Old Travel Blog Photograph Military Funeral Castle Douglas Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Military Funeral of Canadian, Sergeant Johnstone, in Castle Douglas near Threave Castle, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Castle Douglas was a reception area for Glasgow's evacuated children during World War II. From March 1943 to April 1944, the town was the base for 92nd Loyals Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, which was training for Operation Overlord, the invasion of occupied Europe. Castle Douglas was founded in 1792 by a wealthy descendant of the Douglas family, William Douglas, who made his money in American Trade and created a planned town on the shores of Carlingwark Loch. The town's layout is based upon the grid plan pattern of streets as used in Edinburgh's New Town, built around the same time. Sir William Douglas also created a number of industries in Castle Douglas, including hand-woven cotton factories.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Brig O Trams Wick Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Brig O Trams rock formations off the North coast to the South of Wick, Caithness. Scotland. The name Wick comes from the Norse word, Vik meaning bay. Wick was granted the title of Royal Burgh in 1589. However, it was in the 1800s that Wick enjoyed its greatest prosperity as a thriving herring port, in time becoming the busiest in Europe. Work to enable the development of the huge seasonal herring fishing first began in 1803 under the auspices of the British Fisheries Society. By the time trade at Wick peaked around 1900 there was a fleet 1120 strong. 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 North Coast Road To Durness Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the North coast road to Durness, Northern Sutherland, Scotland. The name was originally Norse " Dyrnes ", meaning " deer headland." Near Durness is the Judgement Stone. This was said to be where judgement was meted out to malefactors and those found guilty were thrown over the cliff to their doom below. Durness is on the A838 road. This links the parish to the A836 at Tongue to the east and loops around the coast through Rhiconich near Kinlochbervie to meet the A836 again north of Lairg to the south. The road is single track along most of its length. Bus services are sparse in the area, although one bus a day links Durness with the Far North railway line at Lairg railway station. This provides rail services north to Wick and south to Inverness.



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Tour Scotland Travel Video Corran Ferry Loch Linnhe Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video of the Corran Ferry arriving at Nether Lochaber on Loch Linnhe at the Corran Narrows in the Scottish Highlands south of Fort William, Scotland. This Scottish Ferry crosses Loch Linnhe at the Corran Narrows, south of Fort William. It links the main A82 road with Morvern, Moidart and Ardnamurchan, via the village of Strontian. It also provides a link to Lochaline, thirty miles to the south west, from where a ferry crosses to Mull. The route lies on one of the ancient drove routes from the Hebrides to the cattle markets in Central Scotland. Today, the ferry is a crucial link between the main A82 road, serving Inverness, Fort William, and Glasgow, with the otherwise extremely remote Morvern and Ardnamurchan peninsulas. Use of the ferry saves over an hour from the land route between Ardgour and Corran, which would involve use of the A861 and the A830.

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Old Travel Blog Photograph School Auchinleck Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of children outside the school in Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Scotland. Auchinleck is situated at the heart of the ancient Kyle district of Scotland. The place name means, " field of flat stones " in Scottish Gaelic, from achadh, " field, " and leac, " slab ". The small locality of Auchincloich has a comparable meaning. Although record of a community exists from as early as 1239, reliable records can really only be said to date from the arrival of the Boswell family in 1504. Near this Scottish village is Auchinleck House, past home of the lawyer, diarist and biographer James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck.



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