IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Blue Tower, LANARK, ML11 0QL
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Blue Tower, ML11 0QL by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (133 Images Found)
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St Brides Church, Douglas
This late 14th century church now in the care of Historic Scotland is now the Mausoleum of the Black Douglases and contains the tomb of the Good Sir James Douglas who carried Robert the Bruce's heart on crusade. Today only the Choir which was reroofed in the 19th century and the South Aisle of the Nave remain along with a 16th century pencil shaped clock tower housing the oldest working clock in Scotland reputedly gifted by Mary Queen of Scot's.
Image: © Kevin Rae
Taken: 1 Apr 2006
0.02 miles
2
St Brides Church Clock Tower, Douglas
View of the 16th Century Clock Tower on this historic Church in Douglas, The clock is the oldest working clock in Scotland and was reputedly gifted by Mary Queen of Scot's
Image: © Kevin Rae
Taken: 1 Apr 2006
0.02 miles
3
Douglas view
The older northern part of the village seen from the site of the statue to the Earl of Angus. The museum is to the left.
Image: © Jim Barton
Taken: 26 Feb 2014
0.02 miles
4
Statue of James, Earl of Angus
Son of the Marquis of Douglas, killed at the battle of Steinkirk (during the Nine Years' War) when in command (aged 21) of the Cameronians Regiment in 1692.
Image: © Gordon Brown
Taken: 27 Feb 2021
0.02 miles
5
The Cameronians' Regimental Memorial
Statue commemorating the first colonel of the Cameronian regiment and its first muster near this spot on 14 May 1689. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th_(Cameronian)_Regiment_of_Foot For the regiment's origins in the religious conflicts of 17th century Scotland, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameronian
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 24 Mar 2015
0.03 miles
6
James, Earl of Angus
A statue commemorating the Earl of Angus who raised the Cameronian Regiment here in 1689 and died only 3 years later in France.
Image: © Jim Barton
Taken: 26 Feb 2014
0.03 miles
7
Statue of James Douglas, Earl of Angus
An impressive statue erected by the Douglas family to commemorate their ancestor on the bicentenary of his raising of the Cameronian regiment (26th Foot) for service under William of Orange. He points to the surrounding hills of Douglasdale where the recruits were found who mustered for the first time near this spot on 14 May 1689.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas,_Earl_of_Angus
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 24 Mar 2015
0.03 miles
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James Douglas, Earl of Angus statue
"Hi-diddle-dee-dee (A Soldier's Life For Me)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas,_Earl_of_Angus
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 24 Mar 2015
0.03 miles
9
Douglas Village
This is a view from Main Street to Pathhead at the north side if the village.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 26 Jul 2011
0.03 miles
