LEGS Breakfast meet @ Spittal of Glenshee Hotel 15th July

[Al]

Looks to have been another great turnout. Sorry I missed it after having partly having it planned round my rota but in the end I was en route to Halifax, Novia Scotia at relatively short notice. Weather over here was much nicer at a balmy 30C on arriving but as usual was thick fog by dinner time. Also will be back offshore for August meet so good luck there.

[GordonMasson]

Great day out again Brian, thanks for organising it.

After we left Glenshee we had a run back through Braemar, along to Linn ‘O’ Dee and then dropped in at Mar Lodge.

Here are a few photos I took on route. Sorry, not all car related.

At Spital of Glenshee

At Braemar.

This is a memorial to Allied Air Crew lost in the second World War.

It’s an engine recovered in 1999 from the wreckage of a Wellington bomber which crashed near Braemar.

At Linn ‘O’ Dee

At Mar Lodge

At the Hanging Tree near Marr Lodge.

This is where the last man was hung in Scotland for sheep stealing although that was supposedly made up charge to punish Lamont of Inverey......

“.......the last Lamont laird in the Braemar district in 1591 (Lamont of Inverey) ...took part with the McIntoshes in a foraay against the

Farquharsons, who had so evilly evicted his kinsmen from Allancuaich a little before. But when law and order were restored again they invoked the criminal

authorities , instead of treating the matter as one between gentlemen, and contrived to have Lamont hanged for sheep stealing on a pine tree to the west

of Mar Lodge bridge, thereby deservedly incurring a curse which has never left them.......”

The tree is long since dead but its held up with wire ropes to preserve what’s left.

Edited July 17, 2012 by GordonMasson

[douglasgdmw]

Gordon,

Your images are not displaying correctly. Think you have a forward slash "/" in the brackets.

Maybe you could sort or one of the mods can rectify.

George