Old Photograph Commonside Street Airdrie Scotland

Old photograph of a chimney cleaner, children and houses on Commonside Street in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish town is located approximately 12 miles East of Glasgow city centre.



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Old Photographs Stirling Street Airdrie Scotland

Old photograph of children, shops and buildings on Stirling Street in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish town is located approximately 12 miles East of Glasgow city centre.

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Old Photograph Graham Street Airdrie Scotland

Old photograph of shops, buildings, horses and carts and people on Graham Street in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish town is located approximately 12 miles East of Glasgow city centre. A significant event in Airdrie's history was the 1695 passing of a special Act of Parliament in the Scottish Parliament allowing Robert Hamilton of Airdrie to hold four fairs yearly and a weekly market in the town of " Airdry ". This helped develop Airdrie from a " farm town " into a thriving " market town ". Airdrie really came to prominence through its weaving industry. Airdrie Weavers Society was founded in 1781 and flax was being grown in sixteen farms in and around the burgh. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, coal mining was in progress and around thirty colliers were employed. Weaving continued to flourish making up a substantial part of the population of over 2,500 around the turn of the 19th century. Given its large number of weavers, its geographic location, and a large number of unemployed soldiers following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Airdrie became a major centre of support for the Radical War of 1820. The rapid pace of population growth continued and by 1821 there were 4,862 inhabitants. At this time the number of houses being built increased dramatically and in 1821, by a private Act of Parliament, Airdrie became a free and independent Burgh of Barony.



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Old Photograph Bank Street Coatbridge Scotland

Old photograph of a farmer with cattle on Bank Street in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Gavin Drummond Shop Coatbridge Scotland

Old photograph of staff outside the shop owned by Gavin Drummond on Sunnyside Road in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The town is part of the Greater Glasgow urban area.

This great and noble name of Drummond is of Scottish territorial origin from any of the various places, including Drymen near Stirling. that get their names from the Gaelic " dromainn ", a derivative of " druim ", a ridge. Drummond Hill near Kenmore, Pertshire, and Drummond Castle, seat of the Earl of Ancaster, south west of Crieff, locate the family in Perthshire. The principal family of the name are believed to be descended from Maurice, a Hungariao nobleman, who accompanied Edgar Atheling and his sister Margaret to Scotland, where she married King Malcolm 111. The surname was first recorded at the end of the 12th Century, Other early recordings include Malcolm de Drummond who witnessed a charter by Gillemichell Edolf circa 1270, and Gilbert de Dromund of Dumbretan who rendered homage in 1296. The family frequently appear as witnesses in the early charters of the earls of Levenax, in whose household they held various offices. Annabella Brummond, born 1350, died 1402, married King Robert III and was mother of James 1. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Gilbert de Drummyn, chaplain to Alwyn, Earl of Levenax, which was dated circa 1199.



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