Culross... Village of Outlander, Black Diamonds and a Patron Saint

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The historic village of Culross is famed as a Scottish Outlander location set, but what other history lies behind the 17th Century Fife Village?
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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.
As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.

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@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Join the National Trust at tidd.ly/3kuyDg3

@billylettice9547 2 года назад

I'm joining, Scotland is the most beautiful place in the word. West Highland way, here I come🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@billylettice9547 2 года назад

Bruce how do you become a patrone. I want to start supporting you and your RU-vid channel. I've not brushed my hair in 7 days, n it's down to my shoulder. Got isn't answering my prayers😭😭Priced dreadlocks in Edinburgh £200 for whole head. Glasgow a wee bit cheaper. Looks cool as, I'm defo getting them done on the 7th September n can't wait and I'm 41🤤😭😂😂😂😂😂 any Brucie can you please send me the link to the RU-vid channel that I can become a patrone please mate, would be honoured and so proud and grateful 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@graemehirstwood670 2 года назад

Good to see my childhood home. I lived just along from St Mungo's Chapel in a house called The Endowment. It was originally a soup kitchen and has two front doors - one for the women and one for the men. Not sure what the weans did. It also has a standing stone in the garden. And across from St Mungo's is the Pond a house with a loch-sized pond for a back garden. Culross is a weird and wonderful wee village.

@Oldleftiehere 2 года назад

As a dedicated Outlander fan, I love these videos you’re doing about these filming sites.

@Mamma_Kinzie 2 года назад

I just found your channel. Im in love with the history. Thank you so much. Im from the Colin mackenzie line and Im still trying to trace my scottish ancestry. So I find your videos interesting. I can listen to you speak all day. Lol 😆

@bmused55 2 года назад

I fully recommend visiting Culross and in particular the palace. The guides inside really know their stuff and will tell you lots of interesting things about the place, including some anecdotes about the filming on Outlander and even a scene from one of the Marvel's Avengers movies!

@gerryphilly53 2 года назад

Another informative video. The real history is more interesting (to me, at least) than the “Outlander” connection. From what you’ve presented in all of these, it appears that one could spend years touring Scotland and only scratch the surface of its fascinating story.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Definitely

@terri200 2 года назад

This is the truth, but I believe it's true of most countries and finding the truth in history.

@NeilClark-FalkirkPiping 2 года назад

We're over there all the time, we just stay 9 miles away. My Pal Graham had the gallery until he passed last year. We're bound to bump into each other some time! Great vid.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Ah no

@MrAl68 2 года назад

Great video - my Nana lived in Culross for around 25 years, not in one of the NT properties but in one of the old buildings on Sandhaven near the Forth. She lived all alone until her late 90s until she had to move into sheltered housing. I visited her countless times over the years from a young boy to an adult, even taking my future wife there - I was slightly taken aback when, having told here that we were visiting and intending to book a local B&B to save her putting us both up, she said that we couldn't go to the B&B because she knew the proprietors and we weren't married and 'it wouldn't be right' - so she made us stay at her tiny flat, moving out of her bed and sleeping on the sofa so that we could have a double bed! I guess it was a generational thing, but I loved her for it. Culross is an amazing and beautiful place, go and visit if you get the chance.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Ah bless

@taranian 2 года назад

It's hard to believe that this is independent content. Bravo, sir! Thank you for the education!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

My pleasure! Feel free to get me corporate funding 😂...without editorial influence mind

@lauraketteridge324 Год назад

As a child, I went to Culross on a school trip. My memories are of the beautiful step gables on the houses, and the pantile roofs. The coal was shipped out from Culross, and ballast was needed for the journey home. Pantiles were a great solution. They were really cheap, and wouldn't be damaged by the clarty (dirty) hold that the coal had been stored in. The pantiles were used to roof Culross, and various other places in Fife. In neighbouring areas, slate was the norm. The pantiles add brightness and colour to village, especially on cold, wet, dreicht days in the Scottish winter.

@euansmith3699 2 года назад

Bruce really bubbles with enthusiasm.

@elizabethrusson7495 2 года назад

He used to be a teacher. Teachers with that sort of enthusiasm really spark the children's' interest.

@joanr3189 2 года назад

Nailed another one ! (Nail-ear-post is a memorable scene.) Guy Fawkes! Do today’s children still celebrate with bonfires in the streets, as did my grandmother, more than 100 years ago? I wonder. The grand narrative is a tapestry made up of a thousand stories. You’ll never lack for a tale to tell. Your work comes alive in my readings of Walter Scott, Diana Gabaldon, and other literature and histories. Ever so grateful.

@knicholson6003 2 года назад

We do still have “Bonfire night”, though it has changed from my day when kids collected old pallets and furniture from around the neighbourhood and made their own “Guy” for burning on top. Now each area has one centrally organised bonfire within health and safety guidelines. The kids role is now spectator on the sidelines drinking hot chocolate without the weeks of preparation (and nasty accidents).

@stevehallam0850 2 года назад

I visited Culross back in June when I was staying in Fife. Fascinating place. Great stories!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

It really is!

@andersthorson5628 2 года назад

Thank you for doing the occasional Outlander video. You do wonderful work overall.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

You're welcome

@KLWilsonUS 2 года назад

Another interesting "story". I am curious by nature, but when I can learn something and be entertained at the same time, well that is something special. Thank you.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

You and me both!

@whoarewe7515 2 года назад

I love your programs. Wish I could give you money for what you do. To keep your business going. Keep us all educated, entertained and enthusiastic for what you do.

@garyweir8587 2 года назад

Visited Culross yesterday as I was in Scotland over the festive period. I probably wouldn't have been so excited to go there if it wasn't for this video you did a few months back. Great work Bruce!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Yay

@whatnopie 2 года назад

Since you’ve brought up St Mungo I would love to see a video about the beginnings of Glasgow! Fact and fiction! Signed- A Glaswegian

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

I've added it to the list

@Moishe555 2 года назад

oh gtreat idea!!

@markferguson3365 2 года назад

I remember the Outlander screen at the cross and stocks, the black audi had the hatch door up and was stuffed with hay!!! Great video sir! Please keep up the great work. 👍👍

@polytheneprentiss1534 2 года назад

Love to see your channel growing so much & you have the funniest thumbnails! 😆💖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Glad you like them! I'll tell my laddie

@andyjim1734 2 года назад

Most of the old buildings in Culross have Dutch Slate roofs because slate was used as ballast for when the ships came back from selling coal on the continent to stop the sinking

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

I know😎

@alicemilne1444 2 года назад

I thought they were pantiles made of clay.

@Cloggie1967 2 года назад

@@alicemilne1444 They are made of clay.

@fisherat5856 2 года назад

As an American of Scottish decent you are responsible for furthering my education. Thank you, I have enjoyed your videos. Keep it up.

@DH.2016 2 года назад

... and to help you further, the word is "descent." (you might want to edit it - sorry - couldn't resist 😂)

@fisherat5856 2 года назад

@@DH.2016 you are correct, funny thing about that I have been published in newspapers and periodicals over fifty times and I appreciate good editing. No harm taken here.

@silverbullet6436 2 года назад

Great story,what a beautiful village. Thanks Bruce .

@KellyAnn1997 2 года назад

Ah how I love Outlander…the books. It’s hard to do a tv show or movie after a beloved book. However, Scotland is so incredible that it makes up for any deficiencies in the show. It is the greatest “character.”

@kimberlybates6261 2 года назад

I love the old homes. So much history.

@racheltaylor6578 2 года назад

You don’t see many towns preserved like that in Scotland.It’s like stepping back in time.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Exactly

@annasaylor3566 2 года назад

I never saw the show Outlander, but I've read all the books except the for the last one. I need to borrow it from my daughter. You have been keeping me company for acouple of weeks now as I make 3 of my grandkids leather flute bags. Thank you so much for your story's, I truly appreciate and enjoy them. By the way; love your shirt. 🌹🦋❤️☮️

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Brilliant

@TattiebogleYouTube 2 года назад

Another belter of a video!, although thon bannock pun was painful!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

😂

@bouzirouge2009 2 года назад

Love it...had no idea it was pronounced coorass! I think your videos should be used in Scottish schools. All I learned in my Scottish school was English history. Your videos are so informative and full of fun, kids would love them.

@soulfisher7852 2 года назад

Loving your content! Please keep up the good work!

@markscott554 2 года назад

A schoolfriend of mine lived up the hill right beside the abbey. Such an awesome view over the Forth. On the rare occasions I get back to Scotland, I always take a long walk out of Dunfermline, round and back along the coast through Culross.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Lovely

@Doooooooooooood Год назад

The Thomas Cochrane story is amazing. A must watch video! A Falkirk history of the Ironworks video would be interesting

@ScotlandHistoryTours Год назад

Good point

@LeDardeursPalace 2 года назад

Your passion is amazing, love the channel!

@robbiek7986 2 года назад

I properly love your videos! Really interesting stuff! Loving your work!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Thank you very much!

@richardglady3009 2 года назад

Great stories. Thank you.

@billylettice9547 2 года назад

Love all these Scottish history vids that Bruce does. Keep it up mate. All the way Fae Dundee😂. Bruce is like the David Attenborough of Scottish history. Brilliant. I really want to know where Bruce got his Dreads done. Looks cool👍🏼

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

😎 God did them for me. I just stopped combing

@julianshepherd2038 2 года назад

More like Neil Oliver before he went nuts and disappeared up his own erse

@douglasherron7534 2 года назад

@@julianshepherd2038 He's not the nuts one...

@billylettice9547 2 года назад

😂😂😂 Cheers Bruce, I'll start praying today for him to start dreadlocking my hair. Looking forward to your next vid. Have a great day n keep safe big aine🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@billylettice9547 2 года назад

😂😂😂 I have long hair and pray every night, n still dinna have dreads 😭😭 I thought he loved me😂 Na joking aside Bruce, total respect to you big aine. Love all the vids you do about Scottish history, very interesting. Gave a thumbs up "liked" all your vids. Keep up the fantastic work you do. Have you ever thought about any history of Dundee?? There is a plack behind a statue of Admiral Duncan. It says on the plack that William Wallace struck his first strike for Scottish Independence. Seriously can ya please let me know who did your dreadlocks bud. I'm a Dundonian Proud Scotsman with hair down to my shoulders and have wanted them for years. Oh and a big fan of your RU-vid Channel. Thanks, keep safe and all the god work you do👍🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@lyntnugent9361 2 года назад

Great vid mate,me and mrs lynt loved our visit there,i can remember the alabaster figures on one of the vaults inside the main church. We also found some I'm sure they were Knights Templer carvings on the wall of an abandoned small church down a country lane.Think the newer ones were the Dalgleish family,behind some iron railings. 👍

@elendil7 2 года назад

Love this video. Thank you, Bruce!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

You're welcome

@robsvideos1140 2 года назад

Cool shirt! Oh, and nice video.

@OcculiMortis 2 года назад

Bruce, I have been all over the United States in 1986, 1987, and 1990 while touring as a member of a Drum & Bugle Corps. I saw the world as a U.S. Marine for 8 years from 1991-1999. But I wish I was a wealth person, because I’d pay for you to take some family members and I around a tour of Scotland. Gosh I wish I was wealthy!!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

I'll try and cover as many places as possible and you just enjoy the wealth inside you

@OcculiMortis 2 года назад

@@ScotlandHistoryTours it’s cool how you said that. Believe me because of you I have seen a lot of Scotland.

@davescott1491 2 года назад

Great story telling Bruce, as usual. The village and the monastery as well as the older remains are remarkable to visit. Thank you for the research, comedic injections…..and of course, the historical relevance!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Very welcome

@thehistorystudio1227 2 года назад

WOW , what a great video !!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Thanks

@nevem5010 2 года назад

Very interesting, thank you! ❤️

@jondecker2068 2 года назад

I have to say I really enjoy your jokes. The Banach-burn joke, I think, is my favorite so far.

@Kiltzombie 2 года назад

I was just going to say that!

@douglasherron7534 2 года назад

"Bannock-burn" (a 'bannock' is a thin oatmeal biscuit - also known outside Scotland an 'oatcake')

@jondecker2068 2 года назад

@@douglasherron7534 I am aware of that. But thank you for trying to educate me. I appreciate it none the less.

@douglasherron7534 2 года назад

@@jondecker2068 Bruce's audience comes from far and wide and many probably wouldn't know what a 'bannock' is... No offense intended.

@jondecker2068 2 года назад

@@douglasherron7534 I'm sorry if you thought I was being sarcastic. I wasn't. You had no way of knowing that I knew what bannock was and I truly appreciate that you wanted to tell me so that I knew what it was. Absolutely no offense was taken

@kimmartin8760 2 года назад

Are you a history teacher if not you should be. Great story telling kids will definitely remember

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Aye, until the exams come and there are no jokes in it😜

@cwaldrip 2 года назад

I have to say, I love your video thumbnails. LOL!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Yay, that's my laddie does them

@malcsco 2 года назад

Love the way you make history interesting with your modern comments, only joking that never happened. Keep the video coming your playing a blinder

@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 2 года назад

You're quite the storyteller, you must be a distant family member :D, My mom's family had one he told some really good ones, I was the "hyper " kid so when I mentioned bout going on school trips I tried really hard to behave, turns out I was the one that did better than others who knew back then, and most guides were volunteer I had so much respect for them anyway, then and now.

@barbaralavoie1045 2 года назад

I watch Outlander always, plus I have the dvds. Looking forward to this scary.

@DonP_is_lostagain 2 года назад

great vid, but I must admit, I've never seen but one or two episodes of Outlander. But it's a cool looking town, and glad the National Trust could snap up a good portion of it.

@kennethmcausland5390 Год назад

Damn you are good brother! Absolutely great!

@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 2 года назад

All right, the Bannockburn pun tickled me.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

😜

@wallyjansen898 2 года назад

Yes, wasn't St. Mungos mother called Thanea? I've been to Culross when on holiday naar Stirling. Quaint place, nice castle, peculiar colour. We saw the abby too.

@lynnemurphy114 2 года назад

Love this history sight 💚

@danpictish5457 2 года назад

We live just across the Firth of Forth. Thanks Bruce. You're so good.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

One does one's best my dear😁

@kimberlybates6261 2 года назад

Wow, thanks for the history lesson.

@lexiwilliams9422 2 года назад

Thank god for the national trust for saving those beautiful buildings.

@marcus3060 2 года назад

Have you got a contract with our education system yet. Mr D R Cameron was my history teacher great man! Taught us in such a simplified way not unlike yourself. Again thanks Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

You're welcome

@Badger1776 2 года назад

I hope you never run out of material man. You’re the best! 🤜

@julianshepherd2038 2 года назад

Wouldn't out in several lifetimes.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Scotland's the star

@WILKSVILLE 2 года назад

Thanks Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Welcome

@jamesturner9011 Месяц назад

In one of your episodes, you mentioned about someone going down to Grimsby. I can remember which episodes or person that went there. That being said. My 2nd great grandfather was born there. Then his parents and grandparents were from Wrangle and Baumber. There descendants settled in Iowa USA. My 2nd great grandfather on my mom's side was from somewhere near Fife. Settled in New Jersey

@ScotlandHistoryTours Месяц назад

I'm not aware of the Grimsby mention

@jamesturner9011 Месяц назад

@ScotlandHistoryTours I'll have to find the episode. It was also called something else. I might have heard it wrong. You're awesome. Thanks for the history lessons. You make it enjoyable for all of us. You bring it alive.

@Moishe555 2 года назад

i just saw something about someone called half hangit maggie dickson from edinburgh. what the hell man! love scottish history!

@bv52gyf 2 года назад

Great episode, and thanks for taking the time to chat with me on the waterfront. I’ve shared this to my Facebook page

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Yay, it's yersel !

@hammyh1165 2 года назад

You should've popped along to St Serfs island too 👍

@robertolds6178 2 года назад

Great video. Love the jokes.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

😜

@murdomackenzie4756 2 года назад

I was there a couple of months ago. Beautiful place, what a job the NTS have done x

@jasonnelson6276 2 года назад

Hi just watched Great video. I used to live in Canada and their uneven bread is also called bannock sure its a Scottish thing maybe a little historical digging would find out good luck with that 👍

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Definitely a Scottish thing

@coreymckay6929 2 года назад

Love Scotland want to come home but this COVID isn’t helping in AUS atm so will be back soon

@Austingipsy101 2 года назад

Bruce you near finished me off with that Bannockburn groaner, I inhaled an Eccles cake and about coughed up a lung in the process ! This and the slavery video are amazingly informative, I had no idea the extent of a 17th century miners misery. Bruce's enterprise was an amazing bit of engineering though. Still there at low tide if you like a bit if mudlarking.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Who disnae like a bit o mudlarking?

@Austingipsy101 2 года назад

@@ScotlandHistoryTours closer to quicksand in Culross though, many a wellie boot met an untimely end.

@desbelfastireland9982 2 года назад

GREAT WORK,,THANK YOU......... DES CREAN,,BELFAST,,,IRELAND

@ciaran134 2 года назад

That's just along the road from where I live but only ever drive through it. Do history on Valleyfield just along the road lol

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Not quite as glamorous eh?

@SnuggleBear1970 2 года назад

The pun about Bannock-burn is PRICELESS! ROTF

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

😜

@mikhailabunidal9146 2 года назад

@@🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland History Tours Everyone's talking about Outlander that i want to watch it there's alot of Scottish terms i need. To watch out for Brucy

@octobass9072 5 месяцев назад

The yellow house was in the movie the little vampire also

@johnspizziri1919 2 года назад

you almost make me wish to be a real traveler. Thanks!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Go for it!

@jasonblack3576 2 года назад

Bruce an idea for a video about Scottish history is John Baird the Condorratt radical and the fate brought upon him by the crown.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r6YPmaq2N5g.html

@MargaretPinard 2 года назад

Great video, Bruce! Do you have a bead on how NTS and HS differ in their portfolio of houses/properties, e.g. why to support one over the other?

@DH.2016 2 года назад

National Trust is a charity and Historic Environment Scotland, a government agency. Both have broadly the same aim to protect Scotland's heritage. As members of "the other lot" (Historic Scotland), my wife and I have our own jokey spin on it. If it's National Trust, it's got a roof on it; if it's Historic Scotland, it's not. Of course, that is an over simplification - HS also includes properties like Edinburgh and Stirling Castles and many other roofed properties. What Bruce's video on Culross has highlighted for me is that the NT is not just country houses. So I suggest you visit the websites of both and see what one catches your fancy (of course, you can always join both!). 8-)

@douglasherron7534 2 года назад

The NTS has now gone full "woke" and is more interested in virtue signalling by spending large amounts of member's subscriptions on dodgy "research" designed to prove how racist Scotland was/is and to "decolonise" their properties, instead of looking after them. Case in point: they have a handout for schoolkids visiting Burns' birthplace linking our national bard to slavery because he once accepted a position on a plantation in Jamaica - even though he never left Scotland, never took up the position and, hence, never profited in any way, shape or form from slavery. That's why I cancelled my membership.

@MargaretPinard 2 года назад

@@DH.2016 Thank you for that! Excellent explanation :) I have looked at both before and, short of cherry-picking where I thought I'd visit in a year--being an American--I couldn't decide! But this is great and much appreciated! 💕

@thecelticprince4949 2 года назад

@@douglasherron7534 Sounds like their management are ready for King Roberts scourge. 38 lashes of the cat. Should give them something to really hate.

@kathleensiegrist1457 2 года назад

Read the outlander book series- love the show more But love your videos best of all! Bannock-burn lol

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Yay 😎

@bran3662 2 года назад

Great video as per. Funny story though, around the 7:00 to 8:00 mark you're standing about 10 feet from an old ex girlfriends of mines home :) lovely wee village!.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

😂

@jimross7648 2 года назад

I always wonder why stuff that became standard first occurred. Was it monk who was just monkeying around and found black rocks burn until a skulk of Fawkes scared them off. Much Like one Fawkes scared James VI. Who knows, but the fact that the National Trust has preserved the past of Scotland, so Bruce has actual artifacts and buildings to illustrate the stories he tells so well.

@geowidman 2 года назад

"...which led to bannock burn!" So have la gendarmerie come for you yet? Thanks for another great one - groaners 🧐 excepted. (I know, I should take my gripes to your Key Grip.)

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

What did I do? What did I do?

@geowidman 2 года назад

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Made me Gah-rone! AND laugh too hard! 🤣 Great work, thanks. Hope to see you in person some day.

@lae52 2 года назад

I wish I could claim Scots descent but I think it's not to be. A fair bit of Irish and a whole lot of English of some sort. Way back when they were living in Holland prior to sailing for North America. I lived in Edinburgh as an early teenager and fell in love with Scotland, which still has a really strong pull still, even today almost 60 years later.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

We'll give you an honorary title

@peterblood50 2 года назад

Ha! When you said the boatman was Guy Fawkes even I, a farm boy from Kansas, did a double take. Nicely played 😋

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

😜

@billylettice9547 2 года назад

Bruce can you please tell me where you got your dreads. Please, please, please let me know. I watch all your history vids n liked every vid. I'm from Dundee. Bit anyway love what you do, looking forward to your next story. Keep up all the good n hard work you do big aine👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

God gave me them. I just let my hair grow without combing stopped

@billylettice9547 2 года назад

Alright Bruce, my hair is down to my shoulders mate. I've phoned every where to get them done. Closest places are Edinburgh and Glasgow 😭. Love what you do, your RU-vid channel is amazing. Keep it up big aine. Thanks for getting back to me personally. I'm away to throw out every brush n combs.n keep praying to our father. Love and respect buddy. Looking forward to your next vid👍🏼👍🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@jesusjohnny8286 2 года назад

Thomas Cochrane was a mad lad.

@Cloggie1967 2 года назад

As a Dutchman I was pleasantly surprised to see Dutch style houses in Scotland. Not living too far from Culross I love to visit it occasionally .

@mikeygilmour4635 2 года назад

That part of Scotland does have a notable Dutch influence.

@jamesmilne5384 2 года назад

From the 15th/16th century, coal and wool were exported from Fife ports such as Culross to the Low countries. Merchants saw the red pan-tiles and brought them back to Scotland. You'll see house with them them all the way up the East Coast of Scotland and round the Moray Firth, with the houses gable ends facing the sea, to protect against the inclement winds

@mistorWhiskers 2 года назад

Thanks for mentioning chips and vinegar, now that's all can think about and I happen to leave in a place where they are not common 😑

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

😂

@mistorWhiskers 2 года назад

@@ScotlandHistoryTours I hear you do then over newspaper over there, where my mom's from in the Mid-Atlantic, Delaware to be specific, they serve them in a brown paper bag.

@helenswan705 2 года назад

I've avidly watched every episode of Outlander. Generally I find it a good story, though if it's starting premise is incredible, it stretches my credulity ever further as the show advances. I think the acting is fine. BUT they are all far too clean!! In some of your vids, Bruce, you wear a very white shirt reminiscent of Jamie's! I am pleased to see this village.

@markmorrison9685 2 года назад

Mo charaid, do you ever do week long tours?

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

I think the longest I did was two weeks once

@jmunro-graham1568 2 года назад

Yea my family burnt themselves out for two hundred years mining black gold, from kilbirnie, larkhall croy and twechar.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

😥

@kevinreillydenmylne 2 года назад

st mungo, Kentigern or Con Tigherna, (Con=dogs/hounds tigherna = leader cf surname Tiernan) Culross has always been pronounced Coo Ross (Cu = dog/hound Ross = promontory) along the coast is is Queensferry, called Ardchinnechena in ancient times. (the Heights of the Dog Heads) Across the forth near Dun Mannan (Dalmeny) is hounds point. a legend associated is "whenever the death of any of its lords is about to occur, the unwonted apparition a hound, appears upon the point, and the baying of a hound precedes his death. :)

@elizabethrusson7495 2 года назад

My ancestors came from Culross and when the mines closed they migrated to Airth.

@Jack_B_guin_87 2 года назад

You could probably walk there in half an hour from culross. Was there any need to move?? 😂

@elizabethrusson7495 2 года назад

@@Jack_B_guin_87 I assume because there was no more work. The family were miners.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

😂

@traildogisla 2 года назад

Did mungo get the Glaswegians drinking Bucky from his monk mates in Devon for a cut? 🤣

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

That's what it says in the annuls

@Alex-cw3rz 2 года назад

Just to add National Trust membership is really handy, it makes parking free at National Trust car parks and within 3 visits to any National Trust place across the UK it's payed for itself! I live in a place with hardly any National Trust properties and I still manage too go to more than 3 places in a year, so it should be worth it for anyone with the means

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

I agree wholeheartedly

@richrobson220 2 года назад

When I was in school in the late 70s and early 80s, we got taught absolutely nothing about Scotland and it’s history. It was mostly about the industrial revolution in England. It was bloody disgraceful. I taught myself Scotland’s history from th library

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Well done you though

@lexiwilliams9422 2 года назад

Yep same here , so sad we don't get taught enough of our own history in Scottish schools.i suspect it's the same for the Welsh and NI Irish 😢

@Nastyswimmer 2 года назад

National Trust for Scotland - not to be confused with the other one

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Of course

@stuartpenman6387 2 года назад

another good video, you thought about doing the broons and oor Willie?

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

That is actually a good point

@stuartpenman6387 2 года назад

@@ScotlandHistoryTours i do make them from time to time LOL, never stop making videos, your respect and love for Scottish history is much needed, and as an ex-pat heartwarming

@billylettice9547 2 года назад

Good call mate👍🏼 I'm from Dundee I'm 41 and have got every Brooms n Oor Willie since 1989. I even have the Oor Willie Ornament from the bucket trail. Nice One bud👍🏼

@BarryHWhite 2 года назад

What aboot the witches Bruce ?.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

In Outlander you mean?

@stufromoz8164 2 года назад

G'day Brucey ol" mate, I laughed at your Bannockburn joke because I nay live far from Bannockburn in Australia, between Ballarat and Geelong, not much there , just a wee bakery who tries not to burn there bread.....too much, anyway..............

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

There ye go