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In 2007 Rightmove bought 67% of Holiday Lettings Limited. [6] In May 2008, HBOS, one of the founding investors, sold its stake in Rightmove. [7] According to Forbes, Rightmove operates on a two-sided model which serves a vast "audience" for property listings on one side and 20,000 advertisers of available properties on the other side. [8]
Since that decade, considerable private housing developments have continued. As more private houses were built in the 1980s, Erskine started to become an attractive place to live due to location factors and accessibility to main roads and the M8 Motorway. Due to this there was a major boom in property development in the 80s and 90s.
A £15m re-fit converted the building into a 5-star hotel which opened in 2004. The official name of the hotel is Earl of Mar; however, locally it is known as Mar Hall. The name recalls the Erskine Estate's former ownership by the Earl of Mar.
The Wall, along with the low-rise dwellings built to its south, replaced Victorian slum terraced housing. There were nearly 1200 houses on the site at Byker. They had been condemned as unfit for human habitation in 1953, and demolition began in 1966. [2] The new housing block was designed by Ralph Erskine, assisted by Vernon
In 1668, Sir Charles Erskine, Bt (d. 1677), the Lord Lyon King of Arms and brother of the 3rd Earl of Kellie, [2] purchased the property from the creditors of Patrick Merton. [3] The estate passed through the Erskine family to the 5th Earl of Kellie, who forfeited his lands after supporting the Jacobite rising of 1745. [2]
Erskine Veterans Charity is a veterans care and support non-profit organisation headquartered in Erskine, Renfrewshire, but operating across the Central Belt of Scotland. It provides a range of services to British Armed Forces , veterans of all ages and their families, who live in Scotland.
Kilmacolm's former police office and police houses in early 2010. The territorial police force covering Kilmacolm is the Police Service of Scotland , with Kilmacolm falling within its Renfrewshire and Inverclyde division, which is further subdivided into three area commands – in this case, Inverclyde.
Jane Plumer Callander (née Erskine; 9 May 1818, London - 30 March 1846, Scotland) was a British noblewoman whose portrait was included in the Gallery of Beauties of the Bavarian King Ludwig I. [1] She was the daughter of David Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine .