Old Travel Blog Photograph Cottage Clachan Burn Shiskine Isle Of Arran Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a cottage by Clachan Burn in Shiskine, Island of Arran, Scotland. Sitting further up the Shiskine Valley from the village of Blackwaterfoot, the village takes its name from a corruption of the Gaelic for marshy place. Much of the area was essentially a swamp years ago, but now comprises farm land. There is also an ancient stone circle close by to the village, purportedly of Pictish origin. Shiskine is close to the peaks of Ben Nuis and Ben Bharrain. Burn is a Scots word for a large stream or a small river. The term burn is used in Scotland and England, especially North East England, and in parts of Ulster, Australia and New Zealand.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Jock's Nose Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Jock's Nose, a small headland, near Eyemouth, Scotland. Eyemouth is a small fishing port and town and civil parish in Berwickshire. The town's name comes from its location at the mouth of the Eye Water. The Berwickshire coastline consists of high cliffs over deep clear water with sandy coves and picturesque fishing harbours. Notable buildings in the town include Gunsgreen House. Many of the features of a traditional fishing village are preserved in the narrow streets and vennels, giving shelter from the sea and well suited to the smuggling tradition of old.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Dalgarven Mill Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Dalgarven Mill by Kilwinning in North Ayrshire, Scotland. There has been a mill at Dalgarven since at least 1203, when the monks of Kilwinning Abbey established the Waulk Mill on this spot. In 1614 a new mill was built nearby, and 8 years later the Blair family of Blair purchased both mills. The Blairs owned the property for exactly 300 years until it was sold to the Ferguson family. But before the Ferguson's came along the original grain mill was badly damaged in a fire in 1869. The last working miller was John Ferguson, who retired in 1969.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Coppice Hotel Callander Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Coppice Hotel in Callander, Trossachs, Scotland. The town serves as the eastern gateway to the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, the first National Park in Scotland, and is often referred to as the Gateway to the Highlands. The second to last person to be tried and imprisoned for the crime of Witchcraft in the UK was Helen Duncan, from Callander, during World War Two. As late as 1845 Scottish Gaelic was still spoken in Callander with two schools still teaching it. 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 Marine Hotel Mallaig Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a vintage car and passenger bus outside the Marine Hotel in Mallaig, Lochaber, Scotland. Mallaig is a port in Lochaber, on the west coast of the Highlands. The local railway station, Mallaig, is the terminus of the West Highland railway line, Fort William and Mallaig branch, completed in 1901, and the town is linked to Fort William by the A830 road, the Road to the Isles. The village of Mallaig was founded in the 1840s, when Lord Lovat, owner of North Morar Estate, divided up the farm of Mallaigvaig into seventeen parcels of land and encouraged his tenants to move to the western part of the peninsula and turn to fishing as a way of life. The population and local economy expanded rapidly in the 20th century with the arrival of the railway. Ferries operated by Caledonian MacBrayne and Bruce Watt Sea Cruises sail from the port to Armadale on the Isle of Skye, Inverie in Knoydart, and the isles of Rùm, Eigg, Muck, and Canna. Mallaig is the main commercial fishing port on the West Coast of Scotland, and during the 1960s was the busiest herring port in Europe.



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