Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a small town in Dumfries and Galloway, south-western Scotland. The town came to international attention in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb attack. The name means Lockard Town in Old Norse.
About Lockerbie in brief
Lockerbie is a small town in Dumfries and Galloway, south-western Scotland. The town came to international attention in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb attack aboard the flight. Lockerbie has existed since at least the days of Viking influence in this part of Scotland in the period around 900. The name means Lockard Town in Old Norse. It appears as Lokardebi in 1306 and was a staging post on the carriage route from Glasgow to London in the 1780s. It had been home to Scotland’s largest lamb market since the 18th century but the arrival of the Caledonian Railway increased further its role in the cross-border trade in sheep. After the Second World War, the remains of Hallmuir prisoner-of-war camp housed Ukrainian soldiers from the Galician Division of the Waffen SS. The chapel remains in use, currently holding Ukrainian services on the first Sunday of every alternate month.
A former student of the Academy, Helen Jones, was killed in the London bombings in July 2005. In her memory, a new scholarship was set up, awarding £1000 towards further education to aspiring accounting students from the Academy. There are several imposing buildings near the town centre, including the Town Hall, which was finished in 1880, with its clock tower with its brightly decorated interior. A little to the north of the centre is the Dryfesdale Parish Church, which comes from the local river, Dryffes, and has a bright red sandstone church tower built in the 1880s. The rector of the academy, Graham Graham, was recognised in 2003 at Syracuse University with the Chancellor’s Medal for outstanding service for his outstanding service to the community. The school became the headquarters for the response and recovery effort after the Pan Am flight 103 disaster.
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