{"id":1609,"date":"2014-02-20T11:31:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2014-02-20T11:31:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:31:45","slug":"archiving-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"Archiving Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"

The digital archiving of old Kodachrome material continues. The 1977 trip to Scotland was the source of the latest batch of digitized slides to get sorted and edited. Scotland was a Britrail Pass trip with Old Kilpatrick, the town from which my paternal grandparents emigrated, as the primary destination. Genealogical inquiries in a pub there led me to a couple of cousins in Clydebank and thence to some other relatives who had remained in the UK.<\/p>\n

The trip was in the middle of the summer but the country was remarkably cold. I had no trouble, however, in finding a sweater to keep me from shivering while searching for Nessie and all the other tourist things that one does in the Highlands.<\/p>\n

Here is a sample of the photos;<\/p>\n

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Great Britain scores high in rail service, both in the systems set up in the colonies and at home.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Once away from the major cities, rail travel in the UK is scenic as well as convenient.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Glasgow<\/a>

Glasgow is a town with a ton of working class character.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Inverness<\/a>

Inverness – Are these the swans Eric Clapton was singing about in Badge?<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"If<\/a>

Inverness Castle makes the ideal setting for listening to bagpipes.<\/p><\/div>\n

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You can’t find a much more pastoral scene than this one at Old Kilpatrick.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Wick<\/a>

Wick was the northernmost point on my Britrail Pass travels.<\/p><\/div>\n

The rest of the photos can be seen over at Travelblogue.co<\/span><\/a><\/span> in the\u00a0 Scotland 1977<\/span><\/a><\/span> category.<\/p>\n

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