Falkland is a village a few miles away from where we now live. (Its name is connected in a roundabout way to a certain set of islands in the South Atlantic but it’s more famous for its Palace, the country residence of the Stuart monarchs.)

We go there quite often – usually to visit the Library but also to have a stroll as there’s an estate and burn you can walk beside. The Palace gardens are worth a look as well, especially if you are a National trust for Scotland member.

In February we found its main street festooned with no parking cones and notices of restriction for four days.

It turned out they were going to be filming scenes for the new series of Outlander and they’d mocked it up supposedly as if it were the 1950s.

The Community Hall had been daubed with a “Free Scotland” grafitti and a saltire which strikes me as being unlikely for the 50s but there you go:-

This is how it looks restored to more normal circumstances, in April this year:-

This shop was made to look like a furniture and hardware store:-

And its “real” incarnation is a gift shop/café, Fayre Earth:-

This “fruit shop” took me back:-

In the 2010s it’s another eatery, Campbell’s:-

I’m not quite sure what this was supposed to be. A B&B I think. Unfortunately people were hanging around:-

It’s actually The Covenanter’s Hotel:-