Qualla: Linlithgow https://qualla.com/linlithgow 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: Linlithgow https://qualla.com/linlithgow Linlithgow: Introduction https://qualla.com/linlithgow/ The town's motto is St. Michael is kind to strangers. The town's coat of arms shows a black dog chained to a tree on an island. The town will be the birthplace, according to Star Trek lore, of the fictional Montgomery Scott in 2222. Linlithgow has assembled an unusually layered identity for a Scottish royal burgh of 16,500 people - a place where Mary Queen of Scots was born in 1542, where the first medical chloroform was prepared in 1847, and where a 2007 commemorative plaque honours a Star Trek engineer who hasn't been born yet.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/q/linlithgow-wp/gcvq-linlithgow-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Linlithgow: Lake in the Moist Hollow https://qualla.com/linlithgow/ The name comes from Old Welsh - lynn llaith cau, lake in the moist hollow - and originally referred only to the loch beside which the town grew up. The town itself was once called just 'Lithgow' (which is why the surname is so common in Scotland). The royal burgh developed in the...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/q/linlithgow-wp/gcvq-linlithgow-lake-in-the-moist-hollow.mp3 0:06 2 full Linlithgow: The Black Bitch https://qualla.com/linlithgow/ A 17th-century English visitor named Thomas Kirk reported in 1679 that Linlithgow's coat of arms showed 'a black bitch tied to a tree, in a floating island.' He could find no story for it. A later legend filled the gap: a black greyhound's master was sentenced to starve to death ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/q/linlithgow-wp/gcvq-linlithgow-the-black-bitch.mp3 0:06 3 full Linlithgow: Chloroform and the Black Hound https://qualla.com/linlithgow/ In 1847 a Linlithgow-born chemist named David Waldie - by then working at the Liverpool Apothecaries' Hall - recommended chloroform as a potential anaesthetic to Sir James Young Simpson in Edinburgh, who popularised its use and changed surgical medicine forever. Waldie's family h...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/q/linlithgow-wp/gcvq-linlithgow-chloroform-and-the-black-hound.mp3 0:06 4 full Linlithgow: The Future of Engineering https://qualla.com/linlithgow/ In September 2007 a plaque was installed in Linlithgow commemorating the future birth, in 2222, of Montgomery Scott - the fictional Chief Engineer of the starship Enterprise in Star Trek. Star Trek production materials and D.C. Fontana's novel Vulcan's Glory place Scotty's birth ...

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