Penniedarling

One of my very favourite Scottish towns, which was where one of our favourite shows 'Local Hero' was filmed, gosh back in the 1980's.  We visited in 2005.

 

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This is Pennan, in north Scotland and the phone box that was in the film 'Local Hero', my favourite film of all time. 

The Pub is just on the right and the owners told us that the village never had a phone box but the Movie people put one here just for the movie then removed it... but... the Village had to put it back because of tourists looking for it.

I rang Gwilym from this phone box when we were here in 2005!

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 One of my favourite places, the little Village in North Scotland called Pennan.  Famous for being the setting for my favourite film 'Local Hero'.

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You might think my obsession might be my Children? my Family? my Grandchildren? or do you think it might be Collecting Babushkas?  or Lilliput Lane Cottages?  Or old Green Bottles??   Patchwork?  or even Knitting Mick Aston??

I'd better stop now, this is becoming embarrassing  LOL!!

I think my weirdest obsession has to be the film 'Local Hero', I know a lot of you may never have heard of it but it is and will always be my very favourite movie of all time...

I went to the movies one night in 1983?4? with my friend Jo, we went to see the Movie 'Be careful he might hear you', we got there just as the titles of the first film had finished and had to wait to get out of the cinema to check the billboard to see what that brilliant movie had been... oh and we did enjoy 'Be Careful he might hear you' but not nearly as much as we enjoyed 'Local Hero' 

Well... when we were living in England in 2005/6 one of the things on my 'Must Visit' list was to find Pennan, a small village in Scotland where most of the filming occured, (one could hardly call Pennan a village really it's just a row of houses with one Pub but it is the sweetest of all Villages.)

Pennan is East of Inverness and faces the North Sea, it's accessible by one road only, which is barely a single lane road, but we got there and it met all our fascinations plus more!!


Familiar scenes from the movie... 

 The only road in and out of Pennan.

Pebble beach with a very icy ocean.

The Pub, this was used in the movie and when we went in for a drink we discovered the new Publicans were from Perth, Australia!!!

Just check out this little cottage, one room down, one room up  :-)  but it has a terrace!

See how the cottages are tucked right up close to the hillside, so much so that they have to hang their washing across the road on the sea front!

 Just a little washing...


This was one of the familiar scenes from the movie.

Now the beach they used was on the West coast of Scotland... which didn't stop us visiting it  LOL  this is Camusdarach Beach, Camusdarach, Morar, Mallaig.

 This is how far the two beaches are from each other... but in the film they just walked around the headland  :-)


Here are some pebbles I collected from the beach at Pennan, nicely framed and sitting above a bit of the Berlin Wall, some pebbles from the Needles on the Isle of Wight and a piece of my Rodd ancestors dry stone wall... Yes I know ... I'm weird! 
We always smile when we see Peter Capaldi, Denis Lawson or Jenny Seagrove on the telly... they've done well as has Peter Riegert although I've never seen him in anything else.

Fulton Mackay who was in the TV Series Porridge, played the old guy who owned the beach. 

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