The Scottish road-builder and engineer John Loudon Macadam the inventor of " Macadamized " roads ( not Tarmacadam as that came later ) lived for a while at Cockell House in Townhead.
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The tennis courts have recently been refurbished into an artificial floodlit grass football facility and a multi-use area that can be used as two tennis courts ( tarmacadam surface ) or other sports.
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A regular section of the fair is the road making demonstration, where workers in period costume use vintage equipment to demonstrate how roads were built before the invention of tarmacadam, using crushed stone.
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My parents lived in a remote village, about 60 kilometers distant, with no electricity or mains water supply, connected to civilization by a hard clay road with a gravel base-- no tarmacadam in those days.
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A temporary tarmacadam runway of 910 m ( 3, 000 ft ) in length which was paid for by the plane's insurers was laid to enable the aircraft to leave five weeks later, whereas in the meantime Captain Oca�a became a local celebrity.
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Some of the most significant products of Scottish ingenuity include James Watt's steam engine, improving on that of Thomas Newcomen, the bicycle, macadamisation ( not to be confused with tarmac or tarmacadam John Logie Baird's invention of television, Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin, and insulin.
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Outside there is an eight lane Athletics Track, two 11-a-side AstroTurf Hockey / Football pitches, which can operate as 6 7-a-side football pitches, four 5-a-side 3G football pitches, three 7-a-side 3G pitched and six tarmacadam Tennis Courts, which can operate as 4 Netball Courts.
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We live on the edge of a middling size town in Central Scotland bordering on open countryside where temperatures regularly go below zero during December through to February and the ground is extremely frosty, if not instead covered with snow and ice ( we use salt on our Tarmacadam Drive but NOT on our garden where we feed wild birds from different types of bird-feeders ).
