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Browser Population. Dumbarton. Dumbarton Dumbarton Castle from the South side of the River Clyde Dumbarton is a Royal Burgh (town) in West Dunbartonshire, Clydeside, Scotland.
"Dumbarton is a brutal concrete sprawl, fulfilling every last hellish cliche about post-war planning and architecture" - so says the 1994 edition of The Rough Guide to Scotland. However the town does has some attractions, notably the castle, which is on a districtive hill like Edinburgh and Stirling castles. The Denny Tank Museum is also worth a visit, but there is not a great deal to be seen in the modern town centre. Dumbarton. History of Dumbarton & Dumbarton visitor attractions: Denny's Shipyard, Dumbarton Castle, River Leven - Clyde Waterfront Heritage.
This site has always been strategically important.
It lies at the junction of the River Leven and the Clyde, and at the highest natural navigable point of the Clyde,with the volcanic mass of Dumbarton Rock to defend it. Dumbarton was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde until 1018 and suffered Viking attack in 870. From the 13th century it was a royal burgh.
Welcome to More Than A Memory. Scottish Maritime Museum, The Scottish Maritime Museum holds an important nationally recognised and varied collection of historic ships, artefacts, shipbuilding machinery, machine tools, several small vessels, canoe. Dumbarton & Vale of Leven Reporter. Burying the Bruce : Scotland Magazine Issue 47. Buried in three (or more) separate places – we investigate the strange story of King Robert the Bruce.
It is widely believed nowadays that leprosy was the cause of the death of King Robert I (better known as Robert the Bruce). With the onset of this terrible illness he would have known for a while that death was approaching and so not surprisingly he planned for his demise. What was surprising was the outcome of his planning. He spent his last few years at his house at Cardross Mains, just a little up the River Leven from Dumbarton, and it was there that he died in 1329.
The King wanted his body to be buried in Dunfermline Abbey alongside that of his second wife, Elizabeth de Burgh, who had died two years earlier. Dumbarton Rock Bouldering. Scotch watch. Scotch Watch is the nickname given to the gaggle of guard geese at the Ballantine's bonded warehouse in Dumbarton, Scotland.
Although now augmented by CCTV cameras, the geese are part of the tradition of the facility, and are both a tourist attraction and advertising feature. The Goosekeeper at the time (as of 1996) was Arthur Carroll. See also[edit] Geese External links[edit] Ballantine's Story - Index. But keek thro' ev'ry other man, Wi' sharpen'd, sly inspection Epistle to a Young Friend Robert Burns History The four aspects of distilling depicted on Ballantine's coat of arms have now run their course, bringing the whisky-making process full circle.
Ripe barley has been malted and mashed with pure spring water, distilled in traditional copper pots and, finally, left to mature for a minimum of 17 years. Dumbarton Castle. Dumbarton Castle (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Breatainn, pronounced [d̪̊unˈb̊ɾʲɛhd̪̊ɪɲ]) has the longest recorded history of any stronghold in Great Britain.
It overlooks the Scottish town of Dumbarton, and sits on a plug of volcanic basalt known as Dumbarton Rock which is 240 feet (73 m) high. History[edit] Iron Age[edit] At least as far back as the Iron Age, this has been the site of a strategically important settlement. Its early residents were known to have traded with the Romans. Early Medieval Era[edit]
Cutty Sark. The Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship.
Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion. The opening of the Suez Canal (also in 1869) meant that steam ships now enjoyed a much shorter route to China, so Cutty Sark spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, where she held the record time to Britain for ten years.
Improvements in steam technology meant that gradually steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to Australia and the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895, and renamed Ferreira. She continued as a cargo ship until purchased by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman in 1922, who used her as a training ship operating from Falmouth, Cornwall. Construction and etymology[edit]
A. J. Cronin. Archibald Joseph Cronin, MB, ChB, MD, DPH, MRCP (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish novelist and physician.[1] Early life[edit] Rosebank Cottage, Cronin's birthplace Medical career[edit] Writing career[edit] In 1930, after being diagnosed with a chronic duodenal ulcer, Cronin was told he must take six months' complete rest in the country on a milk diet.
Many of Cronin's books were bestsellers which were translated into numerous languages. A J Cronin. David Byrne. David Byrne (born May 14, 1952) is a Scottish-born[2][3] musician permanently residing[4] in the United States, a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, active between 1975 and 1991.
Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography, opera, and non-fiction. He has received Grammy, Oscar, and Golden Globe awards and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Early life[edit] David Byrne. River City. River City is a television soap opera, first broadcast in Scotland on BBC Scotland on 24 September 2002. River City features the lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch in Glasgow, with sets in a pub, bistro, community centre, café, various small businesses, subway station and basketball court.
The series was originally screened as two half-hour episodes per week. A one hour-long episode is now broadcast each week - usually Tuesday evenings on BBC One Scotland (while Holby City is broadcast across the rest of BBC One), repeated Sunday afternoons on either BBC One Scotland or BBC Two Scotland. In Australia, River City is screened 11:00am weekdays on Seven's British-oriented multichannel 7Two. River City.