Stained Glass Windows With Music On History Visit To Carriden Parish Church Bo'ness Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video , with Scottish music, of stained glass windows in the interior of Carriden Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Bo'ness, West Lothian. A town in Falkirk Council area, situated on a nose of land jutting into the Firth of Forth, Bo'ness is short for Borrowstounness , the Burgh Town on the Ness. Recognised as a port in 1601, it became one of Scotland's leading ports in the early 18th Century when the customs house was moved from nearby Blackness. It exported coal and slag to the Low Countries and Scandinavia and imported timber from the Baltic and clay and flint from Devon and Cornwall for use in Dr John Roebuck's Bridgeness pottery. The town also developed as a prosperous ship-building, whaling and fishing port, its inhabitants being known as 'Garvies', a local name for sprats. A decline in the fortunes of Bo'ness followed the collapse of the tobacco trade and the completion in 1790 of the Forth and Clyde Canal which resulted in trade moving to Grangemouth. Shipbreaking, coal mining and the manufacture of pit props became important local industries in the 19th century, the waste slag from coal mines being used to reclaim land from the Forth, an idea developed by the local geologist Henry M. Cadell, born 1860, died 1934. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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