Early Autumn Road Trip Drive To Visit Kirriemuir In Angus Scotland

Tour Scotland early Autumn travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, North on the A928 road, on visit to Kirriemuir in Angus. The history of Kirriemuir reaches back to earliest recorded times, when it seems to have been a major ecclesiastical centre. Later it was identified with witchcraft, and some older houses still feature a witches stane to ward off evil. In the 19th century, it was an important centre of the jute trade. The playwright J.M. Barrie was born and buried here. After skirting the grounds of Glamis Castle, of Macbeth and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother fame, the A928 road crosses a dismantled railway line and continues to Kirriemuir, where it runs into the town centre. Bon Scott of AC/DC was born in nearby Forfar and lived in Kirriemuir for a short time from 1947 until 1950 when his family emigrated to Australia, where the family lived in the suburb of Sunshine for four years before moving to Freemantle, Western Australia.

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