| Photo Information |
| Copyright: David Holliday (hifimusicdave) (115) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 1988-10 |
| Categories: Daily Life |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-12-30 11:17 |
| Viewed: 385 |
| Points: 0 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Motorbiking in Scotland is a great way to see the country however one had to risk getting wet periodically. Crieff is a beautiful little town well worth a visit.
For a number of centuries the Highlanders came south to Crieff to sell their black cattle whose meat and hides were avidly sought by the growing urban populations in Lowland Scotland and the north of England. The town acted as a gathering point or tryst for the Michaelmas cattle sale held each year and the surrounding fields and hillsides were black with the tens of thousands of cattle - some from as far away as Caithness and the Outer Hebrides (for comparison, in 1790 the population of Crieff was about 1,200 which led to a ratio of tens cows per person, similar to the sheep/human ratio in New Zealand or Australia today).
During the October Tryst (as the cattle gathering was known), Crieff was the prototype 'wild west' town, milling with cattle, horse thieves, bandits and drunken drovers. The inevitable killings were punished on the Kind Gallows, for which Crieff became known throughout Europe.
Information courtesy Wikipedia
Photo was taken with a Pentax K1000 and recently scanned with a Canon F5000 |
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