Lockerbie

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Lockerbie
View over Lockerbie
View over Lockerbie
Coordinates 55 ° 7 ′  N , 3 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 7 ′  N , 3 ° 21 ′  W
Lockerbie (Scotland)
Lockerbie
Lockerbie
Residents 4287 2011 census
administration
Post town LOCKERBIE
ZIP code section DG11
prefix 01576
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Dumfries and Galloway
British Parliament Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Scottish Parliament Dumfriesshire

Lockerbie ( Scottish Gaelic : Logarbaidh) is a small town in the Scottish administrative district of Dumfries and Galloway . It is located approximately 120 kilometers (75  miles ) southeast of Glasgow and approximately 32 kilometers (20 miles) from the border with England . According to the 2011 census, Lockerbie has 4,287 people.

When it was founded, the city was a trading post for cattle and sheep, especially with England due to its border location. Livestock auctions are still held in Lockerbie today. After the Second World War , 450 Ukrainian prisoners of war, members of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Galician No. 1) , lived in a POW camp near the city. They built a chapel in Hallmuir (three kilometers from Lockerbie).

The Lockerbie stop

Lockerbie became internationally known through the bomb attack on a PanAm aircraft on December 21, 1988. The plane was brought down by an explosive device weighing around 400 grams that was hidden in checked baggage by Libyan terrorists. 270 people were killed - all 259 occupants of the machine and eleven residents who died when the fuel-filled sections of the two wings hit the town and exploded. The bomb's timing was supposed to crash the plane over the sea; however, due to a 25-minute delay, it was still over the mainland at the time of the explosion.

The Garden of Remembrance ("Garden of Remembrance" in Lockerbie) is a memorial in the Lockerbie cemetery .

Personalities

Individual evidence

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Web links

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