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1906 In Scotland
Events from the year 1906 in Scotland. Incumbents * Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair Law officers * Lord Advocate – Thomas Shaw * Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Ure Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh Events * 27 January – Canadian Pacific steamship is launched at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's yard at Govan. * 23 May – Boyd's Automatic tide signalling apparatus is inaugurated at Irvine, North Ayrshire. * 7 June – Cunard liner is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank as the world's largest ship. * 26 June – new Argyll Motor Works is opened for production of the Argyll car at Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire. * 19 July – 1906 Dundee fire: a major fire breaks out in a bonded warehouse. * 18 August – Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway opened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secretary For Scotland
The secretary of state for Scotland ( gd, Rùnaire Stàite na h-Alba; sco, Secretar o State fir Scotland), also referred to as the Scottish secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Scotland Office. The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. The office holder works alongside the other Scotland Office ministers. The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for Scotland. The incumbent is Alister Jack, following his appointment by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in July 2019 and who was reappointed by Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. History Prior to devolution (before 1999) The post was first created after the Acts of Union 1707 created the Kingdom of Great Britain from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. It was abolished in 1746, following the Jacobite rising of 1745. Scottish affairs thereafter were managed by the Lord Advocate until 1827, when responsibility ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cunard Line
Cunard () is a British shipping and cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. Since 2011, Cunard and its three ships have been registered in Hamilton, Bermuda. In 1839, Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company in Glasgow with shipowner Sir George Burns together with Robert Napier, the famous Scottish steamship engine designer and builder, to operate the line's four pioneer paddle steamers on the Liverpool–Halifax–Boston route. For most of the next 30 years, Cunard held the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic voyage. However, in the 1870s Cunard fell behind its rivals, the White Star Line and the Inman Line. To meet this competition, in 1879 the firm was reorganised as the Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd, to raise capital. In 1902, White Star joined the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arbroath Railway Station
, symbol_location = gb , symbol = rail , image = Arbroath_Station.jpg , caption = Arbroath railway station , borough = Arbroath, Angus , country = Scotland , coordinates = , grid_name = Grid reference , grid_position = , manager = ScotRail , platforms = 2 , code = ARB , original = Dundee and Arbroath Railway , pregroup = Dundee and Arbroath Railway , postgroup = Dundee and Arbroath Railway , years = 1 February 1848 , events = Opened , mpassengers = , footnotes = Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road Arbroath railway station serves the town of Arbroath in Angus, Scotland. The station is east of Dundee on the line between Dundee and Aberdeen, between Carnoustie and Montrose. There are two crossovers at the north end of the station, which can be used to facilitate trains turning back if the line south to Carnoustie is blocked. ScotRail, who manage the station, provide most of the services, along with CrossCountry, London North Eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliot Junction Rail Accident
The Elliot Junction rail accident occurred on 28 December 1906 at Elliot Junction in Forfarshire (now Angus), Scotland. An express hit the rear of a local passenger train, which was just moving off from the station, killing 22 and injuring 24. The immediate cause was driver error, but a snow blizzard had disrupted services, and the driver received only a light sentence. Background The accident happened during a severe blizzard on 28 December 1906 at Elliot Junction station in Forfarshire, Scotland. Now shut, this was situated between the present-day stations of Carnoustie and Arbroath, being closest to the latter, one and a half miles away. In terms of lives lost, the accident was the 10th worst in British railway history up until that point, with 22 fatalities. An additional 8 persons were severely hurt and 16 received minor injuries. The official inquiry found the driver of one of the trains involved, named Gourlay, to be largely responsible for the tragedy. He was subsequent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cripple
A cripple is a person or animal with a physical disability, particularly one who is unable to walk because of an injury or illness. The word was recorded as early as 950 AD, and derives from the Proto-Germanic ''krupilaz''. The German language, German and Dutch language, Dutch words ''Krüppel'' and ''kreupel'' are cognates. By the 1970s, the word generally came to be regarded as pejorative when used for people with disabilities. ''Cripple'' is also a transitive verb, meaning "cause a disability or inability". The word ''crippling'' is also used as an adjective. Reappropriation In the same way that the term "queer" has been reappropriated by the gay rights movement, members of the disability rights movement have Reappropriation, reclaimed words such as "cripple", "crip", and "wikt:gimp, gimp" to refer to themselves. The ''cripple tribunal'' in Dortmund on 13 December 1981 was one of the main protest actions of the autonomous German disability movement (in confrontation with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a group of non-communicable neurological disorders characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures. Epileptic seizures can vary from brief and nearly undetectable periods to long periods of vigorous shaking due to abnormal electrical activity in the brain. These episodes can result in physical injuries, either directly such as broken bones or through causing accidents. In epilepsy, seizures tend to recur and may have no immediate underlying cause. Isolated seizures that are provoked by a specific cause such as poisoning are not deemed to represent epilepsy. People with epilepsy may be treated differently in various areas of the world and experience varying degrees of social stigma due to the alarming nature of their symptoms. The underlying mechanism of epileptic seizures is excessive and abnormal neuronal activity in the cortex of the brain which can be observed in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of an individual. The reason this occurs in most cases of epilepsy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Board Of Education
A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or an equivalent institution. The elected council determines the educational policy in a small regional area, such as a city, county, state, or province. Frequently, a board of directors power with a larger institution, such as a higher government's department of education. The name of such board is also often used to refer to the school system under such board's control. The government department that administered education in the United Kingdom before the foundation of the Ministry of Education was formerly called the Board of Education. See also *National Association of State Boards of Education The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) is a nonprofit private association that represents U.S. state and territory boards of education. Founded in 1958, the association initially met in conjunction with the annual co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbeltown And Machrihanish Light Railway
The Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway was a narrow gauge railway in Kintyre, Scotland, between Campbeltown and the coalmining village of Machrihanish. Only three other passenger-carrying lines in the UK operated on the same gauge, all of them in Wales - the Corris Railway, the short-lived Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway and the Talyllyn Railway. History Coal has been mined on the Kintyre peninsula since 1498 or before. Although not of the highest quality, the coal found there was abundant and relatively cheap to extract. In the middle of the eighteenth century the collieries of the area were kept busy supplying the many whisky distilleries in the Campbeltown area. Canal In 1773 James Watt surveyed a canal to connect the coal mines to Campbeltown to reduce the costs of transportation. The Campbeltown and Machrihanish Canal was opened in 1791. This early transportation link fell into disuse and had been virtually abandoned by 1856. In 1875, the Argyll Coal and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonded Warehouse
A bonded warehouse, or bond, is a building or other secured area in which dutiable goods may be stored, manipulated, or undergo manufacturing operations without payment of duty. It may be managed by the state or by private enterprise. In the latter case a customs bond must be posted with the government. This system is widely used in developed countries throughout the world. Upon entry of goods into the warehouse, the importer and warehouse proprietor incur liability under a bond. This liability is generally cancelled when the goods are: *exported; or deemed exported; *withdrawn for supplies to a vessel or aircraft in international traffic; *destroyed under Customs supervision; or *withdrawn for consumption domestically after payment of duty. While the goods are in the bonded warehouse, they may, under supervision by the customs authority, be manipulated by cleaning, sorting, repacking, or otherwise changing their condition by processes that do not amount to manufacturing. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 Dundee Fire
In July 1906, the city of Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ... was the site of a large fire caused by the ignition of a bonded warehouse. The fire, which burned for 12 hours, has been described as the most destructive fire in the history of Dundee. The fire was described by an eyewitness as sending "rivers of burning whisky" through the city. Background James Watson and Co. were wholesale whisky merchants whose premises occupied a large site in Dundee on the corner of Trades Lane and Seagate. In 1906 about 300 people were employed by the firm. Watson and Co. were based at 97 Seagate with Customs Bond No. 4 next door at 99 Seagate. The Fire An employee of James Watson & Co. was passing the building on the evening of 19 July 1906 when he noticed smoke emerging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire
Alexandria ( sco, The Vale, gd, Alexandria) is a town in , . The town is on the River Leven, north of and north-west of . Demographics In 2016 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argyll (car)
Argyll was a Scottish motor car marque manufactured from 1899 to 1932, and again from 1976 to around 1990. The original Argyll marque Alex Govan founded The Hozier Engineering Company in 1899, and it was at this factory that the first ''Argyll Voiturette'' was produced; copied from the contemporary Renault, it featured a 2¾ hp de Dion engine and shaft-drive. 1901 models had an upgraded engine of 5 hp; cars made in 1902 were upgraded even further, using 8 hp units. Soon there appeared a 10 hp twin with radiator tubes forming the sides of the hood; in 1904 the company introduced a range of Aster-engined cars with front-mounted radiators. One of these was a 10 hp of 1985 cc; others were fours of 3054 cc, 3686 cc, and 4849 cc. All cars featured Govan's rather awkward gearbox, which had a T-shaped gate and separate reverse and change-speed levers. The company, by now named Argyll Motors Ltd. had now become Scotland's biggest marque and soon moved from its p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
