Qualla: Strathaven https://qualla.com/strathaven 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/v/h/strathaven-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Strathaven https://qualla.com/strathaven Strathaven: Introduction https://qualla.com/strathaven/ Photo credit Gregyscotland, CC BY 3.0. On the evening of 10 May 1941, Rudolf Hess parachuted out of a Messerschmitt over Scotland intending to land at Dungavel House on the outskirts of Strathaven and negotiate peace with the Duke of Hamilton. Bad weather and worse navigation sent him down at Floors Farm in Eaglesham instead. It was not Strathaven's strangest brush with history, only its most cinematic. This is the kind of market town where the Hamilton and Strathaven Railway once ran, where Sir Harry Lauder lived out the war years, where a Radical War martyr was hanged for treason in 1820, and where you can now buy bread from a bakery that has been operating since the same year, by the sixth generation of the same family.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/h/strathaven-wp/gcvh-strathaven-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Strathaven: A Charter on the Common Green https://qualla.com/strathaven/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Supergolden assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. Strathaven sits in Avondale, 7.5 km south of Hamilton, with the Powmillon Burn running through its center to join the Avon Water. The Romans passed close by; their road on the south side of the Avon led to the fort at Loudoun Hill near Darvel. The town itself grew up around Strat...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/h/strathaven-wp/gcvh-strathaven-a-charter-on-the-common-green.mp3 0:06 2 full Strathaven: James Wilson and the Radical War https://qualla.com/strathaven/ Photo credit John McLeish, CC BY-SA 2.0. In April 1820 a band of Strathaven radicals led by James Wilson set out to march to Glasgow, where they believed a general uprising was about to erupt against the British government. The rising was a phantom, partly the work of government agents provocateurs spreading false rumor...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/h/strathaven-wp/gcvh-strathaven-james-wilson-and-the-radical-war.mp3 0:06 3 full Strathaven: Lauder Ha' and the Music Hall Knight https://qualla.com/strathaven/ Photo credit edward mcmaihin, CC BY-SA 2.0. Sir Harry Lauder, the most famous Scottish music hall entertainer of his generation, lived at Lauder Ha' in the Lethame neighborhood of Strathaven from 1907 until his death in 1950. He had performed for the troops in both world wars, had been the first British performer to sell a...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/h/strathaven-wp/gcvh-strathaven-lauder-ha-and-the-music-hall-knight.mp3 0:06 4 full Strathaven: Balloons, Bread, and a Miniature Railway https://qualla.com/strathaven/ Photo credit Ronhjones, CC BY-SA 4.0. Modern Strathaven has, against all odds, become a town of festivals and small wonders. Each August since 1999 it has hosted Scotland's only hot air balloon festival, drawing pilots from across Europe to drift over the Lanarkshire hills. In George Allan Park, an ornate cast-iron b...

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