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  • We passed through the village of Laurieston, where Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and blasting gelatine, lived, and saw a plough at work turning up potatoes, a crowd of women and boys following it and gathering up the potatoes in aprons and then emptying them into a long row of baskets which extended from one end of the field to the other.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • One day I had arranged to meet Irma at the corner of the quaint little village of Laurieston, which, as all the world knows, looks down on the saughs of the Meadows and out upon the slopes of

    The Dew of Their Youth 1887

  • Mr. Allen came and sat in the greenroom, telling me all about Constantinople and the Crimea, and the beautiful countries he has seen, and where his memory and his wishes are forever wandering; a rather sad comment upon the perfect vision of content his charming home at Laurieston had suggested to me.

    Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851

  • Stepping into the Laurieston Bar is like going back in time about 40 years.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • Stepping into the Laurieston Bar is like going back in time about 40 years.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • Stepping into the Laurieston Bar is like going back in time about 40 years.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • Stepping into the Laurieston Bar is like going back in time about 40 years.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • Stepping into the Laurieston Bar is like going back in time about 40 years.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • Stepping into the Laurieston Bar is like going back in time about 40 years.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • Stepping into the Laurieston Bar is like going back in time about 40 years.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

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