Old Footage With Music Of Galashiels On History Visit To Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish Music, of old footage of Galashiels, have an ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the Borders, Britain, United Kingdom. In 1599, Galashiels received its Burgh Charter. The textile trade caused Galashiels' population to increase dramatically from 800 residents at the start of the nineteenth century to 19,553 by 1890. A connection with the town's mill history, the Mill Lade, still links the town from near the site of mills at Wheatlands Road, to Netherdale, via Wilderhaugh, Bank Street, the Fountain and next to the Tesco/retail development Street. Robert Burns wrote two poems about Galashiels, " Sae Fair Her Hair " and " Braw Lads ". Andrew John Herbertson was born in Galashiels, Selkirkshire, to parents Andrew Hunter Herbertson and Janet Matthewson. He went to school locally at Galashiels Academy and in Edinburgh at Edinburgh Institution. From 1886 to 1889 he studied in the University of Edinburgh, but he never gained a degree. He then gained a place at Oxford University in Englandm where he graduated. In 1892, he was appointed to assist Patrick Geddes with the teaching of botany at University College, Dundee. in 1892 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He then moved in 1892 to Fort William in the Highlands of Scotland to work on a metereological observatory on Ben Nevis Mountain. In 1894 he moved to Manchester to become a lecturer in political and commercial geography in the University of Manchester. From 1896 to 1899, he lectured in industrial and commercial geography at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh.[4] In 1896 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Peter Guthrie Tait, Sir John Murray, Ralph Copeland and Alexander Buchan. In 1898, he received a doctorate from University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau in Germany. In 1899 he moved to the University of Oxford to become a reader of geography; then became the first Oxford Professor of Geography in 1905. He would become head of the geography department at Oxford in 1910. In 1908 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. He died of a heart attack in Radnage, Buckinghamshire. He is buried with his wife Frances Dorothy (who died two weeks later) in Holywell Cemetery nearby. Their son, Lt. Andrew Hunter Herbertson, was killed at Arras in the First World War in May 1917. 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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