Old Photographs Bathgate Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, shop, houses and people in Bathgate, West Lothian. Bathgate first enters the chronicles of history in a confirmation charter by King Malcolm IV of Scotland. In 1315, the daughter of King Robert The Bruce, Marjorie Bruce, married Walter Stewart, the 6th Lord High Steward of Scotland. The dowry to her husband included the lands and castle of Bathgate. Established around 1800, the Glenmavis Whisky Distillery in Bathgate was purchased in 1831 by one John McNab, who produced MacNab's Celebrated Glenmavis Dew from the site until the distillery's closure in 1910.



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