• Scots Mining Company House, also known as Woodlands Hall, is an early-18th-century mansion house in Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The house...
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    Leadhills (category Mining communities in Scotland)
    attention of the BBC. The Scots Mining Company House was built in 1736 for James Stirling, the managing agent of the Scots Mining Company. It is attributed to...
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  • year he was appointed manager for the Scots Mining Company at Leadhills, where the Scots Mining Company House was built for him in 1736. His next paper...
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    engine. In 1715, lead mining at Leadhills was encouraged by the founding of the Scots Mining Company. The fortunes of the company were revived in 1734...
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    mines and making salt with Mary, Queen of Scots, and her two husbands, Lord Darnley and Bothwell. De Vos's mining contracts were renewed by Mary's half-brother...
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    as Ulster Scots). Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, Northern Isles, and northern Ulster, it is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish...
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  • completed. Scots Mining Company House at Leadhills in Scotland, attributed to William Adam, is built (approximate date). North wing of house at Bregentved...
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    Listed Building Report". Historic Scotland. "Leadhills Village Scots Mining Company House And Garden Walls: Listed Building Report". Historic Scotland....
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  • Scots Mining Company House And Garden Walls 55°24′52″N 3°45′40″W / 55.414493°N 3.761013°W / 55.414493; -3.761013 (Leadhills Village Scots Mining Company...
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    Angus Ogilvy (category Scots Guards officers)
    at the Drayton company and later worked with the tycoon Tiny Rowland at Drayton's subsidiary, London and Rhodesia Mining and Land Company (Lonrho). The...
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  • the first comprehensive history of the city. Approximate date – Scots Mining Company House built at Leadhills. 19 January – James Watt, inventor (died 1819...
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    Scots, Kennedy and Boyd, 2012 Scotia Nova, Luath Press, 2014 The Tempest, translated in Scots, Grace Note, 2016 ISBN 978-1-907676-75-8 Michael Scot of...
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    Bobby Thomson (1923–2010), Scots-born American baseball player Sam Torrance (born 1953), golfer Lawrence Tynes (born 1978), Scots-born kicker for the New...
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    are often grouped under the single name "Scotch-Irish" or "Scots-Irish". Many of these Scots-Irish emigrated to the Blue Mountains in North Carolina and...
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    Bothwell Castle (category House of Douglas and Angus)
    approaching Scots. For this act, he was granted the barony of Cadzow, where his descendants became the powerful Hamilton family. The Scots slighted the...
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  • 1980. The company was promoted by the House of Khodays. Khoday Distilleries launched Red Knight whisky in 1967, and began producing Peter Scot whisky in...
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    Scottish Lowlands (category Articles containing Scots-language text)
    The Lowlands (Scots: Lallans or Lawlands, pronounced [ˈlɑːlən(d)z, ˈlo̜ːl-]; Scottish Gaelic: a' Ghalldachd, lit. 'place of the foreigners', pronounced...
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  • Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch (category Pre-grouping British railway companies)
    viaduct were used to clad a signal box at Leadhills station. Scots Mining Company House Passengers No More by G.Daniels and L.A.Dench David Turnock, The...
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    Scotland (redirect from Scot Land)
    Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's...
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    Tyndrum (category Mining communities in Scotland)
    1730 and 1928. Opencast mining was carried out from 1741 to 1745 under the orders of Sir Robert Clifton. The Scots Mining Company owned the mineral rights...
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    Mohamed Al-Fayed (category House of Fraser)
    tale is disputed by modern historians. Al-Fayed later declared that "The Scots are originally Egyptians and that's the truth." In 2009 Al-Fayed revealed...
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    dominated by heavy industry underpinned by shipbuilding in Glasgow, coal mining and steel industries. Petroleum related industries associated with the extraction...
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    West Lothian (category Articles containing Scots-language text)
    West Lothian (Scots: Wast Lowden; Scottish Gaelic: Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and was one of its historic counties. The...
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    Campbeltown (category Articles containing Scots-language text)
    where the Scots language predominated in recent centuries, rather than the previously widespread Scottish Gaelic, an enclave of Lowland Scots speech surrounded...
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    Scottish Australians (category Articles containing Scots-language text)
    Scottish Australians (Scots: Scots Australiens; Scottish Gaelic: Astràilianaich Albannach) are ‌‍‍‍‍residents of Australia who are fully or partially of...
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    Kong trading houses or Hongs that date back to Imperial China. 58 percent of the company's profits were earned in China in 2019. The company is controlled...
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  • Berkshire Hathaway acquired over 5% of the stock in the company, along with four other Japanese trading houses, over the 12-month period ending in August 2020...
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    by the Scots in 1640 and 1644 during the British Civil War. In 1872, Theodore Fry was involved in founding the Bearpark Coal and Coke Company, which established...
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    community events take place here. The Durham Mining Museum is housed in Spennymoor Town Hall, and covers mining in the north of England - mines in the historic...
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    Weardale (category History of mining in the United Kingdom)
    miners and companies being lessees. In 1327 Edward III led his first military campaign in Weardale. The so-called Weardale campaign against the Scots was a...
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