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|f_annotation='''LEE MILLS.''' | |f_annotation='''LEE MILLS.''' Scottish, Strathspey (while time). A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lee Mills" was published by Perthshire fiddler-composer [[biography:John Bowie]] in his according to the Friends of Wighton site[[https://friendsofwighton.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Wighton-Fiddle-Tunes-2018.pdf https://friendsofwighton.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Wighton-Fiddle-Tunes-2018.pdf]] | ||
|f_printed_sources=John Bowie ('''Collection of strathspey reels & country dances &c.'''), Edinburgh, c. 1789; p. 23. | |||
<span>Lee Mills</span><span>’ </span><span>may well have been </span><span>John Bowie’s </span><span>interesting spelling of the place named Leysmill, near Friockheim in Angus. Leysmill Quarry was a sandstone quarry </span><span>– </span><span>the stones were used as paving stones, the quarry being in operation from the 1820s. The area also contains a prehistoric palisaded enclosure at Leys of Boysack.</span> | |||
|f_printed_sources=John Bowie ('''Collection of strathspey reels & country dances &c.'''), Edinburgh, c. 1789; p. 23. | |||
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LEE MILLS. Scottish, Strathspey (while time). A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lee Mills" was published by Perthshire fiddler-composer biography:John Bowie in his according to the Friends of Wighton site[https://friendsofwighton.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Wighton-Fiddle-Tunes-2018.pdf]
Lee Mills’ may well have been John Bowie’s interesting spelling of the place named Leysmill, near Friockheim in Angus. Leysmill Quarry was a sandstone quarry – the stones were used as paving stones, the quarry being in operation from the 1820s. The area also contains a prehistoric palisaded enclosure at Leys of Boysack.
