Short fishing vid I made of Colin fishing
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Dunmore House
In 1820-22 the 5th Earl of Dunmore commissioned the architect William Wilkins to build Dunmore Park, a magnificent mansion very similar to Dalmeny House completed a few years previously.
It was occupied by the family until their departure in 1911 and remained as a private home until 1961.
- Dunmore Park
After a short spell as a girls school from then until 1964 it was abandoned.
Although substantial parts of the building were demolished much remains to remind us of its grandeur and of our criminal neglect of our heritage.
My Birthday 2011
The People’s Palace – Glasgow
RAF Leuchars Airshow 2011(Part 2)
RAF Leuchars Airshow 2011(Part 1)
Canoeing on the River Forth & Teith 2011
Stirling Castle HD
Stirling Castle, located in Stirling, is one of the largest and most important castles, both historically and architecturally, in Scotland.
The castle sits atop Castle Hill, an intrusive crag, which forms part of the Stirling Sill geological formation. It is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position. Its strategic location, guarding what was, until the 1930s, the farthest downstream crossing of the River Forth, has made it an important fortification from the earliest times.
Most of the principal buildings of the castle date from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A few structures of the fourteenth century remain, while the outer defences fronting the town date from the early eighteenth century.
Several Scottish Kings and Queens have been crowned at Stirling, including Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1543.
There have been at least eight sieges of Stirling Castle, including several during the Wars of Scottish Independence, with the last being in 1746, when Bonnie Prince Charlie unsuccessfully tried to take the castle. Stirling Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and is now a tourist attraction managed by Historic Scotland.
