Old Photographs The Devil's Elbow Road Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of The Devil’s Elbow road near Glenshee, Perthshire. The A93 road, part of General Wade's military road from Perth to Fort George, runs north through the glen and on into Glen Beag, where it crosses the Cairnwell Pass, at 2200 feet above sea level the highest public road in the UK. The road climbing to the summit is now wide and straight but until the late 1960s included two notorious hair pin bends with a 1 in 3 (33%) gradient known as the Devil's Elbow.

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This brings back not so good memories of my childhood. We were touring with a caravan, and went over the Devil's elbow [by mistake], in the mid-60's. On the way up, we met a hay-wagon on the way down! Not being able to reverse, we moved perilously close to the edge to allow it to pass. On top of that, I heard my father saying "That's the last gear", and being just a child, I started to cry and panic because we had 'no gears left' 🤣 I don't remember coming into a village the other side, but my mother often talked about the look of shock on the villagers faces.

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Last photo featured is Phil driving Liz to their holiday home

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thank you for your comment a good one