Why You'd be Crazy not to Visit West Lothian... and I'm no Jokin'
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2022
- Scotland has some fantastic must see places. Sadly people often miss out on some of the gems because they get caught up in the tourist traps. Scottish history tour guide Bruce Fummey shows you some of the must see places in and around Bathgate... yes that's right... Bathgate
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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.
As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.
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You should start doing a podcast on scotlands history.
Fascinating as always , thank you..
@@bustagrimes2546 that would be great
Great video. The story about neck injuries,alcohol and the couch made me lol.
I wonder if you could do a a little something about William the lion, clan Urquhart. Thanks for how you educate.
Bathgate is having street names reviewed by a visitor as we speak. Local schools should do more to touch this land's great history. Great job Bruce.
I am also living in Scotland and I really enjoyed this video.
Same here bathgate is my hometown nice to see it's history being told great job
I was very grateful to a Scottish Doctor who came over to the U.S. back in the 60's. My mother was dying, not from the cancer she had but from the too much or the radium and cobalt they had given her. She was burning up inside. This Scottish Doctor came over to show a treatment he had come up with to stop such burning of tissues. He packed my mother with SUGAR, ordinary sugar that we use in out tea. And it worked, my mother's internal tissues were no longer burning away. He saved her life, and I got to keep my mother until 2005 when she died at age 81. So I am very grateful to that Scottish Doctor.
I was born in Bangour Village Hospital, just near Broxburn, and spent my first few years in Linlithgow before living all over the UK. Since 2014 I’ve been back, and love it here, so many great places for a walk. Also I secretly hope that there’s a Smaug like dragon buried deep in Cairnpapple 😀
I doubt very much you were born in Bangor village hospital as it was a mental asylum. You were probably born in the same place as myself, Bangor General hospital which is nothing more than a field now. If you go up the farm road to the west wing if the village hospital, you'll go through a farmyard. The brick gates on your right are the only remnants of the hospital.
Yep, you had to go through the farmyard to get to it, ambulances included. Kids these days would never believe it was actually a hospital. I remember goin up there as a child n seeing the chickens running around asxanbulances came in and out. Haha.
It was a prefab building that was built during WW2vas an annex of the village to treat the war wounded.
After the war, it was turned into a general hospital until 1989 where it moved to St Johns hospital in Livingston, a modern hospital. It was soon after demolished.
It's a shame there's very little on here about it. Most confuse it with the village.
The village was an eery place.
My auntie was a nurse there. I remember going as a child to pick her up n you could see the faces peering through the bars on the windows
Born and live in West Lothian, good to see it getting a wee bit recognition.
Always something new and fresh to be excited about. Bruce’s enthusiasm is infectious.
As a Greenockian who now lives in Broxburn this has given me plenty of places to visit.
Just told the wife about West Calder being the first village to get street lighting. She manages a nursery there so is going to use that little fact to start a topic about local history with the children!
My daddy was born in Greenock I'd like to start my visit to Scotland there..love this Scottish history channel.
@@trayccox8223 You are always most welcome here anytime for the rest of your life.
We do tend to look out for each other when we are all away from home.
I used to be part of the squad that looked after Cairnpapple
Brilliant
@@ScotlandHistoryTours you should visit Edin’s hall broch sometime, another fascinating place 👍🏻
I’m a local to Bathgate and I know every inch of the hills, there’s so much to explore and so much was not covered by this video, such as the penance stane, Kipps castle and the mound! It was an incredible video, you really know how to make it interesting!!
Will say as a person who studies Archaeology, I remember visiting Cairnpapple with the university. It truly is an incredible place, and something I think you forgot to mention is the view from the top there as well. You can see to the mouths of both important rivers in lowland Scotland, the Clyde and Forth and as far North as Goatfell on a goo day. Something a few of our Archaeologist lecturers brought up was the chance of it being used as a defensive area too, due to these incredible views.
I'll also say that the church you visited is a stunner, and somewhere more people need to visit, I got to see inside and the church is just incredible.
I live in Falkirk and as a child my Father and I cycled to Bathgate to see the Knights Hospitlers Church and then went to Cairnpapple I remember climbing inside, it wasn’t all clean and bright then., and seeing the clay beakers that had been found there. Years later we took our children .
So much of Scotland has great places, with historical connections ,within a few miles of each other. I used to love these family days, wandering round the local area learning lots while having fun
You are still a teacher. That's a good thing. The people of this world need some teaching.
There's also my paternal family's former castle (now a ruined keep) called Cairns Castle!
Proud to come from West Lothian. I’m a Livingston boy, but spent the first year of my life in Stoneyburn. That’s where my Mum comes from.
My great Grandad, Bill Crawford, was a coal miner and also worked in the shale mines at Westwood where the 5 sisters bing is. I was 8 when he died, but I remember him telling me stories about being “Doon the pit”
You are a wonderful spokesperson for a place that my ancestors come from. Thank you for an awesome history lesson!
Our pleasure!
I had thought I had been interested in Scotland before I discovered these videos but now I am absolutely in love with the history of Scotland and the people that made it and this world so great. So Bruce my hat is off to you
Yay
Lovely nostalgia for me. I grew up in Candie, went to school in Standburn. Cairnpapple was a standard school trip, and our school minister, who visited one a week iirc to do Bible stuff, was from Torphichen and wore the ring of the St John Knights, was great to have a refresher on all of that 🥃
Proud to be Scottish citizen. I love Scotland and always enjoying your videos. very beautiful and informative
Glad you enjoyed it
@@ScotlandHistoryTours your work and videography skills are fantastic.
I'm proud of Scotland too especially the countryside itself and all the megalithic sites.
@@zeropointconsciousness wawoo. good to meet you here. I am making videos and my work is for the awareness and support of disabled children. But, you will also see the Scottish beauty in my every single video.
I grew up in the Boghall area of Bathgate and the Bathgate Hills was my playground. Have so much fun exploring them hills and know of many other places in West Lothian.
I now live in West Calder 😊
You sir, have a very goofy and awkward hairstyle, but you are an intelectual and a true poet in heart and mind. Thank you for creating such lovely content for us all.
I'm subscribing and deff. watching the other videos.
I'm a bathgate lad. love the place. Proud of it. Your video shows some which I already knew and some things I didn't keep it up man. Love your stuff. Made me even more proud of ma wee big town.
The 1,114 killed in Korea is the figure for all UK servicemen. Apparently 236 of these were Scots.
Beautiful video, Bruce. Fascinating stuff. Hope I can get to Bathgate and surrounds some day soon to see it for myself.
Cheers from Australia.
I have visited the memorial to our fallen Korean brothers. Much respect to them.
thats mad! I've been watching you for awhile, at least a year, and now you're cutting about where I live! Hope you had a good time 🙂
It actually looks great in West Lothian to be honest with you.
I love love love stone circles for a start and I also love all the other prehistoric megalithic sites in Scotland too.
Come on Man, you Talk Scotch History, I Enjoy.. Thank You..🥃🍺🇬🇧😇🏴
I love this guy's patter.
This was beautiful, mesmerizing and soul searching.
I'm so glad you're here for all of us children of Scotland, near/an distant. Keep up the channel, pal.
Thanks
@@ScotlandHistoryTours you're welcome.🙏
Being able to enter that cairn is something that one can not do at most sites.
Thank you Bruce.
Know and done them all. This was where my grandfather spent his youth and these locations are like magic words to me 👍
Same thing mate Bruce brought back lovely memories too
Schools should give you a job, your passion would be an inspiration to children in my opinion. There's so much to learn that would teach children humanity and unite them.
Another brilliant video Bruce as always , I can give you something older than cairnpapple in West Lothian, about 2 miles passed the knock back towards Bathgate is many fossils in the bed rock of the old reservoir at peterhill, and just down the road from that westlothiana lizziae possibly the oldest known reptile fossil was found. West Lothian is a great place to live and there's plenty to uncover
Interesting. Our local hospital in my town of Longview, Washington. USA. Is named st John’s hospital. Wonder if there’s a connection. We have Scottish ties around here. Local high school mascot is the lassies and highlanders. Town next to us was built by a scot and named Kelso, Washington. Named after the Scotsmans hometown of Kelso, Scotland. Good video as always Bruce.
West Lothian is great, very lucky to live here
Is Lothian where the Edinburgh castle 🏰
Edinburgh is Mid Lothian
@@ScotlandHistoryTours thanks very much. I took my brother to Edinburgh hospital from Aberdeen. And, I make a video as well. But my work is not good like you. This is my video.
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Wow!
You are a dead ringer for that comedian off the telly my man.
You know the cheeky one.
Me too
Ayy I live just by Bennie museum, nice to see Bathgate on the map
And my uncle volunteers there too!
to answer your question, "what places would you(I) like to see in Scotland ?", I would love to see all of Scotland again. especially, the places I visited back in 1973. I loved my visit to Scotland back then. and I miss it to this day.
Nice one Bruce, nae helmet mate, tsk tsk 😆. Aye, I think I’ve visited most of them at one time or other, love seeing it all, makes me miss home. 🏴💙
Well, up to now, the only thing I recall about Bathgate was there being a British Leyland plant that was shut down there. Now, wow!
I grew up about a mile and a half away from Cairnpapple. Never have I managed to see inside! I can't think of how many times I've tried, but this is the first time I've had a wee keek.
A little bit to the east of the Bennie Museum is the former site of Bathgate Castle (the gold course). The castle was given by Robert the Bruce to his daughter Margery on the occasion of her marriage to Walter, the Lord High Steward. It was from that line the Stewart/Stuart dynasty came.
And very close is the location of East Kirkton Quarry where our very own dinosaur was found, Westlothiana Llizziae.
From Bathgate & now live in Linlithgow. I think West Lothian is a beautiful place to live! Fond memories of visiting the Bennie museum when I was wee 😁
I’m moving back to Bathgate soon, I’ve lived in Helensburgh for just under 4 years now, and 7 years in Germany before that. But I’ve always considered Bathgate my home town. I’ll be sure to give these places a visit as soon as I get back
I would love to see everything you've shown. Someday I hope and pray I get to Scotland. I would love to find out about my ancestors. Love these travels with you.
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Excellent video Bruce. Pop along the Forth 8 or so miles to Airth( where I live) and see the old boat building yard…..and your comment at the end re people understand each other is indeed well met.
You have lifted my heart with your poignant questions - I hope they stir enough fellow humans to enlarge the flap of the butterfly wings😊
That would be grand
I'd love to go see the cairn. I'm English but just recently visited Loch ness and the surrounding areas whil I was staying in beautiful Inverness.
Looking at crossing the border soon and visiting more.
Great videos. I can spend hours watching them.
Keep up the amazing work 👏
Loch Ness looks huge on maps. Is it an awe inspiring sight?
@@jammyscouser2583 yes definitely. Takes a good while to drive around and if you stand at one end (length wise) you can't see the other side.
And there are plenty of other things to see and do on the drive around.
Like Falls of Foyers and Fort Augustus and Urquhart Castle.
I love your fantastic enthusiasm, and sharing all these places so that we can find them too. If I was in Scotland, I'd be there in a blink.
Maybe one day!
Come do a video on East Kilbride Bruce. Britains biggest post war town I believe. I love it here and there's some cracking little surprises too.
Bruce thankyou I'm fascinated by Scotland visited stayed and have family in Inverness Fort William and Edinburgh myself apologies I'm English 🤣🤣 love your content and your passion for Scotland and its variety of history and unbeatable landscape
I would love to visit these places and all of Scotland if we are being honest. So much history it seems endless. No other place in the world I would rather be. One day Bruce. One day.
In 1974 my Almondbank P4 class (Livingston) visited Cairnpapple.
Brilliant Bruce. We found this by accident after dropping of my daughter. Impressive place
It's absolutely mind blowing as you try to put the desicions taken by folk into a time line
Oh yes, you are most definitely on the right track, if you're asking this old girl. Going to have to buy you another coffee. Brilliant stories, Bruce! ❤☕😎
I like the cut of your jib 😘
@@ScotlandHistoryTours oh dear is that showing again?! 🤣😉😁
Assuming travel restrictions don't return my family and I are planning a trip to your wonderful country toward the end of summer. We are planning places to visit, and your videos are most helpful.
Both of my parents were from West Lothian; my father's family from Bathgate and Torphichen, (my paternal grandfather and great grandfather were both prominent members of the Torphichen Pipe Band); my mother's family from Bo'ness and Bathgate. All were involved in the steel, coal and shale oil industries in one way or another. My father studied Geology at Edinburgh University.
Today, I have living relatives in Dechmont, West Calder, Strathavon, Linlithgow, Slamannan, Livingston and Almondbank. (As well as Inverness, Invermoriston, Scotlandswell, Milan, Haarlem, Halifax and Ely, Cambs. I live in Bristol.)
Our ancestors include Orcadians and Hebrideans and our distant relatives live in Utah, Ohio, Vancouver, Plymouth NZ and Perth AUS.
The Gilberts, Loves, MacNeills and the Hamiltons got about a bit!
Tell the ones in Perth WA that I'll be doing a couple of live shows there in February fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/stories-of-scotland-fw2023
Great video - I used to live in Bathgate, right at the top of the hill and not that far from Cairnpapple. I used to go up there all the time.
What got me, and still does, is that the oval henge, seen from above resembles "the all seeing eye". And when you consider that you can literally see from coast to coast, it truly becomes a mind blowing place.
Incredible on the sunny day I was there
I would give almost anything to spend a lifetime visiting the people, places and events of Scotland's history (partly because it would probably take that ling). It's the little known pieces of history that I find the most fascinating and the "common" people of the land that I find most interesting! Keep up the stellar work Bruce!
My father had a farm North Mains near the Knock hill ,lots of memories
Going to Bathgate museum tomorrow, my father was born in Mansfield Street in 1919. Then onto Cairnpapple. Loved the video.
Brilliant
My great great grandparents came from bathgate ive been spending loads of time there x
I have been to West Lothian on many occasions and love the the place my mother and her family are from BONESS and if you are ever in the area i suggest that that you take a few hours to look around and then take the short trip to lilithgo palace what a fantastic place
I would love to visit all the places you talk about. I really enjoy videos like this where you take one location and tell stories of what happened near there over the centuries.
I enjoyed the narrative of Scots coming up with their own technology and techniques in medicine as well
From the other side, though I live in West Lothian now, so this is all fascinating to me. Similarities between where I’m from.
Fantastic.
Used to work in an elderly care home and Ma aged to get loads of the service users interested in history, talking about the pre-Roman tribes who were in our area and the forts and markings they left (the Cochno Stones), the Roman fort built where the town sits, that Dumbarton is mentioned in the Viking Sagas and the Irish Chronicles - yet we got told nothing about it in school: it was all British history
Another great effort Bruce! Wonderfully informative and spectacularly interesting. I can't wait to see these places whence I plan my trip. Thank you for the story and good morning from America!
Enjoy when the time comes you will love it
Wow, what a sucker punch at the end! You lulled me into a false sense of security with this one then BAM!
Bo'ness has alot to see also, James Watts cottage, kinneil House, roman ruins etc.
True
Aye we've got all that too here in sunny Greenock.
(not only the birthplace of Jimmy Watt but our local Weatherspoons is named after him too...it is of course "The Jimmy Watt")
I'd love to visit all of them, frankly.
The Bathgate Hills is such an interesting place. I grew up in a home that was only a cpl miles from Cairnpapple, up in the hills there’s also, the Korean monument, Bee Craigs park which is a great day out, something we called “the clingken stone” which has a legend that, at night you can hear scots sharpen their swords on the stone, as they headed to a battle. There is tons of cave systems, and a quarry that they have found prehistoric artifacts. Great video & worth the visit to anyone that wants to come to Bathgate. 🏴❤️
My daughter lived in Broxburn for a while but now lives in Avonbridge and has explored pretty much all the places you mention. Takes me to several of them when I'm visiting her and the grandchildren. Love Cairnpapple and Torphichen.
Really cool to get to know something about my ancestors’ neighborhood!👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
I lived in West Lothian and one of my sons was born and still lives there. We have visited most of these including Cairnpapple but did not have so much information back almost fifty years ago. . Another great video, you share so much information in an interesting way and in such a short time. You bring history to life. Thank you.
I’d love to visit West Lothian…..someday.
I'm from West Lothian but haven't visited any of these places! Thank you for such an interesting video!
You should!
Thank,s Bruce, another fantastic production. I always thought " bathgate no more" was just a throw away line or, song filler. Your channel has really opened my eyes, to all things of scottish history, and culture. Awesome.
I'm delighted
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Bathgate no Mower? is the name of my gardener's limited company.
we're not far away in North Lanarkshire but have to admit to more often than not just driving through West Lothian on our way to Edinburgh and Fife. I have walked the length of the Union Canal (part of a charity walk along the Forth & Clyde and Unions canals) and really enjoyed the whole walk through West Lothian. Cairnpapple looks amazing. We're HES members so really no excuse not to have visited before now! Thank you
Exactly
Oh Mate. I keep watching your videos and I would really love to get back to Scotland one-day. I really appreciate and enjoy your videos.
Brilliant
You’re on the right track - 100%. Fascinating series.
So interesting!!! I have a huge percentage of my family from there! And I don't/didnt know a thing about the area! Thankyou Bruce!!🤗🥰
My pleasure!
This is exactly why I’m coming to Scotland. The history is fascinating to me and I’d love to learn more. You’re on the right track Bruce.
bruce is the GOAT!!!
Glad you're back to tell me a story 🫠
😘
I took a walk up there recently, can see it from my house just about. Its also worth taking a trip to Tappoch or Torwood Broch in Larbert
I remember sitting in school and thinking of how history was taught in broad strokes, of the notable people and places, wars and changes that happened. I was more curious about the common people, and how they lived and thought, that history didn't seem to answer.
Aye, if only things were recorded about the little people
Great last question to leave us with.
These sites are amazing and inspiring! As a Lamont across the pond Im in awe of every video and story- Tapadh Leat, a caraid!
Jim Clarke (motor racer) has a wee museum dedicated to him. the man, the myth, the legend. Scottish borders.
thanks for sharing this information
(TheOld) Top Gear did an excellent piece to a racing legend.
Trying to explain to non motor-racing fans in the borders that the greatest ever racing driver grew up in our wee part of the world. I use the comparison of Clark being like Messi and Ronaldo combined to try and get the point across.
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it's very sad that Scottish people don't know about Scottish greats. maybe it's because Scotland doesn't really have it's own mainstream media.
Great video Bruce! These are exactly the places I am pinning for our extend holiday in a few years. Please make more! Thanx again
Great Bruce! Been to them all (in the eighties) except mibbe? the museum, but even that looks familiar. I used to ride up there too on my bicycle on the way back from work past the farmers folly (standing stones). Its the long way round from Livinsgton to Queensferry, but worth the climb for the view and its a brilliant downhill run into Linlithgow - "an' a wee hauf efter work" at the Four Mary's. Not every day, but once a week in the summer. Great places, fond memories.
YES YES YES. So much interesting History, and EZ TO ACCESS too. Highly recommend the Canal boat ride to the Falkirk Wheel. Amazing to visit the wee villages, so much History and Creativity.
Canal boat trip coming up in the next few weeks
Again you nail it, Bruce. You closing comments are so true and the question you pose so very timely. Brilliant. Thanks.
yes Bruce you star again wih informative and humor to tell stories and make both geography and history an enjoyable experience, Cheers from Australia
scotland would have been covered in forest then,yet they used a lot of stone, is it stone lasts forever wood does not.been there,some place.ideal for a fort. can see everything,great you show the wee back of beyond places and not just the tourist trap ones,great show bruce.
Cracking video Bruce, exploring a part of Scotland, I’d never thought to go before. 👍
Bruce you’ve make ma day mate , I’ve walked the Bathgate hill for years and never know the name for the circles lol
West Lothian or Bust! The past truly is another country, and thank you for taking us there.
Aye Bruce small yours are best and the story included helps us understand.
Very Nicely told Bruce!
I would love to visit these places. Thank you for another great glimpse into the past.
Excellent video Bruce and, yes, please keep them coming.
Like your video of Kilmartin Glen, you've highlighted places to visit I would never otherwise known about - and it gives me ideas of where to take the family during the summer that won't be mobbed.
Brilliant M8 thats more ideas for places to visit ,keep up the great work