Industry & Heritage
Iron works, brickworks, the canal, the Co-op and the people and places that built the area.
Gartsherrie Iron Works
Gartsherrie, a suburban town and quod sacra parish in Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire.
4 pagesCalder Iron Works
The expansion of the Scottish iron trade in the 1800s has been mainly due to:
12 pagesThe Steel Works
Let us now proceed to notice in detail, the erection of the respective manufactories in the district.
5 pagesStewarts and Lloyds
Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd, iron and steel tube manufacturers, Corby, Northamptonshire, England was created in 1903 by the…
2 pagesBain's Wire Ropes
This chapter is rather out of place with regards the early chapters of my life. I thought however since it expressed…
Thomas Hudson & Co
The firm of Thomas Hudson, boilermakers, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, was founded in 1870 by Thomas Hudson,…
2 pagesR B Tennent
Tennant's Foundry is situated at the bottom of Buchanan Street. The enterprising lessee, Mr Robert Tennant, has…
9 pagesMurray and Paterson
Firm constructed mining machinery: in 1880s firm constructed two locomotives, one for South America, probably Brazil;…
4 pagesGlenboig Fireclay and Firebricks
The area to the North of Coatbridge was noted for the manufacture and supply of Fire Clay products especially Furnace…
8 pagesSummerlee Heritage Park
The Summerlee Heritage park is a museum of social and Industrial history.
6 pagesSummerlee Brick Collection
Monklands Memories- Summerlee Brick Collection bricks 002640 X 48090 KB bricks 003640 X 48097 KB bricks 004640 X 48099…
84 pagesSummerlee Transport Group
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72 pagesThe Monkland Canal
In the late eighteenth century in Britain, canal fever was in the air. City magnates and tobacco barons in Glasgow…
2 pagesThe Vulcan on the Canal
A nineteenth century boat that revolutionised maritime design across the world has undertaken one final voyage and…
Coatbridge Co-operative Society
The first meeting of the Coatbridge Co-operative Pioneers was held in the summer of 1871. On February 3rd 1872 the…
8 pagesCoatbridge Burgh 1885
Prior to the Burgh Act being passed, Coatbridge had the unenviable notoriety of being the largest and dirtiest village…
4 pagesBaxters Buses
The firm of Baxter's Bus Services Ltd was founded in 1914 by Mr and Mrs James Baxter and known as James Baxter motor…
13 pagesMonklands Heritage Society
2 pagesJohn White - Monklands Historian
JOHN WHITE, the respected local historian of Monklands, died on 1st January 2000, in his 85th year.
3 pagesNorth Lanarkshire Museums
Resources for genealogists and anyone researching the history of the North Lanarkshire area are held in the local…
3 pagesOld Postcards c1907
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Aerial Photographs
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