Old Travel Blog Photograph Hotel Roybridge Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the hotel in Roybridge, in Kilmonivaig Parish, located 3 miles East of Spean Bridge, Scotland. This Scottish village is on the A86 road between Spean Bridge and Newtonmore and on the, former West Highland Railway, line served by trains passing between Crianlarich and Fort William. Both of the parents of Australia's only recognised saint Mary MacKillop, lived in Roybridge, prior to emigrating to Australia. MacKillop visited Roybridge in the 1870s where the local Catholic church, St Margaret's, now has a shrine to her.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Fishing Boats Returning To The Harbour St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of fishing boats returning to the harbour in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. During medieval times and through to the 16th century the harbour saw significant development with the construction of the original stone built piers and quays to serve the many travellers and merchants of the time; the town developing as an important academic, ecclesiastical and trading centre. These days the harbour is home to a small, but growing, flotilla of pleasure craft and a smaller fishing fleet that in its heyday would have numbered fifty vessels and more.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Ben Nevis Fort William Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Ben Nevis mountain above Fort William, Scotland. Ben Nevis, Scottish Gaelic: Beinn Nibheis, is the highest mountain in the British Isles. Standing at 4,411 feet above sea level, it is at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William. Historically, this area of Lochaber was strongly Clan Cameron country, and there were a number of mainly Cameron settlements in the area. The town of Fort William grew in size as a settlement when the fort was constructed to control the population after Oliver Cromwell's invasion during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and then to suppress the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th century. Fort William is now a major tourist centre, with Glen Coe just to the south, Aonach Mòr to the east and Glenfinnan to the west, on the Road to the Isles.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Beach And Pier Ullapool Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the beach and pier at Ullapool, Scotland. A village in the Scottish Highlands. On the east shore of Loch Broom, Ullapool was founded in 1788 as a herring fishing port by the British Fisheries Society. It was designed by Thomas Telford. The harbour is still the edge of the village, used as a fishing port, yachting haven, and ferry port. Ferries sail to Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides. The village lies on the A835 road from Inverness. The Ullapool River flows through the village. 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 Halfway Glasgow Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Halfway, Glasgow, Scotland. Halfwayhouse is a district on the southwest side of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Once a village in its own right, sitting on the original Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire border, the area takes its name from the fact that it lies equidistant between Glasgow and Paisley at a distance of 3 miles from each. Three Mile House was situated on Paisley Road West, but has long since gone, although Two Mile House built and owned by the various railway companies at the junction of Dumbreck Road survived into the 1980s. In the late 1920s, Halfwayhouse and a handful of neighbouring villages, including Cardonald, Hillington, Govan and Crookston, were annexed to the ever expanding city of Glasgow. This resulted in the renaming of many roads, to prevent duplication with ones in Glasgow. Through the 1940s and 1950s, Halfwayhouse was developed significantly to the point where there is very little trace of the original village on what is still the main road between Glasgow and Paisley. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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