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Old Photographs Port Bannatyne Isle Of Bute Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Port Bannatyne, Scottish Gaelic: Port MhicEamailinn, a coastal village on the Isle of Bute, Firth of Clyde. The village started in 1801 with the building of a small harbour on Kames Bay. Lord Bannatyne of Kames Castle, at the head of the bay, planned the village in an attempt to rival Rothesay. Initially known as Kamesburgh, by the mid 19th century, steamers were calling there regularly. In 1860 the Marquess of Bute purchased this part of the island and renamed the village Port Bannatyne in honour of the long historical association of the Bannatyne family with the area. Boat building became an important local industry. In the Second World War midget submarines exercised in the bay and nearby Loch Striven. The luxury Kyles Hydro Hotel, overlooking the Port, was requisitioned by the Admiralty to serve as the HQ for midget submarine, x-craft, operations. In particular, it was from here that the top secret and audacious attack on the Tirpitz was masterminded. Kames Castle near Port Bannatyne was originally the seat of the Bannatyne family, Kames is one of the oldest continuously inhabited Scottish houses. Sir William Macleod Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne, born 1743, died 1833, was a distinguished lawyer and judge in Edinburgh. He lost his fortune and was forced to sell Kames in 1812. Kames was the birthplace, and early home of the critic and essayist John Sterling. Thomas Carlyle in his biography refers to the castle as " a kind of dilapidated baronial residence to which a small farm was then attached. " The old mill in Port Bannatyne was originally a flax mill propelled by a water wheel and the man who ran it was a Mr Carswell. The mill then became a Sawmill run by Habby Halliday. When he died that was the end of the mil