Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Drive Quarrymill Woodland Park Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland Winter travel video of a road trip drive from Rose Terrace to Quarrymill Woodland Park on visit to the Fair City of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. We drive past the Old Academy Building on Rose Terrace. Perth Academy first appears in 1542 when it was founded by the town council, still making Perth Academy one of the oldest schools in Scotland. Designed by Robert Reid, later the King’s architect, work on this building was started in October 1803, and finished for the start of the teaching year in 1807. Sandstone extraction and weaving at Quarrymill was well underway by the 18th Century when there were numerous mills spinning cotton, extracting starch from potatoes for use in weaving and the textile industry and grinding bone to use in dyes and fertilisers.
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Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Drive To TK Maxx St Catherine's Retail Park Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland Winter travel video of a drive to TK Maxx in St Catherine's Retail Park, Dunkeld Road, on visit to the Fair City of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Helping a person with physical challenges do some shopping today. There is parking for people with Blue Badges close to the front door. TK Maxx is a Retail chain featuring stylish brand name apparel, shoes & accessories, plus housewares. A Blue Badge provides parking concessions for people with disabilities, allowing them, or whoever is driving with them, to park closer to shopping centres and other destinations. You can use the permit in any vehicle, as long as the badge holder is present, whether driving or being driven. It isn’t assigned to a specific vehicle.
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Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Snow Drive High Street Fair City Of Perth Perthshire
Tour Scotland travel video of a Winter drive, helping a person with physical challenges, on snow on the High Street on visit to the Fair City of Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Blue badge holders are permitted to drive and park on the High Street pedestrian area before 11am and after 4pm. The Blue Badge scheme is designed to help disabled people who have severe mobility problems lead independent lives by allowing them to park near to a venue and have easier access to the services they want to use.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Flagstone Quarry Halkirk Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of a Flagstone Quarry near Halkirk, Caithness, Scotland. Flagstone was probably used by our early inhabitants for building houses and stone walls and would have been obtained at outcrops where the rock broke through to the surface and required little or no quarrying. Despite this early use of flag, the first attempt to obtain the stone on a commercial basis was made of Castlehill on the shores of Dunnet Bay to the north of the village of Halkirk, then known as Olrig, when in the summer of 1793 several cargoes of stone were shipped to Aberdeen. The instigator of this new industry was James Traill, who lived from 1758 to 1843 and was for a time Sheriff of the County. He moved from Rattar to Castlehill House in 1824 and set about organising the flagstone quarrying. In the following year regular shipments of flags were begun to ports all over the United Kingdom and as the fame of this most unusual material spread, cargoes were sent as far afield as South Africa. Indeed a famous meat factory in the Argentine was floored with Caithness flags. The word flag comes from the Old Norse flaga, meaning a slab.
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Old Travel Blog Photograph Shops And People Kyle of Lochalsh Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of shops and people in Kyle of Lochalsh, across from Isle of Skye, Scotland. A village on the North West coast of the Scottish Highlands. It is located on the Lochalsh peninsula, at the entrance to Loch Alsh, opposite the village of Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye. A ferry used to connect the two villages until it was replaced by the Skye Bridge, about a mile to the west, in 1995. Kyle of Lochalsh railway station is connected to Inverness by the Kyle of Lochalsh railway line, built in 1897 to improve public transport to the north west of Scotland. The line ends on the water's edge, near where the ferry connection used to run. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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