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Dalhousie Castle
1280 Ramsay de Dalwolsey builds the inner Keep with Vaults and the bottle dungeon. |
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The Chapel Window
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Above the Foyer
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Above entrace to Foyer
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Ceiling in the Foyer
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Drawbridge Slots
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To the South East
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To the old bridge
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St Giles Cathedral
Founded c854 |
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Covenanters Window in St Giles
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Ramsay Arms St Giles
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Above stall of Earl of Dalhousie Thistle Chapel St Giles
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Greyfriers Kirk
Burial place of many famouse Scots inluding Alan Ramsay |
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Alan Ramsay Plaque on the south wall
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Dean Ramsay Memorial Princes Street
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n 1755 Ramsay retired from business and settled In an octagonal house he had had built to his own plans on the north side of the Castle Rock |
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Is that a cat on the roof
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It is a cat
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It is a Devil that has lost its wings due to Edinburghs weather
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1333. Dunbar Castle's most famous moment came in 1338 when Agnes Randolph of Dunbar, or "Black Agnes", commanded the successful defence of the castle during a five month siege by the English.
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But the ferocious Baron Douglas drawing his sword, attacked and wounded his unsuspecting victim, and throwing him bleeding across a horse, carried him off to the remote and solitary castle of Hermitage, amidst the morasses of Liddesdale, where he cast him into a dungeon and left him to perish of hunger. |
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Crichton Castle
King James gave the castle and its lands to his favourite, Sir John Ramsay, who he created Lord Bothwell
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Visit of Dalhousie Swiss Pipe Band with Earl of Dalhousie
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Red Ramsay is also the Official Tartan of Edinburgh Fire Brigade
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Dalhousie Village India
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