minibus, and organised two tours of Scotland for members of the BVYM (British Vegetarian Youth Movement) After the first one , with 9 people, the following one was about doubled in size of people going, The second one was mainly to The Isle Of Skye.
phantasia pt2.92
Phantasia @ Murryfield ice rink
Come and see our video archives of the 90's rave scene in Scotland:
Scotland June 1973
Family drive from England up to Scotland, June 1973.
Places to see in ( Wick - UK )
Places to see in ( Wick - UK )
Wick is a town and royal burgh in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland. The town straddles the River Wick and extends along both sides of Wick Bay. Pulteneytown, which was developed on the south side of the river by the British Fisheries Society during the 19th century, was officially merged into the burgh in 1902.
The town is on the main highway (the A99–A9 road) linking John o' Groats with southern Britain. The Far North railway line links Wick railway station with southern Scotland and with Thurso, the other burgh of Caithness. Wick Airport is on Wick's northern outskirts. The airport has two usable runways. A third is derelict.
The main offices of The John O'Groat Journal and The Caithness Courier are located in Wick, as are Caithness General Hospital (run by NHS Highland), the Wick Carnegie Library and local offices of the Highland Council. Wick Sheriff Court is one of 16 sheriff courts serving the sheriffdom of Grampian, Highland and Islands.
The town lies on the estuary of the Wick River, spanned by two road bridges. The Harbour Bridge spans the river at its mouth, to link Wick town centre with Wick Harbour and Pulteneytown. It stands instead of the earlier Service Bridge. Further upstream the Bridge of Wick carries the main road linking John o' Groats with Latheron and Inverness (the A99-A9).
Pulteney town is now an area of Wick on the south side of the River Wick. Until 1902 Pulteney town was administered separately from the Royal Burgh of Wick. Pulteney town takes its name from Sir William Pulteney, a governor of the British Fisheries Society, who also commissioned Robert Adam to build the Pulteney Bridge in Bath. In the early years of the 19th century Sir William commissioned Britain's leading civil engineer, Thomas Telford, to design and supervise the creation of a major new herring fishing town and harbour at the estuary of the River Wick.
Wick Bay is an isosceles triangle with the river mouth as its apex, and the points of South Head and North Head, separated by about one kilometre,as the base of the triangle. Beyond the heads lies the North Sea. Pentland Firth line about 11 kilometres north of North Head.
There are three harbours in Wick, the Outer Harbour, the Inner Harbour, and the River Harbour, all of which are formed and protected by breakwaters. The Outer and Inner Harbours are on the south side of the estuary, divided from the River Harbour by a breakwater. The River Harbour straddles the river, with breakwaters on either side of an entrance about 30m wide.
Wick castle is thought to have been his stronghold on the mainland of Britain. There is evidence that the site was occupied before the present castle was built. Wick Heritage Museum is in Bank Row, Pulteneytown. The museum is run by the Wick Society, with a strong focus on the herring-boom era of Wick's history. The herring trade relied on the export of cured herring to the Continent (in particular, Stettin and St Petersburg) and languished after the First World War.
The Wick Carnegie Library is now run by the Highland Council. As well as providing a general library service the library preserves valuable books and other documents about Wick and Caithness and their histories. Also it preserves a crocodile (Gavialis gangeticus) presented by Sir Arthur Bignold in 1909.
( Wick - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Wick . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Wick - UK
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