Marriage Lines
For historical fantasy fans, the idyllic little Fife hamlet of Falkland, not far from Dunfermline, is instantly recognisable as the opening location for the epic drama Outlander (www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFFKjptRr7Y), where Frank and Claire Randall head to in 1940 on what proves to be their fateful second honeymoon and where their lives are completely turned upside down.
In the series, it represent Inverness from the 1740s, 1940s and the 1960s. The attraction of the little town as the location for the filming is clear to see, as its full of genuine little touches all around that stretches back even further than the eighteenth century where Claire - almost Brigadoon-like - is first transported back in time to.
One such is the quaint east of Scotland tradition of "wedding lintels" (also known as nuptial, marriage or lintel stone), a carved inscription above the doorway of a house owned by newly-married couples that primarily date from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
They would show the initials of the newly-weds sandwiched in-between the year of their nuptials. The one pictured from my recent day trip to a very sunny and warm Falkland is from 1686 and commemorates the marriage of "GB" and "MH".
Many of the original buildings have been rebuilt over the centuries, but the tradition has always been to re-incorporate the original marriage lintel in the new structure for good luck, invariable over the new front door entrance, or here, perhaps where the original door was once located.
Leica M2 & 2/40mm Summicron-c
Kentmere 100
Ilford ID-11 (1+1 - 11:30min)
Plustek 7600i & Vuescan
Marriage Lines
For historical fantasy fans, the idyllic little Fife hamlet of Falkland, not far from Dunfermline, is instantly recognisable as the opening location for the epic drama Outlander (www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFFKjptRr7Y), where Frank and Claire Randall head to in 1940 on what proves to be their fateful second honeymoon and where their lives are completely turned upside down.
In the series, it represent Inverness from the 1740s, 1940s and the 1960s. The attraction of the little town as the location for the filming is clear to see, as its full of genuine little touches all around that stretches back even further than the eighteenth century where Claire - almost Brigadoon-like - is first transported back in time to.
One such is the quaint east of Scotland tradition of "wedding lintels" (also known as nuptial, marriage or lintel stone), a carved inscription above the doorway of a house owned by newly-married couples that primarily date from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
They would show the initials of the newly-weds sandwiched in-between the year of their nuptials. The one pictured from my recent day trip to a very sunny and warm Falkland is from 1686 and commemorates the marriage of "GB" and "MH".
Many of the original buildings have been rebuilt over the centuries, but the tradition has always been to re-incorporate the original marriage lintel in the new structure for good luck, invariable over the new front door entrance, or here, perhaps where the original door was once located.
Leica M2 & 2/40mm Summicron-c
Kentmere 100
Ilford ID-11 (1+1 - 11:30min)
Plustek 7600i & Vuescan