{"id":1437,"date":"2019-03-07T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T12:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/heathhallschool\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2019-03-07T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T12:12:41","slug":"solway-tours-dumfries-and-the-scottish-wars-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/heathhallschool\/2019\/03\/07\/solway-tours-dumfries-and-the-scottish-wars-of-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Solway Tours- Dumfries and The Scottish Wars of Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 13th of February, Primary 7 and Primary 4\/5 went to meet at\u00a0the White Sands at the Visit Scotland Centre\u00a0for\u00a0a Solway Tour. They were met by Mark and Lesley the tour instructors. The classes\u00a0were also accompanied by parent helpers and Bruce the Beltie their toy\u00a0cow. Mark and Lesley were there to take the classes on a tour of Dumfries to show them it’s History and help them learn more about The Scottish Wars of Independence, Robert the Bruce, William Wallace and others along the way.<\/p>\n

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The River Nith-<\/strong><\/h6>\n

The first place the classes went was The River Nith. At the River Nith Mark told us about how\u00a0no one knew what William Wallace\u00a0looked like and how Robert the Bruce crossed the Devorgilla bridge many times and how he\u00a0was born in a town in\u00a0Dumfries and Galloway. He also told us how Robert the Bruce was trained by the English to be a knight. Wallace unlike\u00a0Bruce was not trained ,instead\u00a0Wallace learned how to fight and taught himself.<\/p>\n

The Suspension Bridge-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soon afterwards we went across the Suspension Bridge. Mark and Lesley was telling us about Bonnie Prince Charlie and how he got drunk and had got kicked out a couple of times at Waterstones in the Centre of Dumfries and how he had to go to one of the oldest\u00a0 brick buildings in Dumfries! The Dumfries Suspension Bridge was made for only woman back in the 1700s because there were too many woman working at the mill (over 2800) and only 700+ men. Also they separated Men from women, so they couldn’t collaborate with each other.<\/p>\n

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The Devorgilla Bridge-<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bridge was made\u00a0twice. It was longer because there were no cars. When it was longer the Bridge had 9 arches now it only has 6.\u00a0Arches looked gigantic and there is\u00a0only one original arch left. The\u00a0river is actually four miles smaller than it was originally as it used to got to the Greyfriars church.<\/p>\n

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The Vennel<\/strong><\/p>\n

We then crossed the Devorgilla bridge and went to the vennel and we were told how they didn’t have sewage systems back then and people dumped their waste into a big open drain which runs down the streets and some lazy people dumped their waste out of their window. We were also told how brewery street was named after\u00a0the many\u00a0breweries in that street and how in the late 19th century Dumfries made lots of money from beer.<\/p>\n

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The Burns Statue-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Afterwards exhaustedly\u00a0\u00a0we walked up \u00a0to the Burns Statue which is right in the middle of the town centre, Mark was talking to us about all the different events which occurred a very long time ago and the different castles which Robert The Bruce owned and he had one right here in Dumfries at Castle Dykes park! He also talked about the poet Robert Burns who made amazing poems which everybody loved! Next we went to Lesley who talked about the stabbing between Robert and\u00a0Comyn and how no one\u00a0 knows what happened as John Comyn was found dead.<\/p>\n

The Market-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then we went to the market area and we stopped at the Santander bank. Mark told us how this bank in the late 19th century was a\u00a0farmers market building and the windows used to be like big open archways into the building so horse drawn wagons could get inside. He also told us how you also got cattle and farming supplies from that building.<\/p>\n

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St Marys Church-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in the late 13th century and early 14th century the area now known as St Marys church used to be called hangman’s hill because if you committed a crime in Dumfries you were hanged but if you were a child and you had committed a crime you were nailed to a cross by the\u00a0ear. Robert the Bruce’s sister later built the church because her husband was killed.<\/p>\n

Then we walked back to school and everyone was tired because of the walk and overall it was\u00a0great day. We really enjoyed the experience of it all and hope to take part in something like it again soon ! We learned lots!<\/p>\n

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On the 13th of February, Primary 7 and Primary 4\/5 went to meet at\u00a0the White Sands at the Visit Scotland Centre\u00a0for\u00a0a Solway Tour. They were met by Mark and Lesley the tour instructors. The classes\u00a0were also accompanied by parent helpers and Bruce the Beltie their toy\u00a0cow. Mark and Lesley were there to take the classes … Continue reading Solway Tours- Dumfries and The Scottish Wars of Independence<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/heathhallschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/heathhallschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/heathhallschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/heathhallschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/heathhallschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/heathhallschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/heathhallschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/heathhallschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/heathhallschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/heathhallschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}