Postcards for Issi by illinilass

Postcards for Issi

My friend and I were looking through old postcards of her grandparents and found one from Ballater, Scotland.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
I’ll be adding more.
Lovely triptych!
November 9th, 2024  
Beautiful cards!
November 9th, 2024  
Lovely pic😊
November 9th, 2024  
Issi will be thrilled to see these.
November 9th, 2024  
Very beautiful set of cards.
November 9th, 2024  
How wonderful, will you be visiting Scotland?
November 9th, 2024  
This is a massive fav for me, Dorothy! Can you believe that the old mill (Braemar) in the middle of this collage is the mill my dad bought in 1983 and developed into a house! We only sold it 3 years ago. I will try and find a photo or two of the house as it was when it was sold. Abergeldie Castle very nearly fell into the river in 2015 during the Storm Frank flood. The banks of the river have been shored up and the castle is once again safe from the river. The laird of Abergeldie Estate, John Gordon, died a few years ago and the estate was sold off by his widow. She kept the castle though, and still lives there. They have no offspring. And of course the final one - the bridge over the Garbh all river, where apparently The Duke of Edinburgh proposed the our dearly loved Queen Elizabeth, and which was ordered to be built by Queen Victoria so that 'people could share the scene from that spot'. You have made my morning by posting all these lovely old postcards! Thank you, thank you. x
November 9th, 2024  
@onewing Thrilled doesn't even go half way! I'm so chuffed!
November 9th, 2024  
@jamibann
I’m chuffed too! I was thrilled when I saw Ballater and because of your photos ocasionally of your father’s house I included that one because it had the same feel. What a wonderful place to live!
November 9th, 2024  
@ludwigsdiana
Not this trip, we return to US Tuesday so time is short. 😭
November 9th, 2024  
@illinilass I was up in Braemar today, and en route I passed by so many of the places on your postcards. Abergeldie Castle, Balmoral, Crathie Kirk, Auld Brig o'Dee. I thought of you at each landmark!
November 9th, 2024  
Lovely
November 9th, 2024  
How very interesting to see these postcards. I’ve only just caught up with this story so I know how thrilled @jamibann is. A wonderful coincidence!
November 10th, 2024  
How wonderful
November 14th, 2024  
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