Calgary Sands, Isle of Mull 1969 postcard Tobermory pmk

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Calgary Sands, Isle of Mull
• Publisher:  none given but probably Photo Precision (No. PT36298)
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  Pre-decimal 4d. vermillion Machin definitive
• Postmark(s):  Tobermory Isle of Mull machine cancel 18 April 1969
• Sent to:  Pentley Park, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
• Notes & Key words:  corner bump

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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The wide sand beach at Calgary (Scottish Gaelic: Calgarraidh) is possibly the best in Mull, and its idyllic location makes it one of the finest in Scotland. Calgary Bay is located on the north west of Mull about 8 km (5 miles) past Dervaig, 12 miles (20 km) from the island's capital Tobermory, and is framed by low hills, partly wooded. A broad area of machair (a grassy meadow growing on calcareous sand) lies between the land and the beach. As the tide falls a river meanders across the sands, and the adjacent car parking area and public toilets make this ideal for camping (small campsite as of 2006 with limited sites).

The name comes from the Gaelic, Cala ghearraidh, meaning Beach of the meadow (pasture). "Cala" is the word specifically used for a hard, sandy beach suitable for landing a boat, which relates plausibly to the location. A small stone pier, originally built to allow "puffers" (small steam driven cargo boats) to deliver coal to the Mornish Estate, was also used to take sheep to and from grazing on the Treshnish Isles and gives a further possible reason for the name of the bay.

Calgary village is a small community of houses close by the bay, and tourist accommodation is available. Just up the hill from the bay the deserted village of Inivea remains as roofless stone ruins, an atmospheric relic of the Highland clearances. David Tennent(BBC's Doctor Who) traced back his family to here in the BBC programme Who do you think you are?

On the East side of the bay Calgary House, now called Calgary Castle, was built in 1817 extending an earlier Calgary Estate laird's house. Its gardens include 150 species of rhododendron and several specimen trees which were planted by Col. Eric and Elizabeth Mackenzie between 1948 and the early 1970s and who created the woodland garden which is still famous today.

Colonel James Macleod, Commissioner of the North West Mounted Police, was a guest here and shortly afterwards on returning to Canada suggested its name for Fort Calgary which gave rise to the city of Calgary, Alberta a metropolis of 1,071,515 citizens and the Greater Calgary Region - population: 1.3 million.