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Old Photograph Croy Brae Scotland
Old photograph of Croy Brae located South of Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland. Croy Brae also known as the Electric Brae is a gravity hill in Ayrshire, where cars appear to be drawn uphill by some mysterious attraction. The Lowland Scots word brae means a hill, slope or brow, and the " electric " name was given when electricity was a new technology associated with strange forces. Though the road appears to be running uphill, a suitably free running vehicle will slowly move off from a standstill. It was widely believed that vehicles were being propelled uphill by a mysterious magnetic force, but the road's apparently uphill slope is an optical illusion. During the Second World War, the brae was visited by many American personnel from the airbase at Prestwick, and General Dwight D Eisenhower, who had a flat at nearby Culzean Castle, took visitors to see the phenomenon.
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