Lovely to see this - and even my cottage below Tam here! One wee mistake - above you sure enough is Goatfell, but it ain't the mountain shown at about 4.21 when you reference it as Goatfell. That is Am Binnein 2,172 feet and quite a distance round the head of the corrie to Goatfell itself! Never mind really enjoyed seeing you perched on your wee boulder so near my home!
Thank you for uploading this. Weir’s Way was a wonderful television series. I had the pleasure of meeting its presenter several times as he contributed a regular article to The Scots Magazine, a publication on which I worked. Tom was pretty much as he comes across on this clip; a couthy, genuine man. My wife is an Arran lass, her great grandparents lived in Invercloy and were boot-makers and leather workers. They prospered, in part, because of the increasing trade that the steamers brought across from the mainland. The house, shop and workshop they built, now houses a chocolate making business and shop. They too took in summer guests and in July of 1889, unwittingly played a small part in the notorious Goatfell murder, when my wife’s great grandmother, Ester Walker gave accommodation to the unfortunate Edwin Robert Rose and the man who so brutally murdered him, John Laurie aka ‘John Annandale’. The upshot was that she, along with other witnesses, had to travel by steamer and train to give evidence at the eventual trial in Edinburgh.
Aw, a brilliant story you've told there, going back to the century before the last one! As it happens, I have already come across Weir's writings in the Scots Magazine and have downloaded his entry on Arran to my email address, with the intention of reading his thoughts out loud, in a podcast, in the next couple of days I hope. He tells of how much he worries in 1978 for the future of Brodick beach because we have started extracting sabd to be sold abroad, How right he was!..sadly,
@@davetheraverovingtherock my late father-in-law who, until about 1965, worked in the old power station in Brodick, was born in 1914. He told me stories of how in the 1920s he and his siblings would comb the beach in the summer after the day trippers had departed, searching for dropped coins. Then in the autumn and winter they would turn their attention to searching for sea coal. His father, my wife’s grandfather, had worked on the Brodick Castle estate in some capacity.
Loved tam weir, and his program ❤️, great video
Lovely to see this - and even my cottage below Tam here! One wee mistake - above you sure enough is Goatfell, but it ain't the mountain shown at about 4.21 when you reference it as Goatfell. That is Am Binnein 2,172 feet and quite a distance round the head of the corrie to Goatfell itself! Never mind really enjoyed seeing you perched on your wee boulder so near my home!
Great Dave. Watched many Wiers Way but never one on Arran. Excellent 👍
Brilliant!
Sincere thanks!
Wow what a amazing show that looked. I love it. Now i just want to watch more,
Yes. A real slice of island history
Thank you for uploading this. Weir’s Way was a wonderful television series. I had the pleasure of meeting its presenter several times as he contributed a regular article to The Scots Magazine, a publication on which I worked. Tom was pretty much as he comes across on this clip; a couthy, genuine man. My wife is an Arran lass, her great grandparents lived in Invercloy and were boot-makers and leather workers. They prospered, in part, because of the increasing trade that the steamers brought across from the mainland. The house, shop and workshop they built, now houses a chocolate making business and shop. They too took in summer guests and in July of 1889, unwittingly played a small part in the notorious Goatfell murder, when my wife’s great grandmother, Ester Walker gave accommodation to the unfortunate Edwin Robert Rose and the man who so brutally murdered him, John Laurie aka ‘John Annandale’. The upshot was that she, along with other witnesses, had to travel by steamer and train to give evidence at the eventual trial in Edinburgh.
Aw, a brilliant story you've told there, going back to the century before the last one! As it happens, I have already come across Weir's writings in the Scots Magazine and have downloaded his entry on Arran to my email address, with the intention of reading his thoughts out loud, in a podcast, in the next couple of days I hope. He tells of how much he worries in 1978 for the future of Brodick beach because we have started extracting sabd to be sold abroad, How right he was!..sadly,
@@davetheraverovingtherock my late father-in-law who, until about 1965, worked in the old power station in Brodick, was born in 1914. He told me stories of how in the 1920s he and his siblings would comb the beach in the summer after the day trippers had departed, searching for dropped coins. Then in the autumn and winter they would turn their attention to searching for sea coal. His father, my wife’s grandfather, had worked on the Brodick Castle estate in some capacity.
@@markshrimpton3138 Altogether different from kids nowadays for sure. A wee blast from the past 🙂
Arran as it comes to the mind's eye.