Old Travel Blog Photograph East Sands Beach Lossiemouth Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of East Sands Beach in Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. Lossiemouth Beach is a large strip of dunes separated from the rest of the town by the River Lossie, creating a useful sheltered expanse of water. The town looks down onto this natural harbour with a plain promenade street from which there is a long wooden footbridge leading onto the sands. Ringed plover, grey heron, black headed gull, oystercatcher, curlew, mallard and other waders feed under the bridge and are easy to watch from the street, and there are vast numbers of water birds in the more rural area further east.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Road To Stùc a' Chroin Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the road through Glen Ogle to Stùc a' Chroin mountain in the Trossachs, Scotland. Stùc a' Chroin is a mountain located in the southern part of the Highlands. It lies to the south of Ben Vorlich, which is itself bounded to the north by Loch Earn, and to the west by Loch Lubnaig. The boundary between the council areas of Perth and Kinross and Stirling passes through the summit of the peak, and the town of Callander lies to the south. Stùc a' Chroin is most often climbed in conjunction with Ben Vorlich from Ardvorlich on Loch Earnside to the north. The normal routes of ascent is over the summit of Ben Vorlich and down its south west ridge to the Bealach an Dubh Choirein. From this bealach a rough path cuts very steeply up on the right side of the prominent buttress to the summit of Stùc a' Chroin. Returning from the bealach, Ben Vorlich can be skirted by a pathless traverse of grassy slopes to the pass on its east.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Fisherman Boat River Clyde Uddingston Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a fisherman rowing a boat on the River Clyde by Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish town is on the north side of the River Clyde, about seven miles south east of Glasgow. Uddingston was the birthplace of James W. Black, born 14th of June 1924, died 22nd of March 2010, the Scottish doctor and pharmacologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for work leading to the discovery of Propranolol and Cimetidine.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Red Cross Fonab Castle Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the British Red Cross at Fonab Castle, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Between 1915 and 1918 the castle served as a British Red Cross auxiliary hospital caring for wounded soldiers. Auxiliary hospitals were usually staffed by: a commandant, who was in charge of the hospital except for the medical and nursing services; a quartermaster, who was responsible for the receipt, custody and issue of articles in the provision store, a matron, who directed the nursing staff, members of the local Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), who were trained in first aid and home nursing.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Lady Bute`s Hospital Cumnock Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Lady Bute`s in Cumnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Bute Hospital or Lady Bute`s Hospital in Barrhill Road was the gift of Lady Bute in 1882. It was staffed by nurses from the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and had 10 beds and 3 cots. It was used for all types of medical work and was often used for the treatment of victims of mining accidents. It was closed in 1950 at the formation of the National Health Service. It later became a convent but was eventually demolished and replaced by the houses of Murray Court.



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