Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Lasswade, Scottish Gaelic; Leas Bhaid, a village and parish in Midlothian, on the River North Esk, nine miles South of Edinburgh city centre, between Dalkeith and Loanhead. Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet of Fountainhall was born at Melville Mill, Lasswade, in 1595; and the present 18th century Barony House was known as Lasswade Cottage when Sir Walter Scott rented it from 1798 to 1804. He was visited here by the writer James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, and the Wordsworths. Thomas de Quincey, author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater, also lived nearby for some years from 1843 in the cottage now known as de Quincey Cottage. The Scottish landscape artist William McTaggart moved to Lasswade in 1889. Former 19th century industries include paper mills, flour mills and a carpet factory. The current Lasswade Parish Church building was originally built in 1830 as a plain box chapel for the former United Presbyterian Church, later United Free Church, it was remodelled by Hardy & Wight in 1894 and became part of the Church of Scotland in 1929. Lasswade railway station opened on 12 October 1868 by the Esk Valley Railway. The station was situated at the end of Westmill Road. There was a moderate sized goods yard which was accessed from the west and consisted of four short sidings, one running behind the platform and going into a stone built goods shed. Lasswade gas works was north of the goods shed, with St Leonards paper mill being a short distance to the north along Westmill Road. Access to the yard was controlled by the signal box, which was behind the platform near its west end. This signal box was closed in the 1930s. The station closed to passengers on 10 September 1951 but the station remained open until the goods yard closed along with the line on 18 May 1964. Richard Baird Smith was born in Lasswade on 31 December 1818, he was a British engineer officer in the East India Company, who played a prominent part as Chief Engineer in the Siege of Delhi of 1857, he died on 13 December 1861. Doctor John Ivor Murray was born in Lasswade in 1824, known as Ivor, he was a Scottish surgeon who practised in China, Hong Kong and then in Sebastopol in the Crimean War. He was notably adventurous, travelling through Borneo, collecting for the Industrial Museum of Scotland, in Edinburgh, and serving on scientific expeditions to China. He was President of the British Balneological and Climatological Society in 1900, he died on 24 July 1903. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day
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Old Photographs Lasswade Midlothian Scotland
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