Bathgate - intersting and diverse.

Had my trip to Bathgate and after a quick bite in the local JD Wetherspoon's ,took a walk down to the town centre where these three plaques were up on the walls round the "Steelyards" which I take to be the site of an old steelyard, the place haveing had a history of coal and iron mining. However there was also a sign indicating that the steel yard was a measure used by weavers.

Princess Marjory was the daughter of Robert The Bruce who married a Stewart, but having no children ended the Stewrt line.

On the tropical theme , one of the oldest fossils found in Scotland , dating back 340 million years was found in the hills outside the town.
In more recent years the town had the British Leyland plant which employed 7000 folks, and Motorola, when BL closed the town had the highest rate of unemployment in the UK.