My mum and 2 aunties worked there for many years till it closed and my mum moved to tipoethill near Armadale , I was born in bangour in 1974, I recall having chest X-rays done there before we emigrated to South Africa in 1981

Thank you, very informative and respectful. Checking out more of your videos.

David I was not around in 1189, sir

I was born, raised and still live in Torphichen as my parents and grandparents did.

Ì miss my Tenplar

Was asked today what use to be where Riverside vets is now. Can you tell me. We arrived in Livingston 1969 and it wasn't a vets then.

I love that painted mural of Craigshill and the depiction of that old iconic photo of the guy walking down past the Tower underneath the chippy at the Mall. Where is it please?

Thank god Livingston didn't get city status, our council tax would have shot up. I lived in Livingston when I was a kid until I was 18 soon after joining the army. Returning after 38 years I'm shocked how bad the areas have become with lack of repair. I will not mention the state of the roads neither.

Was at poundland outside the xcite saturday 6:30, barely made it alive iykyk

Hi Allan. Cracking wee video. I’m ratho born and bred. Interested to know who the wife is. I specifically remember glen Michaels cavalcade.

Demons 😮

Jeebers,, could be Hogworts !

✅ Totally Love it

I visited Torphichen recently. I will have to go back in 2024, when it opens again for the season.

I was living in livingston when this happened...it was a pretty big deal

I can tell you who found the stones. Daniel Murphy Jr.

Get a pin on mic. Hearing you is 50% of the video

Cheers mate

Nice video! Very interesting.

A hope west lothian college never becomes a uni, most unorganised staff and their systems are shockin. SQA should shut it down if they had any sense aboot them.

They donate it to me and ill live there 😜

I’m clan McLeod, often wondered if my bloodline ties to templars.

The Bald Iain Lom deserves his place in scottish history. Thought to actually be the first poet laureate titled by charles the 2nd. This man was present at the battles of Inverlochy and Killiecrankie, killed his own brother by accident, called William of orange a borrowed king and slammed the scottish aristocracy for accepting the union with England. He also apparently refused a sword from alasdair Mac Colla at inverlochy on the grounds he was no longer a man of violence 😂😂 schools in Scotland should be taught about this man.

I really enjoy seeing your videos and hear the history. Thank you!

Andrew Ushers wife donation of £100,000 built the Usher Hall. If you hadn't mentioned the Ushers brewing buissines, I wouldn't have discovered that wee, but important fact. ❤️

The nuns were hoors. 😉 There I said it..

I hope to visit the area in Fall 2024. Thanks for your info on this great site. I went to the Templar castle in Tomar Portugal last year and felt like I needed to see the sites in Scotland.

Great bit if history about livi. Just to clear up one part of the history it wasn't people of Livingston that was it to be a city it was West Lothian Council. Not everyone who lives here wanted it to be a city some of us are happy it a town.

Thank you for this! I’m from Canada and have been researching my family tree and have relatives from Bathgate 😊

I love this! Learning about my ancestral history ❤

Ancient Romans maybe had a picnic beneath that tree.

Excellent video, pal.

i neesd to come visit and do yje real coronotion with music from charles of portugal where robert the bruces heart was brough back to melrose abbey

The Beatles pre-fame were the backing band to Johhny Gentle, in 1960 they did a 7-date tour of Scotland and played venues in Keith, Fraserburgh, Peterhead, pretty much surrounding where Elvis' roots are. Freaky

Thanks .. i just wanted to know how to pronounce Torphichen .. as we are staying at Torphichen Street in Edinburgh in a few days. Regards from Whitley Bay

Some film studio needs to create a historical drama movie that takes place on the Antonine Wall. "The Eagle" could have been set on the Antonine Wall but instead occurs just south of Hadrian's Wall.

I would love for a historical scholar to research and hypothesize what life was like being stationed on the Antonine Wall for the Roman legionaries and the auxiliary soldiers. Even though it was short-lived, just one generation, there must have been several civilian settlements, vicii (vicus) just outside the wall at major Roman forts. A Roman fortress or fort could house thousands of well-paid Roman legionaries or auxiliaries. Historians really don't know the true name of the Antonine Wall. That is a 19th century construct. Probably it was referred to as the "North Wall", or simply, the northern wall. It's not inconceivable that the wall could have been referred to as, "The Wall of Emperor Antoninus Pius" back in its time. Given the historical record of chronic warfare in Scotland from the Caldedonian and Pictish tribes against the Romans, it remains quite plausible to believe there was much skirmishing, raiding, and cross-wall incursions of the Caledonians and Picts at the Antonine Wall. For one, the wall cut directly across tribal lands, something the natives would have been quite perturbed about. Possibly, the average Roman legionary or auxiliary stationed at the Antonine Wall would not have been thrilled. The weather then and now was uncomfortable, perpetually cloudy, overcast, gloomy, wet, rainy, foggy, and especially so in wintertime with sleet and snow. Everything must have been damp, moist, and wet for almost the whole year. Romans could look forward to maybe two or three months of warm, pleasant weather at the wall out of the year. As the years rolled by, especially in the second decade of the wall, incursions, raids, incidents, and even outright attacks at the wall must have increased. Your typical Roman legionary and auxiliary must have wondered what was the worth of this wall in such a worthless, northerly, cold wet place. To British auxiliaries from the far south of Britannia, the land this far north in cold Caledonia (Scotland) was as foreign to them as the Roman legionaries. Auxiliary soldiers originated from all parts of the Roman Empire and no doubt all of them probably felt the same, "What are we doing here?" Still, the Romans held on. Historians and scholars differ on the final decision to abandon the Antonine Wall. Some believe that at the end of his life, Emperor Pius issued the order to abandon the wall. The wall had served its purpose in bulking up Pius' military reputation but now he no longer needed it. Others believe that upon Pius' death, his successors, co-emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, probably influenced by influential men in the military and government, decided the Antonine Wall no longer served any useful purpose in a land that was generating little, if any, income for the empire. It was time to cut losses and retire south to Hadrian's Wall, which was a more logical boundary separating the sparse Scottish lands from the more productive lands of England.

Im a church historian. This is an excellent summary of a very complex period in Scottish history.

James Sandilands (1st Lord of Torpichen) unfortunately gave up the Templar's secrets at Torpichen to Queen Mary when he traded "holy earth for heavy gold" as one poet described it at the time. Now the UK royal family have the secrets (most likely the proof of your own direct connection to the divine, which destroys "Dieu et mon droit") and the UK Order of St. John has Torpichen as its headquarters. Thankfully though, "as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

lovely!

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lovely!!!!!

Pitty you didn't add interior views

Growing up In Livingston would love you onboard

Touch the world lightly leave no trace of your passing upon the earth loved the video

Been here too! Quite an interesting place. There was a discovery there in 2019 or 2020 but I never heard the full story. Anyone know about it?

Interesting stuff! I knew about the wall but for sure, you don't hear much about it. Worth looking into I feel.

In 1976, I had my ear pinned back ( I was 14 at the time and a Fifer) in Bangour. One of my fellow patients was the then owner of Ingliston which I remember as being a huge market. I remember going for a walk to the Loch on the grounds....

My mother who was born in Dunfermline had her DNA tested and her DNA markers are from this region, the Highlands and Northern Ireland. She also has %11 Pict DNA. I'd love to visit Dunfermline someday and perhaps call this beautiful city home. Subscribed.

Made my day seeing even a glimpse of Bo'ness- my childhood home and a great little town with a fascinating history. Sine Metu x