Old Travel Blog Photograph Of Fishing Nets On The Pier Pittenweem East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of fishing nets on the pier at the harbour in Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Founded as a fishing village around a probably early Christian religious settlement, Pittenweem grew along the shoreline from the West where the sheltered beaches were safe places for fishermen to draw their boats up out of the water. Later a breakwater was built, extending out from one of the rocky skerries that jut out South West into the Firth of Forth like fingers. This allowed boats to rest at anchor rather than being beached, enabling larger vessels to use the port. A new breakwater further to the east was developed over the years into a deep, safe harbour with a covered fish market. As the herring disappeared from local waters and the fishing fleet shrank, this harbour and its attendant facilities became the main harbour for the fishermen of the East Neuk of Fife.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Kyrene Fishing Boat Beach Ullapool Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the fishing boat named " Kyrene " on the beach at Ullapool, Scotland. A village in the Scottish Highlands. On the east shore of Loch Broom, Ullapool was founded in 1788 as a herring fishing port by the British Fisheries Society. It was designed by Thomas Telford. The harbour is still the edge of the village, used as a fishing port, yachting haven, and ferry port. Ferries sail to Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides. The village lies on the A835 road from Inverness. The Ullapool River flows through the village. 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 Parish Church Kilmun Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Parish Church in Kilmun near Dunoon, Scotland. In the 7th century, an Irish monk, St Munn, Fintán of Taghmon, founded a monastic community at Kilmun. The remains of a 12th century church are still visible. At the present site, a church building is recorded in the 13th century. By the 15th century, the significance of Kilmun as a local centre of Christianity was so great that the adjacent loch became known as the Holy Loch, and the powerful Clan Campbell adopted it as their spiritual home. From the 14th century, Dunoon Castle, a short distance away, was held by the Campbell family and in the 1440s Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochawe, later 1st Lord Campbell, the then chief of the clan, lived near Kilmun in a private residence named Strathechaig. When his eldest son Archibald died tragically in 1442, the young man was laid to rest at Kilmun. This marked the beginning of the tradition of Kilmun as Campbell burial place. As a settlement, Kilmun is substantially older than most of its neighbours on the Holy Loch. Like them, it developed as a watering place for Glasgow merchants after 1827, when a quay was built by the marine engineer David Napier. It was a regular stop for the Clyde steamer services until its closure in 1971.



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Old Travel Photograph Shepherd Balnaguard Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Shepherd moving sheep past cottages in Balnaguard located South of Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Balnaguard is a village of Strath Tay in Perth and Kinross, Balnaguard lies to the south of the River Tay where it is joined by the Balnaguard Burn, near the junction of the Tay and Tummel rivers.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Shepherds Crinan Canal Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Shepherds moving sheep by the Crinan Canal, Scotland. The Crinan canal is a canal in the west of Scotland. It takes its name from the village of Crinan which is located at its westerly end. Nine miles long, it connects the village of Ardrishaig on Loch Gilp with the Sound of Jura, providing a navigable route between the Clyde and the Inner Hebrides, without the need for a long diversion around the Kintyre peninsula, and in particular the exposed Mull of Kintyre.



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