Places to see in ( Eyemouth - UK )
Places to see in ( Eyemouth - UK )
Eyemouth is a small town and civil parish in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It is 2 miles east of the main north-south A1 road and just 8 miles north of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Eyemouth is very nearly due east of Glasgow. In fact Eyemouth's latitude is 55.8691°N, whilst Glasgow's is 55.8642°N, so Eyemouth is about 600 yards further north.
The town's name comes from its location at the mouth of the Eye Water. The Berwickshire coastline consists of high cliffs over deep clear water with sandy coves and picturesque harbours. A fishing port, Eyemouth holds a yearly Herring Queen Festival. Notable buildings in the town include Gunsgreen House and a cemetery watch-house built to stand guard against the Resurrectionists (body snatchers). Many of the features of a traditional fishing village are preserved in the narrow streets and 'vennels', giving shelter from the sea and well-suited to the smuggling tradition of old.
Eyemouth is not far from the small villages of Ayton, Reston, St. Abbs, Coldingham and Burnmouth. The coast offers opportunities for birdwatching, walking, fishing and diving. Accommodation includes several hotels, B&Bs and a holiday park. The geology of the area shows evidence of folding that led James Hutton to announce that the surface of the earth had changed dramatically over the ages.
Other places of interest nearby include the fortifications of Berwick-upon-Tweed also designed by Sir Richard Lee, and its military museum, Paxton House, the Union Bridge and the Chain Bridge Honey Farm, and scores of quiet country roads skirting the Cheviot Hills, frequently snow-capped in winter. Many visitors pause on their journey on the A1 to photograph their arrival in Scotland or their departure to England at the border crossing. Though the border has significance to many visitors, most local people think of themselves as 'Borderers' rather than as Scots or English. Nearby the border is a nature trail through the mysteriously named 'Conundrum' Farm. Typical Border towns and villages, such as Kelso, Grantshouse, Abbey St Bathans, Cove, Cockburnspath (pronounced 'coburnspath' or 'copath' by locals), Cornhill, Wooler, Morpeth, Alnmouth and Alnwick are all within easy reach for day trips from Eyemouth. Near Chirnside stood Ninewells House, since demolished, where David Hume, whom many regard as foremost among the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, if not the greatest of all time, spent much of his life.
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Places to see in ( Eyemouth - UK )
Places to see in ( Eyemouth - UK )
Eyemouth is a small town and civil parish in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It is 2 miles east of the main north-south A1 road and just 8 miles north of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Eyemouth is very nearly due east of Glasgow. In fact Eyemouth's latitude is 55.8691°N, whilst Glasgow's is 55.8642°N, so Eyemouth is about 600 yards further north.
The town's name comes from its location at the mouth of the Eye Water. The Berwickshire coastline consists of high cliffs over deep clear water with sandy coves and picturesque harbours. A fishing port, Eyemouth holds a yearly Herring Queen Festival. Notable buildings in the town include Gunsgreen House and a cemetery watch-house built to stand guard against the Resurrectionists (body snatchers). Many of the features of a traditional fishing village are preserved in the narrow streets and 'vennels', giving shelter from the sea and well-suited to the smuggling tradition of old.
Eyemouth is not far from the small villages of Ayton, Reston, St. Abbs, Coldingham and Burnmouth. The coast offers opportunities for birdwatching, walking, fishing and diving. Accommodation includes several hotels, B&Bs and a holiday park. The geology of the area shows evidence of folding that led James Hutton to announce that the surface of the earth had changed dramatically over the ages.
Other places of interest nearby include the fortifications of Berwick-upon-Tweed also designed by Sir Richard Lee, and its military museum, Paxton House, the Union Bridge and the Chain Bridge Honey Farm, and scores of quiet country roads skirting the Cheviot Hills, frequently snow-capped in winter. Many visitors pause on their journey on the A1 to photograph their arrival in Scotland or their departure to England at the border crossing. Though the border has significance to many visitors, most local people think of themselves as 'Borderers' rather than as Scots or English. Nearby the border is a nature trail through the mysteriously named 'Conundrum' Farm. Typical Border towns and villages, such as Kelso, Grantshouse, Abbey St Bathans, Cove, Cockburnspath (pronounced 'coburnspath' or 'copath' by locals), Cornhill, Wooler, Morpeth, Alnmouth and Alnwick are all within easy reach for day trips from Eyemouth. Near Chirnside stood Ninewells House, since demolished, where David Hume, whom many regard as foremost among the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, if not the greatest of all time, spent much of his life.
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Eyemouth Fort
A digital reconstruction of Eyemouth Fort.
In the 1980’s Dr David Caldwell conducted excavations at the fort, with his knowledge and archaeological evidence, along with historical research undertaken in the School of History we have created a virtual representation of how we believe the fort may have looked in 1557.
The Eyemouth model recreates the English and French fortifications above the town. Constructed during the ‘Rough Wooing’ in the sixteenth century Eyemouth Fort played a pivotal role in the relationship between Scotland, England and France. All that remain today are the enormous earthworks, and it can be difficult to understand the remains without seeing them from the air.
We made this digital reconstruction as part of the Virtual Histories Project for Eyemouth Museum.
Sound recording - La Guerre - Ensemble Clément Janequin
Vlog 22 - Adventures in Eyemouth - Mustangs & Smugglers
Vlog 22 - Adventures in Eyemouth - Mustangs & Smugglers is part of my behind the scenes, working on the BBC content channel, antiques road trip. I travel all over the country and when the opportunity takes me, I shoot some historical visits, aerial content and some nice classic cars.
This visit was in Eyemouth and in particular, Gunsgreen House. This John Adam house was built in 1753 with a plethora of fascinating secrets. Today it is a historic house, visitor attraction, and self-catering accommodation.
Built by local smuggler and merchant John Nisbet in the 1750s, Gunsgreen House was described in the eighteenth century as a splendid palace built by a smuggler.
Eyemouth was a hotbed of the smuggling trade, with John Nisbet at the centre and explore the vaulted cellars where he kept his goods, both honestly traded and otherwise!
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Tour the National Museum of Scotland on Google StreetView
The National Museum of Scotland has become the first museum or gallery in Scotland available for exploration online via Google Arts & Culture’s Museum View experience. Our Museum’s galleries have been captured digitally in partnership with Google Arts & Culture, which works with institutions around the world to make cultural and historical material accessible online. You can move through its permanent galleries at the click of a button, viewing around 20,000 objects on display.
The online technology will assist with planning a visit, act as a resource for teachers in their classrooms and allow you from around the world to visit the Museum without leaving home.
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Alone On The North Sea - Matthew Dickson
When the seas swallowed Scotland's fishermen
By IAIN LUNDY
THE MEN who fish the seas around the Scottish coast know that the spectre of death and disaster is always with them. Every fishing port in the country has lost men to the sea, their names are remembered in memorials and as part of local folklore - but everyone connected with the industry accepts that the cost of harvesting the sea will forever be measured in lives.
Nothing, however, could have prepared Scotland's fishing community for the sheer horror of what happened to the men and boys of the fleet that left the small Berwickshire port of Eyemouth on 14 October 1881.
On that morning, the vast majority of the fishing boats on Scotland's North Sea coast had tied up at port. A storm was brewing - not just any storm, but a European cyclone with hurricane-force winds. The Eyemouth skippers, along with some fishermen from nearby ports, ignored the weather warnings and set out at the crack of dawn. By midday they were in the teeth of a severe storm for which their wooden boats were no match.
They fled for the shelter of the port but many never made it. Their vessels either overturned or were dashed on the Hurkar Rocks at the entrance to Eyemouth harbour. Hysterical women and children looked on helplessly as their menfolk were thrown overboard and swallowed up by the sea only yards away. Family members watched as their husbands, brothers and fathers drowned before their eyes.
By the time the wind subsided a total of 189 men had perished, 129 of them from Eyemouth alone. The deadly storm had left 93 women as widows and 267 children without their fathers. Of 45 boats that had gone to sea, only 26 returned. It is believed to be the worst fishing tragedy in British history. In Eyemouth it has been known since as Black Friday, the day that brought devastation to a close-knit community whose 1881 census showed there were but 2,952 residents.
The Fiery Cross was typical of the boats that sailed from Eyemouth that day. It never returned and all its crew were lost. On board were Robert Collin, 41 years old, who left a pregnant widow and four children; William Collin, 43, his brother, who left a widow and one child; Joseph Collin, 41, their cousin, who had a wife and nine children; John Cowe, 41, who left a pregnant widow and three children; Hugh Grant, 38, who also left a pregnant widow as well as five children; Robert Wilson, 34, who was single; and James Young, 24, who left a wife. Young's father was killed on another boat, as was Joseph Collin's brother and Robert Collin's brother-in-law.
Eyemouth was a town in despair, the bulk of its working male population gone at a stroke. Two days after the disaster, a shaft of light arrived in the form of the Ariel Gazelle, a fishing boat thought lost that limped into harbour with all its crew. Instead of trying to head back to port it had struck out to sea and managed to ride out the storm.
Of the 60 others who died, 24 were from the nearby village of Burnmouth, three from Coldingham Shore and 11 from Cove. Seven men from Musselburgh and 15 from Newhaven also perished.
Yet the disaster begs one simple question. Why? Why, when every fishing skipper on the east coast of Scotland had stayed at home because the weather forecast was so severe, did the men of Eyemouth decide to sail? The answer is not that these men were ill-informed or consumed by greed, but that they were desperate.
Local people estimate it took Eyemouth 80 years to fully recover from Black Friday. A statue at the seafront commemorates those who lost their lives and a 15ft-long tapestry hangs in Eyemouth Museum. Today Eyemouth is once again the principal fishing port in the south-east of Scotland.
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Places to see in ( Hawick - UK )
Places to see in ( Hawick - UK )
Hawick is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. Hawick is 10.0 miles south-west of Jedburgh and 8.9 miles south-southeast of Selkirk.
Hawick is one of the farthest towns from the sea in Scotland, in the heart of Teviotdale, and the biggest town in the former county of Roxburghshire. Hawick's architecture is distinctive in that it has many sandstone buildings with slate roofs. The town is at the confluence of the Slitrig Water with the River Teviot. Hawick is known for its yearly Common Riding, for its rugby team Hawick Rugby Football Club and for its knitwear industry.
The west end of the town contains the Mote, the remains of a Norman motte-and-bailey. In the centre of the High Street is the Scots baronial style town hall, built in 1886, and the east end has an equestrian statue, known as the Horse, erected in 1914. Drumlanrig's Tower, now a museum, dates largely from the mid-16th century. In 2009 another monument the Turning of the Bull (artist, Angela Hunter, Innerleithen, Scotland) was unveiled in Hawick. This monument depicts William Rule turning the wild bull as it was charging King Robert the Bruce, thus saving the king's life and beginning the Scottish Clan of Turnbull. A poem written by John Leyden commemorates this historical event. His arms robust the hardy hunter flung around his bending horns, and upward wrung, with writhing force his neck retorted round, and rolled the panting monster to the ground, crushed, with enormous strength, his bony skull; and courtiers hailed the man who turned the bull.
Companies such as Hawick Cashmere, Hawick Knitwear, Johnstons of Elgin, Lyle & Scott, Peter Scott, Pringle of Scotland, and Scott and Charters, all have had and in many cases still have manufacturing plants in Hawick, producing some of the most luxurious cashmere and merino wool knitwear in the world today. The first knitting machine was brought to Hawick in 1771 by John Hardie, building on an existing carpet manufacturing trade.
Hawick lies in the centre of the valley of the Teviot. The A7 Edinburgh to Carlisle road passes through the town, with main roads also leading to Berwick-upon-Tweed (the A698) and Newcastle upon Tyne (the A6088, which joins the A68 at the Carter Bar, 16 miles (26 km) south-east of Hawick). The town of lost its rail service in 1969, when as part of the Beeching Axe the 'Waverley Line' from Carlisle to Edinburgh via Hawick was closed. It was said to be the farthest large town from a railway station in the United Kingdom
Many Hawick residents speak the local dialect of Border Scots which is informally known as Teri Talk. It is similar (but not identical by any means) to the dialects spoken in surrounding towns, especially Jedburgh, Langholm and Selkirk. The Borders Abbeys Way passes through Hawick.
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Old Photographs Reston Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Reston village in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders. The village lies on the western bank of the Eye Water. Reston was once the location of the railway station and junction between the Berwickshire Railway and King's Cross, London, England and Edinburgh. Both the Berwickshire Railway and station are now closed. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
Hoard of medieval coins found in Co.Durham. Live recording of the coins unearthed. Metal Detecting
Some of the coins found in the 9 coin hoard found in Durham. late Henry 7th to early Henry 8th hammered coins. Durham museum acquired these coins and should be on display soon!! Found by North East Searchers while on a small club dig. Battery died after the 6th coin was found.
Killer Whales spotted in Northumberland (Live Shark Killing)
Experts say it's very rare to spot the whales, also known as orcas, in the North East, but believe this pod may have been hunting Farne Island seals this footage show a live shark feast.
Drive through Hartlepool .
A drive through Hartlepool , in my Rover 75 Connoisseur , from the old Steetley site to Owton Manor Lane passing through York Road , Brenda Road and the A689 . There are plenty of cars , buses a couple of lorries and an Ambulance . All filmed on the 27th of March 2017 ...... Enjoy ...
The Price of Fish
The Price of Fish is the film of a short play about salmon fishing on the River Tweed in the 19th century. It was commissioned by 2009 Berwick Food Festival and performed live in Berwick Museum.
Mini Factory
Mini Thistle Run 06/06/2010. The Minis set off from the Scottish Mining museum, Newtongrange to Eyemouth.
Dudley the Clown
Dallas entertainer Dudley entertaining a group of children.
Places to see in ( Jedburgh - UK )
Places to see in ( Jedburgh - UK )
Jedburgh is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and the traditional county town of the historic county of Roxburghshire. Jedburgh lies on the Jed Water, a tributary of the River Teviot. It is 10 miles (16 km) from the border with England, and is dominated by the substantial ruins of Jedburgh Abbey. Other notable buildings in the town include Mary, Queen of Scots' House, Jedburgh Castle Jail, now a museum, and the Carnegie library.
Bishop Ecgred of Lindisfarne founded a church at Jedburgh in the 9th century, and King David I of Scotland made it a priory between 1118 and 1138, housing Augustinian monks from Beauvais in France. The abbey was founded in 1147, but border wars with England in the 16th century left it a ruin. The deeply religious Scottish king Malcolm IV died at Jedburgh in 1165, aged 24. His death is thought to have been caused by excessive fasting. David I built a castle at Jedburgh, and in 1174, it was one of five fortresses ceded to England. It was an occasional royal residence for the Scots, but captured by the English so often that it was eventually demolished in 1409, by which time it was the last English stronghold in Scotland.
In 1258, Jedburgh was a focus of royal attention, with negotiations between Scotland's Alexander III and England's Henry III over the succession to the Scottish throne, leaving the Comyn faction dominant. Alexander III was married in the abbey in 1285. Lord of Jedburgh Forest was a Lordship of Parliament that was granted to George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus on his marriage to the Princess Mary, daughter of Robert III in 1397. It is a subsidiary title of the present Earl of Angus, the Duke of Hamilton. The Duke of Douglas was raised to the position of Viscount Jedburgh Forest, but he died without an heir in 1761.
In 1787, the geologist James Hutton noted what is now known as the Hutton Unconformity at Inchbonny, near Jedburgh. Layers of sedimentary rock which are tilted almost vertically are covered by newer horizontal layers of red sandstone. This was one of the findings that led him to develop his concept of an immensely long geologic time scale with no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
The Canongate Brig dates from the 16th century, and there are some fine riverside walks. The Capon Oak Tree is reputed to be 2000 years old, and Newgate Prison and the town spire are among the town's older buildings. The town's industries included textiles, tanning and glove-making, grain mills, and electrical engineering. Central to the festival and customs associated with the town of Jedburgh are the Jedforest Instrumental Band who support many civic, religious and social events throughout the year, a service provided consistently since 1854.
Although Jedburgh no longer has any rail access it is well located on the road network. The A68 provides direct access to Edinburgh (48 miles (77 km)) and Newcastle-upon-Tyne (58 miles (93 km)). Carlisle is 57 miles (92 km) away and Hawick, Kelso, Selkirk and Galashiels are all within 20 miles (30 km). Jedburgh is well known to motorists from the Edinburgh and Newcastle-upon-Tyne areas as Jedburgh is a control town to direct road traffic on the A68. Bus services to Jedburgh are provided by Perryman's Buses, Peter Hogg. Until July 2013 services were mostly run by local operator Munro's of Jedburgh.
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Fishing boat returns to Porthcawl
A small fishing boat returning to Porthcawl Harbour South Wales UK on a sunny evening.
Porthcawl a seaside town in the south of Wales UK, a great place for a stroll, to get away from all the hustle and bustle.
Helford River July 09
short clips of our first trip to the Helford River
Monster waves at New Brighton, Wirral 5th Dec 2013; Part 1
Storm surge at Wallasey Promenade with massive waves Dec 5th 2013
Scottish Borders Smugglers
A man investigates the smuggling trade in the Scottish Borders throughout the 18th and 19th century. Visiting smuggling hotspots inland and along the coast.