Old Travel Blog Photograph River Gruinard Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the River Gruinard in Wester Ross, Highlands, Scotland. The river runs from the Fionn Loch into Gruinard Bay. It lies within the Letterewe Estate, previously owned by Paul van Vlissingen, a Dutch businessman. It has a healthy run of Atlantic Salmon. The Little Gruinard has been a forerunner in the development of catch and release fishing amongst Scottish salmon rivers.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph St Ninian's Cathedral Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of St Ninian's Cathedral in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The cathedral was built on the site of an older Dominican monastery and was one of the first to be built in Britain since the Reformation, both St. Columb's in Derry in Northern Ireland and St. Paul's in London, England, are older, having been consecrated in 1633 and 1710 respectively. St Ninian's was consecrated in 1850. It was designed by the English architect William Butterfield. Former provosts of the cathedral include the Very Reverend Edward Bowles Knottesford Fortescue; he became Provost of St Ninian’s Cathedral in 1851 but resigned in 1871 when he converted to Roman Catholicism.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Tea Room Brig o' Turk Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a vintage car outside the Tea Room in Brig o' Turk, Trossachs, Scotland. A tearoom or tea shop is a small restaurant where beverages and light meals are served, In the mid nineteenth century this Scottish village was the location of a famous Victorian love triangle involving John Ruskin, his wife Effie Gray, and protégé John Everett Millais. Euphemia Chalmers " Effie " Millais, Lady Millais née Gray, born 7 May 1828, died December 1897, was the wife of the critic John Ruskin, but she left her husband without the marriage being consummated. She later married his protégé, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. This famous Victorian " love triangle " has been dramatised in plays, films and an opera.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Newsagents Shop Birnam Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Newsagents Shop and Hotel in Birnam, Perthshire, Scotland. Birnam is approximately one hour from Glasgow and Edinburgh airports, and two hours from Inverness by car. John Everett Millais, who painted many local landscapes, and Beatrix Potter, with her family, often visited Birnam. The Birnam Highland Games is where the World Haggis Eating Championships are held. There is access by rail at Dunkeld and Birnam railway station, on the London to Inverness route.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Dean Road Bo'ness Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of houses on Dean Road in Bo'ness in West Lothian, Scotland. Bo'ness was a site for coal mining from medieval times. Clay mining was carried out on a smaller scale. The shore was the site of industrial salt making, evaporating seawater over coal fires. The ruins of several fisheries, fish storage houses, along the shoreline evidences long gone commercial fishing activity. The town was also home to several sizable potteries. Metalworking is still carried out, and examples of the Bo'ness Iron Company's work are to be found in many places.



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