Old Photographs Double Decker Passenger Bus Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of Double Decker passenger bus in Paisley by Glasgow, Scotland.

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Old Photograph Passenger Bus To Kyleakin Isle of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of a passenger bus on the road to Kyleakin, Isle of Skye, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Double Decker Passenger Bus Peterhead Scotland

Old photograph of a Double Decker passenger bus in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Dingwall Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Dingwall, Scotland. The station was built by the Inverness and Ross-shire Railway and opened on 11 June 1862 when the company's line was opened from Inverness to Dingwall. The extension to Invergordon came on 23 March 1863. The I&RR was consolidated with the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway on 30 June 1862. The operating name became the Highland Railway on 29 June 1865. Under Highland Railway ownership the current station buildings were erected in 1886 by architect Murdoch Paterson. The HR became a constituent of the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. The main passenger services through the station were to Wick and Thurso and to Kyle of Lochalsh. Between 1885 and 1946 there was a branch line service to Strathpeffer. The Highland Railway built a small steam locomotive shed near the station and this continued in use by the LMSR and British Railways until closure at the end of steam locomotive operations in the area in the early 1960s.

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Tour Scotland Video Jeely Piece Song Blair Davie The Tavern Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Blair Davie singing Jeely Piece song in a pub on history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. A Scots folk song written in the 1960s, by Adam McNaugton.

I'm a sky scraper wean, I live on the ninteenth floor
But I'm no goin' oot tae play any more.
'Cause since we moved to oor new house I'm wastin' away
For I'm getting one meal less every day.

Chorus:
Oh ye canna fling pieces oot a twenty story flat
Seven hundred hungry weans will testify to that
If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the bread is plain or pan
The odds against it reaching us is ninety-nine to one

On the first day my Maw flung oot a daud o' hovis broon
It came skitin' oot the windae and went up instead o' doon
Noo ev'ry twenty seven hours it comes back into sight
Cause my piece went intae orbit and became a satellite

On the next day my Maw flung me oot a piece again
It went up and hit a pilot in a fast, low flying plane
He scrapped it off his goggles, shouting through the intercom
The Clydeside Reds have got me wi' a breid 'n jelly bomb

On the third day my Maw tho't she would try another throw
The Salvation Army band was standin' doon below
'Onward Christian Soldiers' was the tune they should've played
But the Oompah man was playing piece 'n marmalade

We've wrote awa' to Oxfam to try an' get some aid
We all joined together and have formed the Piece Brigade
We're gonna march to London tae demand our civil rights
Like nae more hooses over piece flinging height

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