Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Torrance

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Torrance village in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The village is located 8 miles north of the Glasgow city centre. The village was once famous as a resting place for workers on their way to the Campsie Fells. Although weavers were among the earliest residents of the village, limestone, coal and ironstone extraction also began to emerge as a local industry. 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 Of Slamannan

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Slamannan village in the Falkirk area of Scotland. The village is 4.6 miles south west of Falkirk, 6 miles east of Cumbernauld and 7.1 miles north east of Airdrie. Lance Corporal Samuel Frickleton, was born in Slamannan, in 1891, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Frickleton. The family emigrated to New Zealand to take advantage of the plentiful jobs on offer in the coal mining industry, and the following year saw the outbreak of the First World War. Corporal Frickleton was awarded the military's highest honour for his actions in the Battle of Messines. His bravery was so outstanding that his commanding officer claimed he could have won the Victoria Cross twice over. Former Cabinet Minister Viscount Horne was born in Slamannan in 1871, the son of the village's Church of Scotland minister. After study at the University of Glasgow, he became a successful Lawyer and was elected to represent Glasgow Hillhead in Parliament, and served as Minister of Labour, President of the Board of Trade and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lloyd George after the First World War. He was ennobled in 1937 as Viscount Horne of Slammanan. 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 Of Redding

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Redding village in the Falkirk area of Scotland. The village is 2.1 miles south east of Falkirk, 1.9 miles south south west of Grangemouth and 1 mile west of Polmont. On a hill beyond Redding is a stone that is called Wallace's stone, marking out the spot from which Sir William Wallace, after his quarrel with Sir John Stuart, one of the Scottish chiefs, is said to have viewed the Battle of Falkirk, from which he had been compelled to retire, and to have witnessed the defeat of the Scottish army. In 1923, the small mining community of Redding was the scene of one of the worst disasters in the history of the Scottish coalfield, which claimed the lives of 40 men. 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 Of Balloch

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Balloch a small town in West Dunbartonshire, at the foot of Loch Lomond. Balloch is at the north end of the Vale of Leven, straddling the River Leven itself. It connects to the larger town of Alexandria and to the smaller village of Jamestown, both of which are located to its south. It also borders the Kilpatrick Hills. With its accessible location at the southern end of Loch Lomond and just off the main road from Glasgow to the West Highlands, it is an important centre of tourism, especially from Glasgow and Dumbarton. Balloch comes from the Gaelic word bal, baile or ball, which means village or hamlet, so Balloch means, village on the loch. 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 Of Avonbridge

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Avonbridge village in the Falkirk area of Scotland. The village lies at the junction of the B8028 and B825 roads and is a bridging point over the River Avon, hence the name Avonbridge. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Avonbridge was home to small scale open cast coal mining. The village also had a brickworks in the mid twentieth century, Avonbridge Brickworks, which no longer exists. The name Avonbridge derives from the fact that the village crosses a river. The word, avon, is often found in the Celtic language which denotes the presence of a river, in this case the River Avon. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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