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International Volvo Photo Locations Part 468

1996 – Volvo V40 near Skibo Castle in Dornoch in the Highland county of Sutherland Scotland, United Kingdom 🇬🇧.

1996 – Volvo V40 near Skibo Castle in Dornoch in the Highland county of Sutherland Scotland, United Kingdom 🇬🇧.

2021 – Skibo Castle in Scotland, UK.

Skibo Castle is located to the west of Dornoch in the Highland county of Sutherland, Scotland overlooking the Dornoch Firth. Although largely of the 19th century and early 20th century, when it was the home of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, its origins go back much earlier.

It is now operated as The Carnegie Club, a members-only residential club, offering members and their guests accommodation in both the castle and estate lodges, a private links golf course and a range of activities including clay pigeon shooting, tennis and horse riding.

The grounds include Lake Louise, a very small artificial lake, and one of only a few bodies of water in Scotland known as lakes. The estate is listed on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the list of nationally significant designed landscapes.

The first record of Skibo Castle is a charter from 1211. From its early history, the castle was a residence of the Bishops of Caithness. Skibo Castle remained the residence of subsequent bishops until 1545, when the estate was, as a tactical measure by the church, given to John Gray in order to reinforce its alliance with a powerful family as the threat of a Protestant uprising spread towards the north.

In 1745, Robert Gray surrendered the estate. It was later bought by a relative who built a modern house before 1760. Its ownership changed frequently until 1872, when it was bought by Evan Charles Sutherland-Walker, who extended the house and improved the grounds. However, the condition of the building had declined by 1897, when wealthy industrialist Andrew Carnegie took a one-year lease, with an option to buy. In 1898 he exercised that option for £85,000. However its condition had declined so much by this time that a further £2 million was spent on improvements, including an increase in area from 1,500 m2 to over 5,600 m2, plus the creation of Loch Ospisdale, an indoor swimming pavilion and a 9-hole golf course. Carnegie employed Alexander Ross of Inverness to carry out major upgrading works including full electrical services served by a private power station.

Skibo stayed with the Carnegie family until 1982. It was later purchased by businessman Peter de Savary and used as the foundation of a private members club, The Carnegie Club. Establishment of the club required restoration of the castle to recreate the luxury of an Edwardian sporting estate. De Savary sold the club to Ellis Short in 2003. Aware of the historic significance of the category-A listed castle and its contents, the Club have undertaken a programme of conservation over the last decade with the aim of preserving as much as possible of the building whilst improving the existing facilities on the estate. This includes the redevelopment of the golf course, a sympathetic restoration of Carnegie’s magnificent swimming pool, ongoing restoration of the Mackenzie and Moncur glasshouses and the refurbishment of all bedrooms in the castle and lodges.

More information at carnegieclub.co.uk and en.wikipedia.org.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 467

1980 – Volvo 264 GLE at Rumwood Court on Sutton Road in Langley near Maidstone, United Kingdom 🇬🇧.

1980 – Volvo 262 C at Rumwood Court on Sutton Road in Langley near Maidstone, United Kingdom 🇬🇧.

1980 – Volvo 264 GLE at Rumwood Court on Sutton Road in Langley near Maidstone, United Kingdom 🇬🇧.

1980 – Volvo 262 C and 264 GLE at Rumwood Court on Sutton Road in Langley near Maidstone, United Kingdom 🇬🇧.

2021 – Rumwood Court on Sutton Road in Langley near Maidstone, United Kingdom

2021 – Rumwood Court on Sutton Road in Langley near Maidstone, United Kingdom

2021 – Rumwood Court on Sutton Road in Langley near Maidstone, United Kingdom

2021 – Rumwood Court on Sutton Road in Langley near Maidstone, United Kingdom

Rumwood Court is situated to the south of Maidstone in the village of Langley. Maidstone offers a wide range of amenities and there is an excellent local choice of schooling in both the state and private sector. Communications links are excellent with a choice of stations with services into London and the M20 motorway only 3 miles away.

2021 – Rumwood Court on Sutton Road in Langley near Maidstone, United Kingdom

Dating back to Elizabethan times with further additions in the Victorian era, Rumwood Court is now home to just seven apartments.

Langley is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the A274 road leading south from Maidstone to Headcorn.

Langley is a common English place-name, from the Old English lang leah or ‘long field or woodland’. This village first appears in the records in 814 as Longanleag.

The village church is dedicated to St Mary. Behind this church is a lake, which is possible place for the medieval judicial practice of trial by cold water. When a jury couldn’t decide on a person’s innocence, it was left to God to decide. If the accused floated they were guilty because the water rejected them. If they sank, the water accepted them and thus were innocent. As is often thought it is not if they drowned, but the result was drowning in some cases. It had to be close to the church because the water would be holy.

Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery exhibits articles excavated from a site in Langley believed to have been a walled Roman cemetery.

More information at historicengland.org.uk and en.wikipedia.org.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 387

2017 – Volvo V60 at Friggvägen 6 in Saltsjö-boo, Nacka near Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2017 – Volvo S90 at Friggvägen 6 in Saltsjö-boo, Nacka near Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2017 – Volvo S90 at Friggvägen 6 in Saltsjö-boo, Nacka near Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2021 – Friggvägen in Saltsjö-boo in Nacka near Stockholm (Eniro Gatuvy)

2021 – Friggvägen in Saltsjö-boo in Nacka near Stockholm (Eniro Gatuvy)

Friggvägen is a street located in Björknäss, Saltsjö-boo near Stockholm.

2013 – Friggvägen 6 was one of Lilla Björknäs in Nacka’s first modern villas. (Photo by Rockpeak Properties)

Björknäs is an area in Boo, Nacka municipality, which is reached directly after crossing the Skuru bridge from the Stockholm side. Björknäs has no natural center core but there is a commercial center which consists of a grocery store, restaurant and a number of smaller shops located around the central parking lot (Björknäs square). On the opposite side of the old Värmdövägen there is a large bus depot and Björknäskyrkan. There are a number of apartment buildings in the immediate area, but in the rest of Björknäs there are single-family housing. Björknäs previously had a popular excursion destination, the dance palace Björknäs Pavilion. It was built in 1941 next to a restaurantManor . They could be reached by both bus and steamboat to Klintens Brygga in Skurusundet. The pavilion burned down in 1978.

Björknäs has entrance parking and a fast bus connection with frequent departures to Slussen in Stockholm.

More information on sv.wikipedia.org, lillabjörknäs.se and rockpeakproperties.se.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 386

1996 – Volvo C70 at Marina near Vikenvägen with view on Stångholmen lighthouse on Humlesäcken island, west of Stångholmen island in Lysekil, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2021 – Marina Vikenvägen in Lysekil (Google Streetview)

1996 – Volvo C70 at Marina near Vikenvägen on Stångholmesund in Lysekil, Sweden 🇸🇪.
Photography by Claes Axstål.

1996 – Volvo C70 at Marina near Vikenvägen on Stångholmesund in Lysekil, Sweden 🇸🇪.

1996 – Volvo C70 at Marina near Vikenvägen on Stångholmesund in Lysekil, Sweden 🇸🇪.

Marina Vikenvägen is located near Pinnevik Strand in Lysekil, Sweden.

From this location, you have a view on Stångholmen lighthouse on Humlesäcken island, west of Stångholmen island in Lysekil.

In 1940, a lighthouse was placed on the island Humlesäcken (Stångeskär) as a replacement for the disused Stångehuvud lighthouse, whose white lighthouse remains to this day (2012), built in 1890. In 1994, the lighthouse on Humlesäcken was moved to Stångholmesund on Stångenäset and a new solar-powered lighthouse, the one in the first pictures below, was installed.

For some reason, the lighthouse is called Stångholmen, even though it is not located on Stångholmen but on the island Humlesäcken west of Stångholmen.

Lysekil is a locality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. Situated on the south tip of Stångenäs peninsula at the mouth of Gullmarn fjord, it has two nature reserves.

Originally a small fishing village, it developed into a town for fishing industries, commercial shipping and trade during the 18th and 19th centuries. Stone industry based on the red Bohus granite from quarries in the town, was also vital to Lysekil up until the 1950s. One of Sweden’s largest oil refineries, Preemraff Lysekil is situated outside the town.

During the 19th century, Lysekil was established as a prominent spa and bathing resort and tourism still makes up a large part of the town’s economy.

More information on fyr.org and sv.wikipedia.org.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 385

1992 – Volvo 850 GLT at Olovsvik on Halsbäcksvägen with view on Björholm Hamn in Klövedal on Tjörn, Sweden 🇸🇪.

1992 – Volvo 850 GLT at Olovsvik on Halsbäcksvägen with view on Björholm Hamn in Klövedal on Tjörn, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2021 – Olofsvik on Halsbäcksvägen in Klövedal on Tjörn (Google Streetview)

Olofsvik is located on Halsbäcksvägen in Klövedal on the island Tjörn, at the Swedish westcoast.

It is in the Halsbäck is a settlement from the Bronze Age. Here you can find some rock carvings on the block in Halsbäck near Ule place.

More information on sv.wikipedia.org and bjorholmensmarina.se.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 384

1958 – Volvo PV445 Duett at Billdals Hagenväg in Billdal with view on Killingsholmen, south of Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.

1958 – Volvo PV445 Duett at Billdals Hagenväg 27B in Billdal with view on Killingsholmen, south of Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.

1958 – Volvo PV445 Duett at Billdals Hagenväg in Billdal with view on Killingsholmen, south of Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.

1958 – Volvo PV445 Duett at Billdals Hagenväg in Billdal with view on Killingsholmen, south of Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2021 – Billdals Hagenväg in Billdal with view on Killingsholmen, south of Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.
Thanks Peter Nielsen for sharing these photos!

Billdals Hagenväg in Billdal with view on Killingsholmen, south of Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.
Thanks Peter Nielsen for sharing these photos!

Billdal is a community southwest of Göteborg, located in the district Askim. Billdal is located by county road 158 and consists of areas such as Snipen, Lindås, Uggledal, Årekärr , Svindal and Skintebo.

The name Billdal already appears in 1540 in the form Beeldal, and further Behldal 1679, Billedahl 1825 with the meaning “river that flows with effort and trouble” or “the whimsical river, the river that sometimes flows slowly, sometimes fast”. The reference is then to the stream that has flowed into the valley.

The crew eating lunch at Billdals Hagenväg in Billdal with view on Killingsholmen, south of Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.

Billdal’s buildings are predominantly villas in an area close to the sea. The buildings are surrounded by wooded ridges and some agricultural land. Here is Billdal’s park where a large, traditional midsummer celebration is arranged every midsummer.

Billdal was originally an agricultural town and some of the older villas have their origins as farm properties. The oldest parts are along the coast from Killingsholmen and south. The town is today a suburb of Göteborg and has been heavily densified.

Killingsholmen is a peninsula in Billdal in the municipality of Gothenburg. On Killingsholmen there is, among other things, a municipal marina and Killingsholmens Varv.

Hisoric maps from 1961 show the old long jetty (brygga) where the photographer and his crew made the photos of the PV445 Duett.

1997 – Cover of the Svenska Volvo PV Klubben Almanacka yearbook.

More information on sv.wikipedia.org, naturkartan.se and billdal.se.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 383

1973 – Volvo 1800 ES at Digerhuvud Naturreservatet between Lauterhorn and Aursviken on Fårö in Gotland, Sweden 🇸🇪

1973 – Volvo 1800 ES at Digerhuvud Naturreservatet between Lauterhorn and Aursviken on Fårö in Gotland, Sweden 🇸🇪

1973 – Volvo 1800 ES at Digerhuvud Naturreservatet between Lauterhorn and Aursviken on Fårö in Gotland, Sweden 🇸🇪

2011 – Volvo C30 R-Design T5 Polestar at Digerhuvud Naturreservatet on Fårö in Gotland, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2011 – Volvo C30 R-Design T5 Polestar at Digerhuvud Naturreservatet on Fårö in Gotland, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2011 – Volvo C30 R-Design T5 at Digerhuvud Naturreservatet on Fårö in Gotland, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2011 – Volvo C30 R-Design T5 at Digerhuvud Naturreservatet on Fårö in Gotland, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2011 – Volvo C30 R-Design T5 at Digerhuvud Naturreservatet on Fårö in Gotland, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2016 – Digerhuvud Naturreservatet on Fårö in Gotland (own photo)

2021 – Digerhuvud Naturreservatet on Fårö in Gotland (Google Streetview)

2018 – Volvo S60 at Digerhuvud Naturreservatet between Lauterhorn and Aursviken on Fårö in Gotland, Sweden 🇸🇪

2018 – Volvo S60 at Digerhuvud Naturreservatet between Lauterhorn and Aursviken on Fårö in Gotland, Sweden 🇸🇪

2014 – Volvo Concept Estate at coastal road southwest of Digerhuvud on Fårö on Gotland, Sweden.

Digerhuvud Naturreservatet is located on Fårö in Gotland, Sweden.

The nature reserve Digerhuvud stretches along Fårö’s northwest coast, from Lauterhorn in the southwest to Helgumannen’s fishing village in the northeast. A paved road runs through the reserve which makes the various parts of the area easy to reach. Occasionally there may be many visitors here, but the area’s rauks are enough for everyone – you can always find your own rauk to climb, examine or rest your back against.

Raukarna varies in height from a few meters up to 8 meters. The outermost rauks stand a bit out in the water and are still being processed by the waves of the sea. Inside the rauk field runs a low cliff, and inside this spreads a cobblestone field up to 200 meters wide which has almost no vegetation. Even further in, a low-growing forest of windswept beach pines takes over.

How the rauks have been formed:
The Gotland bedrock is largely made up of coral reefs that formed in a tropical sea about 430 million years ago, during the Silurian period. Between these fossil reefs are packs of stored limestone and muddy marl. After the last ice age, just over 10,000 years ago, Gotland was initially completely covered by water. Released from the weight of the ice masses, however, the land gradually rose above sea level. Where land and sea met, the waves could work the bedrock. The reef bodies themselves withstood the abrasion of the waves better than the surrounding stratified rocks, and when the water receded they could remain as isolated stone pillars – rauks. The Raukarna thus consist of hard, unstored limestone and are remnants of the ancient reefs that came to give rise to today’s Gotland.Both the reef limestone and the stored limestone are rich in fossils of the many different kinds of animals that lived on and near the reefs: stromatoporoids, corals, shells, octopuses, mosses, armfoot and sea lilies.

More information on sv.wikipedia.org, lansstyrelsen.se and upplevfaro.se.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 382

2012 – Volvo S60 at Helgumannen fishermens houses on Fårö Gotland Sweden 🇸🇪

2012 – Volvo S60 at Helgumannen fishermens houses on Fårö Gotland Sweden 🇸🇪

2011 – Volvo C30 T5 Black R Polestar at Helgumannen on Gotland

2011 – Volvo XC60 at Helgumannen on Gotland

2021 – Helgumannen on Gotland (Google Streetview)

2021 – Helgumannen on Gotland (Google Streetview)

Helgumannenens fiskeläge is a fishing village on northern Fårö, located within the nature reserve Digerhuvud on Gotland, Sweden.

Helgumannen fishingvillage was Fårö’s most important fishing location for herring.

In the barren landscape and – with the sea as the only witness – lies the fishing village of Helgumannen. Here you can settle down for a while and have peace of mind.

2021 – Helgumannen on Gotland

Once upon a time, there was plenty of activity here when the flooding was at its best. Helgumannen is one of Gotland’s 200 fishing villages and is located in Gotland’s largest seastack area Digerhuvud.

2021 – Helgumannen on Gotland

Two of the houses in Helgumannen’s fishing village are built in a prehistoric tradition. They consist of a roof set directly on the ground or on a stone foundation. Behind the booths is the fenced drying place for the nets, the guest yard. Boats and fishing gear are still there.

2021 – Helgumannen on Gotland

Today, only fifteen houses are preserved, but despite this, many are still the same. The houses is buildt side by side to protects against wind and sea. They are built according to old tradition.

More information on upplevfaro.se, lansstyrelsen.se and guteinfo.com.

Have a look at the behind the scenes material at fstoppers.com!

Volvo Photo Locations Part 381

2016 – Volvo V70 Classic at Övre Djupedalsgatan 5 in Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2021 – Övre Djupedalsgatan in Göteborg (Google Streetview)

Övre Djupedalsgatan is a street located in Göteborg, Sweden. The street runs between Vegagatan and Linnegatan, crossing Nordhemsgatan.

The street is located in the district Olivedal.

Olivedal is named after the manor Olivedal which was located about 170 meters northwest of Linnéplatsen approximately at Olivedalsgatan 20. Olivedahl has been known since 1813, named after Olivia Melin (1803-1881), daughter of Olof Melin (1764-1834) in his first marriage to Elisabeth Stockman (1773-1815). In connection with the laying of Rosengatan from Linnégatan to Vegagatan, the property’s Olivedal’s last green areas were built on. The manor’s main building was moved and rebuilt in 1930 at Stora Härsjön in Lerum municipality, where it was completely destroyed in a fire on March 22, 1944.

Kråkestan used to be a nickname for the Olivedal district. It was the idyllic farm Olivedal, which in its time was located near the gates of Slottsskogen, which was the origin of the name. There were so many noisy crows and quays that Slottsskogen’s park rangers could often earn extra money by shooting crows for Olivedal’s owners. Even after the entire property was built with stone houses, the nickname Kråkestan survived in folklore until the 1940s .

More information at sv.wikipedia.org.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 380

1962 – Volvo PV 544 on Kungsportsavenyen 23 in Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.

1962 – Volvo PV 544 on Kungsportsavenyen 23 in Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.

1962 – Volvo PV 544 on Kungsportsavenyen 23 in Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.
(Photo by Bernt Lindström from the book Med Volvo i fokus)

2021 – Kungsportsavenyen 23 in Göteborg (Google Streetview)

Kungsportsavenyn 23 is located in Göteborg. It was built in 1960 in the modernism style, architect was Helge Zimdal.

On this building on Avenyn 23, Olle Niklasson wrote an article in Göteborg Posten:

There are houses that you can not get rid of. Which you can never help but stop in front of, look up at the facade and wonder what it is like to live there. So it is with Kungsportsavenyn 23.

The house was built in 1960 and designed by Chalmers professor Helge Zimdal, and it is not difficult to imagine that he wanted to reflect the wastefully decorated 1880s houses across the street in its irregular facade.

With an entire window wall from floor to ceiling in one of the rooms, you live like in a shop window a few meters from the 5th stop and for those who regularly wait for the carriage, it is not difficult to create a picture of life inside. For many years one could admire a collection of blue and white Chinese porcelain, like one in an exhibition stand in one of the windows: smaller pieces placed around two magnificent practice towers. There now lives a tenant who is not a collector. Or maybe just do not care, who knows?

If you look in through the glass doors of the entrance and past the slatted wall in guaranteed red-listed rainforest wood, you see that the walls are clad in a kind of relief mosaic in several kinds of rough-hewn marble. It looks expensive. But it is not just any house, nor is it any street, and Helge Zimdal took the task seriously.

Stora Teatern had been inaugurated in 1859 and with it a street from Kungsportsplatsen in whose extension the English Quarter was then built in 1872–73. The street name was still the subject of controversy, however, there were no differences of opinion regarding the plans for the new avenue: a residential area for the affluent. The houses that were built had large apartments, eight to ten rooms, and facades that signaled abundance, many times even boasting.

Except for small market cellars on the cross streets, shops were not allowed. It was not until 1914 that the exclusive furniture store Boet opened, very discreetly signposted and housed in an ordinary apartment on the ground floor at number 24. After that, the pressure to commercialize the street increased and more and more floors on the street level were converted into shop premises.

In 1932, Göteborg got a new city planning manager, the functionalist Uno Åhrén, who advocated for a modernization of Avenyn. The patrician houses should be demolished and replaced with new and higher ones in six to seven storeys. In 1934, No. 29 was demolished, followed by numbers 4, 14 and 25 a few years later. The houses were then just over 50 years old and began the demolition era in Gothenburg, 30 years before the working-class districts Annedal and Vegastan fell for the excavators. From the mid-1950s, another 15 of the 34 houses built along the Avenue during the late 19th century were demolished.

The apartments in number 23 are built on the floor and a bit like the L-blocks in a Tetris. If an apartment has an upper floor with a kitchen and two rooms and a lower one with four, the next mirror is in height. Floor seven is a single large roof terrace floor. The property then extends across the block with eighteen one-room apartments and four twos stacked as huts on top of each other in two rows towards Teatergatan.

At the site where Avenyn 23 and the office building at number 21 were to be built, two four-storey 1880s houses were demolished. The demolition was preceded by some discussions, but more about Zimdal’s proposal than about the original houses, which were fairly ordinary purely architecturally.

The avenue has endured a lot over the years, but you make it easy for yourself if you say that everything was better before. There was a dozen architectures then just like now, Avenyn also has its fair share, but that does not include number 23.

More information at www.gp.se.