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Did you know that Montrose has the widest High Street in Scotland? Some of the fine buildings there bear witness to its position at one time as a Hanseatic Port of great significance.

Did you know that Montrose Air Station (now a Heritage Centre) was the first operational military airfield in Britain? The Royal Flying Corps set up the field in 1913 – though Leuchars which was used for ballooning before that can boast it is our oldest military aviation facility.

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Ian McKenzie Smith
Joseph Hume
Robert Brown

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Relief of Derry – No Surrender - 1689, Start of World War I - 1914, The Battle of London Airport - 1948, Postcodes Introduced - 1959, Provisional IRA formally ceases Violence - 2005, The Birmingham Tornado - 2005
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