Old Travel Blog Photograph Interior Terminal Building Airport Prestwick Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the interior of 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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Tour Scotland Travel Video Scottish Tribal Band Clann An Drumma Performing City Centre Of Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the bagpipes and drums music of Scottish Tribal Band, Clann An Drumma, performing their music outside St. John's Kirk on sacred ground at the very centre of the ancient Royal Burgh on ancestry genealogy, history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Clann An Drumma, Scots Gaelic for " Children of the Drum " is a tribal band from Glasgow. Their music involves heavy use of percussion and Highland bagpipes. The band's motto is " Keep it Tribal."

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Beats of Brazil Samba Band High Street Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the music of the Beats of Brazil Samba Band performing on the High Street in the City Centre on ancestry visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Samba is a lively, rhythmical dance of Afro-Brazilian origin in 2/4(2 by 4) time danced to Samba music whose origins include the Maxixe. Samba is a dance to black/African people in Brazil who brought much of their music and dance culture into Latin America with them upon arrival into many Latin American countries.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Building Hangar For Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance Perth Airport Scone Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the building of the new hangar for Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance SCAA helicopter at Perth Airport on ancestry visit to Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Eurocopter EC135 is a twin engine civil helicopter produced by Airbus Helicopters. Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance launched on 22nd May 2013 is well positioned geographically to reach 90% of Scotland’s population within 25 minutes, and are also ideally placed to reach some of Scotland’s remotest areas within a 15 to 30 minute timeframe. They fly to time critical emergencies across Scotland and rely 100% on donations from their supporters to ensure they are there when needed.



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Old Photograph Stothert Memorial Chapel Lumphanan Scotland

Old photograph of the interior of Stothert Memorial Chapel in Lumphanan village situated ten miles from Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Stothert Memorial Chapel was originally built as a Free Church. The church is closed for worship and is privatelly owned after being bought in the 1980s. Although the church is closed for worship it still retains some of its original fittings, including the timber-framed roof, supported on corbels, wooden dadoes and a small south gallery. Some of the pews remain in place.



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