Community Power: The Kingussie Hydro Project
Short documentary covering the launch of the community led Kingussie Hydro Project, as part of the Community Power series of short documentary films.
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Scotland braced for more weather misery as Storm Brendan brings high winds
Scotland is bracing itself for a 12-hour battering from Storm Brendan. Gales of up to 80mph are set to sweep across parts of the UK from midday on Monday. The Met Office has warned coastal routes and communities could be particularly affected by Brendan as large waves batter seafronts. Yellow weather warnings are in place for much of the western half of the UK and the north east of Scotland. Frank Saunders, of the Met Office, said the UK and Ireland will turn increasingly windy as the storm, named by Irish forecaster Met Eireann, sweeps in. He said: “It’s going to be windy across the western half of the UK, with gusts reaching 60-70mph along Irish Sea coastlines, the west of Scotland and perhaps some English Channel coasts – maybe even 80mph in exposed places.” Saunders added the severe conditions, including heavy rain, could cause travel disruption, and those in affected areas are advised to take extra care when driving on exposed routes such as bridges or high open roads. Looking further ahead, he said: “It looks like it’s going to stay very unsettled with the potential for further disruptive weather.” The warning comes after parts of Scotland were hit by severe flooding following a deluge of rain over the weekend. Heavy downpours and high winds battered much of the country, causing major disruption to transport links. The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning on Saturday and The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) issued 29 flood warnings and 16 flood alerts. These alerts covered most of Dumfries and Galloway, the Scottish Borders, Tayside and Central Scotland. Passengers were left stranded in Aviemore and Falkirk as flood water caused chaos on railway lines between Kingussie and Aviemore in the Highlands, as well as Croy and Larbert. Meanwhile, members of the public were urged to avoid the Whitesands area of Dumfries after the River Nith burst its banks. Dumfries and Galloway police posted images of Whitesands covered with water spilling onto a car park near a section of the river. A number of SPFL fixtures were also postponed due to the downpours. Scotland braced for more weather misery as Storm Brendan brings high winds
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Walking The Liberty Trail | In The Footsteps Of The Monmouth Rebellion
The Monmouth Rebellion, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, the Revolt of the West or the West Country rebellion, was an attempt to overthrow James II in the 1600s. The Duke Of Monmouth rallied 4000 plus men, many of whom travelled from their homes in rural Somerset to join the cause.
The Liberty Trail runs for 28 miles from Ham Hill to Lyme Regis, following in the footsteps of many of these rebels. Abbie set out to walk the route and along the way passed through tranquil hamlets, by old mills, manor houses, ancient churches, abbeys and much, much more...
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River Truim Falls
I think it's the River Truim...on the way up to Drumochter Pass on the Glasgow to Inverness bike ride. Stopped to cool my feet.
The Great Britain III, Day 5
Saturday 10th April 2010: After a water stop at Girvan, Black Fives 44871 and 45407 restart the 11 coach train on the 1-in-54 gradient, on the way to Stranraer. In the background are the Isle of Arran and the Kintyre Peninsular.
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Loch Cluanie
Loch Cluanie
Falls of Truim
Falls of Truim just a short walk from Hoghland Holiday Cottages. Why not cjheck us out at HighlandHolidayCottages.com
The big Concert
The big Concert the irish coffee and the red eagle tyrolean pipeband
Carrbridge 2008
A round up of events held in Carrbridge throughout the duration of 2008. Events include: The Carrbridge Gathering and Scottish Open Chainsaw Championship, Carrbridge Live - Let's Circus, The Carrbridge Fun Run and The 15th Annual Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championship
A full 5 min film of the World Porridge Making Championship will be released once it has been shown at the Kingussie Food on Film Festival in Feb 09.
Black Watch Sergeant's Mess vs Osborne Barracks | Stanley Fort - Hong Kong - 1993/94 (8mm footage)
Before I left Scotland for Canada, I tried my best to preserve some old home videos to digital, with the very little left we still had.
Old 8mm home video footage (with my Father, injured at the time behind the camera) - Black Watch Sergeant's Mess vs Osborne Barracks Sergeant's Mess football match.
Some footage at half time in the pavillion at Stanley Fort on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - season 1993/94
MUNROS: the pictured 919m GAIRICH above Loch Quoich where Glenquoich Lodge now lies submerged.
Remove those stupid adverts you've overlaid on this video YouTube eh? Anr enforced audio change: the Munro Gairich video to a new audio soundtrack 'ONLY TIME WILL TELL' thereby eliminating the enforced advertisements inserted on the earlier version.
Beyond the Tomdoun Sporting Lodge in Glen Garry the single track former Drovers road to Kinlochhourn heads towards the dam at Loch Quoich where a small parking area denotes the commencement of this route to the 919m Munro, Gairich from the Gaelic 'roaring'.
The rock fill Quoich Dam stands at a height of 126ft and is 300ft wide at its base with a 1050ft span across to the path. From the south end of the dam the path begins and quickly disappears in the bog and marsh before re-appearing and leading to a gate and style at the forest's edge.
A change of direction onto the path that heads up Druim na Geid Salaich eventually zig-zags via a rock-step towards the large summit cairn and views over Loch Quoich, Glen Kingie and much more.
Once back at the dam, the single track road to the farm accommodation at Kinlochhourn is an impressive journey - albeit more so for passengers. [May 2008].
The SMC quote that Loch Quoich lies north of the extensive Gairich - Sgurr na Ciche ridge, its surroundings also isolated and devoid of habitation. The single track Kingie to Kinloch Hourn road passes along its north shore before descending to the sea. The loch has been dammed at both ends and its level substantially raised, again as a hydro-electricity scheme. These operations flooded the old shooting lodge, and have rendered access to the hills south of the loch far more difficult. The water level is very low, revealing an ugly tidemark. The loss of the natural shoreline has also given the waters a sense of lifelessness, despite the grandeur of the setting.
Glenquoich Lodge now lies submerged in the increased water of the Loch.
A rain gauge at the west end of Loch Quoich (prior to the raising of the loch's level) used to give an average annual reading of about 400cm. In 1961 it was a staggering 520cm!
From the 1907 writings of A.R.Hope Moncrieff he recalls a royal visit to this area described in the Scotsman thus:
If there is in Scotland a grander view than can be seen from Loch Quoich on an autumn evening, the writer does not know it. The fairy land of the Celt was on 'seven bens and seven glens and seven mountain moors' but the moors and bens and glens around Glenquoich fall to be numbered by the hundreds, and not by sevens. Sheer from the water edge rise the mountains, green at their base, flecked with heather along their sides, ridge upon ridge, peak upon peak, overwhelming the mind with a feeling of that Omnipotence which weigheth the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance, before whom men are altogether vanity. West from the lodge the loch bends slightly towards the south and narrowing as it recedes, it stretches out towards the setting sun, pushing a tapering finger among the roots of the giant hills; and the farther west it goes, the higher rise the enveloping mountains. And the wonderful autumn sunsets of the west flush them all - Sguir a'Mhoraire [see also Sgurr a'Mhauraich video] Sguir a'Shlaidhemh, Sguir Gairoch, Meall a'Choire Bhuidh - till their splintered peaks and pinnacled heads glow and glitter in amethyst and gold, while their sides gleam with a hundred polished silver shields, and the stray clouds, sailing inward from the western sea, glide high over their crests, swimming in glory.
And the light still radient above, falls in the corries below, covering the slopes with a deep, deep blue, such a blue as one sees only in the west when a mountain comes athwart the setting sun. When evening is still (and often the wind that rustles during the day sinks at eve into a calm), the face of the loch is a sheet of glass, and deep in its translucent depths. The mountain crests and the transfigured clouds melt into one another, trembling in the ectasy of mingling, till the whole face of the loch is a veil through which there glows a kaleidoscope of radiant colours, darting hither and thither as if greeting and embracing one another.
Although its over one hundred years since the above was written, nothing really seems to have changed here at all and probably never will - ONLY TIME WILL TELL.
climbing
Climbing at Kingussie.
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