Old Travel Blog Photograph Shop And Cottages Straiton Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a shop, cottages and vintage car in Straiton, Ayrshire, Scotland. A Scottish a village on the River Girvan in South Ayrshire in Scotland, mainly built in the 18th century. It was the main location for the film The Match, where two rival pubs played an annual football match as a challenge. However, since the village has only one pub, a house was used as a pub for filming. Straiton is located in the hills between Kirkmichael, Dalmellington, Crosshill, and Maybole. 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 Dundonald Scotland

Old Travel Blog photograph of houses, cottages and people in the village of Dundonald in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Dundonald, Gaelic: Dùn Dhòmhnaill, is mostly known for nearby Dundonald Castle, which was built in the 14th century by King Robert II, on the ruins of a castle built earlier, in 1260 by his grandfather, Alexander Comyn. It served the Scottish kings for 150 years. The ruins of Old Auchans Castle are also located nearby, the previous residence of Susanna Montgomery, Lady Eglinton. Since 1945, the village has served mostly as a dormitory town for the larger towns in the area.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Of A Grocers And Wine Merchants Shop In Rothesay Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Grocers and Wine Merchants Shop in Rothesay,Isle of Bute, Scotland. During the Victorian era, Rothesay developed as a popular tourist destination. It became hugely popular with visitors from Glasgow. Rothesay was also the location of one of Scotland's many hydropathic establishments during the 19th century boom years of the Hydropathy movement. The town also had an electric tramway, the Rothesay and Ettrick Bay Light Railway, which stretched across the island to one of its largest beaches. However, this closed in the mid 1930s.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Shops And People Innellan Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of shops and people in Innellan, Scotland. A Scottish village that lies on the east shore of the Cowal peninsula, on the Firth of Clyde, four miles south of the town of Dunoon, Scotland.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Barrs Loch Fyne Kippers Shop Rothesay Scotland

Old Travel Blog photograph of Barrs Loch Fyne Kippers Shop in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland. A kipper is a whole herring, a small, oily fish, that has been split in a butterfly fashion from tail to head along the dorsal ridge, gutted, salted or pickled, and cold smoked over smouldering woodchips, typically oak. In the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, Japan, and a few North American regions, they are often eaten for breakfast. In Great Britain, kippers, along with other preserved smoked or salted fish such as the bloater and buckling, were also once commonly enjoyed as a high tea or supper treat, most popularly with inland and urban working-class populations before World War II.



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