Spring Road Trip Drive To Visit Grangemouth Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of an April road trip drive, with Scottish music, West on the A904 road on visit to Grangemouth, Scots: Grangemooth; Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Ghrainnse, a town in the Falkirk council area. Originally a bustling port, trade flowed through the town with the construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal in the 18th century. Nowadays, the economy of Grangemouth is focused primarily on the large petrochemical industry of the area which includes the oil refinery, owned by Ineos, one of the largest of its kind in Europe. The town is twinned with La Porte, Indiana, America. Residents of the town are known as Portonians. Grangemouth was founded by Sir Lawrence Dundas in 1768 as a result of the construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal. Originally referred to as Sealock by workers brought in to labour on the canal digging and lock constructions, the name referred to the Forth and Clyde Canal connection to the sea and where it flowed into the River Forth. This township name was never approved by the founders. The settlement was also named Grangeburnmouth for a period and then finally to Grangemouth. As canal and general shipping traffic came to the town the area became more prosperous. This was aided by the high tariffs at the port of Leith in Edinburgh, which caused more traffic to pass through Grangemouth instead. Cocteau Twins was a Scottish dream pop band active from 1979 to 1997. They were formed in Grangemouth by Robin Guthrie on guitars and drum machine and Will Heggie on bass, adding Elizabeth Fraser on vocals in 1981 and replacing Heggie with multi-instrumentalist Simon Raymonde in 1983. The group earned critical praise for their ethereal, effects[disambiguation needed]-laden sound and the soprano vocals of Fraser, whose lyrics often abandon recognisable language. They pioneered the 1980s alternative rock subgenre of dream pop. From 26 April, Scottish Coronavirus regulations permit unrestricted travel within Scotland and between Scotland and England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man. Travel restrictions remain in place for travel between Scotland and the rest of the world. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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