Album SCOTLAND from Amelia

HFF from St.Abbs Head

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:27:42 +0000

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Eyemouth harbour

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:20:58 +0000

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HFF from Eyemouth

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:00:16 +0000

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Drone man

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:31:30 +0000

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HWW from Eyemouth pier

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:22:05 +0000

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I haven't been able to find anything about this wall plaque. I hope someone can. ;-)

The Verdant Works Museum

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:42:56 +0000

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Dundee, a city renowned for Jute, Jam and Journalism. In the 18th century the city was already an established centre of textile production, mainly in linen, and made huge quantities of sail cloth for Europe. By the 1830s, jute was produced to supplement linen production and gradually took over until the city became known as ‘Juteopolis’. Janet Keillor, discovered marmalade in the late 1700s. She came upon the recipe through trying to find a use for bitter Seville oranges. Her recipe was developed by her son, James Keillor, who opened Keillor’s factory, famous the world over for producing jams and marmalades. DC Thomson, publishers of The Beano, The Dandy, The Sunday Post and the People’s Friend, was established in 1905 and still employs around 2000 people to this day. It is the home of Dennis the Menace and the Bash Street Kids

'Verdant' seems a strange word to use for a jute factory in the middle of a city, but in 1833, when the jute mill was just starting up, there was an abundance of greenery and nature surrounding the mill.

The ready availability of water (the Scouring Burn) made it a perfect location for a mill. In 1864 the Works ran three steam engines driving 70 power looms and 2,800 spindles. 500 people were employed, making Verdant the 16th biggest employer in the Dundee jute industry of the time.

Working conditions in mills across Scotland were unimaginable in this day and age. Long hours amongst dangerous machines with little to no health and safety precautions were endured by thousands of people, working for minimum wage and living in poverty and battling ‘mill fever’, which often lead to respiratory diseases like bronchitis. Women outnumbered men three to one in the mills, earning our city of Discovery the nickname of ‘she town’.

Unfortunately Verdant Works ceased production and later fell off the register of mills in Dundee in 1889, but then, during the 1900s, under ownership of Alexander Thomson & Sons, Verdant Works was used as a site for recycling jute waste built up as a result of the city’s thriving factories; to cure rabbit skins; and to deal in scrap metal.

Dundee Heritage Trust purchased (the then derelict) Verdant Works in 1991 and began a sympathetic refurbishment of this courtyard type mill, and in 1996, Verdant Works was officially opened to the public as Scotland’s jute museum.

In the third PiP is a volunteer, who worked at the mill in the mid 20th century. She is is chage of the weaving machine, and when she switched it on it was deafening. Hard to imagine the noise that would have been made with all the machinery in this large room once upon a time.

The Old Step Rock Tidal Bathing Pool

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:11:30 +0000

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n 1902, an open air swimming pool was built, located by the cliffs at Step Rock in the bay. A two-storey, concrete building stood above the rear of the pool with changing rooms and a balcony. The pool was divided into two sections by a wide platform and submerged at high tide, flushed out and replenished twice daily. This safe enclosure prevented people from being able to drift too far out into the sea and allowed children to swim under supervision. Tiered seating was added in the late 1930s, and it was used as a swimming pool until 1978. The walls of the open air pool are still visible today, but sadly the site now forms part of St Andrews Aquarium, but it doesn't look that much different now. The Aquarium is undergoing restoration at the moment. I thought maybe it might have been restored as public bathing pool, but no such luck. There would be no money in that.

This PIP photo, taken about 1949 - 1950, is of my Mum, Dad and me, and was taken by a street photographer, a common thing in the 40s and 50s. One was given a ticket and collected the photo a couple of days later. We are marching along to the bathing pool, on what seems to be a chilly day, but I was going for a dook. When I had had a swim, it was cold when I got out the water, but mum had made me what we called a 'chittery bite', a sandwich, which stopped one from shivering - supposedly. It brings back such happy memories of my childhood. I was a late baby, and my father died when I was just 30 and my mother eight years later, so I didn't have a lot of time with them. But the time I did have was so very happy, and with a great sense of freedom.

The long beach in the background, the West Sands, is where I learned to swim, and incidentally features in the opening of the film 'Chariots of Fire'.

We go to Scotland at least once every year, and I rarely miss a visit to St.Andrews, my childhood home

The River Tay Rail Bridge from Fife

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:14:04 +0000

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Magdalen Green bandstand

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:06:22 +0000

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'Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay!
The longest of the present day
That has ever crossed o’er a tidal river stream,
Most gigantic to be seen,
Near by Dundee and the Magdalen Green.'

A verse of the poem,The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, by William McGonagall , Scotland's worst poet maybe. The poem is etched along the espalnade between Dundee 'Discovery Point' and the rail bridge.

The Tay Bridge Centenary was in June 1987. I should perhaps first point out that this was the anniversary of the opening of the second Tay Bridge, which still survives today and not its predecessor, which dramatically collapsed some eight years earlier.

Dancing Water

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 08:24:54 +0000

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HFF from Dundee

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:12:26 +0000

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A sad and disused part of Victoria Dock in Dundee. Maybe they will revive it in order to make a dry dock for HMS Unicorn, which is going to be repaired.

HFF Broughty Ferry

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:46:35 +0000

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Abstraction

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:43:21 +0000

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SC161 - 24 August - Abstraction

RRS Discovery

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:13:22 +0000

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For a few days we will be without a working computer. Enjoy yourselves this week, and I'll visit as soon as I can.

Not such a HFF from St.Andrews

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:36:21 +0000

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HBM from the The McManus

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 07:36:19 +0000

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9 The Scores

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:41:25 +0000

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Cardoness Castle

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:58:41 +0000

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Cardoness Castle is a well-preserved 15th-century tower house just south west of Gatehouse of Fleet, in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Scotland.

Culzean Castle staircase

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:11:55 +0000

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Falkland Palace crest

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:59:03 +0000

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The crest shows the The arms of the King of Scots at the gatehouse.

Falkland Palace, in Falkland, Fife, Scotland, is a royal palace of the Scottish kings. It was one of the favourite places of Mary, Queen of Scots, who took refuge there from political and religious turmoil of her times.

To find more about the history of The Palace, look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Palace