Been watching your videos for years, and its always great when you upload something about Edinburgh where I live! You've helped me grasp the Scottish culture for the past 5 years. I moved here 15 years ago from America. I am of carribean descent myself, my parents are originally from Dominican Republic but emigrated to America via NYC, and the hospital I was born in the New York Prysbetrian Hospital, which if I am not mistaken was founded by Samuel Bard, an american man who came over and got his M.D. at, you guessed it, University of Edinburgh Medical School! anyway your channel has the double whammy of letting me learn about scottish history but also is interesting to see how it overlapped with carribean history. Cheers pal!
I am an ex soldier of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, so it was great to hear about Ensign Charles Ewart. The Scots Greys and the 3rd Carabiniers were amalgamated in 1971, forming the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. The Regiments museum is located inside Edinburgh Castle next to the Regimental HQ. Also an interesting fact, The Ensign Ewart, despite being named after one of Scotlands most famous soldiers, bars soldiers from entry!
They didn't stop me from entering, but I'm from the Colonies, so they might have given me a pass. I sincerely hope I have this seasonal greeting correct. Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ùr. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Beannaich Dia na h-Albannaich anns a ’Ghàidhlig! ~~ Seas gu cinnteach May the Lord God of the Scots Bless you! ~~ Stand Sure [Anderson family motto]
My favourite city in the world. I'm a Tasmanian descended from a Scottish convict born in Edinburgh. I felt so at home as I wondered around the Royal Mile a few years back. Looking forward to another Scottish sojourn in 2024. Thanks for your wonderful videos.
Loving your strong accent my grandfather was born in scotland. He saved a woman who jumped off a bridge and the king gave him a gold coin that was made into a necklace we still have it today
You have got so good at this story telling you should start a TH-cam channel about the history of Scotland. Oh, wait….. seriously, all the best to you and yours during this festive season and here’s hoping for a healthy and successful 2024. One day Sandra and I will see one of your live shows 🌞
A'reyt Bruce. A reminder of how well you tell tales. I started watching the channel early enough to binge watch them all. Others might have time over the holidays in anticipation of your tour? You started with the stuff that I loved as a tiny English kid on holiday and finished with the stuff that keeps me watching. Happy Christmas / Holidays to you and all reading this and Happy New Year / Hogmanay too. Next I am watching a video from Benidorm, a reminder of recent trips nearby to my girlfriend's family. I dug holes there for lemon and orange trees to be planted, but typically English ignored a siesta. Finishing the second one I jumped out and stepped back to admire my efforts. Hot and tired I fell straight down the first hole, like a hole in one. An example of pride comes before a fall, as your your pious and learned subject might say?
Having just had our last day in Edinburgh and spent the last few days walking the Royal mile and its streets, closes/courts, trails abd graveyards this was fun to watch. Both me, my wife and our 8 year old lad have Scottish blood in our veins so its fun the think that our ancestors could have lived somewhere around this country. We are going to take our experiences back with us to The PNW in The States. Id we come back we eould love to see the high country a bit more. Anyway thanks for the thoughtful video. Cheers
Discovering your videos is on my list of great things that happened this year. Thanks for another enjoyable, enlightening peek at Edinburgh. Wishing you much success on your Canadian tour. I hope you have reserved some time to yourself for checking out some of the sights there.
I was fortunate to visit the Canongate Kirk in 2018; it's beautiful inside. I tried to visit again in 2023 but it was not open (I tried on two different days). I asked someone in the Museum of Edinburgh across the street and was told that the Kirk openings during the week were staffed by volunteers, most of them older folk, and sadly there aren't many of the volunteers left after the dark days of Covid lockdown. PS the Museum of Edinburgh is great too - it's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Robert Fergusson's statue is back! Yay! That spot looked so sad and empty without him last summer when he was getting repaired. Good video, as always! Thanks!
Thank you, brought back great memories of our amazing trip to Edinburgh and Scotland. During that trip, found out my clan was a border reaver. Which explains my dad and his brothers roudyness!
I’ve been to Edinburgh and I really want to go back. My kids haven’t been yet, so that would be an incredible trip! Please bring your show to Brea or Anaheim, California! I’ll be there!
MERRY CHRISTMAS ⛄🌲 Bruce... So I had to look up what a "close" is. It's a term I wasn't familiar with. As always I truly enjoyed the video, thanx. ❤️🏴
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Plan to visit Scotland in 2025, can’t wait! I don’t like golf but love history, hiking and Islay whisky- there’s a lot of places to get to, will need a car and at least 10 days
I am Edinburgh born and bred. Royal Mile is my favorite street in Edinburgh. I am luckily enough to work in the City Chambers. Now that is one spooky place. Great video thank you for posting and hope you have a great christmas and a happy new year
I attended Moray House Cokllege of Education as it was called in the seventies. I was lucky enough to live in Edinburgh for three years. It is located in the Canongate on the Mile. Thanks for your tour. I did not know most of what you examined as you made your way down the mile.
I love you Bruce family / Crew/ family. You all make my day with Bruce's vids. When you all did Yule vid Yes I did laugh at all the work you all put in. I also cried til my Feb 3 on my birthday same year as Bruce. I love all the work you've given from everyone on the crew too. To clearify a drunking babble ( Man thse people are Wack O noodles in my country Yes Yes I do blame those crazy Scottish for make American Noodle to the Wall friendly. . I love you all like the Scottish thistle. What does that smell like?
Thank you for this video. I've been to Scotland and specifically Edinburg twice in the last two years. I took walking tours of the New Town and the Royal Mile but now feel that I missed so much. I had planned my next trip to perhaps the Western Isles but I may reconsider and go back to Edinburg. I did the Castle at one end and Holyrood at the other and walked in between but there's always more to learn.
Well done 👍 Bruce another great video well done. I'm going to replay this video the history is so good. Oh I wish you and your family a very happy Christmas 🎄. From Elgin ... Scotland
Enjoy Annapolis Bruce. I was there almost thirty years ago as solo vocalist with the Gallovidians Fiddle Orchestra at the invitation of the Robert Burns Society of Annapolis. We got to visit the Naval Academy and saw the Tomb of John Paul Jones (Appropriate as our group was from Dumfries and Galloway). We had day trips to Washington DC and to Baltimore. It's the only long haul journey Ive done and no longer have a passport (and won't until I can get a Scottish one). Love your programmes.
You wont get to the tomb then :-) - shame - you could have compared it to his house at Arbigland. Hope you have a great tour and let us know if you are going to be in Dumfries (the one in Scotland).@@ScotlandHistoryTours
I have been a fan and a subscriber of yours for many years. I just got my ticket for your show in Montreal in May. I used to be a tour guide in Quebec City, if ever between shows in Halifax and Montreal you stop by Quebec City let me know I'll show you around.
Enjoy all the videos but I direct this comment to Alan Smithee just below. As A Smithee on the west side of the pond it's great to see someone on the other side with the same spelling of our last name. Here in the U.S. anyone spelling the name this way is going to be a cousin. Don't know the reason but John Smithee (born 1772) changed Smithey to Smithee. He married Sarah Carmichael and as they say, the rest is history! Wonderful to meet another Smithee. Cheers Alan !
Im going to follow in your footsteps as soon as I get over COVID. Done royal mile many times but as a local (pub crawl) not a tourist. PS cotton lawn so Lawnmarket
LOL! The Whisky Trail at 11:25. I was lucky enough to get to Edinburgh a few years ago. I picked up a bottle of Monkey Shoulder to tipple on during our visit. Still one of my favourite blended scotches though it's difficult to find in Canada. Looking forward to your Canadian tour. I'll see you in Perth. You may want to schedule a show an hour south in Kingston (Grand Theatre).
Hope you'll pass through Hamilton, Bruce, while on the Toronto/Fergus part of your Canadian tour. It was founded largely by Scots, and Dundurn, the 1832 mansion of pre-Confederation Upper Canada premier Sir Allan MacNab, is now a museum here. I can imagine one of your videos being made there...Sir Allan was related to current British Queen Consort Camilla, and then-Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla visited Dundurn a few years ago.
Growing up in the suburbs of Auld Reekie, my parents occasionally took us to the Castle (which was free at the time and you could park on the Esplanade) or elsewhere in the Royal Mile but it wasn't until I went to Edinburgh University that I really became familiar with the Old Town. I haven't lived in Edinburgh for 40 years now but was amazed how commercialised the High Street has become. That's tourism for you, I suppose. It pays the rent. I found Gladstone's Land a bit of a mess, to be honest, when I finally visited it for the first time eight years ago but I understand it has had a revamp since. I far preferred the Georgian House, which somehow I had never visited before either.
Hi Bruce, Another interesting video, many thanks for that. I was a student at Heriot-Watt, then in Chambers Street, in the late 1960s early 1970s I spent quite a lot of time in some of the hostelries on the Royal Mile. In my opinion The Old Town is ignored by the Main Stream tourism, The Castle, Holyrood or go to the Tattoo/Festival buy some tartan and you've done Edinburgh. Despite that time in Edinburgh and being a Sinclair I was unaware of William Sinclair's claim to fame. All I can say is I've got Argyll roots not Caithness.
'Skat' is a Scandinavian word for tax or payment and the word migrated to Britain and mutated into 'scot' as the name of a redistributive taxation, levied as early the 10th century as a form of municipal poor relief. 'Scot' as a term for tax has been used since then in various forms - Church scot, Rome scot, Soul scot and so on. Whatever the tax, the phrase 'getting off scot free' simply refers to not paying one's taxes.
Great video! I’d love to see what you know about Duncan’s close in Edinburgh. My great grandmother was born there and it’s almost impossible to get any info on.
Merry Xmas nd happy new year to you and your family and thank you for great videos and history lessons looking forward to seeing more in the new year all the best from Ireland
And the Bay City Rollers were from there! Probably the most important thing to ever come out of Scotland in all of history.Good thing they changed their name from the Saxons. What were the lads thinking?
Really enjoyed this video and learned a lot that I didn't know. I do though have an Edinburgh question unrelated to the video content. After the great Johnny Cunningham passed away (many years ago now), I read that the City of Edinburgh Council had provisionally given the name Cunningham Square to a square in Portobello, Edinburgh in his honor and memory. Was that made a permanent name? Hope so. Le meas.
Nice history of the Royal Mile Bruce. Scot free, I recall a programme back in the 90’s called “what’s in a word” they said the origin was 17th century and to do with rent payment. They said when the tenants, and think this was small farm tenants paid their rent called a Scot then the landowner gave them a free meal hence Scot free meal. I could be wrong nothing at all to back this up and it was a long time ago. Anyway it was channel 4 I believe round about 1999.
1:05 Before that carbuncle was chosen as the "Scottish Parliament" I wrote to the Planning Dept. suggesting they join the old "Royal High School" 15:23 to the other classical building, almost opposite, "St Andrew's House" (formerly The Scottish Office) with a below street level building like "Waverley Market". A big open area with mezzanine floors overlooking. It wouldn't matter what the outside looked like being underground. (I'm sure it would not have cost anything like that thing they did build) The offices around these floors, instead of windows, widescreen TV's could be used [with any Google Map vista desired. -This was a recent afterthought]. Also there's a disused railway tunnel which could be made a walkway (mobile) from it to the station. On the ground people would see classic built-to-last Scotland while just below the surface Hi-Tec modern Scotland. It would suit just about everyone. I also wrote that it would please the folks who think all our politicians belong down a big deep hole in the ground. Sadly the reply they chose to send was a blank sheet of A4 except for the the Planning department headline.
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The fumester strolling down the royal mile. Class
What is a fumester? Thanks, from an American whose grandfather was Scottish. ❤
He's the guide
Been watching your videos for years, and its always great when you upload something about Edinburgh where I live!
You've helped me grasp the Scottish culture for the past 5 years. I moved here 15 years ago from America. I am of carribean descent myself, my parents are originally from Dominican Republic but emigrated to America via NYC, and the hospital I was born in the New York Prysbetrian Hospital, which if I am not mistaken was founded by Samuel Bard, an american man who came over and got his M.D. at, you guessed it, University of Edinburgh Medical School!
anyway your channel has the double whammy of letting me learn about scottish history but also is interesting to see how it overlapped with carribean history. Cheers pal!
Brilliant
I love the stories and how well you tell them.
I am an ex soldier of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, so it was great to hear about Ensign Charles Ewart. The Scots Greys and the 3rd Carabiniers were amalgamated in 1971, forming the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. The Regiments museum is located inside Edinburgh Castle next to the Regimental HQ. Also an interesting fact, The Ensign Ewart, despite being named after one of Scotlands most famous soldiers, bars soldiers from entry!
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They didn't stop me from entering, but I'm from the Colonies, so they might have given me a pass. I sincerely hope I have this seasonal greeting correct.
Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ùr.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Beannaich Dia na h-Albannaich anns a ’Ghàidhlig! ~~ Seas gu cinnteach
May the Lord God of the Scots Bless you! ~~ Stand Sure [Anderson family motto]
l love this town. Thank you, Bruce!
You are very welcome
Brings a tear to my eye! I lived on the Royal Mile!
My favourite city in the world. I'm a Tasmanian descended from a Scottish convict born in Edinburgh. I felt so at home as I wondered around the Royal Mile a few years back. Looking forward to another Scottish sojourn in 2024. Thanks for your wonderful videos.
Hopefully I'll be back in Tasmania in 2025
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Excellent!
Loving your strong accent my grandfather was born in scotland. He saved a woman who jumped off a bridge and the king gave him a gold coin that was made into a necklace we still have it today
But I don't have a strong accent
@@ScotlandHistoryTours it's nice
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I was complianting you sir ❤️
You have got so good at this story telling you should start a TH-cam channel about the history of Scotland. Oh, wait….. seriously, all the best to you and yours during this festive season and here’s hoping for a healthy and successful 2024. One day Sandra and I will see one of your live shows 🌞
“Sometimes, Scottish stories are happy” 😂
Fantastic video of a truly magical city. Would love to see your shows, hope you come down to England sometime soon
Who knows
Wonderful video. I love learning Scottish history. My ancestors are scottish so i love to learn all i can about who i am. Thanx ❤😊
A'reyt Bruce. A reminder of how well you tell tales. I started watching the channel early enough to binge watch them all. Others might have time over the holidays in anticipation of your tour?
You started with the stuff that I loved as a tiny English kid on holiday and finished with the stuff that keeps me watching.
Happy Christmas / Holidays to you and all reading this and Happy New Year / Hogmanay too.
Next I am watching a video from Benidorm, a reminder of recent trips nearby to my girlfriend's family. I dug holes there for lemon and orange trees to be planted, but typically English ignored a siesta. Finishing the second one I jumped out and stepped back to admire my efforts. Hot and tired I fell straight down the first hole, like a hole in one.
An example of pride comes before a fall, as your your pious and learned subject might say?
Yay boy
Happy Sunday Bruce 😊
Hola
Lovely to see wonderful Edinburgh.
Indeed!
Really enjoy your historical journeys Bruce, best of luck on your Canadian tour 🇨🇦.
Having just had our last day in Edinburgh and spent the last few days walking the Royal mile and its streets, closes/courts, trails abd graveyards this was fun to watch.
Both me, my wife and our 8 year old lad have Scottish blood in our veins so its fun the think that our ancestors could have lived somewhere around this country. We are going to take our experiences back with us to The PNW in The States. Id we come back we eould love to see the high country a bit more.
Anyway thanks for the thoughtful video. Cheers
Discovering your videos is on my list of great things that happened this year. Thanks for another enjoyable, enlightening peek at Edinburgh. Wishing you much success on your Canadian tour. I hope you have reserved some time to yourself for checking out some of the sights there.
Brilliant
I was fortunate to visit the Canongate Kirk in 2018; it's beautiful inside. I tried to visit again in 2023 but it was not open (I tried on two different days). I asked someone in the Museum of Edinburgh across the street and was told that the Kirk openings during the week were staffed by volunteers, most of them older folk, and sadly there aren't many of the volunteers left after the dark days of Covid lockdown. PS the Museum of Edinburgh is great too - it's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Robert Fergusson's statue is back! Yay! That spot looked so sad and empty without him last summer when he was getting repaired. Good video, as always! Thanks!
Thank you, brought back great memories of our amazing trip to Edinburgh and Scotland. During that trip, found out my clan was a border reaver. Which explains my dad and his brothers roudyness!
Again hugely informative videos .
Thanks again!
Excellent! Essential information for visitors to Auld Edina. (And for some of we residents).
I’ve been to Edinburgh and I really want to go back. My kids haven’t been yet, so that would be an incredible trip! Please bring your show to Brea or Anaheim, California! I’ll be there!
Thank you.
You're welcome
Love your videos! Thanks so much 💙👍🏼
You are so welcome!
3:10 - a simpler explanation is that "lawn" was the term for plain-weave cloth, particularly linen.
There ye go
So excited to be see Bruce in my home town of Fergus next year! Couldn’t believe he made it a stop on his Canadian tour.
Everyone recommended it. I still haven't managed to get a bar for the venue, so hopefully it won't be dry
MERRY CHRISTMAS ⛄🌲 Bruce... So I had to look up what a "close" is. It's a term I wasn't familiar with. As always I truly enjoyed the video, thanx. ❤️🏴
Another great video🌟💯 So much great history info. Thank you for taking us there🏰🍃🍃🍃
God bless✨️
Man, I love this channel.
Bruce - Thank you for another spectacular tour, and even more interesting history too!
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Your Bruce fummey Scotland history encyclopedia, comedian and top man. Scotland had no rain for 5 days does that record still stand?
Plan to visit Scotland in 2025, can’t wait! I don’t like golf but love history, hiking and Islay whisky- there’s a lot of places to get to, will need a car and at least 10 days
"...sometimes Scottish stories are happy..." Classic Bruce, ya got me giggling on that one. 😂❤
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I am Edinburgh born and bred. Royal Mile is my favorite street in Edinburgh. I am luckily enough to work in the City Chambers. Now that is one spooky place. Great video thank you for posting and hope you have a great christmas and a happy new year
...and a great 2024 to you too
I'm glad you mentioned that St Giles is the High Kirk. My Uncle Joe always called it that. He grew up playing in the Royal Mile.
Merry Christmas Bruce and youtube gang
Thanks
Great video. We will see you in Toronto in the spring!
Brilliant
Excellent stories ❤
Glad you like them!
I was there is 2016 it was an awesome visit! My Great grandparents were married 1874 at 7 Prince Regent Street, North Leith..
Great Bruce My fellow Craigie man, I also lived in Edinburgh from 66 till 91. Great city but I miss Perth.
"English Spoken- American Understood"! 🤣My favorite is still "Fresh Caught Haggis".
Thank you. ❤ It.
I'm an Edinburgh native and I'm always finding out new things about this city
Always educational . . . and interesting, Bruce. Looking forward to the next video. ☕
Love your channel.
Thank you!
You've helped me grasp the Scottish culture
Thanks for a great year. Looking forward to the next adventures. Season's Greetings, Bruce and have a very merry Hogmanay . 🎄🍻🎅🍾🤩😍
One more video to come before the year's out
I would love to hear about Saint Giles. ❤. I really appreciate how you join up bits of history because I actually have difficulty with time lines. 💓
My wife and I will be in Edinburgh at the end of June next year. This is a great video for us to see. Thanks big yin.
Have fun!
Thanks
Ah thanks Peter
Merry Christmas Bruce! And a happy Hogmanay!
Have a great time
I attended Moray House Cokllege of Education as it was called in the seventies. I was lucky enough to live in Edinburgh for three years. It is located in the Canongate on the Mile. Thanks for your tour. I did not know most of what you examined as you made your way down the mile.
Just popped by to you and everyone in the comments a merry Christmas/happy holiday. 🎉
Ah, how lovely of you
Merry Christmas to you and yer family Bruce
I love you Bruce family / Crew/ family. You all make my day with Bruce's vids. When you all did Yule vid Yes I did laugh at all the work you all put in. I also cried til my Feb 3 on my birthday same year as Bruce. I love all the work you've given from everyone on the crew too. To clearify a drunking babble ( Man thse people are Wack O noodles in my country Yes Yes I do blame those crazy Scottish for make American Noodle to the Wall friendly. . I love you all like the Scottish thistle. What does that smell like?
Thank you for this video. I've been to Scotland and specifically Edinburg twice in the last two years. I took walking tours of the New Town and the Royal Mile but now feel that I missed so much. I had planned my next trip to perhaps the Western Isles but I may reconsider and go back to Edinburg. I did the Castle at one end and Holyrood at the other and walked in between but there's always more to learn.
Loved it
You tell a good story. Have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year in 2024.
I wish I had seen this last summer when there.
I wish my late Mother could have watched these videos. She may have helped with with stories
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LOVE YOUR CHANNEL. Love from Chicago.I want to visit Scoootland so bad. 😊. Thanks for all you do
You should!
Visited Edinburgh years ago ,Got to be the cleanest city I've been in ,in the UK ,really enjoyed my visit there .
Edinburgh😎
@@ScotlandHistoryTours my error ,fat fingers here
Been there ...great place x
Great video fun,especially like the notice on the chalk board, speak English, understand American.
Well done 👍 Bruce another great video well done. I'm going to replay this video the history is so good. Oh I wish you and your family a very happy Christmas 🎄. From Elgin ... Scotland
THANK S
You're welcome
Enjoy Annapolis Bruce. I was there almost thirty years ago as solo vocalist with the Gallovidians Fiddle Orchestra at the invitation of the Robert Burns Society of Annapolis. We got to visit the Naval Academy and saw the Tomb of John Paul Jones (Appropriate as our group was from Dumfries and Galloway). We had day trips to Washington DC and to Baltimore. It's the only long haul journey Ive done and no longer have a passport (and won't until I can get a Scottish one). Love your programmes.
Aye , but I'm going to the one in Canada😂
You wont get to the tomb then :-) - shame - you could have compared it to his house at Arbigland. Hope you have a great tour and let us know if you are going to be in Dumfries (the one in Scotland).@@ScotlandHistoryTours
I have been a fan and a subscriber of yours for many years. I just got my ticket for your show in Montreal in May. I used to be a tour guide in Quebec City, if ever between shows in Halifax and Montreal you stop by Quebec City let me know I'll show you around.
I plan to spend a couple of days in Quebec City and make a video if possible
Enjoy all the videos but I direct this comment to Alan Smithee just below. As A Smithee on the west side of the pond it's great to see someone on the other side with the same spelling of our last name. Here in the U.S. anyone spelling the name this way is going to be a cousin. Don't know the reason but John Smithee (born 1772) changed Smithey to Smithee. He married Sarah Carmichael and as they say, the rest is history! Wonderful to meet another Smithee. Cheers Alan !
Im going to follow in your footsteps as soon as I get over COVID. Done royal mile many times but as a local (pub crawl) not a tourist.
PS cotton lawn so Lawnmarket
LOL! The Whisky Trail at 11:25. I was lucky enough to get to Edinburgh a few years ago. I picked up a bottle of Monkey Shoulder to tipple on during our visit. Still one of my favourite blended scotches though it's difficult to find in Canada. Looking forward to your Canadian tour. I'll see you in Perth. You may want to schedule a show an hour south in Kingston (Grand Theatre).
One of my ancestors was Thomas Lowry, Sargeant of Canongate! In like... 1500 😂❤
Thank you! Merry Christmas 🖤
Great video Bruce, Merry Christmas 🎄👍👍
Thanks
Hope you'll pass through Hamilton, Bruce, while on the Toronto/Fergus part of your Canadian tour. It was founded largely by Scots, and Dundurn, the 1832 mansion of pre-Confederation Upper Canada premier Sir Allan MacNab, is now a museum here. I can imagine one of your videos being made there...Sir Allan was related to current British Queen Consort Camilla, and then-Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla visited Dundurn a few years ago.
I approached a few theatres in Hamilton to try to put on the show, but with no success
Finally got a venue sorted in Hamilton www.thewestdale.ca/event/stories-of-scotland/
Growing up in the suburbs of Auld Reekie, my parents occasionally took us to the Castle (which was free at the time and you could park on the Esplanade) or elsewhere in the Royal Mile but it wasn't until I went to Edinburgh University that I really became familiar with the Old Town. I haven't lived in Edinburgh for 40 years now but was amazed how commercialised the High Street has become. That's tourism for you, I suppose. It pays the rent. I found Gladstone's Land a bit of a mess, to be honest, when I finally visited it for the first time eight years ago but I understand it has had a revamp since. I far preferred the Georgian House, which somehow I had never visited before either.
Hey Bruce have a magnificent Christmas 🎄 and a prosperous New year fella
Same to you!
Merry xmas, all the best for next year and the tour goes well.
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Hi Bruce,
Another interesting video, many thanks for that.
I was a student at Heriot-Watt, then in Chambers Street, in the late 1960s early 1970s I spent quite a lot of time in some of the hostelries on the Royal Mile. In my opinion The Old Town is ignored by the Main Stream tourism, The Castle, Holyrood or go to the Tattoo/Festival buy some tartan and you've done Edinburgh.
Despite that time in Edinburgh and being a Sinclair I was unaware of William Sinclair's claim to fame. All I can say is I've got Argyll roots not Caithness.
'Skat' is a Scandinavian word for tax or payment and the word migrated to Britain and mutated into 'scot' as the name of a redistributive taxation, levied as early the 10th century as a form of municipal poor relief.
'Scot' as a term for tax has been used since then in various forms - Church scot, Rome scot, Soul scot and so on. Whatever the tax, the phrase 'getting off scot free' simply refers to not paying one's taxes.
Great video! I’d love to see what you know about Duncan’s close in Edinburgh. My great grandmother was born there and it’s almost impossible to get any info on.
Scotch Whisky Experience... AYE!!! 🥃🥃🥃
🤠 me too
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@@ScotlandHistoryTours- Well Well then, Lad! When I’m in Scotland, I’ll buy ya a dram instead of a coffee!!!
Wish we had seen this before our visit in 2022. Some of this we saw but there is so much more. However, we did drop in a few of the whiskey shops😅
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Cheers Bruce, cracking video as usual. Any videos planned about loch leven?
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You forgot The Wee Gift Shop! Edinburgh is such a beautiful city.
Which one?
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I thought there was only one "The Wee Gift Shop" on the Royal Mile. Even took a photo in front of it.
Seasons Greetings Brother 🏴
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Merry Xmas nd happy new year to you and your family and thank you for great videos and history lessons looking forward to seeing more in the new year all the best from Ireland
Same to you!
Merry Christmas,Sir, to you and yours, and a Happy and Blessed New Year.
Same to you!
And the Bay City Rollers were from there! Probably the most important thing to ever come out of Scotland in all of history.Good thing they changed their name from the Saxons. What were the lads thinking?
Really enjoyed this video and learned a lot that I didn't know. I do though have an Edinburgh question unrelated to the video content. After the great Johnny Cunningham passed away (many years ago now), I read that the City of Edinburgh Council had provisionally given the name Cunningham Square to a square in Portobello, Edinburgh in his honor and memory. Was that made a permanent name? Hope so. Le meas.
Merry Christmas when it comes Brucie boy 🎊 🎉 thanks for the vids 👌🏻👍
Same to you!
Nice history of the Royal Mile Bruce. Scot free, I recall a programme back in the 90’s called “what’s in a word” they said the origin was 17th century and to do with rent payment. They said when the tenants, and think this was small farm tenants paid their rent called a Scot then the landowner gave them a free meal hence Scot free meal. I could be wrong nothing at all to back this up and it was a long time ago. Anyway it was channel 4 I believe round about 1999.
I thikn they wer probably right to be fair
av lived in Edinbruh maest ay ma life n didney ken haf this stuff, nice one man!!
So enjoy your videos.
I'm so glad!
I love to watch you show my home land I'm only part Scott but my name is Scott and your a great guy thank you
One additional word of eduction. You are part Scot, but called Scott. Count the 't's
what a state the roads are in, along with the diversity barriers
1:05 Before that carbuncle was chosen as the "Scottish Parliament" I wrote to the Planning Dept. suggesting they join the old "Royal High School" 15:23 to the other classical building, almost opposite, "St Andrew's House" (formerly The Scottish Office) with a below street level building like "Waverley Market".
A big open area with mezzanine floors overlooking. It wouldn't matter what the outside looked like being underground. (I'm sure it would not have cost anything like that thing they did build)
The offices around these floors, instead of windows, widescreen TV's could be used [with any Google Map vista desired. -This was a recent afterthought].
Also there's a disused railway tunnel which could be made a walkway (mobile) from it to the station.
On the ground people would see classic built-to-last Scotland while just below the surface Hi-Tec modern Scotland. It would suit just about everyone. I also wrote that it would please the folks who think all our politicians belong down a big deep hole in the ground.
Sadly the reply they chose to send was a blank sheet of A4 except for the the Planning department headline.
Of course