we are going to live the experience of our countries ww2 soldiers and what environment they had to endure whilst living on these Scottish islands ready to defend our county from allied fighters we will show you there every day working environments and much more we have all been looking forward to making this and because of covid had knocked us back a year from making it so look our for it on your screens this summer . you won't want to miss this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiDMHtqMqIw
First recording of this year as we travel all over Scotland our first stop is at balmerino Abbey (audio) only for this one guys please like and share
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2UpT1Cl0Ro
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHbarnF46xg
our journey has taken us from the bottom of England to the top of Scotland.
we bumped in to Jake Williams a well know busker in the highlands.
He has been featured in a film directed by
Ben rivers about a man who lives in the Scottish highlands.
Jake Williams, a hirsute hermit of indeterminate age.
He described himself as a hunter gatherer who collects materials and resources as he goes. He writes, plays music and has stood as a Green Party candidate in the past.
Please visit his website for more info
http://www.guitar-and-a-half.mysite.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUmVqtZfeZg
Ravenscraig Castle is a ruined castle located in Kirkcaldy which dates from around 1460. The castle is an early example of artillery defence in Scotland.
The construction of Ravenscraig Castle by the mason Henry Merlion and the master carpenter Friar Andres Lesouris was ordered by King James II (reigned 1437-1460) as a home for his wife, Mary of Guelders.
The castle is considered one of the first - perhaps the very first - in Scotland to be built to withstand cannon fire and provide for artillery defence.
The king was involved with the planning but, ironically, was killed in a tragic accident with a loaded cannon at the Siege of Roxburgh Castle near Floors Castle in the Scottish Borders.
The castle was eventually started around 1460 by his wife, Mary of Guelders, as a memorial to him and as a dower house.
Mary of Guelders lived in the castle until her death in 1463, when only the east tower and the basement of the central section were built.
Ownership passed to her son James III (reigned 1460-1488) but in 1471 he gave the castle to William Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and Caithness in exchange for the Earldom of Orkney and associated lands which James annexed from Norway to the Scottish Crown.
After 1471 Ravenscraig was finally completed by the Sinclairs, who also had an interest in artillery fortifications.
During the 1650-51 invasion of Scotland by English forces under Oliver Cromwell, Ravenscraig was invaded, attacked and damaged.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bak5DhV_uAc
we went north along the west coast and stayed on an island to explore hope to come again soon and explore more of these abandoned islands
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw--ezwyboc
The Imperial War Museum was originally founded in 1917, with the aim of mapping and recording the civil and military war effort made by Britain and the Empire in the World War I – at the time the war was still being fought. The museum group now gives a comprehensive history of all conflicts from 1914 to the present day.
Originally located in the Victorian Crystal Palace in south London, the original branch of the Imperial War Museum was formally opened to the public by King George V in June 1920, moving via the Imperial Institute in Kensington to its current and permanent home at the old Bethlem Royal Hospital or “Bedlam” in Southwark, near Waterloo.
THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR II
The Second World War caused a six year closure of the museum, due to the fragile nature of the collection. Only the Naval Gallery was hit by a single German bomb in January 1941, damaging one WWI aeroplane and some models of ships.
The museums vast and ever expanding collection includes personal and official documents from all the conflicts since 1914, an extensive library, real examples of military vehicles, aircraft, weaponry and uniform, and articles that depict the war on the home front – ration cards, utility clothing and gas masks etc.
THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM GROUP
The Imperial War Museum London is one of five branches of the Imperial War Museums group (IWM Group). Other branches are located at Duxford in Cambridgeshire, HMS Belfast and the Churchill War Rooms (Cabinet War Rooms) in Central London and Imperial War Museum North in Manchester.
World War II caused the Imperial War Museum’s to rethink and expand its terms of reference in order to fully cover both world wars. In the 1950s this remit was expanded further to include the Korean conflict and all subsequent conflicts that included British forces.
With extensive redevelopment and extra funding in the 1960s and 1970s the museum group was given new life by taking on new sites in London and elsewhere across the country. In the 1970’s the airfield at Duxford was incorporated into the museum, and in 1978 HMS Belfast was added to the museum group. The Cabinet War rooms – as featured on our D-Day Duck (London Blitz) Tour – became part of the Imperial War Museum group in 1984 when they were first opened to the public after some forty years of hibernation. The final part of the museum jigsaw opened in Trafford, Greater Manchester in 2002.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyQvb8faarM