IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Kirkstyle, BIGGAR, ML12 6DT
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Kirkstyle, ML12 6DT by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (337 Images Found)
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Snowplough memorial, Biggar
An unusual memorial of a scale model snowplough, to its designer, local engineer James Cuthbertson. It is situated outside the Biggar Municipal Hall.
See Image for the plaque below the snowplough.
Image: © Jim Barton
Taken: 1 Aug 2011
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Snow on the snowplough, Biggar
For a closer view of the plaque, please see Image
Image: © Jim Barton
Taken: 7 Jan 2022
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Snowplough plaque to James Cuthbertson, Biggar
On the plinth of the snowplough memorial, shown in Image The plaque reads:
Hi Lift Snowplough
The Cuthbertson Fixed Vee “Hi-Lift” Snowplough was designed and
manufactured by James A. Cuthbertson O.B.E. and is one example of the
many innovative designs he created during a long engineering career.
Born at Skirling on the 23rd April 1907, he was well known and admired
for his contribution to the design and manufacture of hill drainage and
forestry machinery, peat harvesting equipment, snowploughs, specialised
tracked and wheeled vehicles, railway cable laying machinery and for his
work in Canada for the “D.E.W.” line defence system. He received his O.B.E.
on 1st January 1953 for his contribution to agricultural engineering.
James A. Cuthbertson took an active interest in his engineering company
in Biggar until his death on the 27th October 1993.
This 2/3rds scale version was manufactured by James A. Cuthbertson Ltd in 2002.
Image: © Jim Barton
Taken: 1 Aug 2011
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Biggar Municipal Hall
The hall at Kirkstyle, Biggar. Right of centre is the snowplough commemorating the local engineer James Cuthbertson (see Image).
Image: © Jim Barton
Taken: 7 Jan 2022
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Cuthbertson Snow Plough Memorial
A two-thirds scale version of a Cuthbertson V-plough 'hi-lift', a memorial to its inventor James A. Cuthbertson, born in nearby Skirling. The Cuthbertson company is still based in Biggar, their website offering a comprehensive history: http://www.jamescuthbertson.co.uk/
For plaque detail, see Image]
Image: © James T M Towill
Taken: 30 Nov 2013
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Plaque On The Cuthbertson Memorial
A close up of the plaque on the Cuthbertson snow plough memorial. For a view of the complete memorial, see Image]
Image: © James T M Towill
Taken: 30 Nov 2013
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Hi-Lift Snowplough, Biggar
Outside the Municipal Hall.
Image: © Billy McCrorie
Taken: 31 Aug 2015
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Snow plough catching the sun
A memorial to James A. Cuthbertson [1907-1993], the designer of the 'Cuthbertson Fixed-Vee 'Hi-lift' Snowplough', of which this is a 2/3 scale model. He was born in Skirling, and was well known for his contribution to the design and manufacture of a wide range of agricultural, forestry and other specialist equipment Image His business began trading in 1936 and is still going strong https://www.jamescuthbertson.co.uk/. For other images see https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=152946145 .
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 7 Mar 2022
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