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scotianostra · 6 months

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The Clackmannanshire Bridge opened to traffic on Wednesday 19 November 2008.

Prior to 1 October 2008 the bridge was referred to as the upper Forth crossing while the name was chosen.

The increasing levels of traffic using the existing Kincardine Bridge led to a public inquiry being held into options to ease traffic flow over the Forth and around the small town of Kincardine. In 2000 proposals were put forward for a number of alternatives, one of which was a new crossing running north-northwest of the existing bridge, bypassing the town of Kincardine altogether.

In 2005 the new crossing was given the go-ahead, and construction began in June 2006, with the sod-cutting ceremony performed by then Scottish Transport Minister, Tavish Scott, accompanied by the Earl of Elgin who as a boy had performed the ceremony for the Kincardine Bridge.

The bridge was officially opened by Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond on 28th November 2008. At the ceremony, Salmond said: "This is a world-class infrastructure project which will cut journey times, improve central Scotland connections, and provide a unique gateway to Clackmannanshire, Fife and Falkirk"

#scotland #scottish #history #central Scotland #traffic infrastructure

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calamitys-child · 7 months

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Pls add in tags where you're from and what your take is!! I work in tourism and have noticed certain people seem taken aback or confused by this question in small talk

#for me - im 23 from central Scotland and to me it means 'where do you currently live?'#as in - if someone asked 'where are you from?' id say [parents' hometown] originally bc that implies where my origins are #but 'whereabouts dyou stay' id say aw just outside [city] cause thats where i currently live

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ifindus · 10 months

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leste du vg nyheten "kilt i hetebølge"? tusenvis av skotter var i hovedstaden for å se EM kvalifiseringskamp mellom norge og skottland og de gikk alle rundt i kilt i oslo🙈 en ble overrasket over at norge var så varmt lmao

jaaa så den 😂

Scotland and Norway played against each-other in the qualification for the European Championship in football, and so Oslo was flooded with Scots that one weekend in June. Some of them were surprised it was so hot in Norway 😅 but luckily most of them were wearing kilts, giving more ventilation...

#hetalia #aph norway #hws norway #hws scotland #aph scotland #scotnor #and we don't talk about how the game went 😓#I know the whole thing of people being surprised Norway is hot during summer is quite common tho 😅#some people even think we don't get summer?? it's just snow all year around #even more often nowadays we will have summers with temperatures well into the 30s #we might also have long stretches of rain ofc but that's all year anyway #in summer there is rarely under 10 degrees in my experience and I live in central Norway so ofc it will be different in the south and north #when this took place it was 31 degrees in the shadows in Oslo and 22 degrees in Edinburgh #the scots were a bit shocked it seemed. Travelling north and having it get warmer

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burninginthegymplplinko · 2 years

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MAG 163 - In The Trenches

doodle 163/200; days left - 14/110 4/128

the boys r going to londom 💖💕

#tma #the magus archives #tma 163 #mag 163 #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tma s5 #tma spoilers #ah yes that one garden in central europe u need to cross when going from scotland to london ú__ù

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vox-anglosphere · 1 year

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Glasgow's Central Station is your gateway to the Highlands & Islands

#Central Station #Glasgow #British Rail #ScotRail #railways #age of steam #gateway #Victorian era #Scotland #nostalgia

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pinktinselmonstrosity · 8 months

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i'm the only who's moved in to my flat so far this is so weird

#it's a flat of 8 but right now. it is a flat of one #i feel like home alone #but yeah my room is nice and the flat is pretty central and super close to the bus and train stations #v excited!!#trying to to doxx myself but it was so funny when i checked in bc the lady called me an international student and i ?????#but then i remembered. scotland #🧃

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philzokman · 1 year

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SOBBING SO HARD RN im so bad at french but i need all a's to get into the uni course i want and i havent been studying french bc iwas like 'mhmhmhmm!!! 4 days is eniogh time to become fUKCING FLUENT IN A LANGUAGE' WHY AM I SO STUPUD MY EXAMS ON MIONDAY IM GOING TO EAT CONCRETE also why does the tangled soundtrack go so hard like actually im alternating between the duolingo french podcast, the tangled soundtrack, pulps discography and prayign HFJKDSHF

#st andrews better accept me after all this oml #actual my top three uni choices atm are st andrews #they have a course in english and comparative lit which looks so FIRE #i should be able to get in but its also liek the fourth best uni in the uk this year (usually its top 3 i think last year it was 2nd)#praying frfr #aberdeen has a good course in english and creative writing which might also be sick but im also not sureeee #and glasgow would also be fire but im not sure what id do as a duel course there </3 #BUT the rent theres p cheap there compared to st andrews (dundee tbf im not rich enough for st andrews </3) and aberdeen #PLUS its the concert central for scotland #thank god for free education in scotland and saas idk how id cope fHSJDKF #lea.txt

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mightywellfan · 5 months

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Clock at Glasgow Central station

#scotland #visit scotland #history #glasgow #central station

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unrealityliminal · 5 months

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dec 2012

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mostlyuk · 8 months

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Rouken Glen Park by Catherine

#Scotland #glasgow #west Central Glasgow #united kingdom #united #kingdom #scottish #British isles #green park #park #british nature #nature #trees #glaschu

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scotianostra · 2 months

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Leith Walk Bars.

#scotland #scottish #edinburgh #Leith #public houses #Central Bar #Alhambra #Spey Lounge #my photos #phone pix #Mother Superior

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calamitys-child · 1 year

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The way narcissist cookbook just played the song that reduces me to a chronic pain transsexual wreck made of tears followed immediately by a song that goes "I have a fat ass I eat pussy and I wanna get railed".... unmatched energy. I really, really needed that right now

#also shoutout to the venue staff for keeping us all safe for a fitba day they are the best and i appreciate them more than words can say #anyone central Scotland please please support 13th note Glasgow's efforts to unionise #and earn a living wage for their work #theyre great at what they do and dignity for working class workers is absolutely vital

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rotzaprachim · 1 year

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mixing not just the histories but physical costumes and clothing of scotland and central asia sure was a ..... series of choices

#gd but the way that the local imperial officer talking about controlling the aldhanis and putting bars in the way of their sacred pilgrimage #... chilling #anyway its filmed in scotland and absolutely references the highland clearances (which you should read about)#but imho the costumes strongly reference central asia #where the soviet union forcibly cleared and resettled huge numbers of people and controlled their religious rites #andor thoughts

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keetz · 1 year

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From The Carrick to The Hudson (2019)

#2019 #nyc #central park #watercolor #scotland #traditional art #art

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theteaisaddictive · 2 years

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crying over the bisexual self-discovery rep in heartstopper is something that can be so personal

#heartstopper (series)#rae watches heartstopper #something something orlando bloom AND keira knightley #something something having crushes on the opposite sex for years and then suddenly realising that girls (or in nick’s case boys) are cute #AS WELL AS. as well as. something something wanting to kiss your best friend.#pretty sure he’s meant to be sixteen too which was the age i was when i first had an inkling (before Repression Central kicked in ofc #but that’s a story for another day)#anyway yeah just uh. getting very emotional over this.#even having a tv show which shows school kids being gay and engaging in taking a. stand against homophobic bullying is just #it feels worlds away from the culture when i was at school and that was only ten years ago #AND it’s in the uk. what can i say gay content hits differently when it’s from your home country #even though these kids are english #my kingdom for a tv series which explores being gay in scotland

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the-busy-ghost · 2 years

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Just realised that there was a heck of a lot of Yorkshire propaganda in the children’s tv shows I was exposed to early in life and this may have shaped who I am as a person

#There was also some Welsh stuff but not as much #Cumbria as well probably though I don't think that three year old me could have identified Cumberland or Westmorland as a place #The Yorkshire propaganda was so strong that until I was a bit older probably most of the North of England was 'Yorkshire' to me #By contrast there was very little Scottish stuff until Balamory came out but I was already of a pretty advanced age #And I was also able to read books bby that time where Scotland featured more heavily #But my earliest experiences- Teletubbies aside- must have been shaped by two lands of grey stone cottages and dykes and rolling hills #Scotland is similar to these places but slightly different and of course just that bit bigger so has a more internal variety #Add to that the fact that in my experience the average Central Belt Scot spends a lot of time in either Yorkshire or Lancashire on holiday #-mostly Blackpool or Scarborough- and the impression is solidified #It's probably a good thing nonetheless though #I mean I don't keep up with small children's tv shows now (obviously I have no toddlers)#But even when my younger brothers were that age I remember less northern stuff and a lot more southern English stuff #Admittedly I also had some videos from slightly earlier (hence Ivor the Engine was one of the Welsh ones even though it wasn't on tv)#I mean I suppose I had old videos like Mr Benn and the Herbs too which were loosely 'southern' but they didn't have the same impact #But yeah #Apparently my outlook on life is very much a product of some great northern English propaganda phase in the late 20th century #With a slice of Wales alongsid eit #Anyway I won't go on much longer otherwise I'll end up on a rant about how children's tv shows have degenerated #It's all characters called the Fimbledethumps or something who talk in southern baby voices like 'Me want a huggy wuggy'#Which I suppose started with stuff like the Teletubbies but that was the only example I remember and even that had some other things #Kids aren't stupid give them a whole universe give them proper characters and proper storylines #Kids need to understand The Concept of Yorkshire from an early age #Or even the possibility that there are strange litter-collecting creatures who live on Wimbledon Common and Uncle Bulgaria reads the Times

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