- in
Coatbridge was in
rapid decline.
After the
Great Depression, the
Gartsherrie ironwork was the last
remaining iron
works in the town. One publication...
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yards from the
entrance at the
timber shed,
before the
extension of the
Gartsherrie Branch canal bridge and
thence towards the Miners' Cottages. As continued...
- line is
quoted to have
opened in
October 1826, but the
section north of
Gartsherrie at
least must have
opened during May 1826,
although the
earliest "opening"...
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Colville was born in
Glasgow in 1852, and
educated at
Hamilton and
Gartsherrie Academies. He was head of the firm of
David Colville & Sons at Motherwell...
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called the
Gartsherrie,
Hornock and
Summerlea Branch Canal, it
ended at the
Gartsherrie Ironworks, just
south of the present-day
Gartsherrie Road. It was...
- The
family would later set up the
large ironworks known as
Bairds of
Gartsherrie,
which William's
younger brother James would lead
after William's retirement...
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north of
Coatbridge (Blairhill, Cliftonville, Drumpellier, Dunbeth,
Gartsherrie, Greenhill, Parklands, Summerlee, Sunnyside,
Townhead and the town centre)...
- the
Caledonian Railway and
opened in
August 1848 on
their line from
Gartsherrie (on the
former Garnkirk and
Glasgow Railway) to
Greenhill on the Scottish...
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Monkland and
Kirkintilloch Railway (M&KR) ran
alongside the GG&CR at
Gartsherrie,
continuing north to the
canal basin at Kirkintilloch.
Agreement was...
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which Whitelaw became a
managing partner. The
Baird family acquired the
Gartsherrie coal
fields in 1826 and the
mansion and
estate in 1834.
Through his philanthropy...
