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The Bairds were responsible for the lay out of present-day central Coatbridge town centre and gave the town land for the town hall and the land which later came to form Dunbeth Park. Gartsherrie church was built by the Baird family for them and their employees. At one stage the population of Coatbridge grew by 600%. [16]
Coatbridge was a major Scottish centre for iron works and coal mining during the 19th century and was then described as 'the industrial heartland of Scotland' [6] and the 'Iron Burgh'. Coatbridge also had a notorious reputation for air pollution and the worst excesses of industry.
Modern-day writer Des Dillon also writes at length about the descendants of the nineteenth-century Irish immigrants in present-day Coatbridge. The formation of Whifflet Shamrock in 1888 suggests an attempt to set up a football team to represent the Coatbridge community. [ 8 ]
During the 19th century these hamlets grew into the modern-day town of Coatbridge. A number of these hamlets constitute the neighbourhoods of Coatbridge. Overlaid on the older hamlets are modern-day council estates built as a part of programme of social housing construction in the 1930s and 1950s.
The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M. Historic Environment Scotland.
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Coatbridge was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) from 1918 to 1950, elected by the first past the post voting system. It was formed by the division of Lanarkshire. The name was changed in 1950 to Coatbridge and Airdrie.