Old Travel Blog Photograph Paddle Steamer Prince Edward Balloch Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the paddle steamer Prince Edward at the pier at Balloch a small town in West Dunbartonshire, at the foot of Loch Lomond, Scotland. Balloch is at the north end of the Vale of Leven, straddling the River Leven itself. It connects to the larger town of Alexandria and to the smaller village of Jamestown, both of which are located to its south. It also borders the Kilpatrick Hills. With its accessible location at the southern end of Loch Lomond and just off the main road from Glasgow to the West Highlands, it is an important centre of tourism, especially from Glasgow and Dumbarton. Balloch comes from the Gaelic word bal, baile or ball, which means village or hamlet, so Balloch means, village on the loch. 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 Dalwhat Water Moniaive Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of fishermen by Dalwhat Water near Moniaive in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Dalwhat Water rises in the uplands of Penpont Parish. It flows southeastwards to join the Castlefairn Water at Moniaive where it becomes the Cairn Water. In the 17th century, Moniaive became the refuge for the Covenanters, a group of Presbyterian nonconformists who rebelled at having the Episcopalian religion forced on them by the last three Stuart kings, Charles I, Charles II and James II of England, James VII of Scotland. There is a monument off the Ayr Road to James Renwick, a Covenanter leader born in Moniaive and later executed in Edinburgh. The Scottish artist James Paterson, a founder member of The Glasgow Boys, settled in Moniaive in 1884 and stayed for 22 years.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Double Decker Passenger Bus Baillieston Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Double Decker passenger us going to Baillieston, Glasgow, Scotland. A district in the east end of Glasgow in Scotland. Baillieston is situated west of a major interchange between the M8, M74 and M73 motorways and the A8 trunk road, between the town of Coatbridge, and the neighbouring Glasgow district of Shettleston. There is a railway station as well as the remnants of the Monkland Canal north of the district underneath the M8 motorway, at Easterhouse.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Grahams Passenger Bus Bridge Of Weir Scotland

Old photograph of a Grahams passenger bus going to Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. The first semblances of the village came to be with the rise of the West of Scotland cotton industry. From around 1793 the river Gryffe was being used to power numerous cotton spinning and blanket making mills. The most significant industry to emerge in the village was leather. At its productivity peak the small village supported three tanneries.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Double Decker Passenger Bus East Kilbride Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Double Decker passenger bus going to East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The Scottish town of East Kilbride is enclosed by the White Cart River to the west and the Rotten Calder to the east, the latter flowing northwards to join the River Clyde near Cambuslang. This area was previously the site of the small village of East Kilbride, prior to its post-war development. The modern settlement serves as a dormitory town for the city of Glasgow. East Kilbride takes its name from an Irish saint named St Bride or Brigit, who founded a monastery for nuns and monks in Kildare, Ireland in the 6th century. Irish monks introduced her order to Scotland. Kil, from the Gaelic cill, means church or burial place.



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