The Old Harbour Hotel
Needs a lick of paint!
Posts from the ‘Architecture’ category
The Village at the Bottom
The Steps
The Two Choices
How many times in life do we have to make a yes/no decision?
The Old Quarter
The Passage
The Retro Store
The Front Door
The Ghosts of the Past
The Sex Shop
The Building
The Steps
The Over and Under
The Dead End
The House on the Hill
The Big Clock
The Kiosk
The Little Boxes Made of Ticky Tacky
The Scottish View
The View Over The Water…
More images of Portsoy here.
The Satellite Dish City
Try and count the number of satellite dishes…
The Satellite Dish City – Richard Broom Photography
The Back Passage
The Harbour Café
The Houses on the Clifftop
The Harbour
The Low Rollers
I’m sure they’re used for something…
The Dead Slow Sign
Straighten up and fly right!
The Fisher Boys at rest…
The Seaker Tucked Away…
The Pay Station
The Lighthouse in the sunset
Today’s last post!
The Slip
Please see last post
The Shed on Legs and Wheels
Doesn’t everyone want a mobile shed? This shed is high above the slipway (next post) at MacDuff Harbour and it is where the chap who controls the winches stands when the pull a boat up the slipway.
Please see the next post
The Wrong Side of the Tracks
Where I have spent most of my life!!!
The Cyclist
The Sunny Day
I’ve gone a bit arty-farty today…
The Street
The Harbour at Dawn
The Nets and the Steps
The Lighthouse
The Simple Things (3: scaffold).
Where would we be without scaffold?
The Other Wonky Ladder + Foot and Hand Holes
I’m guessing that the wonky ladder came later. The foot and hand holes next to the ladder were probably there before the ladder was installed. Must have been hard work chiselling out the holes. I believe the blocks are made of granite…
The Farmhouse
The Wonky Ladder
One slip and you’re in the drink!
The Old Moray
A fine establishment – closed due to the virus…
The Quiet Streets
The View
That’s Banff, Scotland over in the far distance…
The Chinese Restaurant at 2 Crook O’Ness Street
…closed of course…
The Not Door
The Curve
The City (3)
The City (2)
The City (1)
The Church
The Old Signal Box
The Crowded Houses…
The Tee Shirts Whilst You Wait…
The Health and Safety Violation
The MacDuff Harbour Slip at Night
The Harbour at Night
MacDuff Harbour during the night
The Harbour
A spot of fisheye lens action at Banff Harbour
The Roman Well
We often walk along the beach from Banff to Whitehills (good place to buy fresh fish) and, on the way, we pass the old Roman Well (and I thought the Roman’s didn’t get this far north). It has been there since Roman times (AD 43 to AD 47) and so it was built around 2,000 years ago. They build things to last in Scotland!!! More about this small but nonetheless interesting building here.
I walked to Whitehills and back today and realised it is a 6 mile round-trip. Oh so very healthy!
The Lighthouse and the Big Sky
The lighthouse at MacDuff Harbour.
The Warehouse
The Little Houses Made of Ticky Tacky…
The Windmill
The Old School
They just don’t build them like they used to…
The Sea State in Banff…
A little windy today and yesterday…
The Test of Time
Houses in Scotland….built to last. The Romans couldn’t take on Scotland and win and nor, it seems, can the weather. This house as solid as a rock (well, more than a few rocks in fact).
The BIG Question
The Secret Society
I can’t help thinking that the Masons are, in some way, linked to Harry Potter! My father was a mason. He kept all his wizardry tools in a little brown leather suitcase and we were never allowed to see what was stored away in his secret suitcase….sandwiches and a magic wand perhaps? If I turn into a toad after posting this, you’ll know why!
The meaning of ‘GR’
If you visit the United Kingdom and see a post box (like the one below) with ‘GR’ on the front, this means that the postbox was installed during the reign of King George V (1910-1936). In those days we British folk used to build thing that would last for a long time. The ‘G’ stands for George of course and the ‘R’ stands for Rex (Latin for King).
The post box below is still very much in service and it is located near to Banff High Street and long may it remain there. Let’s hope this post box and many other things can survive the complete pillock who is currently living at No 10 Downing Street.
The ‘out of puff’ street…
Bounding up this street in Banff with vigour is out of the question these days. A slow, up-hill crawl, in low gear, with frequent rest stops is a better strategy and the ‘slo-mo’ approach is easier on the creaky old knees! Going ‘down the way’ (as they say here in Scotland) is much easier.
The Harbour (2)
The Coastal Defences (2)
It takes more a little more than a King Canute type approach to hold back the tides and the sometime furious seas here in Banff, Scotland. Ironically, we have a number of politicians about us these days who think they have supernatural powers – but, it turns out, like Canute – they do not!! It is quiet clear (especially from the image below) that, thankfully, our coastal defences are more effective and in much better shape than the grubby crop of duplicitous politicians we have to put up with these days…
The Pipe
The Beach Houses
The house on the hill…
Dawn breaking over Banff, Scotland. Moody sky this morning
The Way Out…
The Town Hall
The Chandlery
The New Overshadowing the Old
It often happens…
The Man in the Tunnel
The Bare Naked Lady
We’re still on the move but slowly heading north now……..where was this image taken?
The Street Scene
Lincoln in the United Kingdom (not so united at the moment!!!).
The Door (8)
More doors here – door 1, door 2, door 3, door 4, door 5, door 6, door 7.
The Amsterdam Streets (2)
The Amsterdam Street (1)
Amsterdam – such a beautiful city…
The City View
The Golden Balls
The Head on the Block
Primarily a work of art but a secondary function is to stop cars being ‘ram-raided‘ into a building. The plinth supporting the head is probably made of concrete and steel…
The Door (7)
The Door (6)
The Door (5)
The Door (4)
The Door (3)
The Door (2)
The Door (1)
The Lock
The Shop on the Corner
Richard Broom Photography 