There is some doubt as to how long the family had held the ancestral family home, but it is certain that there a castle of sorts at Hawkshaw, probably built as no more than a small fortified keep, and intended as a watch tower where a signal fire could be lit to warn of approaching danger.

Historically part of Peeblesshire, the original village of Hawkshaw was destroyed when the Fruid Reservoir was constructed in 1963, and is remembered as the ancestral family home of the Porteous family, dating from at least 1439.

The home of early members of the Porteous family for many hundreds of years was Hawkshaw in Peeblesshire.

) On March 5, 1963, Cline died in a plane crash along with Cowboy Copas Hawkshaw Hawkins and her pilot and manager Randy Hughes on her way home from a benefit in Kansas City, at Memorial Hall, a benefit West also attended.

The song features a backmasked vocal sample by Kirsty Hawkshaw from " It's a Fine Day " by Opus III ( 1992 ) ( Hawkshaw played the mother who was ' under the influence ' in the video, which was shot in the Hartnolls ' home ).

The cairn at Hawkshaw has, over the years, become a place of pilgrimage for members of the Porteous family, and an international reunion was traditionally held at the nearby Crook Inn, Tweedsmuir every five years, attracting visitors from all over the world.

He was educated at Glenalmond and King's College London, where he was a pupil of civil engineer Sir John Hawkshaw, as was Henry Marc Brunel, son of the great Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

The show's theme tune is an arrangement by Alan Hawkshaw of part of the Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.

In response to requests over the years, Chapterhouse played live at Club AC30's Reverence show at the ICA on 26 November 2009 along with Ulrich Schnauss and Kirsty Hawkshaw.

Hawkshaw was chosen to make the inquiry, and it was because his report was entirely favourable that Ferdinand de Lesseps was able to say at the opening ceremony that to him he owed the canal.

Sir John Hawkshaw also had a wide experience in constructing harbours ( e. g. Holyhead ) and docks ( e. g. Penarth, the Albert Dock at Hull, and South Dock ( formerly the City Canal ) of the West India Docks in London ), in river-engineering, in drainage and sewerage, in water-supply, etc.

The monastic establishment at Lyss Place then passed into private ownership and was subsequently held variously by the Cole, Fitzpatrick, Taylor and Hawkshaw families.

* Hawkshaw at Don Markstein's Toonopedia

* Hawkshaw at Magnatune

Hawkshaw is a pair of semi-detached houses on the River Tweed, two miles southwest of Tweedsmuir in the Scottish Borders.

* Ancient Stones: Stone Circle, Hawkshaw, Tweedsmuir

* British History Online: Tweedsmuir, Hawkshaw

* Photographs of Hawkshaw and Tweedsmuir, about 1934

Hawkshaw was one of over two dozen of these in Peeblesshire alone.

Hawkshaw was one of over two dozen of these in Peeblesshire alone.

* March 5 – In Camden, Tennessee, country music superstar Patsy Cline ( Virginia Patterson Hensley ) is killed in a plane crash along with fellow performers Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and Cline's manager and pilot Randy Hughes, while returning from a benefit performance in Kansas City, Kansas for country radio disc jockey " Cactus " Jack Call.

In the upper Tweed valley, going downstream from its source, they were as follows: Fruid, Hawkshaw, Oliver, Polmood, Kingledoors, Mossfennan, Wrae Tower, Quarter, Stanhope, Drumelzier, Tinnies, Dreva, Stobo, Dawyck, Easter Happrew, Lyne, Barnes, Caverhill, Neidpath, Peebles, Horsburgh, Nether Horsburgh Castle, Cardrona.

This song featured a sample of Kirsty Hawkshaw from " It's a Fine Day " ( a chart hit for Opus III earlier that year ), and B-side " The Naked and the Dead " was similarly based on a line from Scott Walker's rendition of Jacques Brel's song " Next ".

Barry and Hawkshaw worked on railway bridge crossings across the Thames, among other projects ( Brunel pursued his own business from 1871, but in 1878 went into partnership with Barry ).

A line of these towers was built in the 1430s across the Tweed valley from Berwick to its source ( a few miles from Hawkshaw ) as a response to the dangers of invasion from the English Borders.

The 2nd & 3rd seasons reused the Ellis score while adding a substantial amount of new music taken from KPM Library tracks (" production music ") featuring such English composers as Johnny Hawksworth, Syd Dale, David Lindup, Johnny Pearson, Alan Hawkshaw, Kenny Graham and the team of Bill Martin & Phil Coulter.

They used more complex rhythms and denser arrangements on the appropriately monickered pieces entitled " Lush " but still proving themselves capable of making quality pop music on " Halcyon + On + On ", with vocals from Kirsty Hawkshaw of Opus III.

: * On March 5, three of the genre's top stars-Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas-are killed in a small plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, while on their way to Nashville from Kansas City, Kansas.

The Hawkshaw stage line soon felt the pressure of competition from the Donnellys.

" Dark Moon " has been covered by numerous artists, past and present, including Gale Storm, Tony Brent, Lynn Anderson from the album " Songs That Made Country Girls Famous " ( 1970 ), Mandy Barnett, Teresa Brewer, Bonnie Guitar, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Frank Ifield, Chris Isaak, Loretta Lynn, Ned Miller, Patti Page, Elvis Presley, Jim Reeves, Daniel Rae Costello and Hank Snow.

Hawkshaw the Detective was a comic strip character featured in an eponymous cartoon serial by Gus Mager between 1913 and 1922 and again from 1931 to 1952.

A reversed sample of Hawkshaw's singing from this track was used in the Orbital track " Halcyon ," the music video for which featured Hawkshaw.

After the group broke up in 1994, Hawkshaw pursued a solo career and since then has been in demand by other acts in the dance, house, Eurodance, trance, and electronica community, ranging from Tiësto to Delerium.

At least four popular songs use old telephone exchanges in their names: " PEnnsylvania 6-5000 " ( PE 6-5000 ), recorded by Glenn Miller, " BEechwood 4-5789 ", by The Marvelettes, " LOnesome 7-7203 by Hawkshaw Hawkins, and " ECho Valley 2-6809 " by The Partridge Family.

The station was designed by Sir John Hawkshaw, with a single span wrought iron roof arching over the six platforms on its relatively cramped site.

Early railways ( c. 1840s ) experimented with continuous bearing railtrack, in which the rail was supported along its length, with examples including Brunel's Baulk road on the Great Western Railway, as well as use on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to a design by John Hawkshaw, and elsewhere.

Sir John Hawkshaw ( in cart ) inspecting the Severn Tunnel during its construction

Hawkshaw was worried the project was becoming too commercial, which is one of the reasons for the band's separation.

Hawkshaw went on to pursue a solo career, and is still a major presence in dance music, lending her vocals to a number of electronic and dance music artists and tracks into the opening years of the 21st century, including Delerium, Silent Poets, DJ Tiësto and again with Orbital.

Kirsty Hawkshaw ( born 26 October 1969 in London, UK ) is a British dance / electronica / house / trance musician and songwriter.

Kirsty Hawkshaw is the daughter of the British production music / film music composer and disco record producer Alan Hawkshaw.