Tag: Scotland
My Heart’s In The Highlands
For Valentine’s Day 2016, I know where my heart lies… Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart’s in the […] Read More
Flower of Scotland
New range of gifts available at the Machrihanish Online Cafepress Store… These are all featuring an exclusive Machrihanish Online image of a Thistle, taken at The Gauldrons, Machrihanish, Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland. Read More
Tam o’ Shanter
With Burns night only a few days away I thought I would share my favourite Burns work; Tam O’ Shanter: When chapmen billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors meet, As market days are wearing late, An’ folk begin to tak the gate; While we sit bousing at the nappy, And getting fou and […] Read More
Dunaverty Rock, Southend, Kintyre.
Site of Dunaverty Castle and the infamous massacre in 1647. For more info on the massacre click HERE Southend Community Website. Read More
Arrival at the White Hart Hotel, Campbeltown
Arrival at the White Hart Hotel, Campbeltown, Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland. Filmed in 1914 – Soldiers from the 7th & 9th Battalion’s Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders bound for camp and arriving at Campbeltown, together with their supplies in horse-drawn carts and wagons. The film ends at the Ugadale Arms Hotel, Machrihanish, panning past what is now […] Read More
Davaar Island
Davaar Island and ‘The Painting’… The Famous Davaar Island Cave Painting of Jesus on the Cross. Painted in 1887 by local teacher Archibald MacKinnon. The work was carried out completely in secret by the teacher after he had a dream telling him where to paint it. It couldn’t have been easy for Archie as he […] Read More
H.M.S. Landrail – RNAS Machrihanish.
HMS Landrail RNAS Machrihanish… RAF Machrihanish, now a community owned and mothballed RAF base and Commercial Airfield servicing Campbeltown and surrounding areas, was once known as HMS Landrail, Royal Naval Air Station Machrihanish. Deck Landing School.Machrihanish was established as a naval air station in 1916, operating maritime patrol aircraft and airships until 1918. A new […] Read More