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Photographs taken in the mid 90's mainly for the AA Publishing & Ordnance Survey Highland and Islands Guide book using transparency film covering the Highlands of Scotland from Inverness, northwards through Easter Ross to Wick and Thurso, along the Northern Coast, down the West Coast, including the Islands of Skye and Mull. Other material included was gathered for other AA Publishing Guides including Shetland, Pitlochry and Tayside. New photographs are now included from 2012 book commission travels in Angus, Perth, Kinross, Trossachs and Tayside.
Town centre qwe9564jhp Kirriemuir Scotland Angus town centre toll booth red sandstone pedestrian way a small town with a famous connection to the author J.M.Barrie who wrote a play called Peter Pan. Kirriemuir of “Thrums” was the birthplace of the author and the town of his first novel Auld Licht Idylls. The town, six miles from Forfar, was a busy market and weaving town in the 19th Century, with Jute mills and although these industries have now gone, some of the industrial remains in the buildings adjacent to the Gairie Burn by Bellies Brae. Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Angus, county, Kirriemuir, Thrums, town, centre, landscape, pedestrian, summer, Barrie, Peter, Pan, statue, memorial, centre, toll, booth, red, sandstone, park, Bellies, brae, Gairie, burn, trees, grass, hill, street, sunny, sunshine, blue, sky, clouds, mills, industrial
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
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Kirriemuir Scotland Angus town centre toll booth red sandstone pedestrian

way a small town with a famous connection to the author J.M.Barrie who wrote a play called Peter Pan. Kirriemuir of “Thrums” was the birthplace of the author and the town of his first novel Auld Licht Idylls. The town, six miles from Forfar, was a busy market and weaving town in the 19th Century, with Jute mills and although these industries have now gone, some of the industrial remains in the buildings adjacent to the Gairie Burn by Bellies Brae.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Angus, county, Kirriemuir, Thrums, town, centre, landscape, pedestrian, summer, Barrie, Peter, Pan, statue, memorial, centre, toll, booth, red, sandstone, park, Bellies, brae, Gairie, burn, trees, grass, hill, street, sunny, sunshine, blue, sky, clouds, mills, industrial