Old Photograph Windy Gowl Valley Scotland

Old photograph of Windy Gowl valley near Carlops in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Beinn a' Bheithir Loch Leven Scotland

Old photograph of Beinn a' Bheithir above Loch Leven in the Highlands of Scotland. Beinn a' Bheithir, meaning " Mountain of the Thunderbolt " is located to the South of Ballachulish, on the south side of Loch Leven. The mountain was first called Beinn Ghuilbin but is now known as Beinn Bheithir. It got this name from a dragon which, long ago, took shelter in Corrie Liath, a great hollow in the face of the mountain and almost right above Ballachulish Pier. This dragon was apparently a terror to the surrounding district. From the lip of the corrie she overlooked the path round the foot of the mountain and, if the unsuspecting traveller attempted to pass by her, she would leap down and tear him to pieces. No one dared attack her nor could anyone tell how she might be destroyed until Charles, the Skipper, came the way. He anchored his vessel a good distance out from the site of the present pier and, between the vessel and the shore, formed a bridge of empty barrels lashed together with ropes and brisling with iron spikes. When the bridge was finished he kindled a large fire on board the vessel and placed pieces of flesh on the burning embers. As soon as the savour of burning flesh reached the corrie the dragon descended by a succession of leaps to the shore and thence tried to make her way out on the barrels to the vessel. But the spikes entered her body and tore her up so badly that she was nearly dead before she reached the outer edge of the bridge. Meantime the vessel was moved from the bridge until a wide interval was left between it and the last barrel. Over this interval the dragon had not sufficient strength left to leap to the deck of the vessel and, as she could not return the way she came, she died of her wounds where she was, at the end of the bridge.



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Old Photograph Road To Skipness Scotland

Old photograph of the road to Skipness, Kintyre, Scotland. Skipness is located on the east coast of Kintyre in Scotland, a few miles south of Tarbert and facing the Isle of Arran.



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Old Photograph Putting Green Helensburgh Scotland

Old photograph of the Putting Green in Helensburgh, Scotland. John Logie Baird was born on 14 August 1888 in Helensburgh, he was the youngest of four children of the Reverend John Baird, the Church of Scotland's minister for the local St Bride's Church and Jessie Morrison Inglis, the orphaned niece of a wealthy family of shipbuilders from Glasgow. John Logie Baird became a famous a Scottish engineer, innovator, and one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system on 26 January 1926. He was the inventor of both the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube. He died on 14 June 1946 at 1 Station Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England.



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Tour Scotland Video Dolphins Old Pile Lighthouse Firth of Tay

Tour Scotland video of Dolphins by the old pile lighthouse in the Firth of Tay on visit to Tayport, Fife, Scotland. It was built in 1845 and is a lantern on a small, square wooden building on top of wooden piles. It is no longer operational being deactivated around 1960. Shot this video clip with a Long Lens as the Dolphins were far from shore.

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