shrimp56 Says: Be sure to stick your head into the bar in the Pennan Inn -- this [and the telephone booth] figured prominently in the film "Local Hero", which was filmed here..You can't miss the Inn -- it's bright blue! The locals aren't happy about this new color at all - it was always...
Crab's Toes B & B: THE place to stay in Pennan
shrimp56 Says: Run by Sheila Milne, who is, perhaps, Pennan's best booster. She is trying hard to help create an economy in a beautiful, desolate coastal town..The picture is of the row of houses that face the sea.
shrimp56 Says: The narrow, winding street down the cliff to Pennan means that the big tour buses can't get there -- so either a minivan or car is the way to get here. .Pennan's location has saved it from complete tourist innundation, but also limited the economy.
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A telephone booth figures prominently in the film -- there actually wasn't one in this location in Pennan -- but there is now!
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Pennan may seem familiar to you beacuse the 1983 film Local Hero was shot here. Not the beach scenes though which were filmed elsewhere in Scotland.
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Pennan is a small town that clings to the edge of the cliffs at Moray Bay. It's claim to fame is as the "location" of the 1983 film "A Local Hero":...
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The tiny Scottish coastal village of Pennan is located in the north east of Scotland, midway between the towns of Fraserburgh and Macduff on the Moray Firth. The village sits at the bottom of a cliff...
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