The Ballachulish Ferry & The Ballachulish Bridge.
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- čas přidán 11. 10. 2016
- I found old video footage of the Ballachulish Ferry, I made this video as a tribute video. I hope you enjoy the video and subscribe to my channel, leave a comment, tell me what you think of my work, thank you.
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Triggers such great memories , I first went across in 1970. I'll be travelling up in a few weeks with my soon to be married daughter for some "us time". Wonderful.
I grew up in Ballachulish in the 50s and my father worked on the ferry with George MacFarlane (shown) and Peter MacKenzie. I used to "help " (hinder) when I was 7-8 tying up, pushing the platform. My Aunt worked in the little green hut on the north side selling tickets. Great job for a registered nurse. The bridge may be faster, but it's lost something. Everything is faster, nobody takes time to stop and just look anymore ah well I suppose you can't live in the past
used to go on this ferry - each time it was an adventure for as as kids
Great wee video I used to use the ferry regularly and in fact spent my honeymoon first night in the Ballachullish hotel in 1966.
Wow I live in Ballachulish it’s cool to see what it’s was like back then caz I’m 10
Wonderful memories of the ferry. My cousins worked on it in 50’s . Thank you
Fond memories of when i worked in the Ballachulish hotel in the early 80s.
MV Glen Loy. Registered at Fraserburgh as she was built there.
I was 8 in 1973 … My father took my brother & me on holiday in a Austin Minor van - the thrill of being in n the little ferries made my heart ❤️ race ….. waiting for the ferry outside the hotel for the ferry meeting people was immense…… it’s a lost experience replaced by a few hundred metres of tarmac & an IPad …….
I have mixed feelings. I stayed in the area this summer and had an emergency one day (thankfully nobody hurt) and tbh the bridge was a godsend. A stressful day would have been far worse if I'd had to wait for a ferry. Look at what the Corran Ferry's problems have caused this year. Don't get me wrong, when I'm not pushed for time I love going by ferry - eg arriving in Skye on the boat from Mallaig is much more fun than doing it over the bridge. But sometimes a few hundred metres of tarmac really is an improvement on what used to be.
@@Loganberrybunny why cant you have both ????
@@derekliddle4912 I'd be very happy with both! But it wouldn't pay its way. How many people would use the Kyle of Lochalsh ferry to Skye if it came back now? Not many.
Hi Jim. Where did you get the very early footage circa 1926? Terrific
stuff. I'm also working on a wee video of the ferries as I used to live
there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The clip of film shown at the beginning was taken from a series of what might now be termed ‘road trip’ films by the colour film pioneer Claude Friese-Greene for a silent documentary film "The Open Road". These were shot between 1924 and 28 using his own colour process and take the viewer over much of mainland Britain. I’ve added a link to more of the Scottish part shown here on CZcams.
czcams.com/video/Ya7mt9GT710/video.html
my DAD was orphaned out of Ballachulish at 8 yrs of age by OBAN Council to Cambusbarron Stirling, when i was 14 we moved back to C/Barron and the old people used to tell us my younger Sister & Brother they could mind of him arriving and he could only speak the Gaelic, all i know is there was an accident in the Slate Quarry and his Father was buried under a pile of slate,i never saw a Birth Certificate for him ,but an ex class mate of his came over from Canada one New Year and he told us he was the same age as him and he was 7yrs older than what we all thought , We Buried him 1972 at 58 yrs old on grave stone , but if we believe his pal 65 yrs. i worked out he was born 1907 and my Grandad died in 1915 Great War era i wonder