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Francis Frith (also spelled Frances Frith, 7 October 1822 – 25 February 1898) was an English photographer and businessman. [1] Francis Frith & Co., the company he founded in 1860 with the initial goal of photographing every town and village in England, quickly became the largest photographic publishers in the world and eventually amassed a collection of 330,000 negatives covering over 7,000 ...
An Act to authorize the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation and the Airdrie and Coatbridge Water Company to enter into Agreements for certain Purposes. (Repealed by Airdrie, Coatbridge and District Water Board Order Confirmation Act 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. li))
Francis Joseph McNally [1] (born 24 January 1988) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Coatbridge and Bellshill since 2024. He gained the seat from Steven Bonnar , a member of the Scottish National Party .
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.
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.
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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.
In 1856 Negretti and Zambra sponsored a photographic expedition to Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia conducted by Francis Frith. More than 500 stereographs of Frith's voyage were produced by the firm between 1857 and 1860. Negretti and Zambra personally photographed Shakespeare's House, Stratford-upon-Avon. A sepia photograph was then pasted onto card ...