Old Photographs Tranent Scotland

Old photograph of cottage, houses and people in Tranent, Scotland. Tranent is a town in East Lothian, Scotland. It is approximately eleven miles east of Edinburgh. It was here that the Tranent Militia Riot, known as the Massacre of Tranent, took place in 1797, when local people were killed by soldiers after protesting against conscription into the British Army. One of the 12 victims Jackie Crookston is depicted on the memorial that commemorates the dead in Civic Square.

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