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higthomas

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Iron from the Calderbank's works was used to build the Queen Mary cruise liner in the John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering shipyard at Clydebank.
 

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Greenock also suffered 2 nights of intensive bombing at the hands of the Luftwaffe in 1941 (2 months after the Clydebank Blitz).
 

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Kiltarlity is also home to a Shinty team who play in the "Orion Group Premiership."
 

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Helston was also a Stannary Town. The principal role of a stannary town was the collection of tin coinage, the proceeds of which were passed to the Duchy of Cornwall or the Crown.
 

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Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain is also home to a team which has won their nations top football league on multiple occasions.
 

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