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Stanley
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The place to tell us about your favourite walks and tall tales about rambling.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 27/03/2009 : 07:21
Frank, I remembered I had the pathfinder map, larger scale. The rail viaduct is named Larichmore Viaduct so that could be the name of the gardens.
Googled it and yes, that's what it's called. See this site
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:VxrANmjR79sJ:www.transportscotland.gov.uk/files/documents/projects/ArisaigLochNanUamh/Arisaig_Appendix_L.pdf+Larichmore+garden&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
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Posted - 27/03/2009 : 07:22
http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/files/documents/projects/ArisaigLochNanUamh/Arisaig_Appendix_L.pdf
This is the link to the PDF.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 27/03/2009 : 07:47
The reservoir up Stoneybank has just been demolished over the last few months. The Kelbrook one shows up well on the 1940's aerial photos. Looks as if it had a mound of earth round it.
We used to share an old caravan with a small group of neighbours. It was sited right on the point of Ardnamurchan not far from the lighthouse. White sands, blue sea and mountains behind, we hardly ever saw anyone else out there, but quite a journey from where we lived near Edinburgh. Up through Glencoe, then across to Ardnamurchan by ferry (forget its name) and 2 hours on single track roads...but when you eventually there, wow.
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Posted - 27/03/2009 : 08:47
link to Ardnamurchan http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kilchoan/ardnamurchanpoint/index.html
Lovely place for a holiday Wendy (when the sunshines)
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Stanley
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Posted - 27/03/2009 : 09:55
Too right Frank, one of my favourite places.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 27/03/2009 : 11:32
Thanks for the links and piccy, it brings back some wonderful memories. I've just been looking through the old photos but couldn't find one that summed it all up. The views across to Rhum, Muck & Eigg, the rock pools big enough to swim in or drift around in a dinghy, buzzards, seals and if you were lucky sea otters. The kids were straight out of the caravan onto the beach, where you could spend hours collecting cowrie shells, and making sand boats to face the incoming tide (drinking home wine....). Days and nights of rain with the sound of the foghorn blasting away. I want to go back!!!
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Posted - 27/03/2009 : 11:41
Found this one
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Stanley
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Posted - 27/03/2009 : 16:36
This'll bring back memories then....
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Posted - 27/03/2009 : 16:54
That was steam driven wasn't it Stanley? There are some great pictures on this website;-
http://www.sannabay.co.uk/lighthouse.htm
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Posted - 28/03/2009 : 07:02
No, compressed air. The reservoirs were up near the compressir building which was disel driven and the first building on the left as you walked up from the cottages to the lighthouse. Mary and I stayed for a night there in 1989 in a mobile home parked in the lee of those cottages in November in a howling force ten gale. Wonderful seas breaking on the rocks. The foghorn pic was taken about five years ago when it was disused and the whale watching station had been inserted under the front of the plinth that supports the foghorn.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 28/03/2009 : 10:24
Ah yes of course it would be...please explain how it all worked!
We totally refitted an old 1950's caravan in a very basic style (keeping the old stove, on which we burnt peat) and got it up there in 1982. We spent nearly every holiday there and many long weekends till about 1997. The old caravan lasted nearly 10 years before it finally rotted away, and 2 subsequent more modern caravans have been wrecked by gales. My neighbours still have a caravan up there with a third generation enjoying the place.
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Stanley
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Posted - 28/03/2009 : 13:03
Wendy, daft as it looks, just like an oboe! There was a large metal reed in the base of the horn and the compressed air made it vibrate and the horn enhanced the sound.
Doc dragged me out on a raiding party into Lancashire this morning. We went to Black Moss and he made me walk up the hill and round the wood.
Pendle from Stang Wood.
Twiston Moor from Stang Wood.
Doc having a breather in Stang Wood.
Stanley doing the same.......
(Don't tell them in Barrowford, they'll be sending us an invoice!)
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Posted - 28/03/2009 : 13:07
PS. If you're wondering where Meg and Jack were, they were about their business. Meg trying to get us to go back to the car and Jack peeing on every tussock of grass he could reach. Happy dogs. On the way back Jack fell in the beck and learned how to swim. Luckily he got the hang of it before he was swept into the res.
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Posted - 28/03/2009 : 14:56
Stanley what's the meaning of Stang ?? I have a marriage cert for Val's Great Grandparents in Carmarthen 1870 and they resided at Stang Bank in llandilo
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Posted - 29/03/2009 : 06:14
Most of the authorities get no further than ME 'stanig' or stone but that seems a bit too simplistic for Stang Wood and the adjacent Stang Top. Eckwall notes Old Norse 'stang' as being a pole and the use of stang in a place name is most likely to refer to stang or pole as a boundary marker. So I don't know but boundary seems more likely to me. If BJ sees this he might have a better idea. Could it be an amalgam, a standing stone or pillar?
I doubt if this is anything to do with it but Stang is also an archaic part of the verb to sting. Infested with Midges because of the standing water and no doubt marshes in the valley bottoms?
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Favourite walks and rambles.
