The Stewarts sold the station in 1972 to Fairchild Industries for $ 1. 5 million.

The Stewarts once resided at a castle in nearby Renfrew.

Around 1388 the Stewarts took over the Lordship of Lorn, and it is believed that they built the castle in its present form around the 1440s.

The Darnley Stewarts replaced the early castle with the present stone structure around 1400.

Portstewart was founded in 1792 by John Cromie, who named it after his maternal ancestors, the Stewarts of Ballylesse.

However, even though Albany was exonerated from blame, suspicions of foul play persisted, suspicions which never left Rothesay's younger brother the future James I of Scotland, and which would eventually lead to the downfall of the Albany Stewarts.

At the Battle of Harlaw ( known as " Red Harlaw " on account of its savagery ) on 24 July 1411, losses were heavy on both sides, though McDonald's eventual withdrawal allowed the Stewarts to claim a strategic victory.

To bolster his authority and secure the position of the crown, James launched pre-emptive attacks on some of his nobles beginning in 1425 with his close relatives the Albany Stewarts.

The Italian historian Polydore Vergil said that some of the English royal council objected to the match, saying that it would bring the Stewarts directly into the line of English succession, to which the wily and astute Henry replied :" What then?

The Stewarts were the last owners to live in residence.

Prince James, now heir to the throne, was the only impediment to the transfer of the royal line to the Albany Stewarts.

Buchan's lands did not fall to the Albany Stewarts but were forfeited by the crown, Albany's father-in-law, Duncan, Earl of Lennox was imprisoned and in December the duke's main ally Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar settled his differences with the king.

He describes how the abbot was generally supportive of James but that he and others ' regretted the demise of the Albany Stewarts and that he was confounded by James's greed for territory and wealth.

They described James as the embodiment of good monarchy with Mair's eulogy that James '... indeed excelled by far in virtue his father, grandfather and his great-grandfather nor will I give precedence over the first James to any of the Stewarts ' while Boece in similar vein calls James the ' maist vertuous Prince that evir was afoir his days '.

Originally a Great Western Railway shed, it was possibly the last London steam depot, outlasting Old Oak Common and Stewarts Lane depots.

He was popular with the commoners, with whom, like most of the Stewarts, he socialized often, both in times of peace and war.

The fuel was pumped through steel pipes made by Stewarts and Lloyds at their ( then ) recently completed, integrated iron & steel tube-making plant at Corby, Northamptonshire.

He died in 1420 and was succeeded by his son, Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany, who would be executed for treason when James returned to Scotland in 1425, causing the almost complete ruin of the Albany Stewarts.

The Stewart army was led by Albany's nephew, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, who would later sit on the jury of knights and peers which convicted Albany's son Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany and two of his sons of treason, virtually annihilating the Albany Stewarts.

The island burial place was also shared by the Camerons of Callart, on the north shore of the loch, the Stewarts of Ballachulish and Appin and other local families.

Stewarts Place occupied the area between Browns Road and the Tilework Brae and was built to accommodate navvies brought to Newmilns for the purpose of extending the railway line to Darvel.

With the basic steel pipe for HAMEL supplied by Stewarts & Lloyds of Corby, manufacturing of the final system was carried out by Siemens Brothers at Woolwich, Henley's at North Woolwich, Callender's at Erith and Standard Telephones and Cables at Greenwich.

This complex family history was explored by Andrew Stuart of Torrance and Castlemilk who published The History of the Genealogy of the Stewarts in 1798.

The last passenger train still in NSE livery was lost on 15 September 2007, when a Class 465, 465193, the last still in NSE colours, was sent to Stewarts Lane TMD by Southeastern for revinyling into Southeastern livery.

Most famous of the Darnley Stewarts was Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, who was second husband to Mary, Queen of Scots.

The title track Steeltown was written about the town of Corby, telling how many Scots went to work at the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks when it opened in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, but later found themselves unemployed when the steelworks declined in the early 1980s.

In addition to exercising considerable power and wealth, the Albany Stewarts were potential heirs to the throne ; Murdoch's grandfather was King Robert II of Scotland, who had founded the Stewart dynasty.

In the destruction of his close family, the Albany Stewarts, James I was able to secure the substantial rents from the family's three forfeited earldoms of Fife, Menteith and Lennox, a blow from which the Albany Stewarts never recovered.

The staff is for Royston Priory, the roses for Tudor connections, while James I is represented by the checky fesse of the Stewarts.

The new Victoria station proved to be unexpectedly popular for both the main companies, and by 1862 there were frequent delays due to congestion at the Stewarts Lane Junction.

In 1425 the exiled King James, captive in England for 18 years, finally returned to Scotland, and executed Murdoch and most of his family for treason, causing the almost complete ruin of the Albany Stewarts.

The titles of Baron Mountjoy and Viscount Mountjoy have been created several times for members of two separate families: the Blounts and their descendants and the Stewarts of Ramelton and their descendants.

* Chatsworth ( 1888 ), built for William Evans who worked at Stewarts of Stones Corner.

George Weir started playing rugby for Stewarts Melville RFC, his former school, in Edinburgh.

The MacNaughtens did not put their faith in the Stewarts and opted more for the freedom that the presbyterian church offered.

The historical setting, which provides many plot elements and prominent characters for the novels, is the incessant jockeying for position through treaties, alliances of convenience, political marriages, wars, and even piracy, among the English Tudors, the Holy Roman Empire of the Habsburgs, the French Valois, the Ottoman Empire of Suleiman the Magnificent, and their respective secular and religious allies, including the Stewarts of Scotland, the Knights of St. John, the corsairs of North Africa, and even Tsar Ivan the Terrible of Russia.

One exception to this were the frequent balancing runs between their home depot of Eastleigh and their day-time out-stations of either Clapham Junction yard or Stewarts Lane depot in readiness for night-time postal and newspaper trains from Waterloo.

Image: Clapham Junction, Stewarts Lane, Lavender Hill & Longhedge RJD 17. jpg | A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of the line's final approaches to Victoria.

After the Stewarts moved to Vallejo, California, the youngest four children ( Sylvester, Freddie, Rose, and Vaetta ) formed " The Stewart Four ", who released a local 78 RPM single, " On the Battlefield of the Lord " backed with " Walking in Jesus ' Name ", in 1952.

Dorman Long, South Durham and Stewarts and Lloyds had merged as British Steel and Tube Ltd before vesting took place.

His granddaughter and heiress, Marion Stewart ( daughter of Isabella Norwald of Cardonald and Sir William Stewart of Castlemilk ), married Allan Stewart, establishing the line of Stewarts of Cardonald.

The Cardonald Stewarts were a junior branch of the House of Stewart.

The Cardonald Stewarts had their seat at the Place of Cardonald ( also known as Cardonald Castle or Cardonald House ), built in 1565.

The first UK postcards were produced by printing firm Stewarts of Edinburgh and early postcards were pictures of famous landmarks, scenic views, photographs or drawings of celebrities and so on.

In the spring and summer of 1423 their attempts to resolve the issue met with little response from the Scots, clearly influenced by the Albany Stewarts and adherents.

At this stage, it is probable that the king felt unable to move against the rest of the Albany Stewarts while Murdoch's brother, John Stewart, Earl of Buchan and the Earl of Douglas were fighting the English on the Dauphinist cause in France.

James the Fat led the men of Lennox and Argyll in open rebellion against the crown and this may have been what the king needed to bring a charge of treason against the Albany Stewarts.

James demonstrated a ruthless and avaricious side to his nature in the destruction of his close family, the Albany Stewarts, that yielded the three forfeited earldoms of Fife, Menteith and Lennox.

The county is divided into sixteen townships: Anderson Creek, Averasboro, Barbecue, Black River, Buckhorn, Duke, Grove, Hectors Creek, Johnsonville, Lillington, Neills Creek, Stewarts Creek, and Upper Little River.

During the latter decades of the nineteenth century Battersea had developed into a major town railway centre with two locomotive works at Nine Elms and Longhedge and three important motive power depots ( Nine Elms, Stewarts Lane and Battersea ) all situated within a relatively small area in the north of the district.

* Stewarts Corners – A hamlet east of Venice Center.

* Stewarts Corners – A location in the northwest part of the town, south of Glodes Corners.

Among the early names are Borland, Pillows, Macleans, Wilsons, Stewarts, Lemons, Albertsons, Buntings, Cummings, Shoops and Armstrongs.

Its villages include Gerhards, Hudsondale, and Stewarts.

The Stewarts settled on the southern side of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Nippenose Township and the Duffys settled on the opposite shore in Piatt Township.

The Stewarts greatly increased their holdings in the west, in Atholl and in the far north: the earldoms of Fife and Menteith went to Robert II's second surviving son Robert, the earldoms of Buchan and Ross ( along with the lordship of Badenoch ) to his fourth son Alexander and the earldoms of Strathearn and Caithness to the eldest son of his second marriage, David.

By 1375, the king had commissioned John Barbour to write the poem, The Brus, a history intended to bolster the public image of the Stewarts as the genuine heirs of Robert I.

The dissension between the king and the Stewarts looked to have been settled before the end of spring 1367.