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Coordinates: 55°54′08″N 3°38′35″W / 55.902359°N 3.643097°W / 55.902359; -3.643097
Bathgate (Scots: Bathket, Scottish Gaelic: Both Chèit) is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, on the M8 motorway 5 miles (8 km) west of Livingston. Nearby towns are Armadale, Blackburn, Linlithgow, Livingston, West Calder, and Whitburn. Edinburgh Airport is 13 miles (21 km) away. Situated 2 miles (3 km) south of the Neolithic burial site at Cairnpapple Hill, Bathgate and the surrounding area show signs of habitation since about 3500 BC.
Bathgate first enters the chronicles of history in a confirmation charter by King Malcolm IV of Scotland (1141 – 9 December 1165). In royal charters of the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries, the name of Bathgate has appeared as: Bathchet (1160), Bathket (1250) and Bathgetum (1316). Batket in the 14th century, and by the 15th appeared as both Bathgat and Bathcat. The name is a “manifest corruption” of the original Cumbric derivation meaning Boar Wood (baedd coed).
In 1315, the daughter of King Robert I of Scotland (Robert The Bruce), Marjorie (alternatively spelt Margery) Bruce, married Walter Stewart (or Steward) (1293– 1326), the 6th Lord High Steward of Scotland. The dowry to her husband included the lands and castle of Bathgate. Walter died at the castle on 9 April 1326. This marriage is still celebrated in an annual pageant forming part of the Bathgate Procession & John Newlands Festival, colloquially known as the Bathgate Galaday (or Gala day).
Actors: Bryan Brown (actor), Norman Kaye (actor), Frank Gallacher (actor), Ray Meagher (actor), Noni Hazlehurst (actress), Lynette Curran (actress), Chris Neal (composer), Tony Morphett (writer), Denise Haratzis (editor), Reg Evans (actor), William Zappa (actor), Lewis Fitz-Gerald (actor), Guy Doleman (actor), Simon Chilvers (actor), Elizabeth S. Barton (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, affair, australia, australian-outback, based-on-novel, boxer, boxing, braided-hairActors: Michael Janisch (actor), Peter Vogel (actor), Erik Frey (actor), Guido Wieland (actor), Richard B. Shull (writer), Hermann Lanske (director), Carl Bosse (actor), William Rose (writer), Klaus Behrendt (actor), Helma Gautier (actress), Marie Bardischewski (actress), Hellmuth Hron (actor), Linde Fulda (actress), Armand Ozory (actor), Hans Krendelsberger (writer),
Genres: Drama,