Castle of Mey Caithness Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of Castle of Mey on ancestry visit to Caithness. The lands of Mey belonged to the Bishops of Caithness. The Castle of Mey was built between 1566 and 1572, possibly on the site of an earlier fortification by George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness. The castle was eventually the Scottish residence of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Old Photographs Halkirk Caithness Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Halkirk, Scottish Gaelic: Hacraig, a village on the River Thurso in Caithness, in the Highlands. Halkirk has had two whisky distilleries, Gerston from 1796 to 1885, and Ben Morven, also known as Gerston II, from 1886 to circa 1911. Both were established on the banks of the River Thurso, near Gerston Farm, and both drew water from Calder Burn. The Ben Morven distillery was named for the mountain, the highest point in Caithness. The original Gerston distillery was first registered by a Francis Swanson, and was expanded by two sons, John and James, in 1825. Sir Robert Peel is said to have acquired a taste for the whisky. The distillery closed not long after it was sold to new owners in 1872, and a London company, calling themselves the Gerston Distillery Company, decided to build a new distillery.
In 1897 the new distillery was sold to Northern Distilleries Limited, who gave it the Ben Morven name. It was never very successful, and it closed circa 1911. The stillhouse is still standing. Halkirk is the birthplace of Alexander Keith, born 1795, died 1873, who settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia and became established as a respected politician and brewer. He is known across Canada for his most famous beer, Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale. Flagstone was probably used by our early inhabitants for building houses and stone walls and would have been obtained at outcrops where the rock broke through to the surface and required little or no quarrying. Despite this early use of flag, the first attempt to obtain the stone on a commercial basis was made of Castlehill on the shores of Dunnet Bay to the north of the village of Halkirk, then known as Olrig, when in the summer of 1793 several cargoes of stone were shipped to Aberdeen. The instigator of this new industry was James Traill, who lived from 1758 to 1843 and was for a time Sheriff of the County. He moved from Rattar to Castlehill House in 1824 and set about organising the flagstone quarrying. In the following year regular shipments of flags were begun to ports all over the United Kingdom and as the fame of this most unusual material spread, cargoes were sent as far afield as South Africa. Indeed a famous meat factory in the Argentine was floored with Caithness flags. The word flag comes from the Old Norse flaga, meaning a slab. In 1450, the original Braal castle was bestowed by King James II upon Sir George Crichton, Lord High Admiral of Scotland, who was briefly created Earl of Caithness in 1452. In 1455, the earldom and castle were granted by James II to William Sinclair, Baron of Roslin and Lord Chancellor of Scotland. The castle passed to the Sinclairs of Ulbster, a branch of the Sinclair Earls of Caithness, in the 18th century. The Sinclairs began the building of an adjacent mansion, although construction was abandoned. In 1856 a hotel was built over these foundations. This building was requisitioned by the Armed Forces during the Second World War. Georgemas Junction by Halkirk is the junction of the Thurso branch from the Inverness to Wick line, the most northerly railway junction in the United Kingdom. The station was built by the Sutherland and Caithness Railway and opened on 28 July 1874
Keiss Castle
Keiss Castle is precariously situated on a cliff edge close to Wick in North Scotland. The North Sea has undermined this beautiful Castles foundation and the majority of the structure is now on the point of collapse. In the aerial video you can see the North side has already been claimed by the Sea and on the South side there is a substantial crack extending down through the building from the upper window. Unfortunately it's very likely that the Castle will be lost to future generations in our time.
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Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland aerial video
Short aerial video of the village of Dunbeath in Caithness, Scotland.
The Black Mill: The Black Mill / Crib of Perches / Dunrobin Castle
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TO THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND BY COACH PART 13
This morning we are setting off to visit the Castle of Mey. The Queen Mother took over the organisation of the restoration of the castle in 1952 which was originally built in 1572.It was her favourite retreat in Scotland which she visited regularly as affairs of state allowed. It was also visited from time to time by other members of the Royal family including the Corgis!
Castle Sinclair Seen from the Phantom 3
Castle Sinclair Girnigoe is a castle located about 3 miles north of Wick on the east coast of Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom. It is considered to be one of the earliest seats of Clan Sinclair.
leave castlehill,to dunnet head, john o groats,park at nybster 16 9 2018
well we left castlehill and drove around the old harbour, sad to see it derilict. some fine old buildings were here at one time sad there like ruins. and walled gardens all gone..we drove on to john o groats and there was a bike rice finishing so a little busy. but we managed a photo of the sign...we went on to nybster found a very park up... cheers
Scarfskerry Caithness Scotland
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Sinclair Castle Girnigoe Drone 6th August 2016
i would like to thank wick airport control tower
staff for giving me permission to fly at this location
Duart Castle Isle Of Mull Inner Hebrides Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of Duart Castle, or Caisteal Dhubhairt in Scottish Gaelic, on ancestry visit to the Isle Of Mull, Inner Hebrides. Duart Castle was probably built by Clan MacDougall in the 13th century, and appears to have come into the hands of Clan MacLean in the following century. In 1350 Lachlan Lubanach Maclean of Duart, the 5th Clan Chief, married Mary, daughter of John of Islay, Lord of the Isles and Duart was part of her dowry. In 1647, Duart Castle was attacked and laid siege to by the Argyll government troops of Clan Campbell, but they were defeated and driven off by the Royalist troops of Clan MacLean. In 1691 Duart Castle was surrendered by Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet to Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll. The Campbell clan demolished the castle, and the stones from the walls were scattered. By 1751 the remains of the castle were abandoned. On 11 September 1911, the ruin was bought by Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean, the 26th Chief of the Clan MacLean and restored
Britannia sails off the Caithness Coast.
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Old Castle of Wick, Caithness, Scotland
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