Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Auchmountain Glen

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Auchmountain Glen in the Strone area of Greenock by Glasgow, Scotland. The Glen was donated to the town in 1887 by a family of local landowners, the Shaw Stewarts, and became a popular visitor attraction after squads of workers named the Belville Boys, a group of unemployed shipyard workers from around Greenock, nicknamed the Auchmountain Boys, built a clubhouse, bridges and formal paths to enable walkers to view its waterfalls and craggy slopes. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video West Highland Railway Line

Tour Scotland travel video of the West Highland Railway Line on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands. The Iron Road to the Isles is a railway line linking the ports of Mallaig and Oban in the Scottish Highlands to Glasgow in Central Scotland. After leaving Bridge of Orchy, the line climbs onto Rannoch Moor, past the former crossing point at Gorton Crossing to Rannoch station. In winter, the moor is often covered with snow, and deer may be seen running from the approaching train. The station at Corrour on the moor is one of the most remote stations in Britain and is not accessible by any public road. The final stop before Fort William is Spean Bridge. The section between Fort William and Mallaig passes over the Glenfinnan Viaduct, through Arisaig.

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Tour Scotland Winter Video Rannoch Moor

Tour Scotland Winter video of Rannoch Moor in the Highlands of Scotland. Rannoch Moor is a large expanse of around 50 square miles boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch in Scotland, where it extends into Perthshire, Lochaber in Highland, and northern Argyll and Bute. When the West Highland Line was built across Rannoch Moor, its builders had to float the tracks on a mattress of tree roots, brushwood and thousands of tons of earth and ashes. Corrour railway station, the highest in Britain, is one of its most remote being 10 miles from the nearest public road, it is located on this section of the line at 1,339 feet. The line takes gentle curves totalling 23 miles across the moorland. The A82 road crosses western Rannoch Moor on its way to Glencoe and Fort William. In the Highlander novel, The Element of Fire, Duncan and Connor MacLeod track the antagonist Khordas to Rannoch Moor. There Duncan defeats Khordas' female companion, Nerissa. In the 1996 film Trainspotting, Tommy and the gang get off an Intercity train to get some fresh air on a hike at Corrour railway station, which is located on Rannoch Moor.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Coylton

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Coylton village in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The village is located 5 miles east of Ayr, and 2.5 miles west of Drongan, on the A70 road. Coylton was once a rural village that was transformed by the development of mining in the area and has since changed dramatically again with the cessation of all coal mining. Artist and sculptor, Robert Bryden was born in Coylton in 1865. After a period working in the office of Hunter & Morris, architects in Ayr, he moved to London, England, where he stayed for fifteen years studying, at the RSA and the Royal Academy, making a living from commissions and teaching art. He had a large output, working as a painter, engraver and sculptor. Among his works are bronze portraits of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in Ayr Town Hall. he also specialised in carved wooded figures, a collection of which are to be found at Rozelle House Galleries, a museum of art, in Ayrshire. Bryden is also responsible for the Coylton War Memorial. In 1899 he was granted the title of Royal Engraver. He published three volumes of etchings illustrating castles in the County of Ayrshire. Robert died in 1939. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Shandon

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Shandon village in Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The village is 4 miles north north west of Rhu on the Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute. It developed alongside other similar settlements in the area from a hamlet to a fashionable residential area for wealthy Glasgow merchants. West Shandon House was built in the 1840s by John Thomas Rochead for Robert Napier, often described as the father of Clyde shipbuilding, It was a prominent landmark and was renowned for housing Napier's extensive art collection. It later became a hydropathic institution, but was demolished in 1958. Since the 1960s Shandon has been dominated by the Royal Naval base at Faslane, which occupies the whole of the former grounds of West Shandon House. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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