Old Travel Blog Photograph Ness Castle Hotel Inverness Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Ness Castle Hotel in Inverness, Scotland. The building It used to belong to Ness Castle Estate which included North Lodge, South Lodge, Mid Lodge and West Lodge. All the Lodges were sold and The Honourable Mrs. Smythe, who had an estate called Ashington Court, in Bristol, England, bought Ness Castle for her country home. She was a Liberal supporter and Lloyd George stayed at Ness Castle during a Liberal fete in Inverness. There is supposed to be a ghost called The Green Lady which haunts the castle, walking the corridors at night.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Youth Hostel Lochgoilhead Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Youth Hostel by Lochgoilhead, Argyll, Scotland. The Scottish Youth Hostels Association, Gaelic: Comann Osdailean Òigridh na h-Alba, founded in 1931, is part of Hostelling International and provides youth hostel accommodation in Scotland. The mountains above Lochgoilhead 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 Hotel Bridgend Islay Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the hotel in Bridgend, Island of Islay, Scotland. Islay Whisky. The island's two main road the A846 and A847 meet in the village just north of the bridge over the River Sorn that gives the village its name. The River Sorn is a small river on the Scottish island of Islay. Draining Loch Finlaggan and having gathered the waters of the Allt Ruadh and the Ballygrant Burn, it flows southwestwards to enter the sea at the village of Bridgend at the head of Loch Indaal.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Temperance Hotel Blackwaterfoot Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Temperance Hotel in Blackwaterfoot village at the mouth of the Black Water on the Isle of Arran, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. The Temperance Scotland Act 1913 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom under which voters in small local areas in Scotland were enabled to hold a poll to vote on whether their area remained " wet " or went " dry, " that is, whether alcoholic drinks should be permitted or prohibited. The decision was made on a simple majority of votes cast. The Act was a result of the strong temperance movement in Scotland before the First World War. Brewers and publicans formed defence committees to fight temperance propaganda. The village of Blackwaterfoot is within the parish of Kilmory. It is located in the Shiskine valley in the south west of the island. It is one of the smaller villages of Arran and home to one of Europe's two 12 hole golf courses. A short walk from Blackwaterfoot is Drumadoon Point, home to the largest Iron Age fort on Arran. Further North is the King's Cave, reputed to be a hiding place of Robert the Bruce. After being defeated at a battle, Bruce escaped and found a hideout in a cave. Hiding in a cave for three months, Bruce was at the lowest point of his life. He thought about leaving the country and never coming back. While waiting, he watched a spider building a web in the cave's entrance. The spider fell down time after time, but finally he succeeded with his web. So Bruce decided also to retry his fight and told his men: " If at first you don't succeed, try try and try again ", 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 Broomhill Stanley Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Broomhill in Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland. Stanley is a village on the right bank of the River Tay in an area popular for salmon fishing. The village gained its name from Lady Amelia Stanley, the daughter of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby. John Murray, the 4th Duke of Atholl, decided, in the 18th century to harness of the nearby River Tay to power a cotton mill., Richard Arkwright, an inventor of cotton spinning machinery set up a cotton mill in Stanley as well as one at New Lanark. Stanley Mills opened in 1787, and by its 10th year employed 350 people. The village was built to house the workers of the mill. Work on the village began in 1784. It was designed by the Duke of Atholl’s factor James Stobie. By 1799 the village’s population was around 400, and by 1831 it had reached around 2000 residents.



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