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Alasdair was born in Glasgow to parents Norman and Kathleen Gillies and lived there for the first eleven years of his life before moving to Ullapool, a fishing village on the West of Scotland where his father took on the position of piping instructor for the schools in Wester Ross. [1]
Wester Ross (Scottish Gaelic: Ros an Iar) is an area of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland in the council area of Highland.The area is loosely defined, and has never been used as a formal administrative region in its own right, [2] but is generally regarded as lying to the west of the main watershed of Ross (the eastern part of Ross being Easter Ross), thus forming the western half of the ...
On the east shore of Loch Broom, Ullapool was founded in 1788 as a herring port by the British Fisheries Society. [7] It was designed by Thomas Telford. Prior to 1788 the town was only an insignificant hamlet made up of just over 20 households. [8] The harbour is used as a fishing port, yachting haven, and ferry port.
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The region comprises Wester Ross, Assynt, Sutherland and part of Caithness. The Caledonian Canal, which extends from Loch Linnhe in the south-west, via Loch Ness to the Moray Firth in the north-east splits this area from the rest of the country. The city of Inverness and the town of Fort William serve as gateways to the region from the south.
The others are Charlestown, Wester Ross; Charlestown, Fife; and Charlestown of Aboyne. [3] The village lies almost directly opposite Inverness across the Beauly Firth . Almost adjacent to the east of Charlestown is North Kessock , which can be accessed along the A9 road or the coast road.
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While the non-fish food companies were subject to several further takeovers, the Ross fishing fleet was acquired by British United Trawlers by a merger with Associated Fisheries organised by the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation on 2 April 1969; Ross had tried to buy this company in 1961, then bid £15.5 million in December 1965, and £17 ...