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By the Shores of Loch Broom Part 2: The Family Burial Ground

We’d trekked up to Scotland to see what it was that lured Montague, his father and brothers to this remote part of the British Isles for nearly fifty years. Alas, the building they called home was long gone, seemingly replaced with a more modern version which lacked the status and power the original building had. […]

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By the Shores of Loch Broom: The Fowlers’ Retreat

  Somewhere deep in the Scottish Highlands was the retreat of one of  the greatest engineers this country has ever produced. This is Braemore House near Ullapool, north-west Scotland. Constructed out of gneiss stone (a blue-coloured rock which comes from the north of Scotland) and edged with durable sandstone from Glasgow, like many things in the […]

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‘The Charge of the Light Brigade Fades to Nothing…’

It was a warm summers day near Richebourg l’Avoué. That was the only redeeming feature of Tuesday 22nd June 1915. The rolling countryside and greenery that usually typified Northern France had been forcibly replaced with sandbags, muddy trenches and battle-scarred fields. Barbed wire stuck out of the ground in angry defiance: no rational man would […]

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