The Pre-history of Princes St Gardens in Edinburgh

[@autiejedi5857]

Our Apalachian mountains over here in the States still miss being wed to the Highlands. A rocky breakup, that! 😂💜

[@angelamckay9281]

That origin and subsequent break up explains a lot in our nature does is not? When I heard of our shared geological past, I silently nodded and chuckled deep inside myself.

[@ajnormandgroome]

Love how you phrased that!

[@sharktomesmiles]

@@angelamckay9281 lol

[@TroyTempest0]

Great vid Bruce. Would definitely like a vid about the monuments in the garden. All the best.

[@jumbodoug]

Edinburgh born and bred. It's a strange town, from it's prehistory (literally built on volcanoes), to it's huge advances in medicine, yet it must have been the dirtiest, filthiest town in history, with sewage literally thrown out the window onto the street. You should definitely do more videos on Edinburgh, there's so much history still here, hidden in plain sight, if you know where to look. So many villages that merged into what is now Edinburgh. Huge estates once owned by the very wealthy are now some of the most deprived housing schemes in the city. Your videos are brilliant, you cover the more obscure history that's usually missed, there's literally limitless options of topics you could cover. Looking forward to the next ones 👍

[@tomlaing3430]

Look into history of Paris. Why King shifted his palace.

[@GrooveSpaceArk]

Didn't they used to do that in every city...

[@sharktomesmiles]

I so agree with you. I freaked out over the thought of the smell. Im over on the other great ocean side It's Mine Ocean!!! lol I do so geek out over the Highlands and its formation. I love earth science. Im still trying to find out How Low was the oceans? I found Hy Brazil on google earth map. Its still under water. One can see there is a lot of land passed West Ireland back to Europe known as Doggerland. Im one of thoughs peoples who think we have been here longer than we think. I love your post.

[@greatboniwanker]

Yes, to both! Let's have a tour of the Edinburgh gardens & memorials. And do more videos about Glasgow!

[@Andrew-y9n5c]

Love the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😘😜

[@jimmycburfield5997]

‘Oh no, not again’ 😜

[@johnstuartkeller5244]

Funny to mention. I'm on the road, and I always pack a towel, sometimes two ... just in case.

[@davidcampbell520]

Made me laugh loud enough that I had to rewind to catch what I missed.

[@antipasmartyrrev2134]

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[@paris5551000]

Id love for you to walk around and show us the monuments. I’d also love for you to show us Glasgow. One area that I feel gets overlooked is the Galway area. I’ve only been there once, to the Viking centre, but there seems to be some interesting stuff down there. PS thanks for your work. Gives me a Scottish lifeline…. I live in Australia 🇦🇺

[@jmillar71110]

Galway is in Ireland not Scotland.

[@Lisa-pe7bx]

Think Galloway not Galway was ment, just a spelling error. Thats where the viking hoard was 👍

[@badbiker666]

I wasn't sure I heard correctly, so I went back to 9:40 and listened again. Bruce mentioned Slartibartfast! That's so refreshing. Sometimes I feel like the only Douglas Adams fan left. I bring up Hitchhiker jokes all the time, but no one seems to know what the hell I am talking about,

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😜

[@philomenahearn1717]

It’s a generation thing 😉

[@davidberesford7009]

should we be wary of who wants to read us some poetry?

[@Lucius1958]

@@davidberesford7009 Especially if they're from Greenbridge, Essex... X-P

[@Robbo-fu5fm]

ah, the meaning of life, the Universe and everything! the answer is "42", but who can say what the ultimate question is???? the mice have a lot to answer for, as do the dolphins......!!

[@PeaceLoveHonor]

Never expected a Hitchhiker's Guide reference in this video! 😀 Thanks, Bruce - for the laughs, and all the wonderful history.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Robbo-fu5fm]

ah, in one hour, a new episode from Mark Felton, a new episode from Drachinifel, and now one from Bruce Fummey. it does not get any better !!!

[@jamesconnolly3827]

Thanks once again for another excellent video. Alba na dùthaich inntinneach🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@MrSinclairn]

Upvote from me,Bruce 👌👍: both for 'The Hitchhiker Guide' reference plus the gruesome Sinclair family link,which even I didn't know about ! 😯

[@billyharden9316]

I’m from Glasgow Bruce ! But love to know more about Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💯

[@lynnedunlop9843]

Great video. A lot of things I did not know about the nor loch. Would love to see a video regarding monuments in the gardens. Thanks for posting

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Yes please, an explanatory tour of the statues and monuments of Princes St gardens. And please, more about Glasgow.

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thanks👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@zenaakers7469]

I have never been to Edinburgh but Glasgow lit my imagination when I was lucky enough to spend some time there. This video was really inspiring, I will visit that lovely garden and would love a walk around to watch, but also your insight into Glasgow would be excellent too. Thank you

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Great to hear!

[@FairnessFobe]

Yes id love to see a video about the gardens itself. Please. When you get the opportunity one on Glasgow also. Thank you.

[@alexanderperry1844]

Would love a video on the gardens, and one on Glasgow on a Saturday night.

[@Robbo-fu5fm]

hey ya Bruce, yes please, we would love to see an episode that discusses all the various monuments in the gardens.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Let's see how many respond likewise😜

[@grabtharshammer]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours likewise

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

@@grabtharshammer 😂😂

[@jameshorne9351]

Likewise...​@@ScotlandHistoryTours

[@peterreece6547]

The best time I had in those gardens beneath the castle was numerous years ago when we were camping on the outskirts of the city. We came into the city and there was a pipes and drum competition. Varying from 2 pipers and 1 drummer to several drummers and loads of pipers. My recent visit to the city was this week where we parked the camper on the park n ride and got the bus in, which dropped us off right outside the Museum of Scotland. We went in just after 10am and came out 4pm and I still didn’t see everything. What a museum it was great.

[@heatherdeavalon]

That was the easiest explanation of geology ever! I always want to see more! Glasgow, Edinburgh, just more Scotland 😍

[@esleyhamilton4056]

I love your idea about the monuments of Princes Street Gardens. Some of them are quite artistic as well as historical.

[@henrymonaghan8944]

Brilliant video, Edinburgh, probably because they were too skinflint to knock them down, preserved their history. Glasgow,on the other hand, knocked down as much as possible at every possible time. I love my hometown but I so wish we had preserved more. Some Glasgow vids would be great Bruce. Much appreciated.

[@ClarenceCochran-ne7du]

Yes Bruce, I'd be happy with videos of both

[@markcrosbie3752]

Brilliant work as usual Bruce. Would love some episodes on my home city of Glasgow

[@carokat1111]

Having just come back from Edinburgh, I really enjoyed this. Thank you.

[@lauriegunn9636]

Thank-you. Loved to see a small part of the city this way. I would definitely like to see more of the whole city like this.

[@cindchan]

Ah, Edinburgh! One of my favorite world cities!! I would love to hear about the statues in the garden. I'm sure there are some interesting stories there!

[@corm7538]

@10:13 That sounds great to me, Bruce, I love learning about all things that have to do with the history of Scotland. Part of my family came to the US from Scotland in the late 1700s and Early 1800s. One of my great grandma's maiden name on my dad's side of my family was Campbell. Thanks for another awesome video, Bruce, cya next time and Ne Obliviscaris Latin for Do Not Forget.

[@ajnormandgroome]

Thanks for broader coverage of the park. Thanks especially for explanation of volcanic plug - best one for general public and much shorter than how my mom explained when I was a kid. She was explaining Connecticut, USA geology and used volcanic plug as an example of another geological process

[@nocturnalrites1652]

Cheers Bruce. We were in Edinburgh for basically one day coming from Dunedin a couple of years ago. We spent it in the castle and the Royal Mile and never had the time to get the gardens. I wish we had. Hopefully we will be able to come back soon.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Hopefully you'll come and see my show at Dunedin Fringe in March😜

[@nocturnalrites1652]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours are you coming again? We caught you last time. It was money well spent. Will Invercargill get your charms as well...

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

@@nocturnalrites1652 Last time I just went down to Invercargil for a Highlanders game. Where would I perform in Invercargil?

[@nocturnalrites1652]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours they have progressed a bit lately down there. They have a roof to go with 3 walls so far...still working on the fourth one.

[@EliRedman]

More of all of it, Bruce. Thank you!!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah, just it all then?😂

[@cijmo]

If you'd've been my teacher, it wouldn't have taken me 'til later in my life to learn the history of some of these things!

[@RomanJackson-b9k]

Well Bruce, just keep doing the great job your doing and I look forward to another great video as always, hope your doing well, best wishes to you and your family

[@jameshorne9351]

Good morning SCOTLAND HISTORY BUFFS another Saturday another great video from my favorite creator. Yes I would like to see the monuments as well...💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Lovely

[@NanZingrone]

I would love to see more about Princes garden’s features and sculptures. My late husband and I got our Phds at the University of Edinburgh and often went walking up from the psych department to the Castle and then to the gardens on the lunch hours or walking up the garden prior to catching a bus to the flat we rented near the Camp Estate. It was an important place for us, Prince’s Garden

[@ScotBruYT]

Great Fertilliser, I Bet though!! 😂 Thanks Again Bruce!! 💖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@kimdodd6677]

❤🌹love listening to all more morexx

[@peterkelly1665]

Yep more videos on statues of the gardens and more on Glasgow please but this presentation was great fun and very entertaining !

[@nathanbrady2704]

Yes, more Glasgow. But can you also do the Town and towns of the great Paisley conurbation? That is to say Paisley itsself, and Renfrew, Elderslie, Johnston and all the other little towns and villages that just sort of grew together and never got their own football team

[@fionatinker23]

@@nathanbrady2704 there's a great witch hunt story to be told there as well

[@DH.2016]

@@fionatinker23 or the famous Snail In The Bottle case which set a significant precedent in modern law, the terrible disasters at The Glen Cinema and Paisley to Johnstone Canal, the photographer who broke new ground on war reporting with his photography of the American Civil War or the preacher who signed the American Declaration of Independence (although he might have mentioned that one before).

[@SugarandSarcasm]

Both would be lovely!

[@JackKingFisher]

Great video! Would love to see the monuments and their meaning!

[@andrewmcdonald6987]

Thanks for all your hard work. Best wishes.

[@Sandmanny7]

"When the council havne padlocked it aff!" 🤣 Brucey, my brother, I happen to have access to a very sturdy pair of bolt cutters! Also, the idea of an all around, shall we say "monumental" tour, sounds amazing! Lots of love from Liz and Charles, and as always from your pal L.S

[@davidgibson121]

Great video man. And yes I would love to see a tour of the monuments with you explaining them in your own entertaining way

[@StrudlePie]

Excellent Video yet again Bruce!! ❤

[@thomasjohnbirks132]

Extremely interesting. Thank you.

[@robertquinn8210]

It is so nice to see clearly non-AI generated historical content it doesn't matter if you do Edinburgh or Glasgow. I'll gladly watch either.

[@BilltheBald]

Excellent and really interesting video, Bruce. Thanks, very much. I wouldn't mind finding a bit out about the statues / monuments, too.

[@lindastreet-ely9780]

Yes, I'd love to see a video about the statues and memorials in the park.

[@curioscraftwork]

Bruce please make a video of the monuments and thank you fir your wonderful episodes.

[@melvynmcminn9121]

Absolutely! Tell us all about those monuments please!

[@sharktomesmiles]

Oh Bruce I watch the World Anquities and been catching stuff on google. I understand there a few new finding plus more info on the old finding. Yes some you did add in the tour and some are in between stage from finding to studing before publishing. Thanks for helping me to understand my love for your home. Volcano!! I grew up not only in the city as a lass, but also in Kelseylville near Mt Konotcti is still rumbles but is dormant, funny the surrounding areas quite are attactive. I knew my Hawaiian grandfathers genes where going to prove why I love the formation of the Uk. Weirdly I had to see Fabled Fingal's Cave to understand my love for the land.

[@murrayscott9546]

All of the above, Bruce ! It's all brill. Hollyrood Park might be worth a visit , too !

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I'll give it some thought

[@macfiercesome]

Interesting, informative and entertaining.

[@jeffmiller1848]

Wonderful as usual Lad!

[@rksnj6797]

I would love to see a video about the monuments. Of course anything about Glasgow would be welcome! It is the friendliest city by far!

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@StMiBll]

A tour around the garden and its monuments would be awesome. A video about Glasgow would also be awesome. Don’t think you could go wrong with either.

[@davidhull1481]

Thanks, Jerry Garcia.

[@TX-biker]

While describing how The Mound was created, the bystanders behind you have the most amusing, puzzled look on their faces. “Who is this guy” is all over their face🤣🤪

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Don't you know who I am? 😵‍💫

[@jvgreendarmok]

"WHY, YES!"

[@mariac1663]

I'd love a video about the monuments in the gardens! thank you! so interesting :) :) :)

[@sheryljohnson5906]

Both suggestions are great !

[@Wee_Langside]

Hi Bruce Good telling of the story. Someone once tried to tell me that the one o'clock gun fired a cannonball into the Nor' Loch. I wasn't convinced I couldn't see my fellow Scots wasting expensive items by firing them into anything for no good reason. At 6 minutes a Sinclair appears as a criminal. Whenever I'm watching anything if a Sinclair appears they're the baddy. As a Sinclair I'm not happy with that.😢 Have you done anything on Govan and the Govan Stones? And Fairfield Shipyard? It's an interesting area of Glasgow.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

No I've thought of the Govan stones many times, but never got the logistics organised

[@Wee_Langside]

@ScotlandHistoryTours there's a bit of modern destruction that should never have happened involved too. Not as bad as what was lost at Burghead in 19th century but not good.

[@fionasaunders7646]

The gun is still fired at 1 oClock as a time check for boats & ships on the Forth, Edinburgh a stunning and fascinating place. Thank you Bruce , nice to see you back on air !

[@cafiend]

One of the tunes we’ve played in a little group I’m in is called Flowers of Edinburgh. Someone said it was a snide reference to the stench.

[@aweescotsdog8358]

Bonus points for mentioning Slartibartfast and, as a resident of the auld toon (who grew up in Portobello) the notion of the odd diplodocus or two padding around on the shores of an equatorial Firth of Forth, with Arthur’s Seat and the Castle Rock putting on a volcanic firework display in the background to entertain American tourists, who had just arrived by dint of a fragment of their continent smashing into the North West of Scotland due to a slight quirk in the movement of tectonic plates, I will always hold this romantic (if slightly fanciful) notion close to my heart.

[@davidjones535]

Well seeing one of my great grandfathers was born in Glasgow before imagining to the U.S.I would vote for that video .

[@judycassidy3786]

Fascinsting! Thank you.!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@nancyM1313-Boo]

Hello Bruce 💜

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Hola

[@BevMargaret]

Yes! to a monuments video!

[@fmcg5364]

Do more on Glasgow, take us to where the Singer factory was and about the people who worked there

[@TX-biker]

I love your reference to Hitch Hikers Guide …😍 (It DID NOT slip past me) - cheers

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😜

[@gallaghim]

Both ideas for videos would be great, I'd watch em. When I think back to my one & only visit to Edinburgh in 2013 I missed a lot. I only really had a day and didn't have time for a wander round Princes Street Gardens. Oh well, I'll do it when I move there in 2026 🤞

[@edwardbisset2624]

Wish you had been my history teacher at school bruce

[@rmil4531]

Brilliant thank you.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

You're very welcome!

[@annabellamarston448]

More about Glasgow please Bruce.

[@petebaldry5033]

Monuments AND Glasgow please!

[@ianstruthers9530]

Aye a video about the different monuments in the gardens would be really interesting, cheers brucie

[@bobsteele9581]

Another great video. I used to live near Haymarket and frequented Princes Street Gardens, especially in the summer. Love the Slartibartfast reference btw Bruce. Your clearly a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is 😉🤣🤣🤣

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😜

[@sandy7108]

Great video Bruce but yep what about the second city of the empire come to Glasgow we’re friendly

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I know, I have tae

[@ajnormandgroome]

I need to go through your videos and playlists to find more that mention the geology and pre-history. That would make a nice playlist

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

To be honest you won't find much on the geology side of things. Some pre history though

[@DerekBews]

Perhaps you could also nip into St John's Church at the West End of Princes Street to see the memorial to John Stuart Stuart-Forbes? He left Scotland under a cloud. He changed his name to John S Hiley, went to America and joined the 7th Cavalry, only to die with Custer at the Little Big Horn.

[@maggiem.5904]

Having listened to a lot of Alexander McCall Smith audiobooks, some of which take place in Edinburgh, it’s great to get a more complete idea of places that are mentioned, and the city in general. I really appreciate you starting with the geology of the place! One nitpicks thing, though - when you describe the King’s Wall, you say it goes south, then west, then north, but on the map you show, it goes south, then east, not west 😅. Great video, though, thanks!

[@lorlabear]

Go ahead and tell us about the statues and memorials, Bruce! And add in soemthing about the railway and Waverley station. Thanks

[@Alifyabas]

A wee guide round the gardens would be educational. Always wondered the history of rhe fountain and bandstand. Not forgetting the Scots monument. Glasgow would be another interest. Being from Ormiston Lothian originally, working down in Glasgow has had me see so many oddities with regards to buildings, that massive cemetery in the middle, the old tenements next to new buildings, Stow college, the main library buikding and its decorative carvings, what looks like a random building yet takes you down to the tube station. The old train stations. The Clyde and its many cranes dotted along its length. So many areas around the city that would be interesting to look into. Can't forget rhe Macintosh building back under construction.

[@camdoune6020]

Excellent thanks - so interesting and brilliant presentation. I'd always wondered how the name the 'Mound' came about. Didn't realise its origins.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

There ye go

[@johnpuntenney4596]

I would love to know more about some relevant topics in Glasgow!

[@ppavery]

Interesting video at the start ah thought we were going to hear about the Gododdin and the Angles, and how they occupied Edinburgh castle rock before the Scots even got there, interesting none the less.

[@geraldgrieve4106]

It was nice to hear my family name in the video.

[@mlord1854]

Please more on the monuments of the garden.

[@amandasmith3177]

Hi, and I just subscribed. Thankyou❤

[@vampiresca]

Bruce more Glasgow stuff please! Especially during the Georgians and victorians

[@faithlesshound5621]

There was also a South Loch or Borough Loch where the very flat park known as The Meadows now lies just to the North of Bruntsfield Links, one of the places where golf was first played (possibly invented) after James IV ordered the deforestation of the Burgh Muir.

[@JacksonGreenhorn]

You could talk about your recent meal and I would still watch/listen!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Chicken, peas, sweetcorn, carrots, broccoli and Ghanaian hot pepper. Tasty. Oh and Irn Bru😜

[@JacksonGreenhorn]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Told ye! 😀

[@thedrammed345]

Brilliant!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thank you kindly

[@sharktomesmiles]

I got stuck on the thought of the smell. I forgot the second half of the vid. Lol Now I get why so many trees. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂

[@cjgia4898]

My daughter named my grandson Prince Armani ! 😮😊😃✌🏻❤🙏🏼

[@WilmaSteele-r5t]

When was he in Edinburgh I just got back from Edinburgh castle😊

[@chrisschepper9312]

Yes. Do more videos on Glasgow. 😁

[@fionatinker23]

Yep, do Glasgow's people. Not the usual but people like John MacLean or the women who led the 1915 rent strike. Both those stories resonate today. And the story of a lovely Irishman, author, poet and playwright, who made a difference where he settled, Freddie Anderson.