Dance The Lads of Saltcoats 3585
Reel · 32 bars · 2 couples · Longwise - 4
- Devised by
- Unknown
- Intensity
- 84 84 80 88 = 75% (1 turn), 52% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Reel of three - dancing couple plus one (REEL;DC+;R3;)
- Reel of three - dancing couple plus one (REEL;DC+;R3;)
- Lead/Dance down and up, then cast (DWNUP;CAST)
- Rights and Lefts (R&L)
- Steps
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- Skip-Change
- Published in
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- Miss Milligan's Miscellany of Scottish Country Dances [41]
- Miss Milligan's Miscellany Volume II [17]
- 99 More Scottish Country Dances [38]
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [363] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [329] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [316] (diagram only)
- Recommended Music
- Extra Info
- 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.
| Name | Artist | Album | Media | Trk | Type | Time | Pace | Clip | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Lads Of Saltcoats | Muriel Johnstone's Band | Dance Through The Miscellanies - First Part | CD | 11 | R32 8 | 4:46 | 35.8 | ||
| The Lads Of Saltcoats | Muriel Johnstone's Band | A Dancer's Miscellany Vol I | MC | 2 | R32 8 | 4:46 | 35.8 |
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
Watch on YouTube
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Added on: 2020-04-12 (Murrough Landon)
Quality: Demonstration quality
| Name | Date | Owner | Last 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
