What They Don't Say About Scotland's Oil

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People talk about the North Sea, but did you know that Scotland was the world's first oil state? Have you heard of James Paraffin Young? Did you know that mass production of oil and by-products started in West Lothian? Scottish history tour guide Bruce Fummey takes you on the Shale Trail
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@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Must see- places to see in West Lothian kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrqbd5mU373Dcmw.html

@julianshepherd2038 2 жыл бұрын

Don't play on the kids stuff. People might think you are one of those Tories

@alanmiller9054 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing political, economic,and industrial history another great lesson you teach us all so much .I remember using paraffin lamps ,was born in 1955.

@BHALT0S 2 жыл бұрын

dont forget how awesome scotland was at slavery

@Pennyburn1688 2 жыл бұрын

When I think of Scotlands oil , I think back to the 2014 Referendum and how badly wrong the SNP got their claims about oil. Voters beware what these charlatans claim........7 years and we still do not have TWO very small boats finished!

@scottjock 2 жыл бұрын

The shale bings were completely red when I was a kid. I cant believe how nature is taking over now. We used to have a parrafin heater in the hall (loaby). It stunk. Boom Boom Boom Esso Blue

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Ah you bring back memories

@johnowen1677 2 жыл бұрын

Yes we had one in the outside toilet!

@RushfanUK 2 жыл бұрын

Misses a bit of history there about James Young, he was actually working for a chemical firm in Lancashire when the oils seeping from coal seams at a mine in Alfreton, Derbyshire was brought to his attention, he did all the work on distillation whilst living in Manchester and only returned to Scotland after the factories at Bathgate and Glasgow were established, technically the mass production of oil and by products started in Lancashire because that's where Young actually devised the processes.

@scenepax3277 2 жыл бұрын

What?

@BillyBobDingo1971 Жыл бұрын

Learn something new every day.

@professor1972 2 жыл бұрын

When I was young, we not only used paraffin lamps but our scullery was heated by a paraffin stove. You never forget the smell.

@Lee-70ish 2 жыл бұрын

We used to use a posh paraffin heater it had two wicks instead of the usual one . But then we are rich southern softies in Essex. Dad used a Tilley lamp to try and heat our bathroom in the winter. It didnt help much the metal framed Crital windows still had ice on the inside.

@jaystewart5487 2 жыл бұрын

I have used a paraffin lamp AND ran out side to use the bathroom at my grandparents home in rural Missouri. When they sold the house, the real estate listing described it as a 2 bedroom and 1 path house. A little rural humor for you.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

😂

@fearthekilt 2 жыл бұрын

That was a great story Bruce. I had no idea that this man or his method was Scottish or that they even existed. I should have though, in fact I feel a wee bit silly, like I just come up the Clyde in a banana boat. Being the Scots invented everything. Well done Bruce and good morning from America.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it... and good morning to you

@ericbeaton7211 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant. I am 70 years old. I have lived in Scotland all my life and I knew nothing about any of this.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Delighted to bring paraffin light into the darkness

@ericbeaton7211 2 жыл бұрын

I had seen the bings before but didn't know how they got there.

@GioMarron 2 жыл бұрын

Another amazing video, mo charaid. Moved to West Lothian from the Monte Carlo of the north, Dumbarton (don’t laugh, there’s a castle and, if you take the tour, they rely on the blood pounding so hard in your ears from all the steps that you won’t notice the stuff they get wrong… and they REALLY hate it when you tell them) so it’s great to get to know some of the history of this area

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

😂

@BatMan-ev7zg 2 жыл бұрын

Am from dumbarton...and by god there's a lot of stairs in the rock 🙌

@ianpattison841 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I knew sketchy facts about the oil shale, but you’ve provided the flesh on the bones!

@kariannecrysler640 2 жыл бұрын

I never knew about any of this! That’s why I love this channel and the host! You always deliver quality history with insight and a connection to today ❤

@davidmcclelland2661 2 жыл бұрын

When I was born in Huddersfield, my parents first house had the outside toilet. So a paraffin lantern was kept lit all night so the cistern didn't freeze over. That was the late 60's!

@MultiZero1968 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Aberdeen and now stay just outside. Back in the eighties I lost 3 friends on the piper Alpha. A close cousin on the Brent Charlie in a leg explosion. My mum worked offshore in the canteen, my son now works offshore and has done for 15 years. My husband was in charge of 84 installation and 4 oil refineries. He has now retired.

@stewarthill3891 2 жыл бұрын

I was brought up in West Lothian, and my pal lost his dad at Piper Alpha too.

@MultiZero1968 2 жыл бұрын

@@stewarthill3891 sad times. Too many accidents offshore. They were meant to start doing work offshore 5 years ago to upgrade and repair (shutdowns) and it never happened. My husband said a new piper alpha incident is due at any time. They are ticking time bombs.

@elizabethwinsor-strumpetqueen 2 жыл бұрын

@@MultiZero1968 I worked offshore for 20 years - the corporate neglect was bad then and I'm surprised it has already happened. So many died for nothing because of lack of maintenance

@duneideann9241 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant , I remember a pub in Livingston Centre called the Paraffin Lamp. Now I know why

@geowidman 2 жыл бұрын

As you finished the video with the story of the ambitious West Calder Cooperative Society I thought of Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons," and "I owe my soul to the company store." Another great video making sense of what is seen in Scotland, and thank you!

@duncancallum 2 жыл бұрын

I remember that song well George , i loved his singing away back then .

@robertdaley1194 2 жыл бұрын

I remember late 1950’s early 60s ,a small paraffin tanker went around our neighbourhood,people had special cans and would go out and purchase paraffin direct,but will always remember the smell from paraffin heaters.Also travelling from Hamilton to Midlothian and seeing the Shale Bings ,they were still very red in colour .Moran Taing Bruce.

@VinDieselS70 2 жыл бұрын

Everyday is a school day and I now know the history to tell. Amazing and thank you 🙂

@cennethadameveson3715 2 жыл бұрын

Remember seeing these hills on holidays during the 1970's . Being used to the black waste heaps here in Wales, the colour was another of the differences of Scotland.

@Seraphus87 2 жыл бұрын

One of the most mindblowing things I've seen in that regard is an archaeological dig by the TimeTeam in Wales, they were looking for a mine with buildings, a forge and one of the world's first railways, it turned out the infrastructure they were looking for was buried under about 20 meters of mining landfill.

@sipjedekat8525 2 жыл бұрын

The smell of paraffin lamps brings back memories of camping with friends, sharing a drink on warm summer nights. I feel lucky to never have an outhouse when I was young.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Aye it wasn't a great experience

@euansmith3699 2 жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours At least there was no risk of getting bitten by a poisonous spider in the dunney; like our Antipodean chums had to contend with.

@duncancallum 2 жыл бұрын

@@euansmith3699 I havnae been bitten yet by a spider or snake yet here in Queensland , but i have killed a few snakes in my time , better to be safe than sorrow ,

@katherinemcintosh7247 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this. As a former Gulf of Mexico Oilfield worker (commercial diver,) I have been aware of the importance of Scotland’s place in history regarding this industry. Wonderful to get a massive bit of detail. An aside, my grandfather was a chemical engineer for Continental Oil Company (Conoco) in New Mexico and Oklahoma. Conoco also provided housing for their employees. An interesting fact of this housing was that the employees living there were not allowed to keep vegetable gardens or any sort of farm animals (including chickens and ducks) in their yards. The reasoning the company gave was that they needed to be seen in the community as a company which paid their employees enough that they could afford to buy their food at the market. This was psychologically difficult for people who came from agricultural backgrounds and had lived through the depression as my grandparents had.

@colinmacdonald5732 2 жыл бұрын

That's interesting, the agricultural connection. I know at one time, Shlumberger liked to recruit farmworkers as cement engineers, they had the right kind of mindset to fix problems on their own, useful when you're marooned on an oil rig where you need to repair things fast and tech support is 10hours away.

@katherinemcintosh7247 2 жыл бұрын

@@colinmacdonald5732 yeah, we were all told in dive school that we would be used “from neck to deck.” But the fact of the matter is that those of us who could solve mechanical, rigging, and geometry problems on the fly were the ones who did well. We have two engineers on a boat, and they are full time working to maintain the boat. They don’t usually have time to fix a jet pump, compressor, what have you for dive operations…and if anyone thinks there is going to be a dedicated engineer for dive operations on a dive boat or lay barge, well, they just don’t understand the finite personnel capacity of such vessels. Divers and tenders have to do that stuff, and divers should not have to do basic stuff topside.😂😬😏

@colinmacdonald5732 2 жыл бұрын

@@katherinemcintosh7247 I'd say divers are a race apart! The amount of help you can all when you're working on the seabed must be fairly limited.

@katherinemcintosh7247 2 жыл бұрын

@@colinmacdonald5732 indeed. The vast majority of the time (aside from specific saturation situations) divers are alone on the job site.

@oliver13809 2 жыл бұрын

I was also a commercial diver and subsea inspection engineer.working the usual oil/gas fields around the world. To include the U.K. north and southern fields.

@davidlewington198 2 жыл бұрын

Superb Bruce, literally a few miles from my house and really appreciate your videos and coverage of West lothian

@donaldfarquar 2 жыл бұрын

The slag mounds near Edinburgh airport always amaze me, how big they are and the amount of time it would have take to build to that level and how nature eventually reclaims everything.

@johnmccallum8512 2 жыл бұрын

There used to be more of this spoil a good deal of it is under the M8 and probibly alot more roads than that.

@donaldfarquar 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnmccallum8512 yeah I don't know if its from there but the main road from Dundee up to Aberdeen is obviously from the same material and I think a good part of the coastal route. To be fair seems like a better use for it than digging up fresh material to use, hopefully they preserve at least a couple of the bigger ones as I think they are monuments to our industrial past.

@paulaneilson5110 2 жыл бұрын

I was born early 70’s Shotts and can vividly remember my Gran having a paraffin heater. I also was addicted to the smell of the paraffin fire lighters 😂 My Papa worked for the BMC in both Shotts and Bathgate mines. Just wanted to say a quick thanks Bruce for your videos. They have fuelled my desire to start exploring our beautiful country & I am amazed at how much is so close to me here in North Lanarkshire! Also, thank you for renewing my interest in Scottish Gaelic. I downloaded an app and started my learning last night. I’m a big believer that our kids should be taught, or even given the choice, to learn our National language at school - it’s part of our history after all. Anyway, enjoy your day Bruce. Tìoraidh an dràsta

@liamburge463 2 жыл бұрын

Paula, to help as well one of Bruce's mates does videos on Gaelic: kzfaq.info Hope Bruce doesn't mind the link.

@paulaneilson5110 2 жыл бұрын

@@liamburge463 thanks Liam 🤗

@celticm6616 2 жыл бұрын

Can remember going to the shop for my parents to get a gallon a paraffin for the heater it was quite common thing to have it for sale in the local shops

@melissahdawn 2 жыл бұрын

So glad that the algorithms know what I need to see/hear because I never expected my Saturday morning I would actually want to hear about oil in Scotland, but you manage to make anything fascinating. Thank you for another amazing story of how things are!

@susanschaffner4422 2 жыл бұрын

A full subject made informative with its share of historical twists. Staying tuned.

@steven.ghodgson765 2 жыл бұрын

This man is a brilliant story teller !

@freddiemoretti8456 2 жыл бұрын

This video brought back the memory of the night we could have lost Dad in 1958 when we lived at Middleton of Mugdock near Milngavie. Had it not been for my quick thinking Mum who hearing and then seeing Dad running out of the storage room on fire, threw him to the ground and got on top of him to smother it. Dad had been in getting feed for the horses when he knocked into the paraffin lamp which set his front on fire. My brother and I were made aware of it when they came home from the hospital with Dad was bandaged up in his chest and neck area where the burns well. Luckily the storage area didn't catch on fire as it was part of the cottage we lived in. Amazing parents we had. Enjoyed the video. Cheers...Freddie

@Keithemery889 2 жыл бұрын

You’re my favourite online historian! Keep up the good work man I haven’t had so much fun learning since I did my chainsaw and tree climbing tickets 🤣🤣

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Ah cheers man

@Shortfuse39 2 жыл бұрын

My mothers side of the family is from Midlothian and West Lothian (Stoneyburn and Fauldhouse). In doing family research, I've learned many generations of Bowman's and Watson's were miners of different sorts. Some mined coal (which you did a very interesting video on) and some mined shale. I have often wondered why my family stayed dirt poor even though they were employed. Every video you do explaining what these people had to contend with helps me understand their plights and why it took my granny putting her foot down and emigrating to Canada then eventually America to give us a better chance at life. From the bottom of my heart Bruce, thank you.

@here_we_go_again2571 Жыл бұрын

@ Shortfuse39 I don't know about Canada; but the situation in the coal fields and the early oil fields of USA weren't any better than the situation for miners in Scotland, England and Wales. A lot of the people in the USA area of Appalachia (Western Pennsylvannia, West Virgina, Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Tennesee, North & South Carolina, came from the British Isles. People from other parts of Europe also came to the Pennsylvnia mines to work. (the demand for miners was very high)

@sarimento1 2 жыл бұрын

Well done, Lord Bruce! Again, your closing remarks are pearls of wisdom! Oh, Congrats on hiking up the hill! Great drone shot as well!!

@waynehoobler2677 2 жыл бұрын

After having just watched this video my take was this; had Bruce Fummey been my school teacher with his enthusiasm and personality I would surely have ended up at Cambridge. As a pensioner I can declare that no one is too old to learn.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Aye, you didnae see my student's results in the exams😂😂😂

@edmundsveikutis1698 2 жыл бұрын

Ime glad you’ve posted this story . I used to sell paraffin in the 60s and 70s . There was a shortage and the delivery driver said they could only supply Kerosene. This is now being sold and labelled paraffin . It is definitely Inferior. I suspect that is why pressure lamps don’t work as well as as I remember.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Oh I didn't know that

@user-jc1973 2 жыл бұрын

I had thought that James Young had patented the name Paraffin. When they stuck a pipe in the ground in Texas and got oil , a legal battle ensued to try and stop them selling it as parrafin. They then just sold their version as kerosene. Great video as usual Bruce. James Young also used part of his wealth to fund some of the adventures of Dr David Livingstone.

@erinmcdonald7781 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't realize there was a difference. Here in the states lamp oil is kerosene, and paraffin is a white wax derived from petroleum. Needless to say it can be confusing for us when the topic comes up. ✌️😎💜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@kredonystus7768 2 жыл бұрын

I did have a kerosene fridge, and an outdoor toilet growing up. I'm only 27 though, we just lived rural and poor.

@colingordon5030 2 жыл бұрын

Another fascinating video Bruce with some laughs as usual, I remember as a kid in the 70s we had a paraffin heater which my mum used to heat the bathroom on a Sunday night so my brother and I were warm when we had a bath. Good memories.

@scottferguson48 2 жыл бұрын

It's always great to see you with another great video. Well done 👍 . I wish you well. From Elgin Scotland

@callumgordon1668 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Stravithie near St Andrews My mum’s home didn’t have electric lighting until the 1950s and they’d used paraffin lamps. She held onto stuff. We lived in the country so had to use open fires and a paraffin heater to heat our house, so had plenty paraffin. So when we had power cuts, particularly in the ‘70s, we used the paraffin lamps to have light, while my friends in the town were in the dark. Somehow my mum even was able to source new glasses and stuff when we had rare breakages. Last time I remember using them was the night before my Chemistry O grade in 1980. If you gave me one today, I would know how to use it.

@gerryphilly53 2 жыл бұрын

I always enjoy your videos but was didn’t expect there to be connections that resonated to my area. Pennsylvania has a connection to the growth of the oil industry - among the first commercial oil wells were drilled here. Company housing and stores were part of the coal mining industry here, so the fact that that existed in the oil industry in West Lothian resonates. Finally, I didn’t expect the co-operative connection. My wife works for a co-operative here, so I am aware of this powerful model for brining a measure of empowerment and some equality to the capitalist system. Once again you’ve produced excellent work. Thank you.

@LOrealHardly 2 жыл бұрын

Born in Leith, I then moved to and grew up in Muirhouse in Edinburgh. The glow of the paraffin lamp on the ceiling was the strong indicator that Santa would soon be here. I now live in Livingston, have done for over thirty years , now. I never knew this about James Young but I had heard of James Paraffin Young.

@rorychisholm8863 2 жыл бұрын

The Ayrshire cottage I was brought up in didn't get electricity until 1960 so was still full of Tilley lamps when the 70's power cuts came along. They were much brighter than the electric lamps and I have warm memories of those times still. Alas by the time I came along all the family dwellings had indoor toilets and I had to wait until squatting in London in the 80's to appreciate the Zen qualities of the outhouse. In a gale wae driving rain at the height of the October 87 storm was the best. To her dying day my Granny was never quite convinced that indoor toilets were hygienic or necessarily an advance. As regards the oil shale. Did you ever come across the pink tarmacadam roads? I remember Cambuslang and Busbie having red and pink roads made of oil shale scalpings . Oh and thank you for introducing the world to the proper use of the word bing. Many happy memories brought up there. Sledging down them on breedboards and ferreting an' a sorts. Ta chiel

@auldfouter8661 2 жыл бұрын

During the three day week and rota power cuts in 1973/74 we had to get hold of paraffin lamps so that we could do the milking. We could put a tractor onto the vacuum pump via the power take off shaft , so we had vacuum to work the milking machines , but had no lights . 5 years later I made sure we had a tractor driven generator in the new dairy set up built in 78/79 , which of course had more sophisticated electronic devices that needed electricity in emergencies. Back in 1973 those paraffin lamps had to come from W Germany who still seemed to be making them.

@erinmcdonald7781 2 жыл бұрын

Had no idea Scotland invented shale oil extraction, and also figured out a way to clean up afterwards with a park, beautiful hills there (or future archeological site: Five Hills Royal Tomb complete with archaic transport). Greetings from California!💜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😎

@KelticStingray 2 жыл бұрын

@פלשתי partially agree. Institutions support innovators that aren't rich dandies. Scotland has a great legacy in tertiary educational institutions.

@derekskinner4939 2 жыл бұрын

Even in the UK capital, where I was born & lived from 1940 - 1961 we had to use an OUTSIDE LAVVY down the garden.....the good old days?

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

The bairns dinnae ken they're born

@wallyjansen898 2 жыл бұрын

I thought the outside lav was for the gardener when cought short.

@jimbaird8976 2 жыл бұрын

Grandmothers house had a paraffin lamp in the toilet that was lit at night. The smell of paraffin even now is very pleasantly evocative

@BarryHWhite 2 жыл бұрын

I've always been very proud to be a Bathgate bairn, as Ye ken fine. but since You have started Your series on the bras history of Bathgate and West Lothian, I have learned a heck of a lot, and had great fun doing so. Cheers again Brucie boy.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@jamesallardice4645 2 жыл бұрын

Thank's again, great video and very well done. Keep it up, you are needed.

@mikeygilmour4635 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video as always, Bruce. Was up the bings myself back in March and was nearly blown off the top so I can see how their shape would've been molded by the wind.

@thebanjoman1963 2 жыл бұрын

As a child I have memories of 'walking the yard' at my Great Uncles to visit the "outhouse" as we in the states called them and having to contend with an angry Rooster along the way. Imagine the fear of being 8 years old getting chased and pecked by a ruthless bird and all you could do is run..It gave me nightmares for a while. Even to this day I don't much care for the birds.. Unless they are on my plate.. 😀

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

😂

@pamczech5984 2 жыл бұрын

We had that problem with our neighbors rooster a viscous bantam rooster he could smell fear I never left their house till it was time to leave

@lenabreijer1311 2 жыл бұрын

Lol yes. Visiting my aunt in the north of the Netherlands in the 50s chased by chickens to the outhouse! It was beside the manure pile. They had a picturesque thatched cottage with rings to fasten the cows in the hallway. Not that they had the cows in the hallway, they were modern and had a barn.

@pikeyMcBarkin 2 жыл бұрын

another banger of a video! Thanks for all the hard work!

@colinsmith1288 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing narration,a piece of scottish history l was unaware of, and those conical shaped man-made hills are a beautiful legacy to behold.

@pikeyMcBarkin 2 жыл бұрын

My Dad works on the Ninian oil field. He's worked there for almost 40 years.

@billycaspersghost7528 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating and evocative of past times and forgotten history that people live amongst unknowingly. Every few years I visit the places of my past . I see now greening hills and pine clad slopes with new housing developments nestling between them. I remember them as "slag heaps" formed from mining spoil deposited from conveyors running 24/7. I worked under these places long ago , I remember the waste being covered over with plastic sheets to prevent leeching out of chemical waste ,to allow the houses to be built. The underground honeycomb of ancient mine working are steadily filling with brackish water . The mine pumps were turned off years back and the old drainage systems long silted and choked,down there, the water is rising ,methane collecting. Promise me Bruce , never ,ever ever buy a mock Tudor "house" in Barnsley !!!

@coal.sparks 2 жыл бұрын

I have become so used to American history that when you talked of a cooperative store where workers didn't have to pay company prices, I was braced for violent responses from the company. I'm very glad that wasn't the case.

@jimwalsh8520 2 жыл бұрын

Does America have any history?

@marthamckeehan8878 2 жыл бұрын

Hello from Colorado. My parents were both born in company housing at a mining camp and resented that their fathers were paid in what was called scrip that had to be used in the company store. History repeats itself. My father's grandmother was a Livingston, presumably from around West Lothian.

@islandsedition 2 жыл бұрын

Yep. My dad finished building an external building in a house we moved into. It didn't have electricity or heating yet but I moved into it as a teen as the house was a bit crowded. I was given an old ships paraffin lamp to take the chill of the cold winter nights. Slightly fuzzy mornings as I recall.

@kathleenmccrory9883 2 жыл бұрын

That was fascinating. I'm trying to imagine the bafflement of future archeologists, who discover the buried house and car, with not 1, but 5, mountains built on it. Lol.

@Seraphus87 2 жыл бұрын

Already been done, TimeTeam was looking for one of the world's first railway bridges in Wales, and some other mining and metalworking infrastructure from the industrial revolution. They found it underneath about 20 meters of mining landfill. Well worth the watch, it's here on KZfaq.

@kathleenmccrory9883 2 жыл бұрын

@@Seraphus87 thanks, I'll check it out.

@daveu88sanderson8 2 жыл бұрын

A first class historical story. I really enjoyed your enthsiasim about a really unknown event. I look forward to following you. Kind regards DS

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Welcomeonboard

@kirkmorrison6131 2 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of a line from The Town I Love So Well As we play behind the gasyard wall and we played in the dust and the smell. I for years had to carry a barn lantern to the little house out back

@michaelsmyth5877 2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding content as always Bruce! Always wondered what those mounds were haha

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks again!

@shaunvlog 2 жыл бұрын

Really interesting topic - thanks for sharing

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

@Dinobaburas. 2 жыл бұрын

If James Young was english there would be monuments in london celebrating him, But it's a case of another Great Scot swept under the carpet!

@stevesargent8731 Жыл бұрын

Joseph Swan (born in Sunderland) invented the incandescent lightbulb, I think he got a little plaque somewhere and most English people still believe it was that twat Edison (or dont know at all). Oh yes we have a few mostly privately funded monuments to the likes of the Stephensons and a small handful of others but it's only a matter of time before the woke mob cook up some highly tenuous link with womens voting rights or the slave trade and dump those in a river. Young is probably better off being celebrated in his homeland.

@jahmah519 2 жыл бұрын

Bruce Fummey, you're a great honest historian, you are being considered part of the cabinet for Caledonia and Albion.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

😅😅😅

@robbieredball 2 жыл бұрын

brilliant, I moved to Scotland in 1998 and wondered what the hell the pink hills were. Found out they were from paraffin shale and yes, I remember paraffin heaters as a kid a long long time ago, but never knew the story.

@JimLahey21 2 жыл бұрын

Good work mate

@kevinreillydenmylne 2 жыл бұрын

great grandad lived in oakbank, worked there in the oil industry

@jimstirling7223 2 жыл бұрын

Always a wee treat when I open KZfaq and see a new video from you Bruce

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Ah cheers Jim

@Sidecontrol1234 2 жыл бұрын

You had me gripped for the full 11:06! Never knew this existed, subbed and look forward to watching your other videos! From the North East of Scotland.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

I'm delighted

@torrespearls381 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate, enjoyed that.

@leonstevens1382 Жыл бұрын

These videos should be transcribed into an encyclopedia of Scottish history, and the definitive history!

@offwiththefairiesforever2373 2 жыл бұрын

Never knew that , thankyou Bruce xx

@kredonystus7768 2 жыл бұрын

Is there any chance you can do a video or two on pre-christian religion of Scotland. It was such a fascinating time and while we don't know much you have such a gift for storytelling you'll be able to make the tales come alive.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Who knows... it may come

@kredonystus7768 2 жыл бұрын

@Boohoo QQlefty but we also don't know what it was called then either, only what the Romans called them them.

@rchatte100 2 жыл бұрын

I remeber having a parrafin heater in our rented flat in the late 70's when I was a kid. Still remember the addictive smell & think the parrafin was blue in colour.

@Sportliveonline 2 жыл бұрын

thankyou for this brilliant information ~~~

@45O4 2 жыл бұрын

I am very happy to have known indoor plumbing my whole life

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Aye some fowk hae it easy

@alicewatt416 2 жыл бұрын

Great video👍

@TheBestlaidschemes Жыл бұрын

Brilliant mate! That always puzzled me as I drove that road so often. Impossible to drive past and not make you think. So glad that you took the time to think a wee bitty deeper than me! 😮

@ScotlandHistoryTours Жыл бұрын

Happy to help

@stevenleslie8557 2 жыл бұрын

You've taught me a lot about Scottish people. You can come from many different places and still be Scottish. But you need to experience Scotland first hand.

@andrewdowniephd Жыл бұрын

Another great history lesson. Love watching your presentations and share very often on FB.

@ScotlandHistoryTours Жыл бұрын

Guid lad

@bryan7938 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant as always

@craig8542 2 жыл бұрын

brilliant Bruce. Paraffin Young and Clerk Maxwell. The BIG gamechangers. anywhere in the world but with Scots bred ingenuity !

@stevendouglas6997 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this ❤️

@MYEVILTWIIN 2 жыл бұрын

When I was wee my dad used to tell me greendykes was Ayers Rock 😂

@coinneachreid8971 2 жыл бұрын

I always wondered what those red hills were you are a wealth of information

@alansmithee8831 2 жыл бұрын

A'reyt Bruce. Five star video as usual. Blubbering around in the dark looked so orcad. Did you end up saying we cannot blame whales for the environmental damage from the oil industry, but it was down to Scotland? Oh and before they had the co-op they did five great big windy dumps at the bottom of the manor house garden? Funny and informative as ever.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

😜

@peterkelly1665 2 жыл бұрын

very enjoyable who knew oil industry starting in Scotland. Another history tale to educate and inform

@Sable413 2 жыл бұрын

My dad used to work on the oil rigs off the coast of Aberdeen.

@euansmith3699 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating history, entertainingly presented? That'll be Bruce Fummey.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

😜

@handsomepiper5761 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant stuff as always👍. Loved this one.....well I love them all to be honest 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you you big hunk of pipyness

@bryangillan1460 2 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant Bruce great video !!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bryan

@marcingala. 2 жыл бұрын

Thank You. Amazing material.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

@StoutProper 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Love to see more like these

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

I'll do my best

@davidburton7466 2 жыл бұрын

can't remember the parafin lamp but do recall my mum and dad had a couple of parafin heaters when i was a kid...and the Esso Blue advert of course...🤣

@Campbell5339 2 жыл бұрын

Love the video 📹 ❤

@adrianrouse5148 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks. Realy enjoyed your presentation.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@ArcAudios77 2 жыл бұрын

Was always wondered upon... Knew it was part of Mining activity. Thanks as always Sir, appreciated.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help

@brentwallace7096 2 жыл бұрын

another great video, Bruce. here in the States. we call them "coal oil lamps". coal oil and kerosene are the same here. thanks again for another great video.

@justiceh2o 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video and very informative. I have lived in the area all my life and had absolutely no idea that their was a house buried under the hills.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 жыл бұрын

Every day's a school day😎

@justiceh2o 2 жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours That it is mate. Keep up the great work. 👍

@mah6183 2 жыл бұрын

The Oil Company Town was very much like the iron furnace towns in Pennsylvania in the early 1800s.

@waypastbedtime Жыл бұрын

Cheers Bruce. Great video and topical too. Maybe we need to start extracting shale oil again this winter.

@ScotlandHistoryTours Жыл бұрын

Ooooft

@soundssimple1 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video, reminded me of my of my school days when my after school pocket money job was delivering paraffin to houses in the streets of Govanhill in Glasgow. Heavy metal conical tins filled with a gallon of 'pink' paraffin which stank with a smell that stayed with you. Ahh the good old days...............

@chidlowt 2 жыл бұрын

We had an outside toilet attached to the house. In the winter Dad lit a parafin lamp on low under the cistern to stop it from freezing. Still love the smell of parafin.