Bruce how do you become a patrone. I want to start supporting you and your CZcams 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 CZcams channel that I can become a patrone please mate, would be honoured and so proud and grateful 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
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.
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 😆
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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!
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.
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. 👍👍
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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. 🌹🦋❤️☮️
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👍🏼
😂😂😂 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🏴
😂😂😂 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 CZcams Channel. Thanks, keep safe and all the god work you do👍🏼🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
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!!!
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.
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. 👍
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!
@@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
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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-)
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.
@@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! 💕
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
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.
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
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.
@@🏴 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
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 👍
"...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.)
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.
@@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.
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🏴🏴🏴
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 CZcams 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👍🏼👍🏼🏴🏴🏴
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!.
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. :)
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.
@@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
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👍🏼
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
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..............
Join the National Trust at tidd.ly/3kuyDg3
I'm joining, Scotland is the most beautiful place in the word. West Highland way, here I come🏴👍🏼🏴👍🏼🏴
Bruce how do you become a patrone. I want to start supporting you and your CZcams 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 CZcams channel that I can become a patrone please mate, would be honoured and so proud and grateful 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
As a dedicated Outlander fan, I love these videos you’re doing about these filming sites.
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.
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 😆
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!
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.
Ah bless
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.
Ah no
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.
Definitely
This is the truth, but I believe it's true of most countries and finding the truth in history.
Thank you for doing the occasional Outlander video. You do wonderful work overall.
You're welcome
I visited Culross back in June when I was staying in Fife. Fascinating place. Great stories!
It really is!
It's hard to believe that this is independent content. Bravo, sir! Thank you for the education!
My pleasure! Feel free to get me corporate funding 😂...without editorial influence mind
Love to see your channel growing so much & you have the funniest thumbnails! 😆💖🏴
Glad you like them! I'll tell my laddie
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.
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).
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!
Yay
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.
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. 👍👍
Bruce really bubbles with enthusiasm.
He used to be a teacher. Teachers with that sort of enthusiasm really spark the children's' interest.
Great story,what a beautiful village. Thanks Bruce .
As an American of Scottish decent you are responsible for furthering my education. Thank you, I have enjoyed your videos. Keep it up.
... and to help you further, the word is "descent." (you might want to edit it - sorry - couldn't resist 😂)
@@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.
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.
You and me both!
I love the old homes. So much history.
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.
You don’t see many towns preserved like that in Scotland.It’s like stepping back in time.
Exactly
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
I know😎
I thought they were pantiles made of clay.
@@alicemilne1444 They are made of clay.
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
I've added it to the list
oh gtreat idea!!
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.
Lovely
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. 🌹🦋❤️☮️
Brilliant
Great stories. Thank you.
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👍🏼
😎 God did them for me. I just stopped combing
More like Neil Oliver before he went nuts and disappeared up his own erse
@@julianshepherd2038 He's not the nuts one...
😂😂😂 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🏴
😂😂😂 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 CZcams Channel. Thanks, keep safe and all the god work you do👍🏼🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
The Thomas Cochrane story is amazing. A must watch video! A Falkirk history of the Ironworks video would be interesting
Good point
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!!!
I'll try and cover as many places as possible and you just enjoy the wealth inside you
@@ScotlandHistoryTours it’s cool how you said that. Believe me because of you I have seen a lot of Scotland.
Another belter of a video!, although thon bannock pun was painful!
😂
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.
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. 👍
Loving your content! Please keep up the good work!
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!
Very welcome
I have to say I really enjoy your jokes. The Banach-burn joke, I think, is my favorite so far.
I was just going to say that!
"Bannock-burn" (a 'bannock' is a thin oatmeal biscuit - also known outside Scotland an 'oatcake')
@@douglasherron7534 I am aware of that. But thank you for trying to educate me. I appreciate it none the less.
@@jondecker2068 Bruce's audience comes from far and wide and many probably wouldn't know what a 'bannock' is... No offense intended.
@@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
Are you a history teacher if not you should be. Great story telling kids will definitely remember
Aye, until the exams come and there are no jokes in it😜
Cool shirt! Oh, and nice video.
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.”
Your passion is amazing, love the channel!
I properly love your videos! Really interesting stuff! Loving your work!
Thank you very much!
Love the way you make history interesting with your modern comments, only joking that never happened. Keep the video coming your playing a blinder
Thank god for the national trust for saving those beautiful buildings.
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.
You're welcome
WOW , what a great video !!!
Thanks
All right, the Bannockburn pun tickled me.
😜
Thanks Bruce.
Welcome
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.
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.
I watch Outlander always, plus I have the dvds. Looking forward to this scary.
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.
Love this video. Thank you, Bruce!
You're welcome
We live just across the Firth of Forth. Thanks Bruce. You're so good.
One does one's best my dear😁
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
I'm not aware of the Grimsby mention
@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.
Damn you are good brother! Absolutely great!
Very interesting, thank you! ❤️
I have to say, I love your video thumbnails. LOL!
Yay, that's my laddie does them
i just saw something about someone called half hangit maggie dickson from edinburgh. what the hell man! love scottish history!
Wow, thanks for the history lesson.
Love this history sight 💚
I hope you never run out of material man. You’re the best! 🤜
Wouldn't out in several lifetimes.
Scotland's the star
I was there a couple of months ago. Beautiful place, what a job the NTS have done x
You should've popped along to St Serfs island too 👍
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?
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-)
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.
@@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! 💕
@@douglasherron7534 Sounds like their management are ready for King Roberts scourge. 38 lashes of the cat. Should give them something to really hate.
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
Well done you though
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 😢
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
Not quite as glamorous eh?
The pun about Bannock-burn is PRICELESS! ROTF
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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.
Who disnae like a bit o mudlarking?
@@ScotlandHistoryTours closer to quicksand in Culross though, many a wellie boot met an untimely end.
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 .
That part of Scotland does have a notable Dutch influence.
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
Read the outlander book series- love the show more
But love your videos best of all!
Bannock-burn lol
Yay 😎
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.
We'll give you an honorary title
Love Scotland want to come home but this COVID isn’t helping in AUS atm so will be back soon
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Everyone's talking about Outlander that i want to watch it there's alot of Scottish terms i need. To watch out for Brucy
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 👍
Definitely a Scottish thing
"...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.)
What did I do? What did I do?
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Made me Gah-rone! AND laugh too hard! 🤣 Great work, thanks. Hope to see you in person some day.
GREAT WORK,,THANK YOU......... DES CREAN,,BELFAST,,,IRELAND
Bruce an idea for a video about Scottish history is John Baird the Condorratt radical and the fate brought upon him by the crown.
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The yellow house was in the movie the little vampire also
Great episode, and thanks for taking the time to chat with me on the waterfront. I’ve shared this to my Facebook page
Yay, it's yersel !
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.
Great video. Love the jokes.
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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 😑
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@@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.
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🏴🏴🏴
God gave me them. I just let my hair grow without combing stopped
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 CZcams 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👍🏼👍🏼🏴🏴🏴
Mo charaid, do you ever do week long tours?
I think the longest I did was two weeks once
you almost make me wish to be a real traveler. Thanks!!
Go for it!
Ha! When you said the boatman was Guy Fawkes even I, a farm boy from Kansas, did a double take. Nicely played 😋
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Thomas Cochrane was a mad lad.
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!.
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My ancestors came from Culross and when the mines closed they migrated to Airth.
You could probably walk there in half an hour from culross. Was there any need to move?? 😂
@@Jack_B_guin_87 I assume because there was no more work. The family were miners.
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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. :)
Yea my family burnt themselves out for two hundred years mining black gold, from kilbirnie, larkhall croy and twechar.
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Did mungo get the Glaswegians drinking Bucky from his monk mates in Devon for a cut? 🤣
That's what it says in the annuls
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.
another good video, you thought about doing the broons and oor Willie?
That is actually a good point
@@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
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👍🏼
What aboot the witches Bruce ?.
In Outlander you mean?
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
I agree wholeheartedly
National Trust for Scotland - not to be confused with the other one
Of course
“ … they tended to over-cook the dough, leading to Bannockburn“ 🤣😂🤨
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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..............
There ye go