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Bo'ness
A contraction of the name Borrowstounness, Bo’ness is a former industrial town and port on the Firth of Forth. The town has close associations with James Watt, who experimented in 1764 with his early steam engine in a cottage on the Kinneil estate.
Today Bo’ness is primarily a commuter town for those working in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Falkirk and Grangemouth. It also has the oldest cinema in Scotland – the Hippodrome; now refurbished, it was originally built in 1912.
A contraction of the name Borrowstounness, Bo’ness is a former industrial town and port on the Firth of Forth. The town has close associations with James Watt, who experimented in 1764 with his early steam engine in a cottage on the Kinneil estate.
Today Bo’ness is primarily a commuter town for those working in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Falkirk and Grangemouth. It also has the oldest cinema in Scotland – the Hippodrome; now refurbished, it was originally built in 1912.