Re: photo: Castle Campbell, near Dollar, Fife.

"John Crighton" <john_c@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:39:25 +0100, "Ian Smith"
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Have (finally) assembled a web-page of photos, albeit the
automatically-generated variety. Most recent pictures at very bottom. Only
1
pic of today's castle so far, more to come. Apologies for the jpeg
compression, which is needed to cram in all those pics within a limited
webspace allocation. Comments, good or bad, most welcome.

http://www.1r5.net/photos/

Thanks for the link to your pictures.
I lived about 10 miles from Dollar back in the 50's
and early 60's. Village of Oakley near Dunfermline.
I must admit I didn't know about that castle, I was
a kid at the time but I used to ride my old bicycle
all around that area.

Maybe the castle was off-limits to visitors in those days, and hence not
sign-posted?


What is the story behind the fish and chip take-away
that looks like a boat. Is that its permanent position?
Looks to be in an industrial area. For workers only
maybe? Is that waterway part of a long canal?

Yes, that chippy (McMonagles Restaurant) is permanent in its location
near the Clydebank Shopping Centre. The waterway is the famous Forth and
Clyde Canal (now used mainly by tourists), onto which the chippy provides
(reputedly) the world's first/only "sail-thru" takeaway window. There is a
full service restaurant upstairs from the takeaway. It's actually not bad at
all.


Nice pictures of Rothesay also. I had a great time
going there as a kid with my family. My granddad had
a holiday hut on a farm on Canada Hill. I loved the
trip across on the paddle steamers. Usually I could
look at the engine close up. The big connecting rods
and paddles always fascinated me. Back then
Rothesay Bay always seemed to have war ships
and submarines moored which I marvelled at also.
Great stuff for a kid on holiday!
Finding a taxi to take us to the farm at Canada Hill
was always a problem for my parents because taxi drivers
didn't want to travel up the rough roads near the farm.
They were rough when I think about it. Potholes and
sharp rocks poking up. He was risking his tyres and
suspension carting four or five adults and a bunch of
kids and holiday luggage. Way overloaded. The picture
of the cows blocking the road. It was just like that.
I can remember the taxi drivers cursing. Wheels slipping
in mud, suspension bottoming out in pot holes. Then
held up by cows. Heh heh heh...

The roads might have improved a wee bit since then, but of course the
cows still do their bit for traffic calming. :-)


Nice pictures! I enjoyed looking at them.
Memory lane for me. Thanks.

Thanks for having a look. Glad you liked them.


Regards,
John Crighton
Sydney

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