Old Travel Blog Photograph Fir Trees Glen Ashdale Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Fire trees 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 Achnamara Loch Sween Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Achnamara village by the sea loch of Loch Sween near Lochgilphead, Scotland. There is the small, bridged embayment of Loch Craiglin on the south side of the inner loch and another larger inlet incorporating Bàgh na h-Araich Glaise that leads to the settlement of Achnamara. Linne Mhuirich is a long narrow inlet about halfway down the loch on the north side. The bay of Ceann an t-Sàilein lies between the island of Danna and the main loch at the western end. Danna is now joined to the mainland by a causeway but at one time small craft could have travelled from Loch Sween into Loch na Cille to the north.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Murrayfield Royals Edinburgh Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Murrayfield Royals in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Murrayfield Racers were an ice hockey team in Edinburgh, Scotland, founded in 1952, as the Murrayfield Royals, changing their name to the Racers in 1966. The team won the British Championship four times in 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972. The club was also the 1986–87 and 1987–88 British Hockey League Champions and played in the Premier Division of this league from 1982 to 1995. Additionally, the club won the Northern League on seven occasions; in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1979, 1980 and 1980 and the Benson and Hedges Cup in 1993. In the mid 90s the club became the Edinburgh Racers. Today, Edinburgh's ice hockey team is the Edinburgh Capitals.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Vintage Car And Hotel Strathpeffer Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a vintage car and hotel in Strathpeffer, Scotland. In the Victorian era Strathpeffer was popular as a spa resort, owing to the discovery of sulphurous springs in the 18th century. The pump room in the middle of the village dates from 1819. Soon after that, a hospital and a hotel were also built. The Strathpeffer Pavilion dates from 1880, and was built to provide a venue for entertainment of the visitors. The railway station closed in February 1946. The Clach an Tiompain, in English, the Sounding Stone or The Eagle Stone is a small Class I Pictish stone located near the northern entrance of Strathpeffer. 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 Opera Society Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Opera Society in Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Performers are dressed for The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman and His Maid, which is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera is set in the Tower of London, during the 16th century, and is the darkest, and perhaps most emotionally engaging, of the Savoy Operas, ending with a broken hearted main character and two very reluctant engagements, rather than the usual numerous marriages. The libretto does contain considerable humour, including a lot of pun laden one liners, but Gilbert's trademark satire and topsy-turvy plot complications are subdued in comparison with the other Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The dialogue, though in prose, is quasi Shakespearian, or early modern English, in style.



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