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The British Wool Society grazed sheep on the island in the 1790s and the land was farmed for many years until the last farmer, Peter Hogg, died in 1904. [11] Throughout most of its history, Cramond Island was used for farming, especially sheep-farming, [2] and perhaps served as a fishing outpost as well.
The island was also used for a construction office and the castle buildings were re-roofed to accommodate workers. Some of the stone from the former castle was used to build the caissons of the bridge. [2] [53] Cramond Island in the Almond estuary is a tidal island that is 7.7 hectares (19 acres) in extent and is currently part of the Dalmeny ...
1748: Tells the story of John Newton's transformation from slave trader to Anglican priest; story is set in Calabar, Nigeria. Plunkett & Macleane: 1999: 1748: Loosely based on The Gentlemen Highwaymen William Plunkett and Captain James MacLaine. They were highwaymen noted for their restrained and courteous behavior towards their victims ...
Eventually he was made to fight Adam Bruntfield in single combat on Cramond Island, or on the "Links of Barnbougle", on 15 March 1597. [47] The judges were the Duke of Lennox, the Laird of Buccleuch, and Sir James Sandilands. They wore lightweight clothes of satin and taffeta, one in blue, and one in red.
But his story about endowing 200 acres and eight cows to start the first free school nearly four centuries ago in the Virginia colonies caught her eye. “I read this little bit (and) I thought
March – Leonard Calvert leads the first group of settlers to the new English colony of Maryland in North America 5 May – A royal proclamation confines flying of the Union Flag (the first recorded reference to it by this name) to the king's ships; English merchant vessels are to fly the flag of England.
Dec. 7—CAPE VINCENT — On the last day of July in 1926, a party of about 50 explorers landed at Carleton Island in search of historic lore. After disembarking from a scow, they "walked over the ...
Cramond is also where the House of Shaws is located in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped. Cramond is also mentioned in Ian Rankin's Fleshmarket Close. Cramond features briefly in a series 2 episode of the Paul Temple (TV series) called 'Double Vision' filmed in 1970. More recently Cramond featured in Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm.