Torwood Castle near Denny in the Falkirk council area. It was probably built in 1566 and today it remains remarkably complete, yet is surprisingly little-known and can be viewed externally only. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/denny/torwoodcastle/index.html
Just got off the Falkirk Wheel and it's a great experience on an incredible bit of engineering. We were taken up, piloted along the aqueduct, turned around, and came back the same way. Smooth ride, barely even notice you're being lifted or lowered.
Heading back towards #Greenock through #Glasgow and we've got a sea day tomorrow before we reach the Shetlands.
Rough Castle Roman Fort, on one of the best preserved stretches of the Antonine Wall near Falkirk. It's a great place to appreciate what the wall was like: and, just possibly, was the origin of the story of King Arthur’s Camelot. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/falkirk/roughcastle/index.html
The village of Blackness stands on Blackness Bay, on the south side of the Firth of Forth west of Queensferry. Once an important medieval harbour, it is now popular with visitors and best known for its castle at the east end of the bay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/blackness/blackness/index.html
Every Scottish council with the exception of Glasgow, Falkirk & North Ayrshire will be using their new powers to double the council tax of 2nd homes. It’s estimated there are over 24,000 of these in #Scotland.
Part of the Antonine Wall near Rough Castle, two miles west of the centre of Falkirk. The Antonine Wall was built from AD142 to 144 and ran for 37 miles (60km) from Bo'ness on the River Forth to Old Kilpatrick on the River Clyde. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/falkirk/roughcastle/index.html
Well this was a random find in an Oban charity shop yesterday, a program for the 1981 Falkirk Tryst Bi-Centenary Piping Competition, signed on the back by eight of the participants.
It has a chronological history of the Highland Society of London's competitions from 1781 but no mention of bellows pipers not being allowed to compete or two drone pipes being discouraged. :)
Defensive Roman pits, or lilia, protecting the Antonine Wall at Rough Castle near Falkirk. For a time this formed part of the north-west frontier of a Roman Empire that stretched all the way to the Middle East. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/falkirk/roughcastle/index.html
278 years ago today. The Battle of Falkirk Muir was fought on 17 January 1746 and was the last significant Jacobite success during the rising of 1745, a rising that had seen them advance as far south as Derby on 4 December 1745. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/falkirk/falkirkmuir/index.html
Engineering at its most magnificent. The unique and uniquely beautiful Falkirk Wheel rotary boat lift opened in 2002. It fulfils a role originally accomplished by a flight of 11 locks when the Union Canal opened in 1822. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/falkirk/falkirkwheel/index.html
LNER 246 "Morayshire" approaches Bo’ness station on the wonderful Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway. The railway has been built from scratch or relocated to this site from elsewhere over the years since 1979. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/boness/railway/index.html
With origins that date back to the mid-1100s and looking like a French château transplanted into Falkirk, the stunning Callendar House was built close to the line of the Roman Antonine Wall and is now an impressive museum. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/falkirk/callendarhouse/index.html
Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff was born #OTD in 1889.
He was a Scottish writer and translator, most famous for his English translation of most of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, which he published under the Shakespearean title Remembrance of Things Past. He also translated Song of Roland, Beowulf, The Red and The Black and The Charterhouse of Parma among others. via @wikipedia
apparently it was made in #falkirk area. if you don't want to sign up on a old style web forum, please post response here and I would be happy to relay responses and either credit you or leave you out per your preference.
The mysterious Torwood Blue Pool near Denny. This circular brick structure is full of remarkably blue water and its origin and purpose continue to be debated, though it was probably an air shaft for a coal mine that closed in 1910. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/denny/bluepool/index.html
Just learned the story of the Union #Canal, connecting #Edinburgh to #Glasgow. Amazing history of engineering, technology, and politics.
There’s an episode of “Great Canal Journeys” featuring the Union Canal on Prime Video with some great aerial views of #aqueducts, #locks (not lochs!), and the #Falkirk Wheel.