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Celebrating Scotland's Islands

25/08/2008

Iain Gunn meets Sue Anderson, one of Scotland’s leading professional landscape photographers who specialises in capturing the wild beauty of Argyll and the Scottish islands.

 

 

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The Campbeltown Courier Old Postcards from Fort William.
 

The Trossachs Clearances

19/08/2008

The latest, and perhaps fi nal, chapter in the long history of Clan Gregor's ancient stronghold between Loch Lomond and The Trossachs began in the early 1850’s, with the City of Glasgow’s search for a clean water supply.

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Eilean Iarmain Hotel on Skye. The Oban Times
 

Argyll Book 15

19/08/2008

The ancient and honourable name Argyll was supposed to have disappeared in the last senseless reorganisation of local government in Scotland.

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Scottish Field Magazine Sillycat Media
 

The History of the Bagpipes

19/08/2008

The evidence for the vigorous tradition of Lowland piping is apparent in burgh records and histories especially from the 16th century, where their appointment, payment, dismissal and generally kenspeckle character is recalled.

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The Arran Banner The Argyllshire Advertiser
 

Scotland's Wild Places

18/08/2008

From his icy eerie 3,000 feet up on the windswept summit of Tom na Gruagaich, Colin Prior looked north by east over the glistening primeval splendour of the Torridon Hills, the majestic range regarded by many as the jewels in the crown of the Scottish Highlands.

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The Town House Company National Trust for Scotland
 

John MacAulay Boatbuilder

15/08/2008

John MacAulay’s boatshed is a shrine to precision: a place for everything and everything meticulously in its place. Lovely old tools with mellow wooden handles, saws and planes, hammers and chisels, stand rank upon gleaming rank like surgical instruments, ready for the craftsman’s hands.

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Craigellachie Hotel on Speyside
 

The Long and Winding Road

12/08/2008

The ice-bound road is a ribbon of light, glistening and sinuous as it snakes across a black and forbidding landscape; grey mountains loom in the far distance where a sliver of sea beckons. Inviting and, at the same time scary, this is the strange and spooky landscape that fascinates photographer Eric Ellington.

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An Eye for Iona

12/08/2008

To the eye of a sailor there is nothing more dreadful than the loom of a lee shore in a winter gale. In the Sound of Jura, in a howling sou’wester, when the great grey Atlantic rollers rush in and dash themselves upon the granite coast of Argyll, the shrieking air is full of salt spume and stinging sleet and the ominous, deep-throated roar of the sea’s own voice.

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The Shiants

12/08/2008

For the past 20 years of so I have owned some islands. I suppose most people have their 'core place', the spot on earth that matters more to them than any other, the place to which their mind turns at odd moments, imagining them at night in winter storms or in a meeting that has turned dull or in a library as the attention wanders. These islands are that place for me.

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Scots Books issue 24

11/08/2008

This is a major history of the Scottish people in the twentieth century from the First World War, which radically altered the political, social and economic landscape of the country, to the creation of the Scottish parliament in 2000.

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