Old Travel Blog Photograph Burghfield House Hotel Dornoch Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of vintage cars outside Burghfield House Hotel in Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland. Built in 1900, the turret and tower of this country house provides a visible landmark from the nearby Royal Burgh of Dornoch. At one time owned by Lord Rothermere, the newspaper magnate, it became a hotel in 1947. Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, born 26 April 1868, died 26 November 1940, was a leading British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers Ltd. He is known in particular, with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, the later Viscount Northcliffe, for the development of the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror. He was a pioneer of popular journalism. Lord Rothermere married Lilian Share, daughter of George Wade Share, on 4 July 1893. They had three sons, the two elder of whom were killed in the First World War: Captain The Hon. Harold Alfred Vyvyan St George Harmsworth, born 2 August 1894, died of wounds on 12 February 1918, aged 23, after serving with the 2nd Battalion Irish Guards in France. A week after his death he was awarded the Military Cross. He is buried in Hampstead Cemetery, In England. Lieutenant Vere Sidney Tudor Harmsworth, born 25 September 1895, killed in action during the first day of the Battle of the Ancre on 13 November 1916, aged 21, while serving with the Hawke Battalion 63rd Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Reserve. He is buried in the Ancre British Cemetery at Beaumont-Hamel on the Somme. Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere, 29 May 1898, 12 July 1978. Viscountess Rothermere, as she had become, died on 16 March 1937



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Milaroch Bay Campsite Loch Lomond Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of vintage caravans and tents at Milaroch Bay Campsite by Loch Lomond, Scotland. This tranquil campsite was popular with walkers, with the West Highland Way footpath right on the doorstep, while Ben Lomond, the highest mountain in the area, is north of the campsite near Rowardennan. Milarrochy Bay campsite appealed to boaters and canoeists too with a long loch side frontage with slipways for boat launching.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Cowal Temperance Hotel Dunoon Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Cowal Temperance Hotel in Dunoon, Cowal Peninsula, Argyll, Scotland. The Temperance Scotland Act 1913 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom under which voters in small local areas in Scotland were enabled to hold a poll to vote on whether their area remained " wet " or went " dry, " that is, whether alcoholic drinks should be permitted or prohibited. The decision was made on a simple majority of votes cast. The Act was a result of the strong temperance movement in Scotland before the First World War. Brewers and publicans formed defence committees to fight temperance propaganda. 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 McCubbin Fountain Girvan Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the McCubbin Fountain in Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The fountain was presented by Hugh McCubbin of West Derby, Liverpool, England, to his native town of Girvan in 1911. Girvan is stituated on the east coast of the Firth of Clyde, 21 miles South of Ayr, and 29 miles North of Stranraer, and is the main ferry port from Scotland to Northern Ireland. The opening of the railways, initially with the Maybole and Girvan Railway at the end of the 1850s, encouraged the development of Girvan as a seaside resort with beaches and cliffs. Most of the streets in the south east of Girvan are named after trees, examples are Maple Drive, Elder Avenue, Pine Quadrant, etc.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Danes Drive Scotstoun Glasgow Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of houses on Danes Drive in Scotstoun, Glasgow, Scotland. During the medieval period Scotstoun Estate belonged to the Montgomerie family who, having owned the estate for 200 years, sold it in 1634 to John Hutchison, Notary and Town Clerk of Glasgow. John Hutchison’s daughter married Archibald Stewart and their son sold it in 1691 to William Walkinshaw. The estate changed hands on a number of occasions before it was finally bought by the Oswald family in 1751.



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