Tour Scotland Photograph Pier Craighouse Isle Of Jura

Tour Scotland photograph of boats by the pier in Craighouse on the Isle of Jura, Scotland. Craighouse village is situated on the sheltered east coast of the island at the southern end of Small Isles Bay. Craighouse was once served by a direct ferry from the mainland which berthed at Craighouse pier. This service was terminated some years ago, and access is now via an 8 miles single track road from Feolin on Jura's south west coast, where there is a small vehicle ferry to the neighbouring island of Islay. However, since 2007 a passengers only ferry service to Craighouse has operated during the summer from the village of Tayvallich on the mainland.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Dunnikier Park Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a mother and children walking in Dunnikier Park in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. Major James Townsend Oswald, Dunnikier, died in his town house, London, on 2nd June 1893, in his 72nd year. He succeeded to the estate of Dunnikier in 1840 on the death of his father, Sir John Oswald. In 1848 he married Miss ellen octavia Miles of Leigh Court, Somersetshire, England. He served with the Grenadier Guards, Atholl Highlanders and was one of the founders and main supporters of the Fife Light Horse. he contested Kirkcaldy Burghs on 1874 and Fife County in 1880 in the Conservative interests but was defeated on both occasions. He was an office bearer of ST Peter's Episcopal Church.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Bridge Little Keithick Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the bridge at Little Keithick, located between Woodside and Coupar Angus in Perthshire, Scotland. The neoclassical Keithick House in the background was designed by David Whyte and built in 1818 for W E Collinswood. David Bryce changed the porch and offices in 1839, and Maclaren, Soutar and Salmond made further alterations in 1926. Its drawing room was decorated in a fine Adam Revival style by Morant.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Holiday Camp Pavilion Lochgoilhead Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Holiday Camp Pavilion in Lochgoilhead, Argyll, Scotland. The mountains above this Scottish village, located at the head of Loch Goil, were used for the scene in the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love in which Bond, played by Sean Connery, eliminated two villains in a helicopter by firing gunshots at them. A few miles north of Lochgoilhead, is a junction which on the left goes through Hell's Glen, Loch Fyne, Dunoon, Inverary, Lochawe, Oban, Tyndrum, Glencoe and Fort William. On the right it goes to Glen Croe, Loch Long, Arrochar and Tarbet, Loch Lomond, Glasgow and Crianlarich with the options of travelling to either Inverary and Lochawe, Oban and Fort William, Lochearnhead and Killin.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Glen Ashdale Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of sheep in Glen Ashdale by Whiting Bay village on the Isle of Arran, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. The village of Whiting Bay is approximately 3 miles south of the village of Lamlash. Whiting Bay is the third largest village on the island, after Lamlash and Brodick, and was once the site of the longest pier in Scotland. Like all villages on Arran, tourism is important to the village. To the north of the village at Kings Cross Point between Lamlash and Whiting Bay is an Iron Age fort known locally as the Viking Fort. According to local legend, this is the site where Robert the Bruce mistook farmers' fires on the mainland as the signal to launch his campaign. This site was also the location of a Viking ship burial excavated in the earlier 20th century. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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