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Old Photograph Tornaveen Scotland
Old photograph of cottages in Tornaveen located on the Tarland to Aberdeen road in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Its most notable historical event apart from being near the place of the death of Macbeth was the landing of a German balloon in the late 19th century. The balloon had been blown across the North Sea during a storm and landed near Claydykes Farm on the B9119 road through Tornaveen. It had been in the air for 18 hours. Originally the tour had been planned just for a trip from Bitterfeld near Leipzig to Hanover. But then more and more wind came up and drove the balloon across the Netherlands towards the North Sea. Different attempts to land failed because of several reasons and so the three men crossed the North Sea within 12 hours. Finally they landed in a tree and stayed alive.
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