31 May
Conversion | Loft
Lockerbie - DG11
Enquiry from: John M
Start Date: Immediate
loft conversion have plans and building control max budget £14000
Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries as well as Galloway, south-western Scotland. It exists approximately 75 miles (121 kilometres) from Glasgow, and 20 miles (32 km) from the English border. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The town concerned global focus in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb attack aboard the flight. Lockerbie obviously has actually existed because at least the days of Viking influence in this part of Scotland in the period around 900. The name (initially "Loc-hard's by") indicates Lockard Community in Old Norse. The existence of the remains of a Roman camp a mile to the west of the community recommends its beginnings might be even earlier. Lockerbie first went into recorded background in the 1190s in a charter of Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale, approving the lands of Lockerbie to Adam de Carlyle. It looks like Lokardebi in 1306. Regarding two 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 eradicated the Maxwells involved in the battle, leading to the expression "Lockerbie Lick." Lockerbie's primary period of growth started in 1730 when the landowners, the Johnstone family members, made plots of land readily available along the line of the High Street, producing basically a semi-planned settlement. By 1750 Lockerbie had become a substantial town, and also from the 1780s it was a staging post on the carriage route from Glasgow to London. Possibly one of the most vital duration of development was throughout the 19th century. Thomas Telford's Carlisle-to-Glasgow roadway was built with Lockerbie from 1816. The Caledonian Railway opened the line from Carlisle to Beattock with Lockerbie in 1847 and later completely to Glasgow. From 1863 till 1966 Lockerbie was also a train junction, offering a branch line to Dumfries. Known as the Dumfries, Lochmaben and also Lockerbie Railway, it was closed to passengers in 1952 and to freight in 1966. The town is served by Lockerbie railway station. Lockerbie had been residence to Scotland's largest lamb market since the 18th century but the arrival of the Caledonian Railway boosted additionally its function in the cross-border trade in lamb. The railway also generated a decreasing in the cost of coal, permitting a gas works to be built in the community in 1855.
