Tour Scotland Winter Travel Video Fish And Chips And Log Fire Kinnears Inn Scone By Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland Winter travel video of traditional fish and chips in front of a log fire on visit to Kinnears Inn 8 Angus Road in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Fish and chips became a common meal among the working classes in Scotland as a consequence of the rapid development of trawl fishing in the North Sea, and the development of railways which connected the ports to major industrial cities during the second half of the 19th century, which meant that fresh fish could be rapidly transported to the heavily populated areas.
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Tour Scotland Travel Video Bagpipes And Drums Music Buskers High Street Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland travel video of two Scottish buskers playing bagpipes and drums music in the rain on the High Street in the City Centre on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities. In many countries the rewards are generally in the form of money but other gratuities such as food, drink or gifts may be given. Street performance is practiced all over the world and dates back to antiquity. People engaging in this practice are called street performers or buskers.
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Old Travel Blog Chatelherault Hunting Lodge Hamilton Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Chatelherault Hunting Lodge in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Its name is derived from the French town of Châtellerault, the title Duc de Châtellerault having been granted to James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran in 1548 for his part in arranging the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Francis, Dauphin of France. The lodge was designed by William Adam and completed in 1734. From 1591, Hamilton Palace became the main residence of the Dukes of Hamilton. Rebuilding as the largest country house in Scotland with an imposing Palladian south front began in 1684, then from 1822 Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton had the palace considerably enlarged as a setting for a major art collection, with the north front designed by David Hamilton. Chatelherault is now a country park is centred on the former hunting lodge.
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Tour Scotland Winter Travel Video River Tay Perth Perthshir
Tour Scotland sunny Winter travel video of the River Tay on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. You can see vehicles crossing both bridges and St Matthews Church in the distance perfectly reflected on the river. With a perfect blue sky and birds singing from the nearby trees, it makes for a very serene moment in the town.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Indoor Swimming Baths Portobello Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Indoor Swimming Baths by the beach in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1833 Portobello became an independent burgh with its own elected council. In 1896 the citizens succumbed to the blandishments of its larger neighbour and voted to amalgamate with Edinburgh, but not before extracting promises to build a Town Hall that could be used as a theatre, a golf course and sea water swimming baths. Portobello reigned as Scotland's premier seaside resort from the late 19th century and the era of cheap public transport. Trams brought folk from Edinburgh and trains brought holidaymakers in thousands especially from Glasgow during the Fair to enjoy the beach, the fun fair and the entertainments.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Road To Maybole Ayrshire Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the road to Maybole in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Maybole town is situated 9 miles south of Ayr and 50 miles South West of Glasgow by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Maybole is an ancient place, having received a charter from Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick in 1193. In 1516 it was made a burgh of regality, but for generations it remained under the subjection of the Kennedys, afterwards Earls of Cassillis and, later, Marquesses of Ailsa, the most powerful family in Ayrshire. The current Marquess of Ailsa lives at Cassillis House, just outside Maybole. The ancestral seat of the Marquesses of Ailsa is Culzean Castle.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Sheep Kirk Yetholm Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Sheep and children on the main street in Kirk Yetholm, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Kirk Yetholm is a small village in the Scottish Borders. The Border Hotel public house is the official end of the Pennine Way. Kirk Yetholm was for centuries the headquarters of the Romani people, Gypsies, in Scotland. The last king of the Gypsies was crowned in 1898 and the Gypsies have been integrated and are no longer a separate ethnic minority. In 1942 the village school building was converted into a Scottish Youth Hostels Association hostel. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Queen Esther Faa Blythe, perhaps the most famous Gypsy monarch of all, took up residence in the Gypsy Palace on November 16th 1861. After Queen Esther’s death in 1883, the Gypsy Palace was renovated by the local wool manufacturer and owner of much of the village, Peter Govanlock. Queen Esther’s son, Charles Faa Blythe continued to live in the Palace though 15 years were to pass before his coronation as the new Gypsy King. The coronation took place on May 30th 1898 and was a huge event with over 10,000 people descending on Kirk Yetholm. King Charles II, as he was known, continued to live in the Gypsy Palace until his death just four years later.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Rossdhu House Loch Lomond Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Rossdhu House on the banks of Loch Lomond, Scotland. Rossdhu is situated on the west shore of Loch Lomond, some two miles south of Luss and four miles north of Balloch. In ancient times the estate belonged to the Earls of Lennox and passed by marriage in the early 14th century to Sir Robert de Colquhoune. The old Castle of Rossdhu is thought to have been built at about the same time as St Mary's Chapel by the 11th Laird of Luss, Sir John Colquhoun of Clan Colquhoun. The original castle was very much a fortress and stronghold against the clan feuds which raged over the next century or so. Later the Castle was occupied twice by the Cromwellian forces, and it was not until the early 18th century that life in these parts became sufficiently settled to warrant creating a less fortified home. By 1718 the estate was reputedly vast and Sir James Colquhoun, the 25th Laird of Luss who succeeded his mother in 1732, married Helen, sister of the 17th Earl of Sunderland. He founded Helensburgh on the Clyde coast and named it after his wife, and in 1786 he was created a Baronet of Great Britain. In 1772 a start was made by his son James on the building of a new house at Rossdhu, on a site further to the east and overlooking the loch. In 1773 Boswell and Johnson stayed at Rossdhu while on their tour of Scotland.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Swimming Pool Tarlair Scotland
Old travel Blog ohotograph of the outdoor Swimming Pool at the base of a sea cliff just outside Macduff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This outdoor swimming complex was built in an Art Deco style with a main building backing onto the cliffs and changing rooms to its left hand side. It was commissioned by Macduff Burgh Council in 1929, with the architect being John C Miller, the Burgh Surveyor of MacDuff. The contractor for the project was Robert Morrison and Son of Macduff. The design of the pool was a clever use of pumped sea water to fill the pools, and flooding of the main pool at high tide to flush out the old water. The main pool had a diving board at the deep end and a child's chute at the shallow end, though both are now missing. The second-largest pool was a boating pool with the two remaining pools being paddling pools.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Lunan Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Lunan in Angus, Scotland. The hamlet overlooks Lunan Bay, which is itself also a hamlet, at the mouth of the Lunan Water. A 16th century priest of Lunan church, which is in the hamlet of Lunan Bay, Walter Mill, was one of the last Scottish Protestant martyrs to be burned at St. Andrews. The church itself was rebuilt in 1844. The 15th century Red Castle, so called from the red sandstone it is built from, is located 500 metres to the south of the hamlet, on the south bank of the Lunan Water.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Children's Playground Leven Fife Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Children's Playground by the beach in Leven, Fife, Scotland. The origin of the name Leven comes from the Pictish word for flood. In 1854 the Leven Railway opened, linking the town with Thornton Junction on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen main line. This helped it to become a tourist resort popular with visitors from the west of Scotland, and particularly Glasgow. Leven is located on the coast of the Firth of Forth at the mouth of the River Leven, eight miles north-east of Kirkcaldy and six miles east of Glenrothes. Golf is also a major draw with two courses at Scoonie and Leven Links. The ecclesiastical and civil parish of Scoonie included the town of Leven. I was born in Randolph Street, in nearby village of Buckhaven. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Lochrosque Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Lochrosque near to Achnasheen in Wester Ross, Scotland. Sir Arthur Bignold, born 8 July 1839, was proprietor of Lochrosque and Strathbran Estates. He served as President of the Ross and Sutherland Benevolent Society as well as a magistrate of Ross and Cromarty and Chief of the Gaelic Society. A bagpipe march Arthur Bignold of Lochrosque is named after him. In September 1914 Winston Churchill, when he was First Lord of the Admiralty was travelling past Bignold's home, Lochrosque Castle, to inspect the fleet at Loch Ewe. Churchill noticed a light on the roof used for lamping deer and assumed that it was being used to communicate with German spies. Churchill and his Police protection officer invaded the Castle and dismantled the light to the annoyance of Bignold. Sir Arthur Bignold died on23 March 1915.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Maggie Fair Garmouth Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Maggie Fair in Garmouth on the coast of Moray, Scotland. The fair officially entered the calendar on the 30th of June 1587, when Garmouth, or Garmoch, as it was known, was raised in status by Crown Charter to a Burgh of Barony. This Charter gave the village the right to create free burghers, erect a Cross, and construct a harbour. Also, the right to hold two annual fairs, one in June, the other on the 20th of SeptemberThis Scottish village has a claim to fame as the landing point of King Charles II on his return from exile in 1650 AD. He signed the 1638 National Covenant and the 1643 Solemn League and Covenant shortly after coming ashore. The Solemn League and Covenant was an agreement between the Scottish Covenanters and the leaders of the English Parliamentarians in 1643 during the First English Civil War. On 17 August 1643 the Church of Scotland accepted it and on 25 September 1643 so did the English Parliament and the Westminster Assembly. General assent was obtained for the Solemn League and Covenant throughout Scotland and England by allowing the populace to sign it. After the Restoration the English Parliament passed the Sedition Act 1661, which declared that the Solemn League and Covenant was unlawful, was to be abjured by all persons holding public offices, and was to be burnt by the common hangman.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Destoyers Port Edgar Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Destoyers in Port Edgar, near Edinburgh, Scotland. The Admiralty acquired Port Edgar in 1916 and commissioned it as HMS Columbine, establishing it as a base for destroyers. This closed in 1928 and the site buildings were temporarily used as a holiday camp during the 1930s for families of the unemployed from Edinburgh and Glasgow. The pier at Port Edgar near South Queensferry had been regularly used by Royal Navy ships since the 1850s. Shortly after its purchase the wounded of the Battle of Jutland were landed at Port Edgar for the Royal Naval Hospital at Butlaw, South Queensferry. The dead of the battle were buried in the local cemetery at South Queensferry. In recent years, it has become a busy marina with a sailing school with 300 berths.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Stationmaster Queen Street Railway Station Glasgow Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of a steam engine and the Stationmaster wearing a Top Hat in Queen Street railway station in Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish railway station was built by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and opened on 18 February 1842. The adjacent Buchanan Street station of the rival Caledonian Railway closed on 7 November 1966 as a result of the Beeching axe and its services to Stirling, Perth, Perthshire, Inverness, Dundee and Aberdeen transferred to Queen Street. From the late Victorian era onwards, station masters became prominent figures in local communities. Invariably they would be provided with a substantial house and, in rural communities particularly, would have significant social standing. The uniforms worn by station masters, whilst varying widely between different railway companies, often incorporated gold braid embroidery, and peaked caps with gold banding, giving the office holder a high profile in the community.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Sailors Rest Greenock Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Sailors Rest in Greenock near Glasgow, Scotland. The Sailors Rest Society was formed on 18 March 1818, as the Port of London Society. Following mergers with two other societies, the name was changed to The British and Foreign Sailors’ Society. In 1925 it was changed to The British Sailors’ Society. In 1995 the name was changed to The British and International Sailors’ Society. The Society is an interdenominational charity and has close links with many of the mainstream Protestant Churches in the United Kingdom, such as the Baptist Union, Church of Scotland, United Reformed Church, and the Methodist Church. The charity's head office is in Southampton, England. The Society is international and in addition to its presence in the UK it operates in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Curaçao, Ghana, Réunion, Russia, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, the Philippines and Ukraine.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Cottage Wanlockhead Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of girls outside a cottage in Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This village is located in the Lowther Hills and one mile south of Leadhills at the head of the Mennock Pass, which forms part of the Southern Uplands. It is Scotland's highest village. Wanlockhead owes its existence to the lead and other mineral deposits in the surrounding hills. These deposits were first exploited by the Romans. The village was founded permanently in 1680 when the Duke of Buccleuch built a lead smelting plant and workers cottages. A branch railway also the highest in Scotland, served the village from 1901 to 1939.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Beach Portnahaven Island Of Islay Scotland
Old photograph of cottages and houses by the beach in Portnahaven, Island of Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. This village is within the parish of Kilchoman. It is located at the southern tip of the Rinns at the southern end of the A847 road. The A847 follows the coast from Portnahaven to Port Charlotte and Bridgend. Its harbour is sheltered by the island of Orsay and its smaller neighbour Eilean Mhic Coinnich.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Tonley House Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Tonley House by Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. When Robert Byres was accidently drowned in Dublin Bay, his widow, Jean Sandilands from Cotton, at Aberdeen, bought the Tonley estate in 1716 and moved in with her young family, Patrick and James Byres. Patrick Byres was an ardent Jacobite and Major in the Tonley company of Stoneywood’s Aberdeen Regiment, raised by his brother in law Moir of Stoneywood in support of the 1745 Rising which ended at the Battle of Culloden. Patrick survived the slaughter on the moor of Culloden, evading death and capture he escaped back to Aberdeenshire where he hid in Cluny Castle until able to escape to France where he joined the regiment led by Cameron of Locheil. Patrick eventually judged it safe to return to the Vale of Alford. His family motto was, Marte suo tutus, Safe in his own prowess, and so it proved.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Braes Tayport Fife Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of people on the Braes Road in Tayport, Fife, across from Dundee, Scotland. Brae is the Lowland Scots word for the slope or brow of a hill. The Braes were traditionally the leisure area for the village. They were much enjoyed by both villagers and visitors. Indeed, for generations of Dundonians trying to escape the smoke and grime of the city, the Braes provided the perfect day trip destination, easily accessed by the ferry to Newport on Tay.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Thatched Cottages Scotstounhill Glasgow Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of thatched cottages in Scotstounhill, Glasgow, Scotland. Scotstounhill is a small area between south Knightswood and Scotstoun situated in West Glasgow. Housing is mainly in a cottage flat style, although several high rise flats, also known as tower blocks, can be found in the area. Scotstounhill contains a noted bowling club, and is served by Scotstounhill railway station which has frequent services to and from the city centre.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Dule Tree Inveraray Castle Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Dule Tree by the castle in Inveraray a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Dule or dool trees in Britain were used as gallows for public hangings. They were also used as gibbets for the display of the corpse for a considerable period after such hangings. These " trees of lamentation or grief " were usually growing in prominent positions or at busy thoroughfares, particularly at crossroads, so that justice could be seen to have been done and as a salutary warning to others. Place names such as Gallows Hill, Gallows See, Gallows Fey and Hill of the Gallows, Tom Nan Croiche, record the site of such places of male executions. In Scots, dule or duill, also dole, dowle; dwle, dul, dull, duyl, duile, doile, doill, dewle, deull, and duel. In Middle English, dule, duyl, dulle, deul, dewle and variants of doole, dole, and dool. All these words mean sorrow, grief, or mental distress. It is said that King Malcolm Canmore legislated in 1057 that every barony was to have a tree for hanging convicted men and a pit of water for the execution of convicted women. These baronies belonged to the same order as earls and these earls and barons together formed the order of the three estaits of the Scots Parliament known as the Baronage of Scotland. The barons sat in the Scots Parliament until 1587, when they were relieved from attendance, which was burdensome and costly. The right of pit and gallows was removed in 1747 by the Heritable Jurisdictions Scotland Act 1746, lesser powers continued to the twentieth century. Dule trees were also used by Highland Clan chieftains, who would hang their enemies or any deserter, murderer, etc. from them. Highland clan chiefs also therefore had the power of 'life or death' over their clansmen in times gone by. The high ground on which these trees grew often became known as " gallows hills ".
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Ness Castle Hotel Inverness Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Ness Castle Hotel in Inverness, Scotland. The building It used to belong to Ness Castle Estate which included North Lodge, South Lodge, Mid Lodge and West Lodge. All the Lodges were sold and The Honourable Mrs. Smythe, who had an estate called Ashington Court, in Bristol, England, bought Ness Castle for her country home. She was a Liberal supporter and Lloyd George stayed at Ness Castle during a Liberal fete in Inverness. There is supposed to be a ghost called The Green Lady which haunts the castle, walking the corridors at night.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Youth Hostel Lochgoilhead Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Youth Hostel by Lochgoilhead, Argyll, Scotland. The Scottish Youth Hostels Association, Gaelic: Comann Osdailean Òigridh na h-Alba, founded in 1931, is part of Hostelling International and provides youth hostel accommodation in Scotland. The mountains above Lochgoilhead village, located at the head of Loch Goil, were used for the scene in the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love in which Bond, played by Sean Connery, eliminated two villains in a helicopter by firing gunshots at them. A few miles north of Lochgoilhead, is a junction which on the left goes through Hell's Glen, Loch Fyne, Dunoon, Inverary, Lochawe, Oban, Tyndrum, Glencoe and Fort William. On the right it goes to Glen Croe, Loch Long, Arrochar and Tarbet, Loch Lomond, Glasgow and Crianlarich with the options of travelling to either Inverary and Lochawe, Oban and Fort William, Lochearnhead and Killin.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Hotel Bridgend Islay Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the hotel in Bridgend, Island of Islay, Scotland. Islay Whisky. The island's two main road the A846 and A847 meet in the village just north of the bridge over the River Sorn that gives the village its name. The River Sorn is a small river on the Scottish island of Islay. Draining Loch Finlaggan and having gathered the waters of the Allt Ruadh and the Ballygrant Burn, it flows southwestwards to enter the sea at the village of Bridgend at the head of Loch Indaal.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Temperance Hotel Blackwaterfoot Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Temperance Hotel in Blackwaterfoot village at the mouth of the Black Water on the Isle of Arran, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. The Temperance Scotland Act 1913 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom under which voters in small local areas in Scotland were enabled to hold a poll to vote on whether their area remained " wet " or went " dry, " that is, whether alcoholic drinks should be permitted or prohibited. The decision was made on a simple majority of votes cast. The Act was a result of the strong temperance movement in Scotland before the First World War. Brewers and publicans formed defence committees to fight temperance propaganda. The village of Blackwaterfoot is within the parish of Kilmory. It is located in the Shiskine valley in the south west of the island. It is one of the smaller villages of Arran and home to one of Europe's two 12 hole golf courses. A short walk from Blackwaterfoot is Drumadoon Point, home to the largest Iron Age fort on Arran. Further North is the King's Cave, reputed to be a hiding place of Robert the Bruce. After being defeated at a battle, Bruce escaped and found a hideout in a cave. Hiding in a cave for three months, Bruce was at the lowest point of his life. He thought about leaving the country and never coming back. While waiting, he watched a spider building a web in the cave's entrance. The spider fell down time after time, but finally he succeeded with his web. So Bruce decided also to retry his fight and told his men: " If at first you don't succeed, try try and try again ", Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Broomhill Stanley Perthshire Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Broomhill in Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland. Stanley is a village on the right bank of the River Tay in an area popular for salmon fishing. The village gained its name from Lady Amelia Stanley, the daughter of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby. John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl, decided, in the 18th century to harness of the nearby River Tay to power a cotton mill., Richard Arkwright, an inventor of cotton spinning machinery set up a cotton mill in Stanley as well as one at New Lanark. Stanley Mills opened in 1787, and by its 10th year employed 350 people. The village was built to house the workers of the mill. Work on the village began in 1784. It was designed by the Duke of Atholl’s factor James Stobie. By 1799 the village’s population was around 400, and by 1831 it had reached around 2000 residents.
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Tour Scotland Travel Video Seals Coast Of Isle Of Skye Inner Hebrides
Tour Scotland travel video of seals around the coast on visit to the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. In the Sea lochs and bays around Skye there are 2 types of Seal the Common, which is sometime known as the Harbour Seal, and the Grey Seal. The Common Seal grows up to 6 foot in length, the Grey Seal tend to be bigger with and adult male reaching up to 11 foot long. The best way to see seal in the wild are by taking a boat trip. As the seals do get used to those same tour boats coming around for a look all summer, you will get surprisingly close in the tour boat allowing you to take photos of the that classic sun bathing Seal. There are some places where you can see the colony’s from land such as the small Islands near Dunvegan Castle.
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Tour Scotland Travel Photograph Loch Dunvegan Isle Of Skye Inner Hebrides
Tour Scotland travel photograph of Loch Dunvegan on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. Dunvegan sits on the shores of the large Loch Dunvegan and is famous for Dunvegan Castle, seat of the chief of Clan MacLeod.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Alastrean House Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Alastrean House by Tarland in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The house was built in 1905 by Lord Aberdeen, as a country retreat for his wife, and was originally surrounded by 9,000 acres of agricultural land which made up the Cromar Estate. An arrangement made in 1920 between Lord Aberdeen and his friend and neighbour, Sir Alexander MacRobert, saw the Cromar Estate and house eventually pass to Lady MacRobert in 1934. Alastrean House, whose name derives from a composite Latin phrase meaning “ a place of honour by the hearth of the winged heroes of the stars ”, was used as a rest and recuperation centre for RAF and Commonwealth aircrew on active service. After the war, Alastrean House continued to be used as a Royal Air Force officers’ leave centre until it was almost totally destroyed by fire in November 1952. The house was refurbished and re-opened at an impressive ceremony in April 1958.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Dawsholm Park Kelvindale Glasgow Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Dawsholm Park in the Kelvindale area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated on the River Kelvin, north of the River Clyde. The park was created from lands purchased by Glasgow City Council from Sir Archibald Campbell of Succoth, in 1922. As well as the woodland area, originally called the Belvidere plantation, the Council also purchased some grassy areas to the south of the woodland. Sir Archibald then gifted an area of land contaminated with oil shale waste adjoining the eastern boundary of the woodland. The council levelled and grassed over that area to form a recreation area laid out with football pitches. The woodland area of the park has always been kept in a natural state, and in 2007 Glasgow City Council designated the park as a Local Nature Reserve. As part of the environmental and ecological work in the park, Highland Cows are being used in a managed grazing programme on the grassy areas, to encourage the development of wildflower meadows.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Miners Welfare Institute Coalburn Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Miners Welfare Institute in Coalburn, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Coalburn is a small isolated village that lies on the Coal Burn, a tributary of the Douglas Water, 3 miles south of Lesmahagow. Coalburn developed from the 1850s as a railway settlement associated with local coal mines. The station closed to railway passengers in 1965 and the last colliery and mineral traffic on the railway was in 1968. The Miners Welfare Institute was opened in 1925 built from money supplied by the Lanarkshire Welfare Fund. This was set up by a levy of one penny per ton of coal extracted locally going towards the " social betterment of mining districts."
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Old Travel Blog Photograph The Fairy Bridge Dunblane Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Fairy Bridge over the Allan Water in Dunblane, Scotland. The Allan Water, Scottish Gaelic: Uisge Alain, is a river in central Scotland. Rising in the Ochil Hills, it runs through Strathallan to Dunblane and Bridge of Allan before joining the River Forth. It is liable to cause floods in lower Bridge of Allan. The river and its tributaries were once extensively used to power mills and factories. The major tributaries, the Muckle Burn and River Knaik, are mainly in hilly sheep farming terrain and no significant industrial use was made of them.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Pier Tighnabruaich Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the pier in Tighnabruaich, Kyles of Bute, Argyll, Scotland. A pier was built in the 1830s by the Castle Steamship Company, a forerunner of Caledonian MacBrayne. Its was a stopping place for paddle steamers and Clyde puffers. The wooden pier was rebuilt in 1885 by the Tighnabruaich Estate who owned it from 1840 until 1950. George Olding owned it until 1965 when it became the responsibility of the local council. This Scottish village is just an hour and a half west of Glasgow, and is located along the east coast of Loch Fyne and stretching into the Kyles of Bute.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Pier Craighouse Isle Of Jura
Tour Scotland photograph of boats by the pier in Craighouse on the Isle of Jura, Scotland. Craighouse village is situated on the sheltered east coast of the island at the southern end of Small Isles Bay. Craighouse was once served by a direct ferry from the mainland which berthed at Craighouse pier. This service was terminated some years ago, and access is now via an 8 miles single track road from Feolin on Jura's south west coast, where there is a small vehicle ferry to the neighbouring island of Islay. However, since 2007 a passengers only ferry service to Craighouse has operated during the summer from the village of Tayvallich on the mainland.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Dunnikier Park Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of a mother and children walking in Dunnikier Park in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. Major James Townsend Oswald, Dunnikier, died in his town house, London, on 2nd June 1893, in his 72nd year. He succeeded to the estate of Dunnikier in 1840 on the death of his father, Sir John Oswald. In 1848 he married Miss ellen octavia Miles of Leigh Court, Somersetshire, England. He served with the Grenadier Guards, Atholl Highlanders and was one of the founders and main supporters of the Fife Light Horse. he contested Kirkcaldy Burghs on 1874 and Fife County in 1880 in the Conservative interests but was defeated on both occasions. He was an office bearer of ST Peter's Episcopal Church.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Bridge Little Keithick Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the bridge at Little Keithick, located between Woodside and Coupar Angus in Perthshire, Scotland. The neoclassical Keithick House in the background was designed by David Whyte and built in 1818 for W E Collinswood. David Bryce changed the porch and offices in 1839, and Maclaren, Soutar and Salmond made further alterations in 1926. Its drawing room was decorated in a fine Adam Revival style by Morant.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Holiday Camp Pavilion Lochgoilhead Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Holiday Camp Pavilion in Lochgoilhead, Argyll, Scotland. The mountains above this Scottish village, located at the head of Loch Goil, were used for the scene in the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love in which Bond, played by Sean Connery, eliminated two villains in a helicopter by firing gunshots at them. A few miles north of Lochgoilhead, is a junction which on the left goes through Hell's Glen, Loch Fyne, Dunoon, Inverary, Lochawe, Oban, Tyndrum, Glencoe and Fort William. On the right it goes to Glen Croe, Loch Long, Arrochar and Tarbet, Loch Lomond, Glasgow and Crianlarich with the options of travelling to either Inverary and Lochawe, Oban and Fort William, Lochearnhead and Killin.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Glen Ashdale Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of sheep in Glen Ashdale by Whiting Bay village on the Isle of Arran, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. The village of Whiting Bay is approximately 3 miles south of the village of Lamlash. Whiting Bay is the third largest village on the island, after Lamlash and Brodick, and was once the site of the longest pier in Scotland. Like all villages on Arran, tourism is important to the village. To the north of the village at Kings Cross Point between Lamlash and Whiting Bay is an Iron Age fort known locally as the Viking Fort. According to local legend, this is the site where Robert the Bruce mistook farmers' fires on the mainland as the signal to launch his campaign. This site was also the location of a Viking ship burial excavated in the earlier 20th century. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Academy Shawlands Glasgow Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Academy in Shawlands, Glasgow, Scotland. Shawlands Academy is Glasgow’s designated International School and one of Scotland’s most multicultural schools. It is situated in Shawlands, between Pollok Park, and its Burrell Collection, and Queen's Park, named after Mary Queen of Scots who fought her final battle on Scottish soil at the Battle of Langside on 13 May 1568. Shawlands Academy dates from 1857 when there was a private school of the same name located nearby in Skirving Street. The school as we know it today opened its doors over 118 years ago in 1894 in the nearby building on Pollokshaws Road which now houses Shawlands Primary School.
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Old Photograph Greenhouse Pittencrieff Glen Dunfermline Fife Scotland
Old photograph of a gardener in a greenhouse in Pittencrieff Glen, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Pittencrieff Park, known locally as " The Glen ", is a public park in Dunfermline. It was purchased in 1902 by the town's most famous son, Andrew Carnegie, and given to the people of Dunfermline in a ceremony the following year. Its lands include the historically significant and topologically rugged glen which interrupts the centre of Dunfermline and, accordingly, part of the intention of the purchase was to carry out civic development of the area in a way which also respected its heritage. The project notably attracted the attention of the urban planner and educationalist, Patrick Geddes.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Craiguchty Terrace Aberfoyle Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of houses on Craiguchty Terrace in Aberfoyle, Trossachs, Scotland. Aberfoyle has connections to many historical figures such as Rob Roy and Mary, Queen of Scots. Robert Roy MacGregor was born at the head of nearby Loch Katrine, and his well known cattle stealing exploits took him all around the area surrounding Aberfoyle. It is recorded, for example, that in 1691, the MacGregors raided every barn in the village of Kippen and stole all the villagers livestock.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Post Office Finzean Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of people outside the Post Office in Finzean, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In the 10th century the lands of Finzean became the personal property of Scottish Kings, who used the Forest of Birse as a hunting reserve. In the 12th century King William the Lion gifted the area to the Bishops of Aberdeen who continued to own it until the 16th century, during which they gradually sold off all the land. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Farquharson family acquired the whole of the eastern part of Finzean, while the Forest of Birse was owned by the Earl of Aboyne, but with ancient common rights retained by all the inhabitants of Birse parish to this day. Finzean was the subject of many paintings by the artist Joseph Farquharson, whose family have owned Finzean Estate, which occupies the eastern half of Finzean, since the 17th century.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Ironmongers Shop Kirkmichael Perthshire Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Ironmongers Shop, houses and people in Kirkmichael, a small village located in Strathardle, Perthshire, Scotland. The term ironmonger as a supplier of consumer goods is still widely used in Great Britain, the US equivalent being " hardware store. " In the second half of the 19th century, Victorian ironmongery offered a treasurehouse of appealing metalwork, with elaborate manufacturers’ catalogues offering literally thousands of objects to meet each and every need, almost all of which sought to combine practicality with pleasing design. The second half of the 20th century saw the steady decline of ironmongers’ shops. Although every small town in Britain used to have at least one, their fate has mirrored that of many traditional emporia.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Cottages Cupar Road Auchtermuchty Fife Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of cottages on Cupar Road in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. Until 1975 Auchtermuchty was a royal burgh, established under charter of King James V in 1517. There is evidence of human habitation in the area dating back over 2,000 years, and the Romans are known to have established a camp in the south east corner of the town. In the past, the linen industry was a major source of work in the town, but in the early 18th century the firm of John White was established, bringing the town its first foundry, there were two eventually. There was even a whisky distillery in operation from 1829 to 1929, when Prohibition in the U.S.A. led to its closure.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Baronald House Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Baronald House, on the northern edge of Lanark off the Carluke to Lanark Road within the Clyde Valley in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. John George Robertson, a botanist and plant collector, who lived and farmed in Tasmania and Australia from 1831 to 1854, returned to Scotland and purchased Baronald in 1857. He built glasshouses including a vinery and orchard house on the steep slope to the side of his house for his collections of Australian plants. Robertson’s plant collection was put up for sale separately following his death in 1862. Baronald was remodelled for Allen Farie of Farme, Rutherglen in the late 1880s by Sir John James Burnett, a well known architect. The Faries continued to own Baronald until the Second World War. In 1944, Baronald became a private hospital where injured soldiers were treated. The hospital continued after the War. By 1963 the house became a hotel.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Aytounhill House Newburgh Fife Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of Aytounhill House by Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. For some time the industries in Newburgh chiefly consisted of the making of linen and floorcloth, malting and quarrying, and there were fisheries, especially of salmon. The harbour was used for the transshipment of the cargoes of Perth-bound vessels of over 200 tons. But most of these industries have now gone. A linoleum factory, owned by Courtaulds, which had been the town's principal employer, closed in May 1980 after a large fire destroyed much of the building.
Recorded in the spellings of Ayton and Hayton, this is a Northern English habitational surname name from any of various places called Ayton and Hayton in the counties of Cumberland, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and elsewhere in England. The first recording as a placename was that of Great Ayton in the year 881 in the chronicles of Yorkshire and in 1066 as the spelling of Etan, and then to Aton in 1279
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Salsburgh Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of cottages in Salsburgh, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Salsburgh is a semi rural former coal mining village. The closest major town to the village is Shotts 3 miles to the south east and Airdrie 6 miles to the north west. There has been a community in the area for over 600 years, although the present village dates back to 1729. At that time only a row of four houses existed, named " Muirhall, Girdhimstrait, Merchanthall and Craighead ". Craighead was home to a Mr. Young and his wife Sally, and when Young sold some of his land to construct more houses it was decided that it would be named " Sallysburgh ". Through time the name was shortened to Salsburgh. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Putting Green Golf Course Pitlochry Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of people on the Putting Green by the Golf Course in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. In the early 20th century, the members of both the Pitlochry Golf Club and the Pitlochry Ladies Golf Club played over a nine-hole course situated on the banks of the River Tummel. The holes weaved their way down from Faskally Woods to the pavilion at the Recreation Ground and back again. The new golf course was constructed during 1908 with Willie Fernie of Troon being commissioned as the initial designer. He saw the natural beauty of the Balnacraig and Drumchorry farms upon which the course now rests and set about using the undulating landscape to its full potential.
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