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  • ...and modelled by Robert Owen, the reformer, for the families of workers at New Lanark Mills. ...Airdrie]], [[Blantyre]], [[Hamilton, Lanarkshire|Hamilton]], [[Lanark]], [[New Lanark]], [[Rutherglen]] and in [[Glasgow]] too, and engineering came to [[
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  • ...sher= Glasgow City Council}}</ref> In the 1960s, large-scale relocation to new towns and peripheral suburbs have reduced the current population of the Cit ...tolled throughout the city so that the citizens would pray for his soul. A new bell was purchased by the magistrates in 1641 and that bell is still on dis
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  • ...ists David Dale and Robert Owen, built their mills and the model town of [[New Lanark]]. The mills harness the power of the [[Falls of Clyde]], the most s ...artificially straightened and widened through the centre, and although the new Clyde Arc now hinders access to the traditional ''Broomielaw'' dockland are
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  • ...although William Roy’s 1750 map notes "Cottbrig" as a hamlet in the Old Monkland area. One source states “Coatbridge” is either derived from the Middle ...oatbridge: Three Centuries of Change'' – Peter Drummond and James Smith, Monkland Library Services, 1982. pg. 11</ref>
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  • **New Monkland Parish Church (bef. 1698) - In nearby [[Glenmavis]]. **New Wellwynd (1834)
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  • The Falkirk Wheel with a new canal connection to the River Carron and hence the River Forth. The Falkirk ...lloch Railway at its summit, near the last-mentioned village; and with the Monkland Canal and the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway, at Port Dundas, near the city o
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  • ...rn corner, and the Monkland Motorway (built over the former route of the [[Monkland Canal]]) towards Edinburgh at its north eastern corner. Together, these th ...ction between Baillieston and Newhouse in the near future, providing three new motorway junctions to serve [[Coatbridge]], [[Bargeddie]] and [[Holytown]]
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  • ...unded by the Clyde on the north, which separates it from the Parish of Old Monkland; by the Calder on the east, which separates it from [[Blantyre]]; by part o * Glen, Duncan ''A nation in a parish: A new historical prospect of Scotland from the parish of Cambuslang'' AKROS Publi
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  • ...establishment of a chemical works by Charles Tennant on the newly opened [[Monkland Canal]] at nearby St Rollox in 1799, which later became part of the United ...1890s. Petershill F.C. was founded in 1897 and continues to play today at New Petershill Park, a modern stadium with a 2,000 capacity, including a 562-se
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  • *[[New Monkland]] *[[Old Monkland]]
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