Tour Scotland Travel Video Sunny Winter Morning Drive From Broxden To Junction For Blackford Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a sunny Winter morning road trip drive from Broxden Roundabout West on the A9 road to the Junction for Blackford, Perthshire, Scotland. Broxden Roundabout is one of the busier and more important road junctions in Scotland. It is located on the outskirts of Perth. The roundabout is an important hub of the Scottish road network, a major junction on the A9 north-south route, and the UK's northernmost motorway junction, being junction 12 of the M90 motorway. All of the seven cities in Scotland are signposted from its exits.

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Old Travel Blog Photograph Dewar Fountain Abercorn Park Portobello Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Dewar Memorial Fountain in Abercorn Park, Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland. Fountain erected by loyal supporters of a doctor who was the subject of a controversial medical case involving the death in childbirth of Jane Anderson. It bears the inscription: " This fountain has been erected in remembrance of Dr Hugh Dewar, Portobello, by his grateful patients and numerous friends, who deplore the loss in the prime of manhood of a kind friend and skilful and beloved physician. His quiet charity was known to the needy. 1866 to 1914. "



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Low Lighthouse May Island Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Low Lighthouse on the Isle of May in the Outer Firth of Forth, Fife, Scotland.. A light was first exhibited from this small lighthouse in April 1844 to act, in conjunction with the main lighthouse, as a lights in line so that the mariner could avoid the treacherous North Carr Rock some seven miles north of the Island. However, when the North Carr Lightship was established in position in 1887, there was no longer a need for the Low Ligh. The May Isle has long been a focal point of the nearby fishing communities. Annually, the wives and children of the small village of Cellardyke were taken to the May Isle for a picnic by the fishermen. On 1 July 1837 one such trip turned to tragedy when one of the small row boats used to transport them to Kirkhaven harbour overturned leading to the loss of 13 lives. The main lighthouse was built on the island in 1816 by Robert Stevenson. During the height of the breeding season, over 200,000 seabirds nest on the island, including puffins, black legged kittiwakes, razorbills, guillemots, shags, fulmars, oystercatchers, eider ducks, and various species of tern and gull.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Doctor Robert Rannie Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Doctor Robert Rannie, medical practitioner in Peterculter, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Robert was born in Glenbuchat at the Mill of Glenbuchat and later lived at Easterbucket before graduating in Medicine in 1887. He became a physician in Peterculter Aberdeen from 1888 until his retirement in 1921. His father was William Rannie and his mother Hellen Bremner and both are buried at Glenbuchat Churchyard. Roberts’s younger brother James also graduated in medicine. James had a brilliant College career, carrying off no fewer than four first and two gold medals, besides five first and second prizes. He was also a poet of no mean ability. He died on 20th August, 1894 at Klerksdorp South Africa aged 30 and is also buried in Glenbuchat.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Lochty Bridge Thornton Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Lochty Bridge over Lochty Burn by Thornton, Fife, Scotland.. Thornton is located between Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes, and stands between the River Ore and Lochty Burn, which are at opposite ends of the main street. In 1957 the Rothes Pit was opened to mine the coal in the rural hinterland surrounding the village. This coal mine was tied very closely to the development of the new town of Glenrothes to the North. The planned long term benefits were to be huge, and were to be the driver for economic regeneration in central Fife. In 1961, 4 years after opening, the huge investment was written off and the mine run down because of unstoppable flooding. Ironically, miners who had worked in older deep pits in the area had forewarned against the development of the Rothes Pit for this very reason. Burn is a Scots word for a stream or small river.





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