A dreich day so didn’t venture far. Tayvallich is a community overlooking the natural harbour of Loch a’ Bhealaich in Knapdale, Argyll.
I find the learning of the pronunciation of Gaelic names is a slow process, Tayvallich is Taigh a’ Bhealaich in Gaelic and gives good hints. I just need to remember them. The name translates as the “house of the pass”.
It was a beautiful evening when we arrived yesterday, a reminder of when we were last here in 2007. See what tomorrow brings.
You might be interested in a direct link between Guisborough and Tayvallich: My grandfather Joseph Pease (2nd Ld Gainford) was born in his grandfather’s house at Hutton Hall in 1889 which, as you’ve said elsewhere, had to be sold after the bank crash of 1902. After service in WWI (Gallipoli) and in business in Darlington, he retired in 1935 to Taynish at Tayvallich, where he died in 1971, but he retained a strong affection for Hutton all his life and left preparatory notes for a memoir of it.
Thanks, Matthew, that’s really interesting.
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