Here's me thinking your amazingly clever🤣😂, of course you are

Amazing video Angela don't know how you remember all that history my Brian was fried trying to take it all in, well done to you👍

The heirs of the castle were horrible to the castle!. They needed to have babies. No babies and squandering all the money. And No repairs makes a castle look like this. poor oold castleGod God Speed, ❤️🙏❤️

Great video! You're really good at presenting and story telling, The Scotland Channel (New TV channel for Scotland) are looking for presenters and content creators, maybe you should consider contacting them.

Passed by some of the places mentioned in this just today on my way to work. Great to see local history explored online!

I'm delighted to see you back doing things in your own brilliant style. Please keep the history coming, D&G is an undiscovered part of Scotland. If only people would open their eyes.

The answer to this question will likely be found in answering another question: what happened to the Logans? they have been almost entirely excised from the historical record, their name and fame stolen, and their history attributed to other families. I wonder if this mystery will ever be unravelled; it would likely change the course of Scottish history as we know it.

um my oldest great grandmother goes back to one Elspet McEwen from 1591-1651 approx. Can someone point me in a direction to find out more details ? :) thank you !!

I so enjoyed this local history story. I bet there is more than a grain of truth in this piece of local history, even if not, it is still great.

Im a Kirkpatrick and the story of Roger loudly proclaiming "i'll maksiccar" and charging back into the church to finish the Comyn off has been passed down over the years. Roger apparently was not averse to sticking knives swords pikes etc into anyone who displeased him or threatened Robert the Bruce. The family motto shows a hand holding a blood dripping dagger with the words "maksiccar" underneath

Interesting fact for you. He is the direct ancestor of Paris Fury through her maternal line (her mum is a Marshall) thanks for the video!

What an interesting subject, you really know your subject well. I love this rural/industrial history,

Fascinating and informative as ever. Thank you.

I have lived here locally all my life. I have even been out to the island on the loch one time. Although the water was a little high that time. So there was only half of the island on show. This was about 1988/89 when I was a kid.

Does it still produce acorns ? If so, can you not harvest them and recreate a little bit of those ancient forests ? It's so much easier to plant an acorn than seedlings and saplings.

Enjoyed this 👏

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Good yin Angela. Iron ships saved the oaks👍 Interesting survivor, has it a wee stem to the leaf? a Sessile Oak. Sitka Spruces are best commercial timber but from the west coast of America.

I hope some acorns are being planted somewhere to keep the genes alive.

A very interesting story and told very well,we need more ladies like this who value their culture and landscape enough to make a video.

This was so beautifully done and quite interesting. Thank you

Well done Angela another good story👍

Great video and well worth waiting for!

wow I loved this, also ancestral lands of my great great great grandfather and back

I'd never considered oak trees as being a common species in Scotland. Probably a consequence of really only ever seeing the managed Pine forests that now seem to carpet the area around me in Central Scotland

So sad to lose the woods

Nice to have your videos back looking forward to the next one 😊

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Looking forward to new videos 😊

Took me some time tae realise that Trotter was actually a doctors wife?🤣 She disnae spare the gentry or the English either. 😂 I picked up a beautiful leather bound copy in a Glesga bookshop back in the day.

Hi it's Angela from the Landward programme. How can I contact you? Thanks :)

Worked on all the Power Stations about 20 years ago ( inspecting the overhead cranes) and found them to be in excellent condition considering they were built in 1934. It was a joy travelling down the scheme

Sorry to se your repeat the revision of history written much later by Blind Harry and other Bruce supporters. Comyn was a war hero and Bruce had changed to support Edward plus the Baliol line that Comyn' belonged to had a judicially superior line of inheritance after the 1292 inquiry than any Bruce had. . Comyn was unarmed but Bruce and his men committed sacrilege by bearing arms in church, something they did before even arriving to meet John Comyn at the meeting Bruce called with him. The man you say will "mak Siccar" was actually a mile away at the assizes at Dumfries castle at the time o the murder. Bruce later admitted in his pea to th Pope that "he was persuaded by the devil" to murder Comyn. Tell the story as per the facts - Scottish history is amazing enough without embellishing it with Brucean post murder propaganda. Comyn saved Scotland from Edward at the battle of Roslin and was able it to force Edward to stop his invasions and make an honourable peace - while Bruce was sitting with Edward's court as his ally since February 1302 - tell that story of that amazing battle. Bruce was a great fighter but also desperate to become the king and would stop at nothing even though it took him many years to get recognized as king by he English. The Comyn family had kept the English kings - most of all Edward I's father Henry from controlling Scotland. John Comyn was the last of them because he was murdered in church in cold blood with monks present inside the small church a Dumfries. Pleas look at the history and tell the story straight.

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Again excellent many many thanks

Enjoying your videos stay local you know your stuff 😊

Another excellent video you certainly do your homework 😊

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Excellent video 😊

Must of been a big celebration the day it was all finished and all the power came on tap, glad to see they are giving Tongland a make over, but the whole scheme is a great bit of planning and construction that will not be repeated today

Thoroughly enjoyable series & so much info entertainingly presented

this has been a great series Angela, i have passed and looked at these power stations many a time and now youve yold us the history about it all,a real eyeopener,thanks again

Love your videos. Please could you do a video on that old car factory near there too ? . Thanks, keep up the great work 👍

Excellent series, and well worth revisiting.

The detail you brought to these talks have made them welll worth viewing. Thank you for doing the research and presenting them so well.