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Reminiscence

When you are far from home, or even at home, it is nice to be able to read about your home town - to see it as it was when you left or when your ancestors lived here.

As well as providing some brief glimpses of your home town on our web site we will list books and documents that help feed our imagination.

Clydeside: Red, Orange and Green by Ian R. Mitchell. Luath Press (2010) �9.99
This new book has a chapter devoted to Coatbridge. Its theme is the working class communities in the Clyde basin, from New Lanark in the east to Greenock in the west: in North Lanarkshire, there are chapters for Motherwell as well as Coatbridge. Coatbridge�s chapter is titled �Coatbrig: the strugglin�, toilin� masses�. This is a quote from local poetess Janet Hamilton, during whose long life (1796 � 1873) in the town it was transformed from a rural idyll to an industrial nightmare.

Her wonderful Scots poetry � e.g. �big lums spewin� reek an� red lowe in the air� � is used several times by Mitchell to good effect. He combines it with a brief history of the growth of the iron industry and the lavish spending it enabled for the Bairds of Gartsherrie, ironmasters extraordinaire.

This he contrasts with the living and working conditions of the workers and their families, and the crushing of attempts to win improvements through union struggle. Mitchell ends the chapter with a section called �Coatbridge today� which combines some sociology � the religious divide in the town � with a walk visiting some of the important landmarks. He is not a Monklander, but his treatment of the town and its people is sympathetic, in contrast to some big city newspapers which delight in mocking the �carbuncle town�.

This is a good read, and not just for the Coatbridge chapter � another dozen Clydeside communities are covered.

Peter Drummond
(author, Coatbridge - Three Centuries of Change (1982))

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Books and leaflets on sale at the Libraries
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Family Tree software programs -
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Stenlake Publishing Good source for local histories and topics such as transport. A good collection of reasonably priced publications covering numerous subjects.

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Stenlake Publishing Good source for local histories and topics such as transport. A good collection of reasonably priced publications covering numerous subjects.