Qualla: Catrine https://qualla.com/catrine en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/g/catrine-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Catrine https://qualla.com/catrine Catrine: Introduction https://qualla.com/catrine/ Photo credit Bob Forrest, CC BY-SA 2.0. Two iron wheels turned in the village of Catrine, and for over a century they were the largest of their kind in Britain. Each was fifty feet in diameter, a hundred and fifty-seven feet around, with one hundred and twenty wooden buckets bolted to its rim. The two together passed seven thousand nine hundred and twenty cubic feet of water every minute - two hundred and ten tons of water per minute drawn from artificial lochs in the hills above, channelled through tunnels, and dropped onto the wheels to drive the cotton-spinning machinery of one of Scotland's earliest industrial villages. People came on day-trips to see the wheels turn. They kept turning until the 1940s. Even after Catrine's mill closed, those iron wheels remained, in local memory, the thing that made the village what it had been.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/g/catrine-wp/gcug-catrine-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Catrine: Dark Place in the Woods https://qualla.com/catrine/ Photo credit Chris Wimbush, CC BY-SA 2.0. Catrine sits in East Ayrshire on the River Ayr, two miles southeast of Mauchline, in country that was once one of the longest-lasting Gaelic-speaking pockets in the Scottish Lowlands. The name itself appears to come from a Gaelic root ceit, meaning dark or gloomy place - probably...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/g/catrine-wp/gcug-catrine-dark-place-in-the-woods.mp3 0:06 2 full Catrine: James Finlay and the Wheels https://qualla.com/catrine/ Photo credit Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1801 the firm of Messrs James Finlay & Co. of Glasgow bought the Catrine mill, and a quarter-century of expansion followed. In 1802 they constructed two artificial lochs above Muirkirk - 120 acres of water storage - to guarantee the supply that kept the wheels turning year-rou...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/g/catrine-wp/gcug-catrine-james-finlay-and-the-wheels.mp3 0:06 3 full Catrine: Catrine Voes Today https://qualla.com/catrine/ Photo credit Jamesx12345, CC BY-SA 3.0. The village of Catrine still holds about 2,500 inhabitants. Where the bleaching works of Messrs Finlay & Co. once stood, Glen Catrine Bond now bottles whisky and vodka under a range of brand names - the industrial site continues to have an industrial life, just a different one. I...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/g/catrine-wp/gcug-catrine-catrine-voes-today.mp3 0:06 4 full Catrine: Dugald Stewart and the Poet https://qualla.com/catrine/ Photo credit The original uploader was Dreamer84 at English Wikipedia., CC BY 2.5. Nether Catrine House, on the south bank of the River Ayr, was the country seat of Dugald Stewart - Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1785 and one of the central figures of the late Scottish Enlightenment. Stewart's lectures shaped a generation of B...

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