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St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Including Walls, Piers, Gates And Fencing, Main Street, Coatbridge 55°51′45″N 4°01′32″W / 55.86261°N 4.025462°W / 55.86261; -4.025462 ( St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Including Walls, Piers, Gates And Fencing, Main Street, Coatbridge
Coatbridge CC became the first amateur football club to win the Scottish Cup and the West of Scotland cup in the same season. Coatbridge Bowling Club (founded 1849) celebrates its 175th anniversary in 2024 and is the oldest sports club in the town. It is situated in Bowling Street, in the Blairhill area of Coatbridge.
Whifflet Park in Coatbridge looking north showing Whifflet Court and Calder Court in the background. Whifflet is dominated by its Main Street, aptly named 'Whifflet Street', which has numerous shops, takeout restaurants, bookmakers, an old fashioned sweet shop and many pubs.
St Patrick's Church is situated on the Main Street of Coatbridge and forms a hub of Irish activity in town hosting regular Irish quiz nights and shows of Irish themed films. In 2006, Coatbridge (along with Port Glasgow and Clydebank ) was voted 'the least Scottish town in Scotland' due to having the highest percentage of Irish names in the country.
On the Kildonan Street elevation, rather than replicating the original stonework, a modern structure was constructed with a new main entrance. [ 1 ] The building continued to serve as the headquarters of Coatbridge Burgh Council for much of the 20th century and, as Coatbridge Municipal Buildings, remained the local seat of government after the ...
The Main Stand sits high on a rise above Main Street and was built in the same season as their only Scottish Cup Final appearance. A roof extension over the paddock (a standing area in front of the stand) was added in 1994. Cliftonhill's record attendance was set on 8 February 1936 when 27,381 watched the visit of Rangers. Floodlighting was ...
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.
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 ...