Qualla: Larkhall https://qualla.com/larkhall en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Larkhall https://qualla.com/larkhall Larkhall: Introduction https://qualla.com/larkhall/ In 2008 a reporter walked the high street of Larkhall and noticed something missing: green. Shop signs, window displays, the front of the chemist - everything else, but not green. The colour is associated with Celtic Football Club, and Larkhall is firmly Rangers country. Local authorities have since pointed out, fairly, that any sectarian trouble comes from a small minority and that the town is more relaxed than its reputation suggests. But the legend lingers, the way legends do in a town that also claims a haunted manor house, a 175-foot viaduct in slow decay and a televised exorcism that was said to have ended in death.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/larkhall-wp/gcvj-larkhall-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Larkhall: The Skylark Name https://qualla.com/larkhall/ The name Larkhall, or Laverock Ha, first appears in journals around 1620. Laverock is the Scots word for skylark, and for centuries visitors assumed the town was named after the bird that sang above its fields. The truth is more prosaic. There is no real evidence of skylarks givi...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/larkhall-wp/gcvj-larkhall-the-skylark-name.mp3 0:06 2 full Larkhall: The Tallest Viaduct in Scotland https://qualla.com/larkhall/ The Morgan Glen viaduct strides 175 feet above the Avon Water, 285 yards long, the tallest viaduct in Scotland. It was built between 1898 and 1904 for the Caledonian Railway by Sir William Arrol & Company, the Glasgow engineers responsible for the Forth Bridge and Tower Bridge in...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/larkhall-wp/gcvj-larkhall-the-tallest-viaduct-in-scotland.mp3 0:06 3 full Larkhall: The Black Lady and the Exorcism https://qualla.com/larkhall/ Local legend remembers a woman known only as the Black Lady, said to have been the Indian servant of Captain Henry McNeil Hamilton, the last owner of Broomhill House. According to the story she was brought back from one of his voyages, found Larkhall harder than her old life, and...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/larkhall-wp/gcvj-larkhall-the-black-lady-and-the-exorcism.mp3 0:06 4 full Larkhall: A Gas Explosion https://qualla.com/larkhall/ On 22 December 1999, a gas explosion in the town killed four people. The subsequent legal proceedings against Transco, the gas supplier, became one of the most significant corporate accountability cases in Scottish legal history. In 2003, Scotland's High Court ruled in Transco pl...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/larkhall-wp/gcvj-larkhall-a-gas-explosion.mp3 0:06 5 full Larkhall: Hurdles and Snooker https://qualla.com/larkhall/ Larkhall's sporting story is closely tied to one club. The Larkhall YMCA Harriers were founded in 1930 and remain one of Scotland's longest established running and athletics clubs. Their most celebrated member was David Keir Gracie, born in 1927 and a member of the Harriers from ...

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