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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.

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TOP GEAR MRS STRANRAER FERRY - www.davitts.co.uk

davitts.co.uk - DAVITTS - FINE WINE TASTINGS AT HOME.. A car in top gear plunges into the sea at Belfast Port after attempting to catch the last ferry to Stranraer. Accident and Emergency said he could have made it if he hadn't stopped for chips on the way. Stenaline have unofficially said that this was a very poor show and that the Turners lorry driver was much better.

Emma Harper promotes Castle of St. John in Stranraer

Castle of St John Stranraer Part 1

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Supermarine Stranraer Biplane Flying Boat

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Stranraer Steam train

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Blin' Johnnie's Awa by Nish Walker

John Alexander 1835 to 1905 was blind and slightly disabled from birth. He was a local worthy and street musician who plied his trade outside The Golden Cross in Stranraer, on the Stranraer to Larne boats, and all around Wigtownshire making a living through his music making.

When he died the Wigtownshire Free Press organised a subscription for a gravestone and he was so well thought of that money was sent in from around the world.

If you visit Inch Parish Church at Castle Kennedy go to the north west corner of the cemetery and you'll see his impressive monument.

The museum in Stranraer currently holds his concertina and whistle, as well as a pamphlet issued for his funeral which features an etching and a poem celebrating his life.

ST John's Castle Stranraer Scotland

Here is a small tour [Pictures only]of the castle in the city centre in a town called stranraer in southern Scotland.

Battleship Of The Air - British Flying Boat (1934)

Unused / unissued material - no paperwork - dates unclear or unknown

Various shots of a large British flying boat going down a slipway into the water. It has 3 large engines and is of a biplane design. Various shots as it moves about on the surface of the water and then picks up speed to take off. Shots as the plane flies overhead. It then comes down to land.

Amendment February 2012: A visitor to the website has provided some more information. The plane is a Blackburn Perth using 3 Rolls-Royce Buzzard engines.
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Supermarine Stranraer Top # 5 Facts

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UKRO 2016 Scottish Rescue Scottish Rescue Challenge Road traffic Collision Whitburn

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The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS), in partnership with the United Kingdom Rescue Organisation (UKRO) has hosted the Scottish Rescue Challenge at the weekend and what a spectacular start it was to the 2016 Rescue Challenge calendar.



On Friday 19th and Saturday 20th March the first challenge of 2016 was held at two world class venues, Pinkston Water Complex, Glasgow and at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters and National Training Centre at Clydesmill, Cumbuslang in South Lanarkshire. The state of the art training centre, which is designed to ensure that today’s modern firefighters are fully prepared for the many challenges they encounter each day has 5 zones which include Academic, Domestic, Industrial, Urban Search and Rescue and an extensive transport zone. The transport zone includes a railway line and motorway both of which were fully utilised at the challenge on Saturday. The challenge organisers aimed to provide scenarios in a realistic environment and both Pinkston and the national training centre and certainly lived up to it, all of which went down a storm with competitors and spectators.



Five teams from Scottish Fire and Rescue Service took part in both trauma and road traffic collision challenges and were joined by teams from Northumberland and Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Services. The Scottish teams of Firefighters showed off their skills to win a place in the national UKRO Challenge 2016 in Hampshire.



The extrication and trauma teams were made up of full time and retained fire service personnel from Stepps, Whitburn, Ayr, Huntly and Stranraer.



The water rescue challenge saw teams from the Scottish Fire and Rescue service along with colleagues from Police Scotland test their skills, which included working in, swimming in and negotiating a rescue boat through swift flowing water to rescue people from houses and vehicles engulfed by the rising waters.



The Road Traffic Collision Challenge saw crews working to safely rescue trapped casualties from a challenging road traffic collision scenario within a 20 minutes timeframe. Crews attending the incidents were faced with crashed vehicles in a number of very realistic and challenging scenarios.



The Trauma Challenge tested the response of crews who faced one of a selection of trauma incidents, including a worker who lost a limb on a live railway line after being struck by a train and worker who clasped in a chemical factory. Faced with the scenario, crews were expected to quickly identify and treat the injuries found.



During the challenges, the crews were independently assessed under the scrutiny of experienced UKRO assessors in order to determine the winners of each category. The team from Ayr won the Road Traffic Collision Challenge and the Trauma Challenge was won by Whitburn.



Assistant Chief Fire Officer Ramsay awarded the winners with their trophies and said: “Well done to all of those that took part in the challenges. He continued: “The challenges are an excellent opportunity for crews to improve and build upon their existing skills and ensure that we deliver a first class service to the communities we serve.”



Steve Apter Chairman of the UKRO said “The Scottish Rescue Challenge was a huge success, the introduction of realistic challenge environments in Water Rescue, Vehicle Rescue and Trauma scenarios ensured that all teams were faced incidents as near as possible to the real thing. Talking to teams that they thoroughly enjoyed the experience and they looked forward to next year’s Scottish Rescue Challenge. Steve went on to thank Chief Officer Hay and all this staff who worked to make the event the success it was. ”






UKRO is a fast moving dynamic organisation that is determined to push all rescue disciplines to their professional pinnacle, to drive the national agenda on road death reduction and to showcase other rescue disciplines including trauma, line rescue, urban search and rescue and water rescue.



Each year the National and World Extrication & Rescue Challenges grow significantly. The UKRO will expand its’ capacity and, in conjunction with its partners, maintain the commitment towards reducing road deaths through education, engineering and enforcement.



The UKRO is staffed entirely by Fire, Rescue and Medical volunteers from throughout the UK. Without them and the support of UK Fire & Rescue Services the UKRO could not do its work.

The Great Britain VII (Day 4) - 46115 Scots Guardsman plus Rileys Black 5s - Carlisle -29th Apr 20

'The Great Britain VII' rail tour at Carlisle with day 4 of the UK trip with LMS Class 4-6-0 7P No. 46115 'Scots Guardsman' leading the train from Grange Over Sands to Edinburgh Waverley on 29th April 2014.

Also a short while later Ian Riley's Black Fives' Nos. 44871 & 45407 pause en route from Grosmont (NYMR) to Edinburgh Portobello Junction in readiness for day 5 of 'The Great Britain VII' tour from Edinburgh Waverley to Stranraer the following day.

Whitehead Sailing

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Cannibalism at Gough's Cave | Natural History Museum

Gough's Cave in Somerset provides fascinating insights into the culture of people living in Britain 14,700 years ago. In this film, Museum human origins experts Chris Stringer and Silvia Bello discuss the sophisticated and complex behaviour uncovered by their research, including possible evidence of ritual practices. You can see the skull in our Human Evolution gallery:

The Cocobean Company

Cocobean clothing and jewellery hand picked from the richness that Mother Nature has blessed us with. Cocobean is here to educate through creating wearable art. Were ever possible we will give a unique breakdown of the history and symbolic relevance of fabrics and accessories giving the wearer an insight, knowledge and confidence of the background of their purchase thus creating an atmosphere that encourages learning. cocobean.co.uk

Jake and Dally in Agnew Park Stranraer

Jake and Dally tear up Agnew Park Stranraer.!!

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The Port Road for Train simulator 2012.
Dumfries to Carlisle.
This route is still open as the alternative way to Glasgow via the old G&SW, although many of the small stations along the way are long gone.