Places to see in ( Campbeltown - UK )
Places to see in ( Campbeltown - UK )
Campbeltown; is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre peninsula. Originally known as Kinlochkilkerran (an anglicization of the Gaelic, which means head of the loch by the kirk of Ciarán), it was renamed in the 17th century as Campbell's Town after Archibald Campbell (Earl of Argyle) was granted the site in 1667. Campbeltown became an important centre for shipbuilding and Scotch whisky, and a busy fishing port.
There are several listed buildings in Category A in the town and include the following. Campbeltown boasts a museum and a heritage centre. The museum has a varied collection of items from Campbeltown's past, and prehistoric items excavated from sites around Kintyre, such as axeheads, jewellery and combs. The 19th century building, by John James Burnet, also houses a library and has plaques or exhibits related to famous Kintyre people: for example, William McTaggart and William Mackinnon. Near the museum is the cinema known as the Wee Picture House, a small but distinctive Art Nouveau building of the Glasgow School dating from 1913 and believed to be the oldest surviving purpose-built cinema in Scotland. These buildings are on the waterfront, as is a 14th-century Celtic cross that also served as a mercat cross.
St Kieran (Ciarán of Clonmacnoise) lived in this area before the town existed. A cave named after him can be visited at low tide, as can the cave on nearby Davaar Island where pilgrims and tourists go to see a 19th-century crucifixion painting. Campbeltown also hosts the annual Mull Of Kintyre Music Festival, which has seen acts ranging from up-and-coming local bands to well-established groups such as Deacon Blue, The Stranglers and Idlewild perform.
A recent addition has been the Kintyre Songwriters Festival, a fairly low key annual gathering aimed at promoting the wealth and variety of original music across the area. The festival is held during the last weekend of May and is open to anyone interested in performing. On Friday 16 June 2006, First Minister Jack McConnell flew to Campbeltown to officially open Campbeltown's new 'Aqualibrium' Centre. Aqualibrium, designed by PagePark Architects, replaced the old Campbeltown swimming pool, which closed 7 years ago due to safety concerns; the centre houses Campbeltown's library (with the old building being the museum only), swimming pool, gym, conference centre and 'Mussel Ebb' Cafe. The Kintyre Camanachd are a local shinty team that belongs to the Camanachd Association.
Campbeltown Airport is near the town, and has a scheduled service to/from Glasgow International Airport on weekdays and some summer Sundays. The town is the westernmost town in the island of Great Britain (if the port of Mallaig is not counted as a town). It has the population of a large village, but lays claim to its town status based on its port and its central close grid of streets. Its position near the end of a long peninsula makes for a time-consuming road journey, and to some extent the area relies on sea and air transport, like the Inner Hebrides. However it is linked to the rest of Scotland by the A83 (to Tarbet) and A82 (from Tarbet to Glasgow). Bus service is provided by West Coast Motors.
Campbeltown was linked to Machrihanish by a canal (1794-mid-1880s) that was superseded by the Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway, which closed in 1932. The railway, which was originally built to serve the Machrihanish Coalfield, ran from Campbeltown railway station to Machrihanish railway station.
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BRS Transport link from Glasgow to Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. 1950's
A fascinating look back at the BRS Transport link from Glasgow to Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. 1950's
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Shared here for educational purposes. Amazing to see how some things change while others stay the same :)
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Argyll Hotel, Campbeltown, United Kingdom, HD Review
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The Argyll Hotel is less than 10 miles from Campbeltown on the main A83 road. It sits on Bellochantuy Bay on the west of the peninsula and features a large conservatory restaurant and a beach-side terrace. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the hotel, and the owners have 2 Dalmatians named Struan and Talaidh. A private beach can be accessed within a few steps of the patio.
An en suite bathroom is provided in most rooms at the Argyll, along with a TV and tea/coffee making facilities.
A full cooked breakfast is served each morning in the restaurant, which features views over the sea. Ingredients are locally sourced and each breakfast is made fresh on the premises.
For guests planning to go island hopping, the ferry terminal can be reached in a 30-minute drive. A regular bus service from Oban (changes at Inverarry) and direct services from Glasgow can be taken from a stop right outside the hotel.
Campbeltown Cinema restoration
Here's a first look at plans for the restoration of Campbeltown's historic cinema. Film credit: Raymond Hosie.
Kintyre Express from Campbeltown to Ayrshire and Ireland is launched
CAMPBELTOWN has ferries once again with the launch of passenger services to Troon and Ballycastle by Kintyre Express, a division of West Coast Motors.
It is more than 12 years since the last car ferry service, run by Sea Containers, ended and the people of Kintyre have been campaigning long and hard for a return.
The Irish ferry will run Friday to Monday and the Troon ferry service begins , Friday April 1 2011, an on demand service Wednesday Friday and Sunday.
City Of Canada Garbage Collection Canada's largest City #SL781 SUEZ McDonald Johnson Iveco Acco USA
So in 2 years ago since over few months ago like Recycling recently and obviously green waste collection, but now this time one of the days coming in the afternoon is 1:20 Red Bin Garbage day so now the #SL781 is the afternoon shift which it came last week on earlier on every Friday morning during the day on SUEZ contract so now the reason why the weekdays on Garbage collection is because the only comes early shift in 2 round unless the drivers they're coming later in the afternoon as well while the recycling service comes too, so now the part of the Garbage day units which I came up the street in George street in Concord West Station in near across Toronto City so now this area is the one of the best in City Of Canada bay are major District in Canada just away from US borders so mainly reason I had to catch a early train from Sydney California L.A United states of America California through to the inner west City Of Canada Bay which is in Canada so now it helps us understand where the City Of Canada bay is, apparently the #SL781 is the afternoon shift that it comes to Concord West Station so now this is the first time on Garbage day on the Friday afternoon shift just outside near my work area in Westpac group.
So now while the teams SUEZ in new York city USA and Brooklyn just across new Jersey central park I now had reach the Tankers which the SUEZ teams are very important that SUEZ is new contract that had been working with the group of SUEZ had been over 10 months in 6 years so same as in The United states of America California the SUEZ contract teams are very caring for their working together as the team so it helps us to understand where we connect with the SUEZ team will help so now the #SL781 Superior Pak is the first Red Bin Garbage day Collection which I caught with this new driver which he does doing the red bin garbage day units so now its starts during the day until he finished up with the next street so now he works very hard with SUEZ contract teams #SL781 is the best top for him to routine with the afternoon shift but as normal he comes every early in the morning on Fridays shift.
So now I cheers with the driver which he works very hard for SUEZ #SL781 is the topest garbage day with him to start on earlier morning.
ScotVlog39 A83 Campbeltown to Tarbert
A beautiful drive along the A83, just waffling on about the last few days, where we're heading, and the curse of the migraine.
West Coast of America - Portland to Redding Drive
A time lapse of an hour of drive by Mount Shasta on the way back to Redding from Portland.
Oban Argyll and Bute Scotland
Tour Scotland video of Oban, Scottish Gaelic; OH-bən, on ancestry visit to Argyll and Bute on the Scottish West Coast. The modern town of Oban grew up around the whisky distillery, which was founded there in 1794. The town was raised to a burgh of barony in 1811 by royal charter. Sir Walter Scott visited the area in 1814, the year in which he published his poem The Lord of the Isles; interest in the poem brought many new visitors to the town. The town was made a Parliamentary Burgh in 1833. The arrival of the railway, Oban to Callender Railway, opened on 30th Jun 1880 brought further prosperity, revitalising local industry and giving new energy to tourism. Work on McCaig's Tower, a prominent local landmark, started in 1895. It was paid for by John Stewart McCaig, born 1824, died 1902, and was constructed, in hard times, to give work for local stone masons. However, its construction ceased in 1902 on the death of its benefactor. During World War II, Oban was used by Merchant and Royal Navy ships and was an important base in the Battle of the Atlantic. Since the 1950s, the principal industry has remained tourism, though the town is also an important ferry port, acting as the hub for CalMac, Caledonian McBrayne, ferries to many of the islands of the Inner and Outer Hebrides
Old Military Road (OMR) diversion route A83 Rest & Be Thankful Landslide October 2014
Onboard West Coast Motors Citylink service 926 coach from 11:55 Glasgow to Campbeltown service on the 29/10/2014
Our driver (A...) did a fantastic job manoeuvring the coach through the diversion, the coach is actually harder to drive on the OMR as it is long and not articulated. It took an hour to pass the OMR as a lorry's were getting stuck on the narrow bridge at 11:50.
2016 Devonport Motor Show
The official video of the 2016 Devonport Motor Show. Grafiq was responsible for the filing, editing, and motion graphics for this production.
M5 Casula NSW
The White Van had 2 kids in the car and was driving like a tool.
17/32 Stromness to Kinlochbervie - can Shark Bay's good fortune continue?
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It would seem so...there's more fantastic weather for the boys and the sea remains calm apart from the amazing tidal race as Shark Bay heads for the Old Man of Hoy giving us unique views of this spectacular sea stack. John and Fionn are now rounding Cape Wrath which had been another big worry after all the stories they'd heard. But it's all plain sailing into Kinlochbervie, an archetypal fishing port.
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17/32 Stromness to Kinlochbervie – can Shark Bay’s good fortune continue?
Well it’s a fantastic morning here in Stromness. It’s only about half past six but the sun’s already high the sky. There doesn’t seem to be any wind. The sea is calm. Beautiful morning. Forecast for today isn’t too bad – the winds are from the south/south-west so that should give us a fair bit of shelter, but tomorrow the westerlys are blowing up so it’ll be nice to be among the shelter of the islands – we’ll see how it goes.
Well there’s the first surprise of the day – the tidal race. I hadn’t been expecting it this time of day but it’s stretching almost all the way across between Hoy. It looks like we can find a channel up to the north here that we can go through, but this is a lot worse than we saw in the Pentland Firth. It looks like there’s little whirlpools forming and a definite serious tide race. I guess we just timed it wrongly – we were thinking more about getting out on the whole journey. Just, just getting into the first bits of it now so I’m going to head north and see if I can avoid it.
We managed to miss the worst of the tide race and were soon back in calm waters off the Island of Hoy. Hoy has some of the biggest sea cliffs in the British Isles – over a thousand feet high.
Still got plenty of depth – you can get right in underneath it.
But it’s probably best known for its impressive and famous sea stack – the Old Man of Hoy. From there we took a direct course for mainland Scotland’s most north-easterly headland – the Cape Wrath.
So we’re right underneath the cliffs and underneath the lighthouse at Cape Wrath, the very northwest tip of Scotland, and this is probably the place which had worried me most when I was planning the trip. I was just terrified of this place, just thinking of how remote it was, how far from any fuel, how bleak it was gonna be, how stormy it could be – and it’s absolutely flat calm – it’s beautiful. You couldn’t want better conditions to go around. It’s a bit cold – in fact it’s freezing cold, I’ve been wearing gloves to drive, but – ah – absolutely fantastic conditions. It’s so good that we’re going to just hang here, have a cup of tea to warm up before we head around the corner to fuel up.
My Scottish isn’t very good but that was Am Buachaille – haven’t got a clue how you pronounce it. It’s a spectacular bit of rock.
You can just see – one there and one there - the fins [of the dolphins]. They’re going really close to the shore.
They must be feeding – got to be feeding, haven’t they? They’re really intent on the mission, they’re going backwards and forwards, coming up everywhere. There’s a couple there – one just jumped.
What the... What do you reckon that was!?
I haven’t got a clue – it was black and white. It looked like an orchid – the colours of it – but it couldn’t be. It was behaving completely different to the dolphins. With the dolphins you get the fins coming up and body coming down, but that was just leaping, leaping, leaping. Haven’t got a clue what it was – time for the ID book I think!
Like everywhere we visited, we got a warm and helpful welcome in Kinlochbervie. The question was where to head next. We could keep heading south, or we could make another detour and motor across to the Hebrides. At the planning stage of the trip, we totally ruled this out as an option, but right now it seemed tantalisingly possible.
Campbeltown Lifeboat.
The Ernest and Mary Shaw a Severn class lifeboat on exercise out of Campbeltown 2001. Filmed by Jamie Hare, edited by argyll1952.
Charmhaven Rural Fire Brigade
This is a collection of pictures of Charmhaven Brigade members firefighting, training and doing community education activities including our annual Open Day.
We are a volunteer brigade of 50 members supporting our local community. The Brigade attends between 180-220 incidents per year these include, Wildfires, House & Structure Fires, Car Fires, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Gas Leaks, Storm and Tempest Damage just to name a few.
MV Balmoral returns to operational passenger service 19th June 2015
MV Balmoral returns to operational passenger service on the 19th June 2015 under the flag of White Funnel Limited.
This was her first public cruise since being withdrawn from public service by her previous owners Waverley Steam Navigation Ltd in September 2012.
Her first public sailing was an evening cruise from Bristol's Cumberland Basin down the River Avon.
This feature appeared on BBC Points West news 19th June 2015.
Argyll Coast ride out
One sunny mid september afternoon riding along the beutiful Argyll coast. Really good road in the first half of the video...
A short drive at RAF Sculthorpe using dashcam footage.
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Boating Holiday in Scotland - Places to Sail, Cruise, Inland and Motor with Sail Scotland
Sail Scotland is the one stop shop for information relating to recreational boating here in Scotland. The site, which is continually evolving, has details on Marinas and Boatyards, Yacht Charter, Sailing Schools, Sailing Holidays, Scottish Canals and Cruising Areas.
Oban August 2013
I'm on my day out to Oban in the west coast of Scotland. Oban is known as Gateway to the Hebrides and every tourist and holiday makers come to Oban to visit by ferry to Mull, Tiree, Coll and the Outer Hebrides, and visit attraction is the distillery, McCaig's Tower, seafood, cafes and restaurant events like the highland games and shops.
At the seafood shop to get a taste I meet the Scottish actress Elaine c Smith from Rab C Nesbitt she came to Oban to film her show all around Oban. I went to Oban Distillery to taste the 14 year old malt and up on McCaigs Tower to get a good view around Oban and the Hebrides, you could see Lismore Lighthouse Eilean Musdile approach Mull and looking at Hutcheson Monument in the distant, seeing Caledonian MacBrayne Ferry arrive and leave for the Isles and Scotrail train get to Oban and back from Glasgow and Crianlarich. Last of the film is Connel Bridge and Loch Etive on the coach back home