Image Faifley in 2007.jpg thumb FaifleyFaifley lang gd Fionn Bhealach is a large council estate forming part of the town of Clydebank , Scotland , adjoining the former village of Hardgate , with a population of approximately 5,000. ref http www.scrol.gov.uk scrol browser profile.jsp?profile Population&mainLevel ... Scotland&compText &compTextExplicitMatch null SCROL population listing for Faifley ref Faifley has .... Faifley has two schools each with a corresponding church Edinbarnet Primary Non Denominational ... centre also contained the Faifley Branch Library until it was closed in March 2011 by West Dunbartonshire ... to the Monks of Paisley Abbey in 1227 the area now called Faifley, was called Fimbalach, possibly meaning ... be seen north of the Cochno and Jaw Lochs. The most valuable lands near Faifley were the estates of Cochno ... in 1822. Industry Faifley s first industries were attracted to the area by the opportunity to harness ... in charters of 1643 and a dye works were in existence when William Dunn 1760 1849 purchased the Faifley ... steam engines at Faifley by 1836, at which time he was employing 1,400 workers. The American Civil ... of all but one of the mills. Faifley Mill was eventually converted to a furniture factory by Glasgow ... industries existed in Faifley. James Marr s Faifley Spade Forge survived on the West Burn until ... on the Cochno Burn. Housing The Clydebank Extension Act of 1949 permitted the annexation of the Faifley ... the housing scheme had a population of more than 9,000 people. By the time Faifley Primary ... on Faifley Road. The Church of Scotland closed the Duntocher East Church in Hardgate in 1956, having built a replacement The White Church on Faifley Road. A Community Leisure centre since demolished ... after the Clydebank Blitz. Recent Times In 1958, a deputation from the Faifley Tenants Association lobbied .... A Faifley Hardgate Duntocher Initiative was set up to try to resolve some of the problems ..., reducing the population to about 4,000. The fall in population resulted in the closure of Faifley Primary ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2011 Infobox football club clubname Clydebank Rovers fullname Clydebank Rovers Football Club image nickname The Rovers & The Little Brazil founded 2004 ground John Paul Academy, br Faifley , Scotland capacity manager File Flag of Scotland.svg 20px Scots Bill Orr league season 2006&ndash 07 position Clydebank Rovers Football Club are a Football soccer football club from the town of Clydebank near Glasgow , Scotland . Formed in 2004 after a breakaway from Clydebank Utd, they are nicknamed The Rovers . They play their home games at The Knowes, Faifley . They have become a popular football club in their local commumity attracting sponsorship agreements from Pristine Clean Ltd, the fashion chain Sphere & Turret, The Doublet bar, NA Hair and Hallmark. They have also previously held agreements with the Concho Social Club, Clydebank Glazers and Knowes Housing Association to name but a few. Team colours are Yellow and Blue. Staff Chairman Eddie Rae br Vice Chairman Chad Clarke br Co Manager Bill Orr br Co Manager Neill Thornton br Youth Team Manager Andy Young Competitions League Central Scottish Amateur Football league br 2006&ndash 07 Strathclyde league, Runners Up br 2005&ndash 06 Strathclyde league, 4th br 2004&ndash 05 Strathclyde league, 9th br Charity Shield Winners 2004, 2006 External links http www.clydebankrovers.com Clydebank Rovers F.C. Official website http www.bebo.com clydebankrovers Clydebank Rovers F.C. Bebo website Football in Scotland Category Football clubs in Scotland Category Association football clubs established in 2004 Scotland footyclub stub ... more details
Infobox person name William Dunn image alt caption birth date 1770 birth place death date Death year and age 1849 1770 death place nationality British other names known for occupation William Dunn 1770 1849 was a Scottish agriculturist, mechanic, and mill owner. Life He was born at Gartclash , in the parish of Kirkintilloch , Dumbartonshire, in October 1770, and was educated at the parish school and partly at the neighbouring village of Campsie. Before he was eighteen he was left an orphan, with four brothers and a sister dependent on him for support. He had already given evidence of possessing an aptitude for mechanical contrivances. His first situation was in the establishment of a cotton spinner named Waddington , at Stockingfield , near Glasgow. Here he learned iron turning and machine making. Three or four years later he was in Messrs. Black & Hastie s works at Bridge of Weir , from which he went to Pollokshaws, to the factories of John Monteith . sfn Goodwin 1888 p 213 About 1800, having acquired a few hundred pounds by the sale of his patrimony of Gartclash, he resolved to start in business for himself, and accordingly opened a manufactory of machines in High John Street , Glasgow. In or about 1802, he bought a small spinning mill in Tobago Street , Calton of Glasgow, and in 1808 he purchased the Duntocher mill, some seven miles distant from that city. A few years later he purchased from the Faifley Spinning Company the Faifley mill, which stood about a mile distant from the other. sfn Goodwin 1888 p 213 In 1813, he became the proprietor of the Dalnotter Ironworks , which had been used for slitting and rolling iron, and for making implements of husbandry and after having greatly enlarged the two mills he already owned, he was encouraged by the rapid increase of his business to build upon the site of these ironworks the Milton mill, the foundation of which was laid in 1821, and which was destroyed by fire twenty five years later. Finally, in 1831 the Hardgate ... more details
Infobox Single See Wikipedia WikiProject Songs Name Closing Time Cover DBClosingTime.jpg Caption Artist Deacon Blue Album Fellow Hoodlums B side I Was Like That br Friends of Billy Bear br Into the Good Night Released Start date 1991 7 Format Gramophone record 7 br 12 inch single 12 br Cassette single Cassette br CD single CD Recorded Genre Rock music Rock Blues Length 4 19 small 7 small br 6 25 small 12 small Label Columbia Records Columbia Writer Ricky Ross musician Ricky Ross Producer Jon Kelly Audio sample? Certification Last single Twist and Shout Deacon Blue song Twist and Shout br 1991 This single Closing Time br 1991 Next single Cover from the Sky br 1991 Misc Closing Time is the third single from the album Fellow Hoodlums by the Scottish Rock music rock band Deacon Blue . It peaked at 42 in the UK Singles Chart . Two of the three B sides, I Was Like That and Friends of Billy Bear , continue the style of Fourteen Years and Faifley on the Your Swaying Arms single, utilizing raw, Blues influenced music and low, gruff, and rambling spoken and sung vocals from Ricky Ross musician Ricky Ross . The third B side, Into the Good Night , is a more traditional Deacon Blue ballad. Track listing All songs written by Ricky Ross musician Ricky Ross , except where noted 7 Single small 657502 7 small Closing Time 7 Version 4 19 I Was Like That Ross, James Prime 4 30 12 Single small 657502 6 small Closing Time Extended Version 6 25 Friends of Billy Bear 2 32 I Was Like That Ross, Prime 4 30 Into the Good Night 3 40 Cassette Single small 657502 4 small Closing Time 7 Version 4 19 I Was Like That Ross, Prime 4 30 CD Single small 657502 2 small Closing Time 7 Version 4 19 I Was Like That Ross, Prime 4 30 Into the Good Night 3 40 Deacon Blue Singles Category Deacon Blue songs Category 1991 singles Category Songs written by Ricky Ross musician ... more details
This List of places in West Dunbartonshire is a list of links for any town , village , hamlet , castle , golf course , historic house , island , lake , nature reserve , reservoir , river , and other place of interest in West Dunbartonshire , Scotland , UK . File Scotland Dumbarton Castle bordercropped.jpg thumb right Dumbarton Castle File Lochside view Balloch.JPG thumb right Balloch File DumbartonEast.jpg thumb right Dumbarton File Trossachs loch dsc06739.jpg thumb right Trossachs File Lochlomondpath00.JPG thumb right Loch Lomond File ForthClyde01.jpg thumb right Forth and Clyde Canal File Erskine Bridge.jpg thumb right Erskine Bridge Image with inadequate rationale removed File ClydebankArms.jpg thumb right Arms of Clydebank File Dumbarton Rock, from Levengrove Park.jpg thumb right Dumbarton Rock from Levengrove Park File Lochlomondpath08.JPG thumb right Loch Lomond File Dumbarton across Clyde.jpg thumb right Dumbarton across the Clyde compactTOC8 side yes top yes num yes NOTOC A Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire Alexandria Antonine Wall B Balloch, West Dunbartonshire Balloch , Balloch Castle Country Park Bellsmyre Bonhill Bowling, West Dunbartonshire Bowling Brucehill C Castlehill, Dumbarton Castlehill Christie Park Alexandria, Scotland Christie Park , Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire Alexandria Clydebank , Clydebank railway station , Clydebank F.C. , Clydebank Co operative Society , Clydebank Blitz Crosslet D Dalmuir , Dalmuir Park , Clydebank Dennystown Drumry , Drumry Linear Park Dumbarton , Dumbarton Castle , Dumbarton Rock , Dumbarton East, Dumbarton Dunbartonshire , Dumbartonshire Duntocher E Erskine Bridge F Faifley Forth and Clyde Canal G Greater Glasgow H Hardgate I Inchmurrin island J Jamestown, West Dunbartonshire Jamestown K Kilpatrick , Kilpatrick Hills Kingdom of Strathclyde Kirktonhill L Levengrove Park , Dumbarton Loch Lomond , Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Loch Lomond Golf Club , Loch Lomond Rugby Club Loch Lomond Distillery , Loch Lom ... more details
became Clydebank was largely rural, and agricultural. It consisted of some villages Hardgate , Faifley ... 9 June 2011. ref Geography Dalmuir , Drumry , Duntocher , Faifley , Hardgate , Kilbowie , Linnvale ... district of Glasgow City sometimes termed Clydebank East . Duntocher, Hardgate and Faifley ... purposes the town is divided into several localities namely Faifley, Duntocher & Hardgate, Old ... more details
Infobox Scottish island Image Fidra35185.jpg ImageCaption Fidra latitude 56.07 longitude 2.78 location map Scotland East Lothian GridReference NT5186 celtic name Fiodra norse name Fi rey meaning of name Norse for feather island ref Ryder, N.L. http www.envarch.net publications circaea 6.2 circaea 6.2 1990 .pdf Displacement of bone waste by seagulls pdf Circaea The Bulletin of the Association for Environmental Archaeology. 6 No. 2 1990 University of York. p. 85. Retrieved 19 September 2010. ref area c.10ha area rank highest elevation c.20 m Population 0 population rank main settlement island group Islands of the Forth local authority East Lothian references ref name Census General Register Office for Scotland 28 Nov 2003 http www.gro scotland.gov.uk statistics publications and data occpapers occasional paper 10.html Occasional Paper No 10 Statistics for Inhabited Islands Retrieved 9 July 2007. ref ref name Smith Haswell Smith ref ref http www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk Ordnance Survey ref Fidra archaically Fidrey ref name history cite web url http www.british history.ac.uk report.asp?compid 43439&strquery fidrey s30 title Faifley Fifeshire work A Topographical year 1846 author Lewis, Samuel accessdate 2008 06 18 ref or Fetheray , ref Skene, W. F. November 1862 Of the early Frisian Settlements in Scotland . Antiquaries of Scotland. 4 Part 1. ref is an uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth , convert 4 km mi north west of North Berwick , on the east coast of Scotland . Geography Like the Islands of the Forth other islands near North Berwick, Fidra is the result of volcanic activity around 335 million years ago. Fidra consists of three sections a hill at one end with the lighthouse on it a low lying section in the middle, effectively an isthmus and a rocky Stack geology stack at the other end. ref name ScotGaz History Image Ycraigs 2.jpg left thumb View of Fidra from Yellowcraigs Its name is believed to be Old Norse in origin, referring to the large number of bird feathers ... more details
Scotstoun style background White color Black Faifley Clydebank Partick City Centre Parkhead Shettleston Baillieston OR Airdrie Some journeys operate only between Clydebank and Faifley. style background ... White color Black Duntocher Faifley Baljaffrey Bearsden Cross Anniesland Glasgow style background white ... more details
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