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Fri 31 Aug 2018
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Leaving Scotland and heading home |
Camp on Cramond Island |
About to cross the causeway |
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Thu 30 Aug 2018
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Sunset from Cramond Island |
Crossing the Forth Road Bridge |
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Wed 29 Aug 2018
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Along the Forth and Clyde Canal I reached the 'Kelpies' by Andy
Scott and Grangemouth. |
The Kelpies by Andy Scott |
A Kelpie |
Art in Alloa |
Near Clackmannan by Andy Scott |
By Andy Scott |
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Tue 28 Aug 2018
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Off to Scotland to do some cycling and exploring |
Preston Railway Station |
Glasgow Central Railway Station |
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Canal basin Glasgow |
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First camp near Falkirk on
the Roman Antonine Wall |
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Sat 25 Aug 2018
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Today is the 13th Whittle-le-Woods Flower, Craft & Vegetable
Show in the Whittle-le-Woods Village Hall from 14:00 to 15:30.
Awards at 15:00. All are welcome to come along. The true number
is 19 shows as the the first 6 were in the Scout Hut before the
Village Hall was converted. |
Prizewinners and guests at the show |
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The Village Hall
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Fri 24 Aug 2018
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A wet lunchtime walk up to Coppice Stile House ruins above White
Coppice |
The old slop stone used for washing clothes etc |
Coins hammered into the tree branches |
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Wed 22 Aug 2018
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Walked above white Coppice to investigate the quarries and old
lead mine |
Millstone above the quarries |
Quarry today
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the same view in 1927
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In the lead mine by Black Brook
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Lead mine by Black Brook
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Tue 21 Aug 2018
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Caught bus to Chorley then St Josephs Centre on Harpers Lane to
give blood |
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Mon 20 Aug 2018
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Evening walked to Top Lock Wheelton for outing with Chorley
Photographic Society |
The canal at Wheelton from the Top
Lock |
On bike ride over Alance Bridge. The reservoir level is still
down |
View from Alance Bridge |
First thing left my car at Stocks Garage wheelton to have MOT
test done on my car. Then walked home along the Leeds &
Liverpool Canal |
The canal at Wheelton |
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Strings of pearls on the
loch gates |
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Fri 17 Aug 2018
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On my morning walktook this
photo of the graveyards in St John's graveyard, Whittle-le-Woods |
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Thu 16 Aug 2018
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On my cycle ride to Preston cycled up Back Lane to visit the new
memorial bench to Rosemary Boyd. It’s in the trees by Annecy
Drive. A lovely inscription reads:
To commemorate the life of
Parish Councillor Rosemary Boyd.
10th March 1943 to 29th
March 2017
A true champion of the environment and our
heritage. |
In Annecy woods, Clayton-le-Woods |
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To commemorate the life of
Parish Councillor Rosemary Boyd.
10th March 1943 to 29th
March 2017
A true champion of the environment and our
heritage. |
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Mon 13 Aug 2018
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Had an interesting evening out with Chorley Photographic Society
at the Rivington Folly Castle. The light was rubbish so it was a
bit of a challenge. I decided to cheat a bit with the software
to make some images a bit more interesting. |
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Sat 11 Aug 2018
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Morning bike ride into Preston and on the way saw that
demolition of The Pines buildings at Clayton Green has started. |
The Pines |
The Pines Sep 2012 |
The Pines when a private house |
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Fri 10 Aug 2018
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'I'm gonna be a star' Haweswater |
Haweswater 10 Aug 2018 |
One of my favourite films is the 1987 ‘Withnail and I’ starring
Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant & Richard Griffith. It is a dark
and hilarious storyline with magnificent scenes filmed in
Cumbria. The film is littered with fantastic quotes. I have
visited many of the filming locations and this morning on my way
to a walk by Haweswater Reservoir I called at the location of
one of the visually classic scenes as Withnail (Richard E.
Grant) declares “I’m gonna be a star”. The film would not have
been finished without the support of HandMade Films and funding
from George Harrison.
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Fri 10 Aug 2018 |
7th Nov 2008 |
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I always find it fascinating using photos to compare the same
scene over time and the seasons. On Fri 10 Aug 2018 I was
walking above Haweswater, Cumbria and took a photo from the Old
Corpse Road. As a comparison I’ve included the same view taken
10 years ago in Nov 2008 |
Riggindale home of Englands last Golden Eagle |
Buzzard seen on today's walk |
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Tue 07 Aug 2018
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After over 9 years of politely asking a neighbour to have his
trees thinned along our boundary the local contractors Treescape
NW turned up today to make a start. A huge thanks to the guys
who dismantled a large part of the trees overhanging my garden
and cutting out a huge amount of light. The work is very labour
intensive as the trees have to be dismantled from the top down
and branches cut off individually. |
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Branches go through the wood chip machine |
Reducing the trees to logs |
Steve, Ciaran & Ian. |
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Fri 03 Aug 2018
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Castle Campbell, Clackmannanshire, Scotland.
Worth every
penny of the £4.80 entrance charge.
Formerly known as the
Castle of Glooms it is sited on a narrow ridge overlooked by the
Ochil Hills. The 15th century fortress of Castle Campbell is
located above Dollar Glen.
The oldest part is a 15th century
tower around which other buildings were constructed. The Castle
was once the home of the powerful Campbell earls of Argyll, and
has connections with historical figures such as John Knox and
Mary Queen of Scots.
In February 1490, Campbell petitioned
the newly crowned King, James IV of Scotland, to formally change
the name of Gloom to "Castle Campbell", and this was done by an
act of parliament.
The private chambers had been altered by
around 1600. The fine vaulted ceiling at the top of the tower,
which features two grotesque carvings representing the Green Man
– was part of the renovations.
Among the many important
visitors to Castle Campbell were:
John Knox, the fiery
Protestant preacher, in 1556
Mary Queen of Scots stayed at
the castle from 9 to 12 January 1563. The visit was to attend
the wedding of James Stuart, Lord Dounne to Margaret, sister of
the 5th Earl of Argyle.
The Marquis of Montrose laid waste to
the surrounding land in 1645, on behalf of the beleaguered
Charles I. Cromwell’s lieutenant General Monck, who attacked the
castle in 1654. |
Castle Campbell |
Castle Campbell |
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engraving by
David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) who later became a pioneer
of photography. |
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Mary Queen of Scots |
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Site of the Banqueting Hall |
The Banqueting Hall in use |
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Green Man on the top floor ceiling |
One of the cellars |
c1850
by R.W.Bilings |
c1850
by R.W.Bilings |
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Thu 02 Aug 2018
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In Scotland for a few days to do some walking. |
Ben Cleuch in the Ochil Mountains |
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Wed 01 Aug 2018
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At the north end of Burnley across from Sainsbury’s the map
shows a location called ‘Burnley Cannons’ There are no cannons
there now but there used to be.
This was the site of "The
Cannons" captured by the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, at the
battle of Balaclava, in the Crimean War.
All that remains is
a fenced of area with a stone tablet that reads:
Russian Guns
to the Borough of Burnley, Lieut-General Peel, Secretary of
State for War, 1867.
The cannons survived the South African
war and First World War, but not the Second World War, when they
were taken by the War Ministry to be melted down for “the war
effort”. However, it was found, when in Portsmouth, that the
metal was unsuitable for modern military purposes, so they were
taken out to sea and dumped off Southsea where they remain. A
sad end to “Russian guns”, as The Cannons were sometimes called. |
Where the cannons used to be |
The Burnley guns |
Russian Guns |
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