Ancestry Genealogy Photographs Largs Ayrshire Scotland
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- Tour Scotland wee video of photographs of Largs, Ayrshire. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. A town on the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire. A popular seaside resort with a pier, the town markets itself on its historic links with the Vikings and an annual festival is held each year in early September. In 1263 it was the site of the Battle of Largs between the Norwegian and the Scottish armies.
Lovely to see these images, including the old Castletons "Moorings" building. Such a shame the original Art Deco building was replaced by a modern "replica".
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It was great to see this and I even tried to identify the steamers with mixed success.
1:20 That's the Jeanie Deans of 1931. She's just sailed into view on the far right and is caught in mid manoeuvre on the edge of the pier at an angle. It looks like she's in LNER 1936 -39 colours. The unequal funnels are a dead giveaway. She was built with low funnels of equal size but since they rained soot on passengers who weren't too happy about this, they were extended unequally in 1932 to cure this. A new colour scheme with a light grey hull was introduced in 1936.
She was a very popular ship, one of the fastest on the Clyde; certainly the fastest paddle steamer.
She was almost identical to but wasn't quite a sister to the Waverley. There were differences- size, engine specs, even paddle float design.
1:54 This has me beat. Sorry. All I can say is that she's possibly LMS.
It looks like she has a yellow and black funnel though, which is LMS but the black top is a bit odd. It looks deep and it looks like its got a band of not quite the same monochrome shade as the black top. I'm nerdy enough to have got the pic full screen and attacked it with a magnifying class. It's not easy to see but it might actually look like there is a band between the yellow and black. So if that is the case then it would be the early LMS 1923 - 5 colours of yellow funnel with red band and black top . The LMS tried that when they came into existence in 1923 and got hold of both the Caledonian and G & SWR fleet and amalgamated the colours. It wasn't popular.
CalMac tried something similar when the Caley and MacBraynes amalgamated in 1973, and gave the Waverley red, yellow and black funnels. That lasted mere days as far as I know and never was let loose on the public in service.
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I spent my summers in largs, my grandfather stayed at 65 Nelson Street. My cousin Patricia, married Paul Castleton/Castleson i believe.
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I've lived in Largs almost all my life (Seamill before that) & only found out a few years ago that the large restaurant/ballroom etc was called CASTLESONS not CASTLETONS!!! Not a clue neither did a few of my friends! As kids we went there or Nardinis every week for ice cream & sweets etc I even as a teenager had a flat across the road & was lucky/unlucky enough to watch it sadly get turned into flats but didn't realise looking straight at the signage almost daily it's proper name!😃
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Surely the photo at 3:07 is somewhere in SW England?
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@@tourscotland Yes. In fact it’s Clovelly High St
@@lookherenow thank you for the info