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Dance The Lads of Saltcoats 3585

Reel · 32 bars · 2 couples · Longwise - 4

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Intensity
84 84 80 88 = 75% (1 turn), 52% (whole dance)
Formations
Steps
  • Skip-Change
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Saltcoats is a town on the west coast of Scotland, south-west of Glasgow. Its name is based on the earliest …

Saltcoats is a town on the west coast of Scotland, south-west of Glasgow. Its name is based on the earliest local industry, namely the extraction of salt from sea water.

The Lads Of Saltcoats

Saltcoats, an Ayrshire coastal town, had its beginnings in the salt works established by James V In 1528 and the name means the “huts of the salt workers”.

Salt was an invaluable commodity all over Scotland, especially in the Highlands, where meat was in short supply and had to be preserved, and along the coasts and on the islands where the salting of fish was a major food industry. Much of Scotland’s salt was exported to France and Holland.

The ancient harbour of Saltcoats, like that of Wemyss in Fife, was built by local salt-masters in the 17th century. Salt was as important to the economy as coal and the workers in the salt pans all over Scotland, like the coal miners, were kept in virtual serfdom by their masters. The 17th and 18th century workers were unskilled and underpaid and they bound their children over at birth. It was not unusual for the salt pan workers, just as with the mine workers, to be included with the real and tangible assets in the salt-masters’ inventories. These workers were not released from their bondage until 1799 when an act was passed by Parliament removing, at last, the yoke of servitude from the miners and salt panners.

Today Saltcoats is a bustling resort on Ayrshire’s warm and often sunny seacoast and the workers from inland industrial towns who come there for holiday recreation bear no resemblance to the workers who laboured there two hundred years ago.

The Lads of Saltcoats 2/4L · R32
1–
1c+2W (1c Rsh) diagonal Reel3
9–
1c+2M (1c Lsh) diagonal Reel3
17–
1c lead down {3}, up {3}| cast off (2c up)
25–
2c+1c R&L
The Lads of Saltcoats 2/4L · R32
1-8
1s+2L dance diagonal reel of 3 (1s start by passing RSh)
9-16
1s+2M dance diagonal reel of 3 (1s start by passing LSh)
17-24
1s lead down the middle, back to top & cast to 2nd places
25-32
2s+1s dance R&L

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Twice through in a 2 couple set.

Added on: 2020-04-12 (Murrough Landon)
Quality: Demonstration quality

NameDateOwnerLast changed
Headington Class 2 November 2023 2023-11-02 Sandra McLevy Oct. 31, 2023, 5:28 p.m.
Budapest Local Club 22.11.2016 2016-11-22 Zoltán Gräff Nov. 23, 2016, 11:16 p.m.
Budapest Local Club 27.06.2023 - M10 2023-06-27 lldikó Szakolczai June 28, 2023, 8:36 p.m.
Budapest Local Club 09.01.2024 2024-01-09 lldikó Szakolczai Jan. 10, 2024, 6:45 p.m.
Chiswick - 20 September 2020 2020-09-20 James Wilson Sept. 20, 2020, 9:24 p.m.
Oberlethe 2022 Intermedite class dances 2022-05-01 Martin McWilliam May 13, 2022, 9:56 a.m.
221114P 2022-11-14 Michael Däther Nov. 12, 2022, 5:25 p.m.
Newark DE 06-13-2016 class 2016-06-13 Kathy Hutchison June 18, 2016, 5:31 p.m.
Budapest Local Club 29.02.2024 2024-02-29 lldikó Szakolczai March 1, 2024, 5:09 p.m.
Munich Whitsun Course 2004 2004-05-29 Cord Walter May 18, 2015, 5:20 p.m.
Class 2023 Oct 1 2023-10-01 Kate Walker Sept. 28, 2023, 4:37 a.m.
Chiswick - 27 September 2020 (orig) 2020-09-27 James Wilson Oct. 6, 2020, 4:25 p.m.
Chiswick - 20 September 2020 (orig) 2020-09-20 James Wilson Sept. 20, 2020, 8:58 p.m.

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