Clip 'Weir's Way' on the Isle of Arran
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- A wee clip of of a 'Weir's Way' programme where he visited the Isle of Arran in 1978, broadcast on Scottish Television..
Travelling on MV Caledonia which was the first roll-on roll-off vehicle ferry to serve on Isle of Arran route, the vessel was built in 1966 and purchased by Caledonian MacBrayne in 1970.
Here he is seen going from Ardrossan to Brodick, chatting with Captain Roddy Murray and filming on various parts of the island as well, including Corrie and High Corrie and looking up towards Goatfell.
Corrie Post Office is shown in the picture.
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Loved tam weir, and his program ❤️, great video
Brilliant!
Sincere thanks!
Great Dave. Watched many Wiers Way but never one on Arran. Excellent 👍
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 🙂