Old Photographs Of Bankfoot Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Bankfoot village in the Parish of Auchtergaven, Scottish Gaelic, uachdar gamhainn, meaning upland of the yearling cattle, in the Strathtay district of Perthshire. Its is located approximately 8 miles north of Perth and 7 miles South of Dunkeld. Bankfoot used to have sheep and cattle fairs on the Thursday of May after Amulree and the Friday of November after Dunkeld. Weaving was the staple industry, many of the inhabitants being employed in the neighbouring Airleywight linen works. Queen Victoria changed horses at one of the Inns here on 7 Sept. 1842. The nineteenth century church building was destroyed by fire. Bankfoot railway station opened on 7 May 1906 by the Bankfoot Light Railway. It was the northern terminus of the short line and was north of Strathord station. Opposite the only platform were goods sidings and a goods shed. The station was closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 14 April 1931. The site became a caravan site with the platform surviving; now it is a housing estate
[GB] M90 J6 to Inverness (A9)
Driving North on the M90 motorway between J6 and Perth, and then following the A9 to Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.
Spring Drive From Bankfoot To Dunkeld Highland Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland video of a Spring Drive from Bankfoot on the B867 road and then North of the A9 road to visit Birnam and then Dunkeld, Highland Perthshire.
GREAT BRITAIN: Newcastle (Tyne and Wear, UK)
GREAT BRITAIN: Newcastle (Tyne and Wear, UK)
Newcastle upon Tyne ( commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, 8.5 mi (13.7 km) from the North Sea.
Newcastle is the most populous city in the North East, and forms the core of the Tyneside conurbation, the eighth most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Newcastle is a member of the UK Core Cities Group and is a member of the Eurocities network of European cities.
Newcastle was part of the county of Northumberland until 1400, when it became a county of itself, a status it retained until becoming part of Tyne and Wear in 1974. The regional nickname and dialect for people from Newcastle and the surrounding area is Geordie. Newcastle also houses Newcastle University, a member of the Russell Group, as well as Northumbria University.
The city developed around the Roman settlement Pons Aelius and was named after the castle built in 1080 by Robert Curthose, William the Conqueror's eldest son. The city grew as an important centre for the wool trade in the 14th century, and later became a major coal mining area. The port developed in the 16th century and, along with the shipyards lower down the River Tyne, was amongst the world's largest shipbuilding and ship-repairing centres.
Newcastle's economy includes corporate headquarters, learning, digital technology, retail, tourism and cultural centres, from which the city contributes £13 billion towards the United Kingdom's GVA. Among its icons are Newcastle United football club and the Tyne Bridge. Since 1981 the city has hosted the Great North Run, a half marathon which attracts over 57,000 runners each year.
Ньюка́сл-а́пон-Тайн сокращённо — Ньюка́сл — индустриальный город на северо-восточном побережье Великобритании, в Англии, в графстве Тайн-энд-Уир. Расположен вдоль северного берега реки Тайн. В прошлом был административным центром графства Нортамберленд.
Город был основан римлянами под названием Понс-Элиус. В Средневековье город носил латинское название «Novum Castellum» (рус. «Новый замок»).
Городская агломерация Тайнсайд, в которую кроме Ньюкасла входят города Гейтсхед, Хебберн, Джарроу, Норт-Шилдс и Саут-Шилдс, находится по числу населения на седьмом месте в Англии.
Уроженцев Ньюкасла называют «джорди», для их речи характерен свой особый диалект британского английского.
Транспортный узел, порт на реке Тайн, близ её впадения в Северное море. Из отраслей промышленности представлены судостроение и судоремонтная электротехническая промышленность, котло- и турбостроение, производство судовых двигателей, горно-шахтного и другого оборудования.
Summer Drive From Dunfermline To Perth Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland Summer travel video of a road trip drive North on the M90 from Dunfermline, Fife into Perth, Perthshire. The M90 is a motorway in Scotland. It runs from junction 1a of the M9, at the south end of the Forth Road Bridge, to Perth, passing Dunfermline and Kinross on the way. It is the most northerly motorway in the United Kingdom. The first section of the M90 opened in 1964 to coincide with the opening of the Forth Road Bridge.
April Drive From Birnam To Stanley Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland April video of a cloudy late afternoon drive South on the A9 Road from Birnam to the road to Stanley, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Lots of traffic on the road today really slowed things down. The section of the A9 road between Perth and Inverness in the Highlands is often cited as beingtthe most dangerous section of the road, and regularly appears in lists of Scotland's most dangerous roads. This portion of the road is mostly dual carriageway from Perth to Luncarty, Bankfoot to Birnam, Pitlochry to Killiecrankie, south of Drumochter Summit, Slochd Summit to Tomatin and south of Inverness as well as shorter three lane overtaking sections to reduce frustration and accidents. All the towns on this section of the route have now been bypassed.
Rural Drive Perthshire Scotland June 19th
Tour Scotland June video of a drive in rural Perthshire.
Rainy Sunday Drive To Beech Hedge Meikleour Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of a rainy Sunday road trip drive on the A93 road through Guildtown on ancestry visit to the Beech Hedge by Meikleour, Perthshire. Located near Meikleour, alongside the Perth to Blairgowrie Road, the hedge was planted in the autumn of 1745 by Jean Mercer and her husband, Robert Murray Nairne on the Marquess of Lansdowne's Meikleour estate. It is said the hedge grows towards the heavens because the men who planted it were killed at the Battle of Culloden. The hedge is noted in the Guinness World Records as the tallest and longest hedge on earth, reaching one hundred feet in height and one third of a mile in length. The hedge is trimmed once every ten years but remains viewable to visitors all year round
Grays Railway station
I popped down to the station to collect a passenger.
Grays has become almost a 'dormitory town', where a large proportion of the workers go to London every day, many of them by train.
They pay something like £3,000.00 a year for their train tickets, just to get to work.
Still, we do get to see a pair of Class 86 locomotives pulling a train of containers.
North Yorkshire Moors overlooking Teesside
The view from the top of Bank Foot near Great Ayton, North Yorkshire.