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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Old Travel Blog Photograph Academy Shawlands Glasgow Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Academy in Shawlands, Glasgow, Scotland. Shawlands Academy is Glasgow’s designated International School and one of Scotland’s most multicultural schools. It is situated in Shawlands, between Pollok Park, and its Burrell Collection, and Queen's Park, named after Mary Queen of Scots who fought her final battle on Scottish soil at the Battle of Langside on 13 May 1568. Shawlands Academy dates from 1857 when there was a private school of the same name located nearby in Skirving Street. The school as we know it today opened its doors over 118 years ago in 1894 in the nearby building on Pollokshaws Road which now houses Shawlands Primary School.



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Old Photograph Greenhouse Pittencrieff Glen Dunfermline Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a gardener in a greenhouse in Pittencrieff Glen, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Pittencrieff Park, known locally as " The Glen ", is a public park in Dunfermline. It was purchased in 1902 by the town's most famous son, Andrew Carnegie, and given to the people of Dunfermline in a ceremony the following year. Its lands include the historically significant and topologically rugged glen which interrupts the centre of Dunfermline and, accordingly, part of the intention of the purchase was to carry out civic development of the area in a way which also respected its heritage. The project notably attracted the attention of the urban planner and educationalist, Patrick Geddes.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Craiguchty Terrace Aberfoyle Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of houses on Craiguchty Terrace in Aberfoyle, Trossachs, Scotland. Aberfoyle has connections to many historical figures such as Rob Roy and Mary, Queen of Scots. Robert Roy MacGregor was born at the head of nearby Loch Katrine, and his well known cattle stealing exploits took him all around the area surrounding Aberfoyle. It is recorded, for example, that in 1691, the MacGregors raided every barn in the village of Kippen and stole all the villagers livestock.



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