ARBROATH HOLIDAY 1965

ARBROATH HOLIDAY 1965

I have just found a video clip on YouTube entitled Arbroath Holiday 1965. It’s fascinating, most people know Arbroath is where I live, I’ve shown loads of photos of this town and surrounding area over the last year or so and now I’ve found a film of the town as it was 45 years ago. I’ve been here 20 years now, some things have remained much the same and some things have changed. The real reason this film fascinates me so much is because it shows what the outdoor swimming pool was like. I have always wanted to see the outdoor pool. It was closed by the time I came to live here and now all that remains is part of the outside wall. The area behind that scruffy exterior wall is a night club now, the pool itself was filled in many years ago. I’m a great fan of the old fashioned outdoor swimming pool and find it very sad that so many of them are lost.
This was taken last yeatr so it's good to see some things don't change.


The things that have remained the same (with a little upgrading) are the paddling pool next to the outdoor swimming pool and Kerr’s Miniature railway. This is the little fire engine from Kerrs Miniature railway taken last year..............nice that it's still there.
This is the web site for Kerr's Miniature Railway
http://www.kmr.talktalk.net/

So………….have a look at my photos and then compare them to the same places on the video taken 45 years ago.
The paddling pool hasn't changed that much.


Film courtesy of Ian Mathewson YouTube.

This wall is all that remains of the outdoor pool of arbroath, watch the video to see what it used to be like. Another big difference between then and now is the number of fishing boats in the Harbour, it feels very sad to sit here looking at a harbour full of working fishing boats knowing they are almost all gone now.

A Sailing Ship, sailing into Arbroath Harbour. 09.07.08

First spotted out on the horizon heading North

This is an old fishing type sailing vessel spotted sailing into the harbour. it sailed north along the horizon, turned toward the shore, took in its sails, waited for the tide to turn and then drifted in on the tide. What a beautiful sight,

Ships/Boats, Arbroath, Reaper

The Reaper, Arbroath Harbour, Angus, Scotland

Birds and Boats, 22.07.08

I didn't get around to posting these yesterday. This is what I spotted UNDER those wonderful coloured clouds as I walked along the shore and past the harbour yesterday. remember these were taken late afternoon/early evening because I'm not going out in the heat of ther sun at the moment.