Old Travel Blog Photograph Barry Burn Golf Course Clubhouse Carnoustie Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Barry Burn and the Golf Course Clubhouse in Carnoustie, Scotland. The Barry Burn, also known as Pitairlie Burn is a small river in Angus. It rises in the eastern portion of the Sidlaw Hills and flows past Newbigging, through Barry and the western part of Carnoustie, before taking a meandering course through Carnoustie Golf Links, a historic championship golf course is one of the venues in the Open Championship rotation. Golf is recorded as having been played at Carnoustie in the early 16th century. In 1890, the 14th Earl of Dalhousie, who owned the land, sold the links to the local authority. It had no funds to acquire the property, and public fundraising was undertaken and donated to the council. The original course was of ten holes, crossing and recrossing the Barry Burn; it was designed by Allan Robertson, assisted by Old Tom Morris from St Andrews, Fife, and opened in 1842.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Terminal Building Airport Prestwick Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of cars outside the Terminal Building at Glasgow Prestwick Airport north east of the town of Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland. The airport began life around 1934 primarily as a training airfield. A hangar, offices, and a control tower were constructed by the end of 1935. The airport's original owner was David Fowler McIntyre, also the owner of Scottish Aviation, with backing from the Duke of Hamilton. MacIntyre and Hamilton were the first aviators to fly over Mount Everest in 1933. In 1938 passenger facilities were added. In 1945, regular transatlantic commercial flights began between Prestwick and New York, America. It was initially the only Scottish airport allowed to operate a transatlantic link, largely due to the benign weather conditions on the Ayrshire coast. Having a much lower incidence of fog than any other airport in the United Kingdom due to a geographical anomaly. Glasgow Prestwick Airport is the only place in the United Kingdom where Elvis Presley was known to have set foot, when the United States Air Force transport plane carrying him home stopped to refuel in 1960, en route from Germany. Glasgow Prestwick is now Scotland's fifth busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic, after Edinburgh Airport, Glasgow Airport, Aberdeen Airport, and Inverness Airport, although it is the largest in terms of land area



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Lawn Bowlers Pitlochry Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Lawn Bowlers in Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Bowls or lawn bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a " jack " or " kitty ". It is played on a bowling green which may be flat, for flat-green bowls, or convex or uneven, for crown green bowls. It is normally played outdoors, although there are many indoor venues, and the outdoor surface is either natural grass, artificial turf, or cotula, in New Zealand.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Ghillie With Two Dogs Highland Perthshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Ghillie with two dogs in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. A Ghillie or gillie is a Scots term that refers to a man or a boy who acts as an attendant on a fishing, fly fishing, hunting, shooting, or deer stalking expedition, primarily in the Highlands or on rivers such as the River Spey or River Tay. In origin it referred especially to someone who attended on his employer or guests. A ghillie may also serve as a gamekeeper employed by a landowner to prevent poaching on his lands, control unwelcome natural predators such as fox or otter and monitor the health of the wildlife.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Vintage Car And Tourists Hotel Lochcarron Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a vintage car and tourists outside the hotel in Lochcarron, Wester Ross, Scotland. Loch Carron village stretches for almost 2 miles, meandering along the shore of lochcarron. In the 19th Century the village was named Janetown, then Jeantown. Lochcarron is so called from an arm of the sea which it is intersected, and which derived its name from the river Carron, signifying in Gaelic a winding stream. At an early period, the parish here was in the possession of several Clan chiefs, the principle of whom was Macdonald of Gengarry, who had the western part of Strome. All these were gradually dispossessed by Seaforth Lord Kintail, who took the Castle of Strome in 1609. William and Alexander Mackenzie, who were brothers of this parish, were the authors of some popular Gaelic poetry.





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