Dumfries Aviation Museum
A walk around the Dumfries Aviation Museum on 17 November 2018
Dumfries aviation museum open day 19 july 2015 final
A film of Dumfries and Galloway aircraft museum open day at Heathhall Dumfries Scotland.
Dumfries and Galloway - A history tour
A tour of the top historic sites around Dumfries and Galloway - the south west corner of Scotland. From atmospheric castle ruins to romantic abbeys, it is one of the most historically blessed parts of the country. This was the latest campaign from the Scotlanders travel bloggers and you can read more at locomotionscotland.co.uk
Top 17. Best Tourist Attractions in Dumfries - Travel Scotland
Top 17. Best Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Dumfries - Travel Scotland: Caerlaverock Castle, Drumlanrig Castle, Dino Park, Dalscone Farm Fun, Dumfries Museum, Robert Burns House, Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum, Hetland Garden Centre, Dock Park Dumfries, WWT Caerlaverock Wetland Centre, Robert Burns Centre, Savings Banks Museum, Robert Burns Mausoleum, Morton Castle, Crichton Memorial Church, Garden of Cosmic Speculation
U.K. Bound Flight 10
After visiting East Fortune's National Museum of Flight we headed for Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum. We had to land a long ways off at Carlisle, England. We saw some nice sites and had a good virtual walk-through of the museum.
Drone flight around Marchfields dumfries
Top 10 Things to do in Dumfries and Galloway Scotland Part 2 Camera Obscura & Dumfries Museum
Join me on the second part of my trip to visit things to do in Dumfries, were I will visit the camera obscura live and also the Dumfries Museum. Dumfries is such an amazing town with lots of history to explore. There of course many great visitor attractions Dumfries that commemorate the life and works of Robert burns that can be visited
part 3
Dumfries Aviation Museum 25 pound field gun fire
British 25 pound field gun
Places to see in ( Dumfries - UK )
Places to see in ( Dumfries - UK )
Dumfries is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. Dumfries is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries was a civil parish and became the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire. Dumfries is nicknamed Queen of the South. People from Dumfries are known colloquially as Doonhamers.
Like the rest of Dumfries and Galloway, of Scotland's three major geographical areas Dumfries lies in the Southern Uplands. The river Nith runs through Dumfries toward the Solway Firth in a southwards direction splitting the town into East and West.
Dumfries has a long history as a county town, and as the market town of a surrounding rural hinterland. Dumfries is a relatively prosperous community but the town centre has been exposed to the centrifugal forces that have seen retail, business, educational, residential and other uses gravitate towards the town's urban fringe.
Located on top of a small hill, Dumfries Museum is centred on the 18th century windmill which stands above the town. Included are fossil footprints left by prehistoric reptiles. Based in the control tower near Tinwald Downs, the aviation museum has an extensive indoor display of memorabilia which strives to preserve aviation heritage, much of which has come via various recovery activities.
The Theatre Royal, Dumfries was built in 1792 and is the oldest working theatre in Scotland. There are a number of festivals which take place throughout the year, mostly based on traditional values. Guid Nychburris (Middle Scots, meaning Good Neighbours) is the main festival of the year, a ceremony which is largely based on the theme of a positive community spirit.
Dumfries is linked to the Northbound A74(M) motorway at Beattock via the A701 road. The A75 road eastbound links Dumfries to the southbound A74(M), leading to the M6 motorway and Carlisle. The A75 road west links Dumfries with the ferry port of Stranraer. The A76 road connects to Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. Dumfries railway station lies on the Glasgow South Western Line. It was awarded Best Station Awards by British Rail in 1986 and 1987. The train service is now operated by private company Abellio ScotRail which provides services to Glasgow and Carlisle, and less frequent services direct to Newcastle. The nearest station to Dumfries on the West Coast Mainline is 14 miles (23 km) east along the A709 road at Lockerbie, and the nearest West Coast Mainline station linking directly to Dumfries by rail is Carlisle.
As the largest settlement in Southern Scotland, Dumfries is recognised as a centre for visiting surrounding points of interest. The following are all within easy reach:
John Paul Jones Cottage Museum – The traditional Scottish cottage in which John Paul Jones was born in 1747.
Solway Coast
Sweetheart Abbey in the village of New Abbey
New Abbey Corn Mill Museum
Criffel – a hill on the Solway Coast popular with hill walkers for its magnificent views of the Southern Scottish coastline and across the Solway Firth to the Lake District of Cumbria
Threave Castle in Castle Douglas, home to the Douglas Clan of James Douglas who fought with Robert the Bruce
Moniaive conservation village
Moffat and the views nearby of The Devil's Beef Tub, The Grey Mare's Tail waterfall and the A708 from Moffat past the Grey Mare's Tail to St Mary's Loch.
Mabie Forest - popular destinations for outdoor recreation such as mountain bike and walking.
Ae village and forest
Lochmaben with its lochs popular with boaters and also its history with Robert the Bruce
Wanlockhead – Britain's highest village registered at 1,531 feet (467 m) above sea level and the Lead Mining Museum
Caerlaverock Castle
Drumlanrig Castle
Kagyu Samyé Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre was the first Tibetan Buddhist Centre to have been established in the West.
Bridge house museum at the foot of the old bridge within Dumfries
Burns' house & mausoleum in St Micheals graveyard
the Robert Burns centre on the mill sands dumfries
At Twynholm is the David Coulthard Museum.
Gretna Green and the Old Blacksmith's Shop famous for runaway marriages.
Tharpaland – International Buddhist Retreat Centre under the auspices of the New Kadampa Tradition. Kelsang Gyatso completed a three-year retreat at Tharpaland.
( Dumfries - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Dumfries . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Dumfries - UK
Join us for more :
UK Vlog Day 6, Dumfries, Scotland
We travel by train to Dumfries, Scotland. We visit a centuries old graveyard, and see the beautiful town of Dumfries and the River Nith.
Best Attractions and Places to See in Dumfries, Scotland
DumfriesTravel Guide. MUST WATCH. Top things you have to do in Dumfries. We have sorted Tourist Attractions in Dumfriesfor You. Discover Dumfriesas per the Traveler Resources given by our Travel Specialists. You will not miss any fun thing to do in Dumfries.
This Video has covered Best Attractions and Things to do in Dumfries.
Don't forget to Subscribe our channel to view more travel videos. Click on Bell ICON to get the notification of updates Immediately.
List of Best Things to do in Dumfries, Scotland
Dumfries Museum
Caerlaverock Castle
Robert Burns House
Dino Park
Hetland Garden Centre
Dalscone Farm Fun
Drumlanrig Castle
Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum
Mabie Farm Park
St Michael's and South Parish Church
Dumfries Aviation Museum Military Vehicle Day 2018 Live Field Gun Demo
Dumfries Aviation Museum Military Vehicle Day 2018 Live Field Gun Demo.
Firing Blanks with a 1942 25 pound British Field Gun.
This very gun saw active service in D-day and has been used for training and various service. Now restored and used for Gun demo's.
A day out at National Museum of Flight
National Museum of Flight in East Fortune offers one of Scotland's best days out. Get off to a flying start with a pilot's eye view of many of the world's most memorable military and passenger planes. Go interactive in our hands-on galleries, trace the history of aviation from the First World War or join the jet set on our Boeing 707 and Concorde.
Our airfield also has fascinating stories to tell with tales of the Cold War and record breaking airships. Explore further on an Airfield Explorer tour of our hangars and open green spaces.
Find out more on the National Museums Scotland website:
Connect with us:
Blog
Twitter
Facebook
Avro Vulcan at Newark Air Museum England - 2018
NEWARK NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ENGLAND July 8, 2018. Avro Vulcan B.2 aircraft at the Outside Display location of the Newark Air Museum.
The first outing for the Loch Doon Spitfire
The first outing for the Loch Doon Spitfire at the Dumfries Aviation Museum for a Photo Shoot
Dumfries Town Walkabout At Christmas
Walking about Dumfries, Scotland 20th Dec 2017
Places to see in ( Stranraer - UK )
Places to see in ( Stranraer - UK )
Stranraer is a town in Inch, Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. Stranraer lies on the shores of Loch Ryan, on the northern side of the isthmus joining the Rhins of Galloway to the mainland. Stranraer is Dumfries and Galloway's second-largest town.
Stranraer is an administrative centre for the West Galloway Wigtownshire area of Dumfries and Galloway. It is best known as having been a ferry port, previously connecting Scotland with Belfast and Larne in Northern Ireland; the last service was transferred to nearby Cairnryan in November 2011. The main industries in the area are the ferry port, with associated industries, tourism and, more traditionally, farming.
Some argue that the name comes from the Scottish Gaelic An t-Sròn Reamhar meaning The Fat Nose, but which more prosaically might be rendered as the broad headland. The most commonly accepted explanation is that it derives its name from the strand or burn which divides the row, raw, of houses on its banks. (The town burn, now under the two Strand streets.) In time Strandraw was named and spelled Stranrawer, and afterwards Stranraer.
The A77 runs north towards Ayr, Prestwick and Glasgow. The A75 runs east from Stranraer to Gretna, with links to the M6 going to Carlisle. The A75 is part of European route E18, but, like all European routes, it is not signposted as such in the United Kingdom. The main national coach providers operate services from Stranraer. National Express offer a service to London, and Scottish Citylink (in association with Ulsterbus) operate services to Edinburgh.
Stranraer railway station is the southern terminus for one of the branch lines of the Glasgow South Western Line. Trains are provided by Abellio ScotRail daily to Ayr, Glasgow Central, and Kilmarnock. From Stranraer connections to the West Coast Main Line, can be made at Glasgow Central, or traveling via Ayr, Kilmarnock, Dumfries to Carlisle. Onward trains from either Glasgow Central or Carlisle connect direct to London Euston and other destinations such as Manchester Piccadilly, Crewe and Birmingham New Street.
The Castle of St. John is a medieval tower house, built around 1500 by the Adairs of Kilhilt. It has been used as a home, a court, a prison, and a military garrison, the last during the Killing Times in the 1680s. The Old Town Hall, built in 1776, now houses the Stranraer Museum with its displays of Victorian Wigtownshire and the town's polar explorers, Sir John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross. The town is also home to the North West Castle, built in 1820 and the first hotel in the world with its own indoor curling ice rink.
Local tourist attractions include:
Ardwell Gardens
Castle of St John
Castle Kennedy Gardens – a 75-acre (30 ha) garden between two lochs, noted for its rhododendrons, azaleas and embothriums in the grounds of Lochinch Castle, the seat of the Earls of Stair.
Glenluce Abbey – a 12th-century Cistercian monastery.
Glenwhan Gardens – a 12-acre (4.9 ha) garden near Dunragit.
Logan Botanic Garden, near Port Logan village, one of the four sites of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Mull of Galloway – the most southerly point of Scotland, with a lighthouse, visitor centre and RSPB bird reserve.
Portpatrick
The Robert the Bruce Trail begins at Loch Ryan, near Stranraer.
Southern Upland Way – a 212-mile (341 km) coast-to-coast path between Portpatrick and Cockburnspath.
Stranraer Museum
Whithorn – with its relics of St Ninian.
Wigtown – Scotland's national book town.
( Stranraer - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Stranraer . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Stranraer - UK
Join us for more :
The Globe Robert Burns' Howff Dumfries Scotland
A look round Burns' favorite pub...filmed 20th Dec 2017
ARMISTICE DAY IN DUMFRIES SCOTLAND
ARMISTICE DAY IN DUMFRIES SCOTLAND
The region remembers . . .
THERE were large turnouts at war memorials across Dumfries and Galloway on Remembrance Day.
The extent of the tributes and support for the Royal British Legion Scotland's annual Poppy Appeal were welcomed by veteran groups.
A feature of this year's ceremonies was the large number of young people who attended ceremonies - some who had friends serving in the British forces.
For this video we visit a service at a village war memorial and a quiet and dignified tribute at Commonwealth war graves.
NEWSDESK: 01461-202417