Tour Scotland Video Old Photographs Busby

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Busby located in East Renfrewshire near Glasgow. Busby's close proximity to Glasgow effectively makes it a suburb of the city, though it remains administratively separate. It lies on the White Cart Water 6 miles south of Glasgow City Centre. The first big change was in the landscape. Until the 1780s Busby village consisted of a scatter of cottages along a track leading from Carmunnock to Mearns. This route forded the River Cart to Newford at Bonnyton. This original village or fermtoun was in the area of the present Busby railway station. The second big change started in 1780 with the founding of Busby's first cotton mill. The third major change in Busby in the 1780s was the new road, from Paisley to East Kilbride. The first Busby Bridge was built on this route around 1785. A second Cotton Mill followed in 1790, then a Bleachfield and Printworks six years later. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Fintry

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Fintry village in Stirlingshire, Scotland. A Scottish village nestled in the strath of the Endrick Water between the Campsie Fells and the Fintry Hills, some 19 miles north of Glasgow. The village is located at the head of the Strathendrick valley high up on the Endrick Water. Alexander Spiers built a water powered cotton mill and whisky distillery around 1789 and the village developed to serve the mill workers. Fintry is a Church of Scotland Parish in the Presbytery of Stirling. The kirk is located to the East of the village. The parish minister for Fintry is shared with Balfron with the Manse located there. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs East Saltoun

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of East Saltoun located five miles South West of Haddington and 2½ miles east of Pencaitland, East Lothian, Scotland. The village includes several 18th Century buildings and a Gothic Parish Church, built in 1805 on the site of an earlier church. Saltoun was once served by a branch line railway, which ran 2 miles to south of the village and then on to Gifford. The railway was never greatly successful and closed to passengers in 1933 and completely in 1960. In the 12th century David I gifted lands in Saltoun to Hugh de Moreville. In 1643 the lands and barony were sold to Andrew Fletcher, grandfather of Andrew Fletcher, the Patriot, and it was the Fletcher family who attempted to make Saltoun a centre of manufacturing in the early 18th century. Most industry was sited in West Saltoun, formerly Milton, on the Birns Water. The first barley mill in Scotland was established there in 1712, and the British Linen Company had bleachfields in West Saltoun in 1746. In the early 19th century the Fletcher family invested further in the parish by helping to pay for a new church, manse and school in East Saltoun, and commissioning additions to Saltoun Hall, near West Saltoun. By the mid 19th century most of the parish's industries were failing, and the land was given over to agriculture. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, the Patriot, born 1655, died September 1716, was a Scottish writer and politician, he is remembered as an advocate for the independence of Scotland, and an opponent of the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England. Fletcher became an exile after being accused of promoting insurrection, he was appointed the cavalry commander of the Monmouth Rebellion, but shortly after landing in England he killed another leading figure. He again went into exile, this time as a fugitive and with his estates forfeit. He returned with William of Orange, becoming Commissioner of the old Parliament of Scotland. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Dalmuir

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Dalmuir, an area on the western side of Clydebank, in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Before being annexed to the growing shipbuilding town of Clydebank, early Dalmuir was a town in its own right and host to Richard Collins paper mill, which opened in 1747 on the banks of the Duntocher Burn. The William Beardmore and Company shipbuilding and engineering works attracted a large population to settle in the area. It was active from 1886 to the mid 1930s and at its peak employed about 40,000 people. Its most well known area these days is Dalmuir Park. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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Tour Scotland Video Old Photographs Spittalfield Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Spittalfield, Perthshire. Spittalfield lies between Caputh and Meikleour, on the A984 road 6 miles east of Dunkeld. The A984 road begins on the northern side of Thomas Telford's Dunkeld Bridge. When originally classified in 1922, this route was given the B947 number. However, by 1932 the route had already been upgraded to be the A984 we see today, and the B947 number reused on a spur route into Blairgowrie. This was a planned weaving village with traditional Scottish cottages surrounding a village green built in 1776. In 1846 the village had 238 inhabitants, mostly weavers, hence the name Spittalfield. Sir John Muir Mackenzie, of Delvine, Baronet. was the principal heritor in the parish. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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