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Written by Harry Ramsay
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Keir Hardie, first leader of the Labour Party, represented West Ham in Parliament from 1892 to 1895. No top hat and tails for him at Westminster, he wore a tweed suit, a red tie and a deerstalker hat. He still has a presence in the Capital - nine pictures of him in theNational Portrait Gallery, a Housing Estate, Park, Primary School andMethodist Church all named after him. (no pubs however - he was aleading light in the temperence movement). Hardie was never a big fan of London, preferring to return to Lochnorris' his house in Cumnock.
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Written by Harry Ramsay
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Early 18th century Scots economist John Law had an eventful time in London. He fought a duel and came out on top with Beau Wilson in Bloomsbury Square, was spared execution and escaped to France. Into gambling and currency speculation he neverless developed ideas onnational banking systems which were acted on on the continent andelsewhere (some say with disastrous results!).
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Written by Harry Ramsay
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2007 was the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Telford, theson of a Langholm shepherd, and the Chelsea Flower Show 2007 will havea garden in his honour which will be worth seeing. Tam went to London in 1792 to work as a stonemason on Somerset Houseand became a renowned architect and engineer, One of his finestachievements is St. Katherine's Docks, just below Tower Bridge, nowredeveloped as an upmarket residential and shopping centre, and arevolutionary project when built in the 1880s. Look out for the entrance lock to the Thames keeping the Docks fourfeet above the level of the River. The quay names, Ivory House, theMarble Quay and Indigo House recall the exotic cargoes landed here.St.Katherine's is open to visit anytime, hidden behind the TowerThistle Hotel.
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Written by Eddie Tait
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John Meikle (aka Jock) enjoyed an International HR Career with ICI,
Zeneca and Syngenta before setting up the Practice...
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Written by Eddie Tait
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Enamoured by music and entertaining from a young age, Nicky Spence -
the Scottish Tenor, a valued SCOTSIN Ambassasdor, has been on a path to
excellence for sometime. His efforts were rewarded in 2006, when as a
music student who had just received a full post-graduate scholarship to
continue his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Nicky
signed a major label recording contract, with Universal.
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