Clan Bruce - Clackmannan Tower - Framed & Mounted Photo Print Menzies By the mid-eighteenth century they

By the mid-eighteenth century they were wealthy enough to commission the most fashionable portrait painters in Europe

the peaks and glens of the Cuillin were part of what your ancestors called home

an attempt to put the Stuart dynasty back on the British throne

when Sir William St Clair was granted the barony of Roslin

the fields of Midlothian stretch toward the hills

Clan Bruce - Clackmannan Tower - Framed & Mounted Photo Print Menzies By the mid-eighteenth century theyPhotographer Aly Wight captured Clackmannan Tower from the meadow below, framed by summer trees above a foreground of wild cow parsley. Warm evening light catches the sandstone, giving the old stonework an amber glow against a luminous sky. The Bruces came to Clackmannan in the fourteenth century as a reward. Thomas Bruce, a kinsman of the royal house, helped lead a rising against English occupation in the west of Scotland, and received Crown lands