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Coatbridge (Scots: Cotbrig or Coatbrig, locally / ˌ k oʊ t ˈ b r ɪ dʒ / [4]) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (14 kilometres) east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands.
In the 1920s-1930s Coatbridge Town Council constructed new housing estates at Cliftonville, Cliftonhall, Rosehall, Barrowfield and Espieside. As late as 1936 however Coatbridge was the most overcrowded place in Scotland. [31] After World War II Townhead, Kirkwood, Kirkshaws, Shawhead, Summerlee and Sikeside followed. The high rises which can be ...
Coatbridge Burgh; Seventh District (Shottskirk electoral division, rest went to Motherwell) Ninth District (Old Monkland and New Monkland electoral divisions, rest split between Glasgow and Strathkelvin) The name of "Monklands" originated in the grant of lands in the area to the monks of the Cistercian Abbey of Newbattle, Midlothian in 1162.
Drumpellier Country Park is a country park situated to the west of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The park was formerly a private estate. [1] The land was given over to the Burgh of Coatbridge for use as a public park in 1919, and was designated as a country park in 1984 by the then Monklands council, part of Strathclyde.
Buckfast Tonic Wine is a caffeinated alcoholic drink consisting of fortified wine with added caffeine, [2] originally made by monks at Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England.It is now made under a licence granted by the monastery, and distributed by J. Chandler & Company in Great Britain, James E McCabe Ltd in Northern Ireland, [3] and Richmond Marketing Ltd in Ireland.
Monks (2006) was originally published as The Big Q (2001) and was adapted into play which enjoyed its world premiere in the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh in 2007. My Epileptic Lurcher (2008) is the story of Manny Riley, a recovering alcoholic and struggling scriptwriter with a serious anger management problem, and his newly adopted lurcher, Bailey ...
Monklands Hospital aerial view circa 1980. Collectively, Airdrie, Coatbridge, and their surrounding villages were once referred to as Monklands.Monklands District Council was the local government district until the abolition of the two-tier local government system and creation of unitary authorities in 1996 with the passing of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
The Coatbridge accent has been categorised as generally less usage of the Scots tongue and the tendency to stress the 'a' vowel differently, e.g. stair (sterr), hair (herr), fair (ferr) etc. and this is attributed to the impact of successive influxes of Irish immigrants, particularly from Ulster.