Spring Drive Through Crieff To Comrie Highland Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring road trip drive, with Scottish accordion music, West from Perth on the A85 road through Crieff on ancestry visit to Comrie in Highland, Perthshire. For a number of centuries Highlanders came south to Crieff to sell their Highland Cows. Comrie, Gaelic: Cuimridh, is a village and parish in the southern highlands of Scotland, towards the western end of the Strathearn district of Perth and Kinross, 7 miles west of Crieff. Comrie is a historic conservation village, situated in a National Scenic Area around the river Earn. Located on the Highland Boundary Fault, the village experiences more earth tremors than anywhere else in Britain. The town is twinned with Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada.
Coventry Town Centre. West Midlands
Coventry is an ancient city which predates Birmingham and Leicester. It is likely that Coventry grew from a settlement of the Bronze Age near the present-day city centre where Coventry's bowl-shaped topography and, at that time large flowing river and lakes, created the ideal settlement area, with mild weather and thick woods: food, water and shelter would have been easily found. The people of the area may have been the Corieltauvi, a largely agricultural people who had few strongly-defended sites of signs of centralised government.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Coventry became one of the three man British centres of watch and clock manufacture and ranked alongside Prescot, in Lancashire and Clerkenwell in London. As the industry declined, due mainly to competition from Swiss Made clock and watch manufacturers, the skilled pool of workers proved crucial to the setting up of bicycle manufacture and eventually the motorbike, car, machine tool and aircraft industries. In the late 19th century, Coventry became a major centre of bicycle manufacture. The industry energised by the invention by James Starley and his nephew John Kemp Starley of the Rover safety bicycle, which was safer and more popular than the pioneering penny-farthing.
Coventry became home to one of Britain's first local ambulance services in 1902. The local entertainment business received a boost in 1910 when the city's first cinema opened. Public transport was enhanced in 1914 when motorbuses took to local roads.
Coventry suffered severe bomb damage during World Ward 11, most notoriously from a massive Luftwaffe air raid known as the Coventry Blitz on 14th November 1940. Firebombing on this date led to severe damage to large areas of the city centre and to Coventry's historic cathedral, leaving only a shell and the spire. Moe than 4,000 were damaged or destroyed, along with around three-quarters of the city's industrial plants. More than 800 people were killed, with thousands injured and homeless. The Germans coined the term Coventrate to describe the tactics of complete urban devastation developed for the raid.
April Drive Through Muthill On Visit To Crieff Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland April video of part of the drive North on the A822 road through Muthill on ancestry visit to Crieff, Perthshire
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Road To The Famous Grouse Experience Glenturret Whisky Distillery Crieff Perthshire Scotland
Old Tour Scotland video of the road to Glenturret Whisky Distillery on visit to Crieff, Perthshire.
HOOKS
Stephen Pern drops the latch on his South Coast home and heads for the open hills, or rather for open hill shelters, the hundred or so bothies which are scattered across upland Britain. His mission is to supply each shelter with hanging points for wet clothes and gear, his supply of hooks and screws gradually diminishing over the course of his 3000 mile walk. Funny, perceptive and absolutely genuine, HOOKS might just persuade you that Britain is a great place to live.
Aboyne Golf Club, Royal Deeside
Set amidst the scenic splendour of Royal Deeside, Aboyne Golf Club can fairly claim to have some of the finest vistas and panoramas of any course in Scotland.
The course provides a fine test for golfers of all abilities. It presents a rich variety of memorable holes making the most of the natural variations in the terrain which is a mix of rolling parkland with inviting fairways and elevated links-like heathland with tighter targets. Mature trees and water are in play on many holes, with the Loch of Aboyne being a notable feature.
Centenary Memories / Clan Donnachaidh Society
Memories of a wonderful week celebrating the Clan Donnachaidh Society
in the Highlands of Scotland.
Salmon Leaping Black Linn Waterfall By Dunkeld Highland Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a Salmon leaping up Black Linn Waterfall by Dunkeld, Highland Perthshire. Salmon tend to be more active in the early morning and evening so time your visit to make the most of your salmon spotting. The Falls of Shin in Sutherland, the Highlands, is known as being one of the best spots in the UK. If you are around the Perthshire region, head to Black Linn Waterfall or Buchanty Spout, Easter Glenalmond near Crieff or to the Linn of Tummel and the nearby Pitlochry Dam Fish Ladder. At the Philiphaugh Salmon Viewing Centre near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, you can not only see the salmon but experience the visitor centre dedicated to this species of fish.
My visit to Castle Menzies Aberfeldy,Scotland , Touring 25rooms this video is 49minuets long! Part:2
Hi everyone thank you very much for watching and take time to read this, touring 28 rooms. but we missed 3
rooms as private function was on, it a long tour i hope you stay till
the end to see the top floor of the castle, Thank you very much for being here and your contiued support, Sakuna x
Castle Menzies in Scotland is the ancestral seat of the Clan Menzies and the Menzies Baronets. It is located a little to the west of the small village of Weem, near Aberfeldy in the Highlands of Perthshire, close to the former site of Weem Castle, destroyed c. 1502...
History:
The sixteenth-century castle, built as a Z-plan castle, was the seat of the Chiefs of Clan Menzies for over 500 years. Strategically situated, it was involved in the turbulent history of the Highlands. Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Stuart Pretender to the throne, rested for two nights in the Castle on his way to the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The restoration of the ancient part of the castle involved the demolition of a greatly decayed 18th century wing. A large Victorian ballroom (not visible in the adjacent photograph) was, however, retained.
The castle, restored by the Menzies Clan Society after 1957, is an example of architectural transition between an earlier tradition of rugged fortresses and a later one of lightly defensible 'châteaux'. The walls are of random rubble, originally harled (roughcast), but the quoins, turrets and door and window surrounds are of finely carved blue freestone. This attractive and extremely hard-weathering stone was also used for the architectural details and monuments at the nearby Old Kirk of Weem, which was built by the Menzies family and contains their monuments and funeral hatchments. A marriage stone above the original entrance was installed by James Menzies in 1571, to record his marriage to Barbara Stewart, daughter of the Earl of Atholl.
Duleep Singh, last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire, lived at Castle Menzies between 1855 and 1858, following his exile from the Punjab in 1854. He was officially the ward of Sir John Spencer Login and Lady Login, who leased the castle for him.
The Castle was the seat of the Chiefs of Clan Menzies for over 500 years. Situated in a strategic location, it was involved in much of the turbulent history of the Highlands. During the second Jacobite rising the Castle first hosted both Bonnie Prince Charlie, who rested on his way to Culloden in 1746 and then, just four days later, the Duke of Cumberland, son of the British Monarch and commander of the Government forces.
Rescued as a ruin in 1957 by the then recently re-formed Menzies Clan Society, the Castle has been lovingly restored by generations of Society members and was placed into a charitable trust in 1993. It is open to all as a visitor attraction, museum, Clan centre for the Menzies Clan and venue for weddings, concerts and other hire. We use all proceeds exclusively for our continued restoration and maintenance of the Castle, its Walled Garden and the Old Kirk of Weem.
Because it has been restored from a ruin, you will find the Castle much less furnished and decorated than most other Scottish castles you may visit. But as a result, you get a much better feel for how it was built and what it's made of. Instead of plush carpets and furniture, you will find stone walls, shot holes, original timbers and lots of fascinating details. You are also able to visit almost every room in the Castle. You are not herded round by a guide but instead allowed to roam freely where you like.
I enjoyed this visit very much and definitely go back again!