Old Travel Blog Photograph West of Scotland Convalescent Seaside Homes Dunoon Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the West of Scotland Convalescent Seaside Homes in Dunoon, Cowal Peninsula, Argyll, Scotland. The hydropathic convalescent establishment was opened in 1869 and was intended to serve the poor of Glasgow. Princess Louise became its patron in 1872. It was originally built as a hydropathic establishment, but the philanthropist Beatrice Clugston was instrumental in turning it into a convalescent home instead. Beatrice Clugston had earlier founded the Glasgow Convalescent Home at Bothwell, moved to Lenzie in 1871, and also founded the Broomhill Home for incurables at Kirkintilloch in 1876. The Dunoon home had been built at a cost of £11,000, was fitted with " splendid baths ", and could accommodate 150 patients. A wing was added in 1880. Dunoon is the main town on the Cowal peninsula in the south of Argyll and Bute. It is on the west shore of the upper Firth of Clyde, to the south of the Holy Loch and to the north of Innellan. The town and surrounding area are known as a destination for outdoor pursuits, including walking, running, golfing, kayaking, sailing, fishing, climbing, triathlon and mountain biking.



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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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