Prestongrange Museum from the air
Drone footage of Prestongrange Museum site.
Old Photographs Prestonpans East Lothian Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of photographs of Prestonpans is a small fishing town in East Lothian, situated to the east of Edinburgh. According to local legend Prestonpans was founded in the 11th century by a traveller named Althamer, who became shipwrecked on the local beach. Salt panning was a very important industry in the early history of Prestonpans. By the beginning of the fifteenth century there were 10 salt works belonging to the town capable of producing between 800 and 900 bushels of salt per week. The discovery and mining of coal by the Newbattle monks in the early thirteenth century was probably the first instance of coal mining in Britain. The oldest brewery in Prestonpans belonged to the Fowler family and was built in 1720. The Battle of Prestonpans, also known as the Battle of Gladsmuir, was the first significant conflict in the second Jacobite Rising. The battle took place on 21 September 1745. The Jacobite army loyal to James Francis Edward Stuart and led by his son Charles Edward Stuart defeated the army loyal to the Hanoverian King George II led by Sir John Cope. On 31 October 2004 the innocence was publicly declared of 81 Scottish women convicted of being witches and executed in the 16th and 17th centuries in Prestonpans. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
Creepy Late Night Prestongrange Museum Walk
Prestonpans to Musselboruogh
Surgeons' Hall Museum Tour
Train tracks at prestongrange
Swinging 60s at Prestongrange
Beth teaches visitors the twist! Part of the Festival of Museums 2011 on 15th May 2011 at Prestongrange Museum.
Dalgarven Mill Museum of Country Life and Costume
The Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume is a treasure trove, created in a group of outstanding historical industrial buildings in a beautiful rural location in Ayrshire, south-west Scotland.
Beautifully restored buildings offer the visitor a chance to step into the past. Experience the sight and sound of the water wheel and the machinery of a Victorian Grain Mill. The granaries on three floors have exhibitions which tell the story of the rural community over the last century, their work, pastimes, dress and life.
Dalgarven Mill, Museum of Ayrshire Life and Costume
The River Garnock and the mill at Dalgarven, the Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume near Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The waterwheel, lade, sluice and weir are depicted. The mill site was once held by the Abbot of Kilwinning Abbey and more recently the Ferguson family have been the millers and later chair of the Dalgarven Trust.
Myreton Motor Museum Slide Show
Myreton Motor Museum by Aberlady
Royalty Free Music from SmartSound
Track - Barnyard Bash. Album - Vintage Comedy. Composers - Jerrold W Lambert & Bill Robuck. Publisher - S.I.Publishing.
Did you know that some video editing software systems will let you create a short video just from stills, set to your own sound track? Here's an example of what can be done in just five minutes.
Prestonpans gala parade 2014
the parade in full
Old Photographs Dreghorn Ayrshire Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Dreghorn is a village in North Ayrshire. John Boyd Dunlop was born at a Dreghorn farm on 5 February 1840. He qualified as a veterinary surgeon at the Dick Vet in Edinburgh and set up practice in Belfast, where he invented a pneumatic tyres for bicycles in October 1887. The principle had been patented by Robert William Thomson in 1847, but it was Dunlop's invention that made a success of the idea. The Church of Scotland parish church dates from from 1780, and has an unusual octagonal plan. At one time, the church was known locally as the Threepenny after the 12 sided Threepence coin. Dreghorn's historical main industries were farming and coal mining. All of the coal mines around Dreghorn were closed by the early 1980s. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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Newtongrange - National Coal Mining Museum Scotland - Southeast of Edinburgh - now on Scottish Borders railway line.
Dunaskin Railway Station, East Ayrshire - July 2016 Open Day
An Open Day at the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Society's Dunaskin Station, Waterside, East Ayrshire, Scotland. This is the base for Scottish Industrial Railway Preservation. Steam was cancelled due to a faulty regulator that day.
The Speaking House , now the Museum of Edinburgh
I explain my fascination with the centuries old Speaking House in Edinburgh's Royal Mile, as part of the Homelands Festival.
Summerlee Heritage Museum
Quick edit from Summerlee Heritage Museum using the DJI Spark. Summerlee is a free museum in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire in Scotland. This was an early test flight for the DJI Spark
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The Witches of Prestonpans part 5 Goth ceiling
A cup of tea in The Goth and ceiling with messages!
What is HOFFMANN KILN? What does HOFFMANN KILN mean? HOFFMANN KILN meaning & explanation
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What is HOFFMANN KILN? What does HOFFMANN KILN mean? HOFFMANN KILN meaning - HOFFMANN KILN definition - HOFFMANN KILN explanation.
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The Hoffmann kiln is a series of batch process kilns. Hoffmann kilns are the most common kiln used in production of bricks and some other ceramic products. Patented by German Friedrich Hoffmann for brickmaking in 1858, it was later used for lime-burning, and was known as the Hoffmann continuous kiln.
A Hoffmann kiln consists of a main fire passage surrounded on each side by several small rooms. Each room contains a pallet of bricks. In the main fire passage there is a fire wagon, that holds a fire that burns continuously. Each room is fired for a specific time, until the bricks are vitrified properly, and thereafter the fire wagon is rolled to the next room to be fired.
Each room is connected to the next room by a passageway carrying hot gases from the fire. In this way, the hottest gases are directed into the room that is currently being fired. Then the gases pass into the adjacent room that is scheduled to be fired next. There the gases preheat the brick. As the gases pass through the kiln circuit, they gradually cool as they transfer heat to the brick as it is preheated and dried. This is essentially a counter-current heat exchanger, which makes for a very efficient use of heat and fuel. This efficiency is a principal advantage of the Hoffmann kiln, and is one of the reasons for its original development and continued use throughout history. In addition to the inner opening to the fire passage, each room also has an outside door, through which recently fired brick is removed, and replaced with wet brick to be dried and then fired in the next firing cycle.
In a classic Hoffmann kiln, the fire may burn continuously for years, even decades; in Iran, there are kilns that are still active and have been working continuously for 35 years. Any fuel may be used in a Hoffmann kiln, including gasoline, natural gas, heavy petroleum and wood fuel. The dimensions of a typical Hoffmann kiln are completely variable, but in average about 5 m (height) x 15 m (width) x 150 m (length).
The Hoffmann Kiln is used in almost every country. In the British Isles there are only a few Hoffmann kilns remaining, some of which have been preserved. The only ones with a chimney are at Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum and Llanymynech Heritage Area. The site at Llanymynech, close to Oswestry was used for lime-burning and has recently been partially restored as part of an industrial archaeology conservation project supported by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund. Two examples in North Yorkshire, the Hoffmann lime-burning kiln at Meal Bank Quarry, Ingleton and that at the former Craven and Murgatroyd lime works, Langcliffe are scheduled ancient monuments. There is an intact but abandoned Hoffmann kiln without a chimney present at Minera Limeworks; the site is abandoned but all entrances to the kiln have been grated-off, preventing access. The kiln is in a very poor state of repair, with trees growing out of the walls and the roof. Minera Quarry Trust hopes one day to develop the area into something of a tourist attraction. The Grade II listed Hoffmann brick kiln in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, is also badly neglected, although the recently installed fencing offers some protection for the building and for visitors. At Prestongrange Museum, outside Prestonpans in East Lothian, the Hoffman kiln is still standing and visitors can listen to more about it via a mobile phone tour. There is also a nearly complete kiln in Horeb, Carmarthenshire.There is a complete kiln in the restored Tsalapatas brick Factory in Volos Greece that has been converted to an industrial museum. At the Brunswick brickworks in Victoria, Australia, there are two surviving kilns converted to residences, and a chimney from a third kiln, another in Box Hill, also in Melbourne and one in Adelaide, South Australia. Also, two in New Zealand.
National Museum of Flight
The National Museum of Flight, East Fortune Airfield, East Lothian Scotland