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View from SW showing remains of numbers 71-80
SC 682319
Description View from SW showing remains of numbers 71-80
Date 29/12/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 682319
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Miners' housing, Nos 1-100 East Gartferry Road, Bridgend, North Lanarkshire Auchengeich Colliery was sunk by James Nimmo & Co in 1908, and produced gas, house, steam and coking coal. To house the miners to work the colliery the company built the village of Bridgend, with houses of various types. This shows one of the single-storeyed rows after the slates and external ironwork had been stripped for reuse. The lean-tos contained internal lavatories and a lobby, much superior provision to the usual Lanarkshire miners' row. Auchengeich Colliery closed in 1965, and the village was cleared soon after. There was still one house inhabited in 1967, but by the end of that year the village had disappeared. Bridgend and the nearby Annathill, the Bedlay Colliery village, were the last of their kind in Lanarkshire. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/67/10/18
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