Old Travel Blog Photograph Henderson's Hotel Arrochar Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a vintage car outside Henderson's hotel in Arrochar, Scotland. Arrochar is a Scottish village located near the head of Loch Long in Argyll and Bute. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it is overlooked by a group of mountains called the Arrochar Alps. For over five centuries this area, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the chiefs of Clan MacFarlane and before them by their ancestors the barons of Arrochar. The family is Celtic in the male line and native to their Highland homeland of tall peaks and deep lochs just above the waist of Scotland. The settlement was a key target for Viking raiders who took their boats two miles overland to Tarbet to attack the unprotected inland settlements at Loch Lomond before their defeat in 1263 at the battle of Largs.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph King's Knot Gardens Below Stirling Castle Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the The King's Knot gardens below Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland. The Castle of Stirling first emerges into the light of history in the time of Alexander I who, according to a document of the following reign, dedicated a chapel there. Alexander died at the Castle in 1124 and was succeeded by his brother David, who frequently stayed at Stirling. Below the castle are the grassy outlines of a much bigger formal garden. This is the King’s Knot, the knot itself being a raised eight sided feature dating from the 1600s.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Janet Burnett And Daughter From Fraserburgh Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Janet Burnett and her daughter from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The surname Burnett derives from the Old French " burnete, brunette ", a diminutive of " brun", brown, or dark brown, used of a person's complexion or hair colour, or in some cases of a particular type of cloth. " Burnete " was used in the Middle Ages of a wool dyed cloth of superior quality, originally of dark brown colour, and the surname may in some cases denote a maker or seller of such a material. Early examples of the surname include: Richard Bornet in 1279, in Buckinghamshire, and Cristina Burnete in 1365, in London, England. One Andrew Burnet is listed in the University of Oxford Register of 1546, at Jesus College, and John Burnett was an early emigrant to the American Colonies, leaving London on the " Abraham " in November 1635, bound for Virginia.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Donald McLeod Kirkwall Orkney Islands Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Donald McLeod from Kirkwall on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. One of the earliest occurrences of the surname is of Gillandres MacLeod, in 1227. There are two recognised Scottish clans with the surname: Clan MacLeod of Harris and Skye, and Clan MacLeod of Lewis and Raasay. The earliest record of these two families, using a form of the surname MacLeod, occurs in the mid 14th century. There are also documented cases of Scottish missionaries in Canada using McLeod as an " Anglicisation " of the indigenous Cree language name Mahkiyoc, meaning " the big one ", which accounts for its occurrence amongst Canadian people of Cree heritage.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Bridge Kirkcudbright Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the bridge over the River Dee at Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Built in 1926 by the engineers Mouchel. It provided a direct route west out of the town, rather than having to head north via Tongland Bridge first. However, old maps suggest that there may have been an earlier bridge on the site. The bridge is a massive 5 span reinforced concrete structure, where each span is supported by tied arch trusses overhead. Unlike many other similar structures, the arches are not tied across the carriageway, mainly because they are too shallow to then allow traffic through. Below the spans the piers are paired and while only two stand in the river at low tide, at high tide all are partially submerged.



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