15 Jan
Air Conditioning
Lockerbie - DG11
Enquiry from: Carol P
Start Date: Immediate
New boiler & 9 radiators for oil central heating
Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries and also Galloway, south-western Scotland. It exists around 75 miles (121 kilometres) from Glasgow, and also 20 miles (32 kilometres) from the English border. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The community pertained to worldwide interest in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there adhering to a terrorist bomb strike aboard the trip. Lockerbie obviously has actually existed considering that a minimum of the days of Viking impact in this part of Scotland in the period around 900. The name (originally "Loc-hard's by") means Lockard Town in Old Norse. The presence of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the town suggests its beginnings might be even previously. Lockerbie initially went into recorded history in the 1190s in a charter of Robert de Brus, second Lord of Annandale, providing the lands of Lockerbie to Adam de Carlyle. It looks like Lokardebi in 1306. About 2 miles to the west of Lockerbie on 7 December 1593, Clan Johnstone dealt with Clan Maxwell at the Battle of Dryfe Sands. The Johnstones virtually eliminated the Maxwells associated with the fight, causing the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's primary duration of growth started in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family, made plots of land available along the line of the High Street, generating basically a semi-planned settlement. By 1750 Lockerbie had come to be a considerable town, as well as from the 1780s it was a staging blog post on the carriage route from Glasgow to London. Possibly one of the most crucial duration of growth was throughout the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow road was developed via Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened the line from Carlisle to Beattock with Lockerbie in 1847 and later all the way to Glasgow. From 1863 until 1966 Lockerbie was additionally a train junction, offering a branch line to Dumfries. Referred to as the Dumfries, Lochmaben and also Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to guests in 1952 as well as to products in 1966. The community is served by Lockerbie railway station. Lockerbie had actually been house to Scotland's largest lamb market since the 18th century however the arrival of the Caledonian Railway enhanced better its duty in the cross-border trade in sheep. The railway additionally generated a decreasing in the rate of coal, allowing a gas works to be constructed in the community in 1855.
