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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.7</span> <span>Coatbridge and Ireland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Coatbridge_and_Ireland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Coatbridge_accent" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Coatbridge_accent"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.8</span> <span>Coatbridge accent</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Coatbridge_accent-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Sports</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Coat_of_Arms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Coat_of_Arms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span 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href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AC" title="کوتبریج – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کوتبریج" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drochaid_a%27_Ch%C3%B2ta" title="Drochaid a' Chòta – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Drochaid a' Chòta" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koutbrid%C5%BEas" title="Koutbridžas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Koutbridžas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC" title="کوتبريج – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="کوتبريج" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%B9%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AC" title="کوٹبرج – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="کوٹبرج" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6" title="Котбридж – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Котбридж" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbrig" title="Coatbrig – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Coatbrig" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge" title="Coatbridge – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Coatbridge" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6" 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class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></i></li></ul></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:CoatbridgeFountain1.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/CoatbridgeFountain1.JPG/240px-CoatbridgeFountain1.JPG" decoding="async" width="240" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/CoatbridgeFountain1.JPG/360px-CoatbridgeFountain1.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/CoatbridgeFountain1.JPG/480px-CoatbridgeFountain1.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a></span><div>The Fountain at Bank Street</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap 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density">Density</a></th><td class="infobox-data">6,038/sq mi (2,331/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">OS grid reference</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bing.com/maps/?mkt=en-gb&v=2&cp=55.862286~-4.030767&lvl=13&sp=Point.55.862286_-4.030767_Coatbridge&sty=s&style=s">NS730651</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">• <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></th><td class="infobox-data">33 mi (53 km) <a href="/wiki/Boxing_the_compass" class="mw-redirect" title="Boxing the compass">ENE</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">• <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></th><td class="infobox-data">341 mi (549 km) <a href="/wiki/Boxing_the_compass" class="mw-redirect" title="Boxing the compass">SSE</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland" title="Subdivisions of Scotland">Council area</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/North_Lanarkshire" title="North Lanarkshire">North Lanarkshire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenancy_areas_of_Scotland" title="Lieutenancy areas of Scotland">Lieutenancy area</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lanarkshire" title="Lanarkshire">Lanarkshire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow adr"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="country-name"><a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Post_town" title="Post town">Post town</a></th><td class="infobox-data">COATBRIDGE</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Postcodes in the United Kingdom">Postcode district</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/ML_postcode_area" title="ML postcode area">ML5</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom">Dialling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">01236</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_Dependencies_and_British_Overseas_Territories" title="List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories">Police</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Police_Scotland" title="Police Scotland">Scotland</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Fire_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Fire services in the United Kingdom">Fire</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" title="Scottish Fire and Rescue Service">Scottish</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom">Ambulance</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Ambulance_Service" title="Scottish Ambulance Service">Scottish</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coatbridge,_Chryston_and_Bellshill_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (UK Parliament constituency)">Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_constituencies_and_electoral_regions" title="Scottish Parliament constituencies and electoral regions">Scottish Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_and_Chryston_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Coatbridge and Chryston (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Coatbridge and Chryston</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl 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<dl><dt><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">List of places</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations" title="List of United Kingdom locations">UK</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Scotland" title="List of places in Scotland">Scotland</a></dd> <dd></dd></dl></div> <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Coatbridge&params=55.8625_N_4.0266_W_region:GB_type:city(43950)"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">55°51′45″N</span> <span class="longitude">4°01′36″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">55.8625°N 4.0266°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">55.8625; -4.0266</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Coatbridge</b> (<a href="/wiki/Scots_language" title="Scots language">Scots</a>: <i lang="sco">Cotbrig or Coatbrig</i>, <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">locally </span><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/dʒ/: 'j' in 'jam'">dʒ</span></span>/</a></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) is a town in <a href="/wiki/North_Lanarkshire" title="North Lanarkshire">North Lanarkshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, about <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac">8<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> miles (14 kilometres) east of <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_city_centre" title="Glasgow city centre">Glasgow city centre</a>, set in the <a href="/wiki/Central_Lowlands" title="Central Lowlands">central Lowlands</a>. Along with neighbouring town <a href="/wiki/Airdrie,_North_Lanarkshire" title="Airdrie, North Lanarkshire">Airdrie</a>, Coatbridge forms the area known as the Monklands (population approximately 90,000 including outlying settlements),<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> often considered to be part of the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Glasgow" title="Greater Glasgow">Greater Glasgow</a> urban area – although officially they have not been included in population figures since 2016 due to small gaps between the Monklands and Glasgow built-up areas. </p><p>In the last years of the 18th century, the area developed from a loose collection of <a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(place)" title="Hamlet (place)">hamlets</a> into the town of Coatbridge. The town's development and growth have been intimately connected with the technological advances of the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a>, and in particular with the <a href="/wiki/Hot_blast" title="Hot blast">hot blast</a> process. 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'<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the 'Iron Burgh'. </p><p>Coatbridge also had a notorious reputation for air pollution and the worst excesses of industry. However, by the 1920s, coal seams were exhausted and the iron industry in Coatbridge was in rapid decline. After the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>, the Gartsherrie ironwork was the last remaining iron works in the town. One publication has commented that in modern-day Coatbridge "coal, iron and steel have all been consigned to the heritage scrap heap".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Coatbridge" title="History of Coatbridge">History of Coatbridge</a></div> <p>Coatbridge owes its name to a bridge that carried the old Edinburgh-Glasgow road over the Gartsherrie Burn, at what is now Coatbridge Cross. This first appears on <a href="/wiki/William_Roy" title="William Roy">Roy</a>'s survey of 1755 as <i>Cottbrig</i>, one of a number of places on the wider Coats estate. The name Coats most likely comes from the Scots word <i>cot(t)</i>, meaning "cottage",<sup id="cite_ref-drummond_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drummond-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although an alternative theory links it to the name of the Colt family, who owned land here as early as the 13th century.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history:_from_Bronze_Age_to_Middle_Ages">Early history: from Bronze Age to Middle Ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early history: from Bronze Age to Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Settlement of the Coatbridge area dates back 3000 years to the <a href="/wiki/Mesolithic_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Mesolithic Age">Mesolithic Age</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A circle of <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a> stone coffins was found on the <a href="/wiki/Drumpellier" class="mw-redirect" title="Drumpellier">Drumpellier</a> estate in 1852.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A number of other Bronze Age urns and relics have been found in Coatbridge.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> wood and thatch <a href="/wiki/Crann%C3%B3g" class="mw-redirect" title="Crannóg">crannog</a> dwelling was sited in the loch at the present day <a href="/wiki/Drumpellier" class="mw-redirect" title="Drumpellier">Drumpellier</a> Country Park. Dependent upon the water level in the loch, the remains can still be seen.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Roman</a> coins have been unearthed in Coatbridge,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and there are the remains of a Roman road on the fringes of the town near the <a href="/wiki/M8_motorway_(Scotland)" title="M8 motorway (Scotland)">M8 motorway</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Middle_Ages_to_late_18th_century">Middle Ages to late 18th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Middle Ages to late 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pontmap2b.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Pontmap2b.jpg/205px-Pontmap2b.jpg" decoding="async" width="205" height="246" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Pontmap2b.jpg/308px-Pontmap2b.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Pontmap2b.jpg/410px-Pontmap2b.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1348" data-file-height="1618" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Timothy_Pont" title="Timothy Pont">Pont's</a> "Nether Warde of Clyds-dail" map <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1654</span> which depicts the hamlets of Kirkwood, Dunpelder, Wheatflet, Dunbath, Gartshary in the modern day Coatbridge area</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coatbridge2map1858.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Coatbridge2map1858.jpg/205px-Coatbridge2map1858.jpg" decoding="async" width="205" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Coatbridge2map1858.jpg/308px-Coatbridge2map1858.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Coatbridge2map1858.jpg/410px-Coatbridge2map1858.jpg 2x" data-file-width="514" data-file-height="333" /></a><figcaption>Map of the Coatbridge area dated 1858</figcaption></figure> <p>The Monklands area inherited its name after the area was granted to the <a href="/wiki/Cistercian" class="mw-redirect" title="Cistercian">Cistercian</a> monks of <a href="/wiki/Newbattle_Abbey" title="Newbattle Abbey">Newbattle Abbey</a><sup id="cite_ref-RM_Urqhuart._Heraldry_Today_1973_P.188_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RM_Urqhuart._Heraldry_Today_1973_P.188-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_IV_of_Scotland" title="Malcolm IV of Scotland">King Malcolm IV</a> in 1162. In 1323, the Monklands name appeared for the first time on Stewards' charter.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The monks mined coal and farmed the land until the time of the <a href="/wiki/English_Reformation" title="English Reformation">reformation</a> when the land was taken from them and given to private landowners. In 1641, the parish of <a href="/wiki/Monklands_(district)" title="Monklands (district)">Monklands</a> was divided between New Monkland (present day <a href="/wiki/Airdrie,_North_Lanarkshire" title="Airdrie, North Lanarkshire">Airdrie</a>) and Old Monkland (present day Coatbridge).<sup id="cite_ref-Scotland_1994_p.175_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scotland_1994_p.175-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Old Monkland was described in the 1799 <a href="/wiki/Statistical_Account" class="mw-redirect" title="Statistical Account">Statistical Account</a> as an "immense garden" with "extensive orchards" and "luxurious crops", where "rivers abound with salmon".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Monkland_Canal" title="Monkland Canal">Monkland Canal</a> was constructed at the end of the 18th century initially to transport coal to Glasgow from the rich local deposits. The invention of the <a href="/wiki/Hot_blast" title="Hot blast">hot blast</a> furnace process in 1828 meant that Coatbridge's <a href="/wiki/Ironstone" title="Ironstone">ironstone</a> deposits could be exploited to the maximum by the canal link and hot blast process.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new advances meant that iron could be produced with two-thirds less fuel.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Summerlee_Iron_Works" title="Summerlee Iron Works">Summerlee Iron Works</a> was one of the first iron works to use this technology.<sup id="cite_ref-GG_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GG-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the mid 19th century there were numerous hot blast furnaces in operation in Coatbridge. </p><p>The prosperous industry which had sprung up around the new iron industry required vast numbers of largely unskilled workers to mine ironstone and work in the <a href="/wiki/Blast_furnace" title="Blast furnace">blast furnace</a> plants. Coatbridge therefore became a popular destination for vast numbers of <a href="/wiki/Irish_people" title="Irish people">Irish</a> (especially from <a href="/wiki/County_Donegal" title="County Donegal">County Donegal</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a>) arriving in Scotland. The iron bars and plates produced in Coatbridge iron works were the raw materials needed throughout the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a> for <a href="/wiki/Railways" class="mw-redirect" title="Railways">railways</a>, construction, bridge building and shipbuilding. One example of uses Coatbridge iron was put to included armour plating for British ships fighting in the <a href="/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Miller,_Thomas_Roland_1958_p.36_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miller,_Thomas_Roland_1958_p.36-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Over the course of the following forty years, the population of Coatbridge grew by 600%.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The character of the Coatbridge area changed from a rural, <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian">Presbyterian</a> landscape of small hamlets and farmhouses into a crowded, polluted, <a href="/wiki/Irish_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Catholic">Irish Catholic</a> industrial town. In 1840, Rev William Park wrote that:<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"The population of this parish is at present advancing at an amazing rate, and this propensity is entirely owing to the local coal and iron trade, stimulated by the discovery of the black band of ironstone and the method of fusing iron by hot blast. New villages are springing up almost every month, and it is impossible to keep place with the march of prosperity and the increase of the population."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>One contemporary observer at this time noted that Coatbridge is "not famous for its sylvan beauties of its charming scenery" and "offers the visitor no inducements to loiter long". However, "a visit to the large Gartsherrie works is one of the sights of a lifetime".<sup id="cite_ref-Historical_1904._p26_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Historical_1904._p26-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most of the town's population lived in tight rows of <a href="/wiki/Terraced_house" title="Terraced house">terraced houses</a> built under the shadow of the iron works. These homes were often owned by their employers. Living conditions for most were appalling and <a href="/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a> was rife.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For a fortunate few though, fortunes could be won "with a rapidity only equalled by the princely gains of some of the adventurers who accompanied Pizarro to Peru", noted one observer.<sup id="cite_ref-Scotland_1994_p.175_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scotland_1994_p.175-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among the most notable success stories were the six sons of Coatbridge farmer Alexander Baird. The Baird family had become involved in coal mining but opened an iron foundry in order to exploit the new hot blast process of iron smelting invented by <a href="/wiki/James_Beaumont_Neilson" title="James Beaumont Neilson">James Beaumont Neilson</a>. The Bairds subsequently constructed numerous iron foundries in Coatbridge including the famous Gartsherrie iron works.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The waste heap or 'bing' from the Baird's Gartsherrie works was said to be as large as the great pyramid in Egypt. One son, James Baird, was responsible for erecting 16 blast-furnaces in Coatbridge between 1830 and 1842.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each of the six sons of Alexander Baird was reputed to have become a millionaire.<sup id="cite_ref-Scotland_1994_p.175_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scotland_1994_p.175-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> The town was vividly described by Robert Baird in 1845:<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"There is no worse place out of hell than that neighbourhood. At night the groups of blast furnaces on all sides might be imagined to be blazing volcanoes at most of which smelting is continued on Sundays and weekdays, day and night, without intermission. From the town comes a continual row of heavy machinery: this and the pounding of many steam hammers seemed to make even the very ground vibrate under ones feet. Fire, smoke and soot with the roar and rattle of machinery are its leading characteristics; the flames of its furnaces cast on the midnight sky a glow as if of some vast conflagration. Dense clouds of black smoke roll over it incessantly and impart to all buildings a peculiarly dingy aspect. A coat of black dust overlies everything."<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Summerlee1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Summerlee1.jpg/200px-Summerlee1.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Summerlee1.jpg/300px-Summerlee1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Summerlee1.jpg/400px-Summerlee1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="505" data-file-height="259" /></a><figcaption>Summerlee blast furnaces at the start of the 20th century Coatbridge. The present day <a href="/wiki/Summerlee,_Museum_of_Scottish_Industrial_Life" class="mw-redirect" title="Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life">Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life</a> is sited here.</figcaption></figure><p> In the 19th century, the Baird family wielded a pervasive influence over Coatbridge. They were responsible for the design of the lay out of present-day Coatbridge town centre. The land for the Town Hall and the land which later came to form Dunbeth Park was given to the town by the Bairds. Gartsherrie church was built by the Baird family, the oldest and most significant landmark in the town. Despite being Protestant, the Bairds donated the site on the Main Street for the erection of St Patrick's Catholic Church. </p><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fountaincoatbridge.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Fountaincoatbridge.jpg/220px-Fountaincoatbridge.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Fountaincoatbridge.jpg/330px-Fountaincoatbridge.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Fountaincoatbridge.jpg/440px-Fountaincoatbridge.jpg 2x" data-file-width="657" data-file-height="455" /></a><figcaption>The Whitelaw Fountain in Coatbridge during the 1930s</figcaption></figure> <p>Daniel (Dane) Sinclair, an engineer with the National Telephone Company, based in Glasgow, patented the automatic telephone switchboard. This system was installed in Coatbridge in 1886 and became the world's first automatic telephone exchange.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th/21st_centuries"><span id="20th.2F21st_centuries"></span>20th/21st centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 20th/21st centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> By 1885, the once plentiful Monklands ironstone deposits had been largely exhausted.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It became increasingly expensive to produce iron in Coatbridge as raw materials had to be imported from as far afield as <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>. The growth of the steel industry (in nearby <a href="/wiki/Motherwell" title="Motherwell">Motherwell</a>) had also led to a start of a decline in demand for the pig iron Coatbridge produced. Living conditions remained grim. In the 1920s, <a href="/wiki/David_Lloyd_George" title="David Lloyd George">Lloyd George</a>'s "Coal and Power" report described the living conditions in the Rosehall area of Coatbridge: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"...on the outskirts of Coatbridge, I found nearly the worst of all. In each of these single rooms lives a miner's family. There is no pantry. The coal is kept under the bed. Water has to be obtained from a standpipe outside, used by a number of houses. Conspicuously huddled together in the yards are filthy huts for sanitary purposes."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>'s book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier" title="The Road to Wigan Pier">The Road to Wigan Pier</a></i> was illustrated by a photograph of homes in the Rosehall area of Coatbridge.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1934, there was an exodus to <a href="/wiki/Corby" title="Corby">Corby</a> in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> when the local Union Plant relocated. This had the effect of a hammer blow impact on the town's iron industry and ushered in the end of serious iron production. The decline of the <a href="/wiki/Clydeside" class="mw-redirect" title="Clydeside">Clydeside</a> shipbuilding industry in the 1950s meant the demand for iron finally collapsed.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A legacy of 'devastating'<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> unemployment, appalling housing conditions and some of the worst overcrowding in Scotland left its stamp on the Coatbridge of the early 1930s.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As late as 1936, Coatbridge was the most overcrowded place in Scotland. </p><p>In the 1930s and 1950s, however, massive state-sponsored programmes saw thousands of new homes built in Coatbridge and some of the worst examples of slum housing were cleared away. By the early 1980s, 85% of homes in Coatbridge were part of local authority housing stock.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The last of the blast furnaces, William Baird's famous Gartsherrie works, closed in 1967.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_28-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the 1970s, there have been various initiatives to attempt to regenerate Coatbridge. Urban Aid grants, <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> grants and, more recently, Social Inclusion Partnerships have attempted to breathe new life into Coatbridge. Despite these efforts the town's population has continued to fall and, in recent years, the town has been dubbed the "most dismal in Scotland".<sup id="cite_ref-Dismal_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dismal-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox 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style="display:inline-block; vertical-align:middle; margin:0.75em 1em">Coatbridge</b><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><span title="East"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/17px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/25px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/34px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td style="width:33%"><a href="/wiki/Airdrie,_North_Lanarkshire" title="Airdrie, North Lanarkshire">Airdrie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></td> </tr><tr> <td></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="South"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/14px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/21px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/28px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></td> <td></td> </tr><tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Uddingston" title="Uddingston">Uddingston</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bellshill" title="Bellshill">Bellshill</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Motherwell" title="Motherwell">Motherwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Calderbank" title="Calderbank">Calderbank</a></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>At <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Coatbridge&params=55_51_44_N_4_1_46_W_type:city"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">55°51′44″N</span> <span class="longitude">4°1′46″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">55.86222°N 4.02944°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">55.86222; -4.02944</span></span></span></a></span></span> (55.861°, -4.047°), Coatbridge is situated in Scotland's <a href="/wiki/Central_Lowlands" title="Central Lowlands">Central Lowlands</a>. The town lies 88 metres (288 ft) above <a href="/wiki/Sea_level" title="Sea level">sea level</a>, 9 miles (14.5 km) east of <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a>, 6 miles (10 km) south of <a href="/wiki/Cumbernauld" title="Cumbernauld">Cumbernauld</a> and 2 miles (3 km) west of <a href="/wiki/Airdrie,_North_Lanarkshire" title="Airdrie, North Lanarkshire">Airdrie</a>. Although Coatbridge has no major river running through it, the <a href="/wiki/North_Calder_Water" title="North Calder Water">North Calder Water</a> runs east–west to the south and the now defunct <a href="/wiki/Monkland_Canal" title="Monkland Canal">Monkland Canal</a> used to run straight through the centre of the town toward Glasgow. The canal route through Coatbridge can still be seen today. Several smaller <a href="/wiki/Burn_(topography)" class="mw-redirect" title="Burn (topography)">burns</a> run through Coatbridge, most of which drain into the <a href="/wiki/North_Calder_Water" title="North Calder Water">North Calder Water</a>. Coatbridge has four significant public parks: Dunbeth Park, West End Park, <a href="/wiki/Whifflet" title="Whifflet">Whifflet</a> park and <a href="/wiki/Drumpellier" class="mw-redirect" title="Drumpellier">Drumpellier</a> Country Park. Lochend Loch (locally known as Drumpellier Loch) and Woodend Loch are situated on the north-west edge of Coatbridge. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Topography">Topography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Topography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Topography" title="Topography">topography</a> of Coatbridge was an important feature in the town's development during the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Industrial revolution">industrial revolution</a>. Coatbridge rests 60 metres below the "<a href="/wiki/Slamannan" title="Slamannan">Slamannan</a> plateau" and neighbouring Airdrie sits on its edge. The low-lying flat ground of Coatbridge was a vital factor in the siting of the town's blast furnaces and the <a href="/wiki/Monkland_Canal" title="Monkland Canal">Monkland Canal</a> route. Although Airdrie was an already established town and had local supplies of ironstone, the Monkland Canal link did not extend into Airdrie because of its higher elevation.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Clyde_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Clyde Valley">Clyde Valley</a> plan of 1949 described Coatbridge as 'situated over a flooded coalfield'.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tenement buildings in Coatbridge were not built to the same level as Glasgow tenements due to danger of local subsidence from centuries of local mining.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Geology">Geology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Geology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dunbeth Hill where the present local authority municipal buildings stand is a wedge of rock which was probably squeezed upwards by the force of two (now-extinct) <a href="/wiki/Fault_(geology)" title="Fault (geology)">fault lines</a>. There are the remains of spreads of glacial sands along the crest of Drumpellier, the west bank of Gartsherrie Burn and along modern day Bank Street. Kirkwood, Kirkshaws and Shawhead sit on a sandstone capped ridge looking south over the Clyde Valley. The vital Coatbridge black band coal field extended from Langloan to beyond the eastern edge of the town.<sup id="cite_ref-Miller,_Thomas_Roland_1958_p.36_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miller,_Thomas_Roland_1958_p.36-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coatbridgeskyline.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Coatbridgeskyline.jpg/780px-Coatbridgeskyline.jpg" decoding="async" width="780" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Coatbridgeskyline.jpg/1170px-Coatbridgeskyline.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Coatbridgeskyline.jpg/1560px-Coatbridgeskyline.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1844" data-file-height="307" /></a><figcaption> View of Coatbridge from the east. Landmarks from left to right are: Gartsherrie Academy, Gartsherrie Church, Coatbridge Library, Canal Bridge, High Coats & Dunbeth Court flats. Whitelaw Fountain can just be glimpsed under the Canal Bridge. It was noted in the early 20th century that "The cross at Coatbridge ranks among the most unique...one may pass through it in any form of locomotion. One can not only walk, ride or drive past it, but may train over it or sail under it by means of the canal."<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Like much of the <a href="/wiki/British_Isles" title="British Isles">British Isles</a>, Coatbridge experiences a <a href="/wiki/Temperate" class="mw-redirect" title="Temperate">temperate</a> <a href="/wiki/Oceanic_climate" title="Oceanic climate">maritime climate</a> with relatively cool summers and mild winters. The prevailing wind is from the west. Regular but generally light precipitation occurs throughout the year. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Culture">Culture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coatbridge is the home of one of Scotland's most visited museums, <a href="/wiki/Summerlee,_Museum_of_Scottish_Industrial_Life" class="mw-redirect" title="Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life">Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life</a>, which contains an insight into the lives of working people in the West of Scotland. A miners' row of 1900s–1980s houses, a working tramway and a reconstruction coal mine can all be experienced on site. The museum is situated on the remains of one of Coatbridge's historic blast furnaces, now a Scheduled Monument. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature,_Theatre_and_Film"><span id="Literature.2C_Theatre_and_Film"></span>Literature, Theatre and Film</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Literature, Theatre and Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Janet_Hamilton" title="Janet Hamilton">Janet Hamilton</a>, the nineteenth century poet and essayist, died in Langloan in 1873. Present-day writers <a href="/wiki/Anne_Donovan_(author)" title="Anne Donovan (author)">Anne Donovan</a> (Orange prize winner), Brian Conaghan (the award-winning author of several novels) Award-winning author <a href="/wiki/Des_Dillon_(writer)" title="Des Dillon (writer)">Des Dillon</a><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> are all from Coatbridge. Coatbridge has regularly featured in Des Dillon's work. Two of his books about Coatbridge have been turned into plays.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mark_Millar" title="Mark Millar">Mark Millar</a> is a Coatbridge comic book writer whose <i><a href="/wiki/Wanted_(comics)" title="Wanted (comics)">Wanted</a></i> comic book series has been translated into a feature film starring <a href="/wiki/Angelina_Jolie" title="Angelina Jolie">Angelina Jolie</a> and <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Freeman" title="Morgan Freeman">Morgan Freeman</a>, as well as the highly successful graphic novel <a href="/wiki/Kick-Ass_(comic_book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kick-Ass (comic book)">Kickass</a> which was adapted into the successful film of the same name in 2010. Coatbridge-born <a href="/wiki/Laurentia_McLachlan" title="Laurentia McLachlan">Dame Laurentia McLachlan</a> was the <a href="/wiki/Benedictine" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedictine">Benedictine</a> abbess of the Stanbrook Community whose correspondence with <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Cockerell" title="Sydney Cockerell">Sydney Cockerell</a> was the subject of the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_of_Friends_(play)" title="The Best of Friends (play)">The Best of Friends</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coatbridge is also home to the annual Deep Fried Film Festival. Local filmmakers Duncan and Wilma Finnigan have been described by <i><a href="/wiki/The_List_(magazine)" title="The List (magazine)">The List</a></i> as "the John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands of Coatbridge".<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Thomas McAleese (alias <a href="/wiki/Dean_Ford" title="Dean Ford">Dean Ford</a>) was the lead singer of <a href="/wiki/The_Marmalade" class="mw-redirect" title="The Marmalade">The Marmalade</a> who had a UK number one single in 1969 with a cover of <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Ob-La-Di,_Ob-La-Da" title="Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da">Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da</a>" and co-wrote "<a href="/wiki/Reflections_of_My_Life" title="Reflections of My Life">Reflections of My Life</a>", Marmalade's biggest worldwide success. Coatbridge brothers <a href="/wiki/Greg_Kane_(musician)" title="Greg Kane (musician)">Greg Kane</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pat_Kane" title="Pat Kane">Pat Kane</a> are the band <a href="/wiki/Hue_and_Cry_(band)" title="Hue and Cry (band)">Hue and Cry</a>. Coatbridge born <a href="/wiki/Alan_Frew" title="Alan Frew">Alan Frew</a> is the ex-pat lead singer of <a href="/wiki/Canadians" title="Canadians">Canadian</a> group <a href="/wiki/Glass_Tiger" title="Glass Tiger">Glass Tiger</a>. "My Town" was written by Glass Tiger bandmates Alan Frew, Alan Connelly and Wayne Parker, as well as Jim Cregan, who co-wrote two of Rod Stewart's other hits. The song's lyrics are a tribute to Frew's hometown, Coatbridge, and Stewart was invited to record the song with Glass Tiger because of his Scottish ancestry. <a href="/wiki/Cha_Burns" title="Cha Burns">Cha Burns</a> (deceased), <a href="/wiki/Jimme_O%27Neill" title="Jimme O'Neill">Jimme O'Neill</a> and <a href="/wiki/JJ_Gilmour" title="JJ Gilmour">JJ Gilmour</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Silencers_(band)" title="The Silencers (band)">The Silencers</a> are from Coatbridge. Coatbridge sisters <a href="/wiki/Fran_and_Anna" title="Fran and Anna">Fran and Anna</a> were a famous duo on the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_traditional_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish traditional music">Scottish traditional music</a> scene. Cousins Ted and Hugh McKenna, of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tear_Gas_(band)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tear Gas (band) (page does not exist)">Tear Gas</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sensational_Alex_Harvey_Band" class="mw-redirect" title="Sensational Alex Harvey Band">Sensational Alex Harvey Band</a>, and Hugh's sister, Mae McKenna, a folk singer and renowned session singer, came from the Kirkshaws area of Coatbridge. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Coatbridge_and_Ireland">Coatbridge and Ireland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Coatbridge and Ireland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_Irish" title="Coatbridge Irish">Coatbridge Irish</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stpatricksdayfestivalcbridge.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Stpatricksdayfestivalcbridge.JPG/220px-Stpatricksdayfestivalcbridge.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Stpatricksdayfestivalcbridge.JPG/330px-Stpatricksdayfestivalcbridge.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Stpatricksdayfestivalcbridge.JPG/440px-Stpatricksdayfestivalcbridge.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1776" data-file-height="1035" /></a><figcaption>St Patrick's Day celebrations in Coatbridge, 2009</figcaption></figure> <p>Coatbridge is especially noted for its historical links with <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>. This is largely due to large scale immigration into the town from <a href="/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a> (especially from <a href="/wiki/County_Donegal" title="County Donegal">County Donegal</a>) in the 19th century and throughout most of the 20th century. Indeed, the town has been called "little Ireland".<sup id="cite_ref-Peter_Drummond_1985._p7_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peter_Drummond_1985._p7-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The most obvious manifestation of these links can be seen in the annual <a href="/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_Day_festival_Coatbridge" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Patrick's Day festival Coatbridge">St Patrick's Day Festival</a>. The festival is sponsored by the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Government">Irish Government</a> and <a href="/wiki/Guinness" title="Guinness">Guinness</a>. The festival runs for over a <a href="/wiki/Fortnight" title="Fortnight">fortnight</a> and includes lectures, film shows, dance/Gaelic football competitions and music performances. The festival is the largest Irish celebration in Scotland.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Coatbridge_accent">Coatbridge accent</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Coatbridge accent"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Coatbridge accent has been categorised as making less use of the Scots tongue and exhibiting a tendency to stress the "a" vowel differently from general Scots usage. Examples of this are seen in the pronunciation of the words stair ("sterr"), hair ("herr"), fair ("ferr") and chair ("cherr"). This different enunciation has been attributed to the impact of successive influxes of Ulster Catholic immigrants into Coatbridge.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the distinctiveness of the Coatbridge accent and pronunciation has diminished as the various surrounding populations (especially Glasgow) have mingled with that of Coatbridge. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CliftonhillCoatbridge.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/CliftonhillCoatbridge.JPG/220px-CliftonhillCoatbridge.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/CliftonhillCoatbridge.JPG/330px-CliftonhillCoatbridge.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/CliftonhillCoatbridge.JPG/440px-CliftonhillCoatbridge.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Cliftonhill" title="Cliftonhill">Cliftonhill</a>, home of <a href="/wiki/Albion_Rovers_F.C." title="Albion Rovers F.C.">Albion Rovers</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DrumpellierParkFunRun.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/DrumpellierParkFunRun.JPG/220px-DrumpellierParkFunRun.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/DrumpellierParkFunRun.JPG/330px-DrumpellierParkFunRun.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/DrumpellierParkFunRun.JPG/440px-DrumpellierParkFunRun.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption>Children's <a href="/wiki/Fun_run" title="Fun run">fun run</a> in <a href="/wiki/Drumpellier" class="mw-redirect" title="Drumpellier">Drumpellier Country Park</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Coatbridge's local football team is <a href="/wiki/Albion_Rovers_F.C." title="Albion Rovers F.C.">Albion Rovers</a>. Albion Rovers play in the <a href="/wiki/Lowland_Football_League" title="Lowland Football League">Lowland Football League</a> having been relegated from <a href="/wiki/Scottish_League_Two" title="Scottish League Two">Scottish League Two</a> following the <a href="/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323_Scottish_League_One" title="2022–23 Scottish League One">2022–23</a> season. <a href="/wiki/Cliftonhill" title="Cliftonhill">Cliftonhill</a> is where they play their home games. The "Wee Rovers" were founded in 1882 when two local Coatbridge clubs, Rovers and Albion, amalgamated to form the club bearing the name.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coatbridge CC a local amateur football club founded in 1976 became Scottish Champions in 1986 and again in 1988. Coatbridge CC became the first amateur football club to win the Scottish Cup and the West of Scotland cup in the same season. </p><p>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. </p><p>The Coatbridge Indoor bowling club hosted the <a href="/wiki/World_Indoor_Bowls_Championships" title="World Indoor Bowls Championships">World Indoor Bowls Championships</a> from 1979 until 1987. </p><p>Drumpellier Cricket Club has been in continuous existence for over 150 years and the club has a ground in the <a href="/wiki/Drumpellier" class="mw-redirect" title="Drumpellier">Drumpellier</a> area. </p><p>Greyhound and speedway racing also took part in the town, using the Albion Rovers FC ground. Greyhound Racing began on 11 December 1931 and lasted until 1986.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Edinburgh Monarchs rode there in 1968–69 (as the Coatbridge Monarchs) after losing their track at <a href="/wiki/Meadowbank_Stadium" title="Meadowbank Stadium">Meadowbank Stadium</a> to the developers for the <a href="/wiki/1970_Commonwealth_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="1970 Commonwealth Games">1970 Commonwealth Games</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Glasgow Tigers moved from Hampden Park to Coatbridge in 1973, and stayed there until June 1977, when they were forced out by the <a href="/wiki/Greyhound_racing" title="Greyhound racing">greyhound racing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coatbridge was the home of former boxer Bert Gilroy, Scotland's longest-reigning champion. Coatbridge is also home to the former WBO Super-featherweight, lightweight and light-welterweight world champion <a href="/wiki/Ricky_Burns" title="Ricky Burns">Ricky Burns</a>. Walter Donaldson, former World Snooker champion, also hailed from Coatbridge.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are two golf courses: the municipal course bordering <a href="/wiki/Drumpellier" class="mw-redirect" title="Drumpellier">Drumpellier</a> Country Park and the nearby private member's club Drumpellier Golf Course. Clare Queen, Scotland's number one female golfer on the women's European tour, is from Coatbridge.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coatbridge has a <a href="/wiki/Sumo" title="Sumo">sumo</a> club, Clan Sumo.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coat_of_Arms">Coat of Arms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Coat of Arms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coatbridge_coat_arms.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Coatbridge_coat_arms.jpg/200px-Coatbridge_coat_arms.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="309" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Coatbridge_coat_arms.jpg/300px-Coatbridge_coat_arms.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Coatbridge_coat_arms.jpg/400px-Coatbridge_coat_arms.jpg 2x" data-file-width="912" data-file-height="1407" /></a><figcaption>The coat of arms of Coatbridge</figcaption></figure> <p>Coatbridge was given <a href="/wiki/Burgh" title="Burgh">burgh</a> status in 1885, and was granted a coat of arms by the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lyon" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Lyon">Lord Lyon</a> in 1892. The arms have a black field and on it a flaming tower to represent a blast furnace and Coatbridge's industrial tradition. The crest is a monk holding a stone in his left hand. The stone relates to the old parish of Monklands and the legend of the "aul' kirk stane".<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The legend of the "aul' kirk stane" is that a pilgrim undertaking a penance from Glasgow carried a stone in the direction of Monklands. When he could carry the stone no further (or in another version of the legend, when an angel spoke to him) he laid the stone down. It was where the stone came to rest that he was to build a church. The church is the present-day Old Monkland Kirk, at which the alleged stone can still be seen.<sup id="cite_ref-Historical_1904._p26_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Historical_1904._p26-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a> motto <i>Laborare est orare</i> translates as "to work is to pray", which originated in the writings of <a href="/wiki/Benedict_of_Nursia" title="Benedict of Nursia">St Benedict</a> and is commonly associated with the <a href="/wiki/Cistercian_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="Cistercian Order">Cistercian Order</a>, whose monks came to Monklands in the 12th century.<sup id="cite_ref-RM_Urqhuart._Heraldry_Today_1973_P.188_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RM_Urqhuart._Heraldry_Today_1973_P.188-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Local_Government">Local Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Local Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CoatbridgeMunicipalBuilding.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/CoatbridgeMunicipalBuilding.JPG/220px-CoatbridgeMunicipalBuilding.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/CoatbridgeMunicipalBuilding.JPG/330px-CoatbridgeMunicipalBuilding.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/CoatbridgeMunicipalBuilding.JPG/440px-CoatbridgeMunicipalBuilding.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_Municipal_Buildings" title="Coatbridge Municipal Buildings">Coatbridge Municipal Buildings</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Coatbridge is represented by three tiers of elected government. <a href="/wiki/North_Lanarkshire_Council" title="North Lanarkshire Council">North Lanarkshire Council</a>, the unitary <a href="/wiki/Local_authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Local authority">local authority</a> for Coatbridge, is based at <a href="/wiki/Motherwell" title="Motherwell">Motherwell</a>, and is the <a href="/wiki/Executive_(government)" title="Executive (government)">executive</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deliberation" title="Deliberation">deliberative</a> and <a href="/wiki/Legislative" class="mw-redirect" title="Legislative">legislative</a> body responsible for <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Scotland" title="Local government in Scotland">local governance</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a> is responsible for <a href="/wiki/Devolution" title="Devolution">devolved matters</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Scotland" title="Education in Scotland">education</a>, <a href="/wiki/Health_in_Scotland" title="Health in Scotland">health</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scots_law" title="Scots law">justice</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-devolvedmatters_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-devolvedmatters-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Reserved_and_excepted_matters" class="mw-redirect" title="Reserved and excepted matters">reserved matters</a> are dealt with by the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a>. </p><p>Up until 1975, Coatbridge had its own Burgh Council based at <a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_Municipal_Buildings" title="Coatbridge Municipal Buildings">Coatbridge Town Hall</a>. Between 1975 and 1996, Coatbridge was part of <a href="/wiki/Monklands_(district)" title="Monklands (district)">Monklands District Council</a> and <a href="/wiki/Strathclyde_Regional_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Strathclyde Regional Council">Strathclyde Regional Council</a>. During the campaign for the <a href="/wiki/1994_Monklands_East_by-election" title="1994 Monklands East by-election">1994 by-election</a> in <a href="/wiki/Monklands_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Monklands East (UK Parliament constituency)">Monklands East</a> of 1994, there were accusations<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of sectarianism and nepotism in favour of Coatbridge over neighbouring Airdrie by Monklands District Council (see <a href="/wiki/Monklandsgate" title="Monklandsgate">Monklandsgate</a> for more information). The fact that all seventeen <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Labour Party">Labour</a> councillors were <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> led to Coatbridge being seen as a "Catholic town". Subsequent inquiries showed no evidence of <a href="/wiki/Sectarianism" title="Sectarianism">sectarianism</a>, but allegations of <a href="/wiki/Nepotism" title="Nepotism">nepotism</a> were shown to be true.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coatbridge is presently part of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_constituencies" title="United Kingdom constituencies">burgh constituency</a> of <a href="/wiki/Coatbridge,_Chryston_and_Bellshill_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (UK Parliament constituency)">Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill</a>, electing one <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">member of parliament</a> (MP) to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Before the constituency's creation in 2005, Coatbridge lay in the <a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_and_Chryston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Coatbridge and Chryston (UK Parliament constituency)">Coatbridge and Chryston</a> constituency. <a href="/wiki/Steven_Bonnar" title="Steven Bonnar">Steven Bonnar</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a> has been the MP since the <a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019 general election</a>. For the purposes of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a>, Coatbridge forms part of the <a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_and_Chryston_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Coatbridge and Chryston (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Coatbridge and Cryston constituency</a>, which is represented by <a href="/wiki/Fulton_MacGregor" title="Fulton MacGregor">Fulton MacGregor</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a>. Coatbridge is further represented by seven <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_constituencies_and_regions" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions">regional MSPs</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Central_Scotland_(Scottish_Parliament_electoral_region)" title="Central Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)">Central Scotland electoral region</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A small part of the eastern fringes of the town forms part of the <a href="/wiki/Airdrie,_North_Lanarkshire" title="Airdrie, North Lanarkshire">Airdrie and Shotts constituency</a> which is represented by <a href="/wiki/Alex_Neil_(politician)" title="Alex Neil (politician)">Alex Neil</a> in the Scottish Parliament and <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gray" title="Neil Gray">Neil Gray</a> in the Westminster Parliament, both of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a>. </p><p>Notable politicians from Coatbridge include: <a href="/wiki/Helen_Liddell" title="Helen Liddell">Baroness Liddell</a>, a former <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">member of parliament</a> (MP) who was formerly both <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Scotland" title="Secretary of State for Scotland">Secretary of State for Scotland</a> and Britain's <a href="/wiki/High_Commissioner" class="mw-redirect" title="High Commissioner">High Commissioner</a> in <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/John_Reid,_Baron_Reid_of_Cardowan" title="John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan">Lord Reid</a>, also a former MP who was the former <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Northern_Ireland" title="Secretary of State for Northern Ireland">Secretary of State for Northern Ireland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Home_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for the Home Department">Home Secretary</a>. Lord Reid is a former chairman of <a href="/wiki/Celtic_F.C." title="Celtic F.C.">Celtic</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wards">Wards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Wards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since the most recent major reorganisation in 2006, Coatbridge is divided into three <a href="/wiki/Wards_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Wards of the United Kingdom">wards</a> for local administrative purposes by <a href="/wiki/North_Lanarkshire_Council" title="North Lanarkshire Council">North Lanarkshire Council</a>, each electing three or four councillors: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_North_(ward)" title="Coatbridge North (ward)">Coatbridge North</a> (2019 population 15,146):<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Townhead, Greenhill, Sunnyside, Dunbeth, Blairhill, Drumpellier, Clinftonville, town centre</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_South_(ward)" title="Coatbridge South (ward)">Coatbridge South</a> (2019 population 16,889):<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Greenend, Sikeside, <a href="/wiki/Whifflet" title="Whifflet">Whifflet</a>, Kirkshaws, Shawhead and <a href="/wiki/Carnbroe" title="Carnbroe">Carnbroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_West_(ward)" title="Coatbridge West (ward)">Coatbridge West</a> (2019 population 14,910):<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kirkwood, Dundyvan, Langloan, Old Monkland, Barrowfield plus <a href="/wiki/Bargeddie" title="Bargeddie">Bargeddie</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Demography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Scotland" title="Demographics of Scotland">Demographics of Scotland</a></div> <table class="toccolours" style="float: right; margin:0 0 0.5em 1em; font-size: 90%; text-align:center;"> <caption><b>Coatbridge compared according to <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2001">UK Census 2001</a></b><sup id="cite_ref-CBPopulation_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBPopulation-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NLPopulation_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NLPopulation-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CBEmployment_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBEmployment-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NLEmployment_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NLEmployment-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th style="padding:2px;">Coatbridge </th> <th style="padding:2px;">North Lanarkshire </th> <th style="padding:2px;">Scotland </th></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Total population </th> <td>41,170</td> <td>321,067</td> <td>5,062,011 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/British_nationality_law" title="British nationality law">Foreign born</a> </th> <td>1.3%</td> <td>1.7%</td> <td>3.8% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Over 75 years old </th> <td>6.1%</td> <td>5.6%</td> <td>7.1% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Unemployed </th> <td>5.3%</td> <td>4.5%</td> <td>4.0% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2001">United Kingdom Census 2001</a>, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_census_localities_in_Scotland" title="List of census localities in Scotland">census locality</a> of Coatbridge had a total resident population of 41,170, or 13% of the total of North Lanarkshire. This figure, combined with an area of 6.818 square miles (17.7 km<sup>2</sup>),<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> provides Coatbridge with a <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">population density</a> figure of 6,038 inhabitants per square mile (2,331/km<sup>2</sup>). </p> <table class="wikitable" style="float:left; margin-right:1.4em;"> <caption><b>Historic population of Coatbridge<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></b> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Population </th></tr> <tr> <td>1755 </td> <td>1,813 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1831 </td> <td>9,580 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1851 </td> <td>27,333 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1901 </td> <td>36,991 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1911 </td> <td>43,286 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1921 </td> <td>43,909 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1931 </td> <td>43,056 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1951 </td> <td>47,685 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1961 </td> <td>54,262 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1971 </td> <td>51,493 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1981 </td> <td>48,445 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2001 </td> <td>41,170 </td></tr></tbody></table><p>The <a href="/wiki/Median" title="Median">median</a> ages of males and females living in Coatbridge were 35 and 38 years respectively, compared to 37 and 39 years in the whole of Scotland.<sup id="cite_ref-CBPopulation_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBPopulation-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 34% were married, 6.1% were <a href="/wiki/Cohabitation" title="Cohabitation">cohabiting</a> couples, 14.7% were single parent families and 32.5% of households were made up of individuals.<sup id="cite_ref-CBHousehold_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBHousehold-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The place of birth of the town's residents was as follows: 98.7% United Kingdom (including 96% from Scotland), 0.32% <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a>, 0.30% from other <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> countries, and 0.72% from elsewhere in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-CBPopulation_70-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBPopulation-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The economic activity of residents aged 16–74 was 39.3% in full-time employment, 9.4% in part-time employment, 3.6% self-employed, 5.3% unemployed, 2.5% students with jobs, 3.2% students without jobs, 13.4% retired, 5.7% looking after home or family, 12.0% permanently sick or disabled, and 5.7% economically inactive for other reasons.<sup id="cite_ref-CBEmployment_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBEmployment-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Compared with the average <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Scotland" title="Demographics of Scotland">demographics of Scotland</a>, Coatbridge has low proportions of people born outside the United Kingdom, and people over 75 years of age.<sup id="cite_ref-CBPopulation_70-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBPopulation-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 19th century, <a href="/wiki/Irish_people" title="Irish people">Irish people</a> began to arrive in large numbers in Coatbridge. The <a href="/wiki/1851_United_Kingdom_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="1851 United Kingdom Census">1851 UK Census</a> recorded that <a href="/wiki/Irish_people" title="Irish people">Irish people</a> constituted 35.8% of the local population. A significant proportion of these immigrants were <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a>, but the majority were <a href="/wiki/Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic">Catholic</a>. By <a href="/wiki/1901_United_Kingdom_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="1901 United Kingdom Census">1901 UK Census</a>, the percentage of Irish-born people in Coatbridge had fallen to around 15%, but remained the highest of all the major towns in Scotland.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/2001_UK_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2001 UK Census">2001 UK Census</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irish_ethnicity" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish ethnicity">Irish ethnicity</a> was recorded at just over 1%, although just over half the population claimed their religious denomination as <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a>. In 1985, 56% of the population of Coatbridge were <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Peter_Drummond_1985._p7_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peter_Drummond_1985._p7-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2006, Coatbridge (along with <a href="/wiki/Port_Glasgow" title="Port Glasgow">Port Glasgow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clydebank" title="Clydebank">Clydebank</a>) was identified as "the least Scottish town in Scotland" due to having the highest percentage of Irish names in the country. Reportedly more than 28% of adults in Coatbridge had names with Irish origins.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other immigrants to Coatbridge have included in the 1880s a small number of <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithuanian people">Lithuanians</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1905, part of a "wave" of immigrants from <a href="/wiki/Monte_Cassino" title="Monte Cassino">Monte Cassino</a> in <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> settled in Coatbridge. A small number of <a href="/wiki/Polish_people" title="Polish people">Polish people</a> had stayed in Coatbridge after a Polish tank regiment was stationed in the town during World War II. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>21st century Coatbridge is the site of <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>'s inland container base; it was chosen as the site in part due to the proximity of various rail and motorway networks.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_28-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Makers of PA systems and loudspeakers <a href="/wiki/Tannoy" title="Tannoy">Tannoy</a> Ltd. are headquartered in the town. <a href="/wiki/Lees_of_Scotland" title="Lees of Scotland">Lees of Scotland</a> is a local confectionery and bakery products company and are the manufacturers of the Lees Macaroon bar, and has been operating in Coatbridge since 1931.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> William Lawson's <a href="/wiki/Scotch_Whisky" class="mw-redirect" title="Scotch Whisky">Scotch Whisky</a> distillery has been located in the town since 1967.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was home to one of the first <a href="/wiki/B%26Q" title="B&Q">B&Q</a> Depots, which was closed in 2006 and moved to the new retail park. The oldest family business in Coatbridge and Airdrie is funeral directors Donald McLaren Ltd, which was founded in 1912. </p><p>In terms of housing, property prices in Coatbridge have undergone rapid growth since 2000. In 2005, house prices rose by 35%, reportedly the largest such increase in Scotland.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Landmarks">Landmarks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Landmarks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Staugusts2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Staugusts2.jpg/170px-Staugusts2.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="248" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Staugusts2.jpg/255px-Staugusts2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Staugusts2.jpg/340px-Staugusts2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1224" data-file-height="1788" /></a><figcaption>St Augustine's Church, Dundyvan (architectural details)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Summerlee3.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Summerlee3.JPG/220px-Summerlee3.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Summerlee3.JPG/330px-Summerlee3.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Summerlee3.JPG/440px-Summerlee3.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1936" data-file-height="1296" /></a><figcaption>View towards Summerlee Iron Works, <a href="/wiki/Summerlee,_Museum_of_Scottish_Industrial_Life" class="mw-redirect" title="Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life">Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CoatbridgeWarMemorial.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/CoatbridgeWarMemorial.JPG/220px-CoatbridgeWarMemorial.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/CoatbridgeWarMemorial.JPG/330px-CoatbridgeWarMemorial.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/CoatbridgeWarMemorial.JPG/440px-CoatbridgeWarMemorial.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption>Coatbridge <a href="/wiki/War_Memorial" class="mw-redirect" title="War Memorial">War Memorial</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Built_environment" title="Built environment">built environment</a> around Coatbridge's town centre is a mixture of late 19th- and early 20th-century <a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">sandstone</a> buildings and late 20th-century <a href="/wiki/Precast_concrete" title="Precast concrete">precast concrete</a> shops. The leafy Blairhill and Dunbeth conservation areas to the west and north of the town centre comprise <a href="/wiki/Detached" class="mw-redirect" title="Detached">detached</a>, <a href="/wiki/Semi-detached" title="Semi-detached">semi-detached</a> and <a href="/wiki/Terraced_house" title="Terraced house">terraced</a> sandstone residential buildings. The bulk of the remaining surrounding areas consist of various 20th-century <a href="/wiki/Council_house" title="Council house">local authority housing</a> buildings. Several high-rise flats dominate the skyline. Due to the decline of industries, several private housing estates have been built on reclaimed land. </p><p>In 2007, Coatbridge was awarded <i>Prospect</i> architecture magazine's carbuncle award for being the 'most dismal town in Scotland'.<sup id="cite_ref-Dismal_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dismal-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The town was also described by Scottish comedian <a href="/wiki/Frankie_Boyle" title="Frankie Boyle">Frankie Boyle</a> as 'like Bladerunner... without the special effects'.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Drumpellier" class="mw-redirect" title="Drumpellier">Drumpellier</a> Country Park is set around Lochend Loch (more commonly known to locals as 'Drumpellier Loch'). There are extensive woodlands, a visitor centre and a butterfly house. <a href="/wiki/Monkland_Canal" title="Monkland Canal">Monkland Canal</a> runs through a section of the park. </p><p>The Time Capsule is a multi-purpose leisure centre containing a swimming pool, an adventure pool set in a <a href="/wiki/Prehistoric" class="mw-redirect" title="Prehistoric">prehistoric</a> environment, an ice skating facility, sauna/steam room and a sports complex with gym halls and other facilities. The Showcase Leisure Park contains a 14-screen cinema, a 10-pin bowling complex and numerous restaurants. </p><p>Landmarks in Coatbridge include: </p> <ul><li>Coatbridge Leisure Centre – Peter Womersley 1970s <a href="/wiki/Brutalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Brutalist">brutalist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Modernist" class="mw-redirect" title="Modernist">modernist</a> cantilevered building sited on the main road into Coatbridge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_Library" title="Coatbridge Library">The former Coatbridge Library</a> – an <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie" title="Andrew Carnegie">Andrew Carnegie</a>-sponsored 1905 pink sandstone structure. Imposing B-listed structure sited on Academy Street<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>St Augustine's Church and buildings – Built in 1873 and located in the Dundyvan area. A red sandstone B-listed Rowand Anderson<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture" title="Gothic Revival architecture">Gothic</a> church</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coatbridge_church_whitelawhill.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Coatbridge_church_whitelawhill.jpg/220px-Coatbridge_church_whitelawhill.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="335" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Coatbridge_church_whitelawhill.jpg/330px-Coatbridge_church_whitelawhill.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Coatbridge_church_whitelawhill.jpg/440px-Coatbridge_church_whitelawhill.jpg 2x" data-file-width="837" data-file-height="1275" /></a><figcaption>St Andrew's Church</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>St Andrew's Church – 1839 early <a href="/wiki/Victorian_architecture" title="Victorian architecture">Victorian</a> <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture" title="Gothic Revival architecture">Gothic</a> church by Scott Stephen & Gale in the Whitelaw hill area. Its steeple towers over the town centre.</li> <li>Coatbridge railway bridges – The B-listed 1898 bridges span Bank Street, West Canal Street and the former <a href="/wiki/Monkland_Canal" title="Monkland Canal">Monkland Canal</a>. The bridges underwent specialist restoration in 2009<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>St Mary's Church – B-listed <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture" title="Gothic Revival architecture">Gothic</a> church in <a href="/wiki/Whifflet" title="Whifflet">Whifflet</a> designed by <a href="/wiki/Pugin_and_Pugin" class="mw-redirect" title="Pugin and Pugin">Pugin and Pugin</a> in 1896. Contains an elaborate and ornate interior ceiling.</li> <li>The former Cattle Market Building – erected in 1896, B-listed façade of the sandstone cattle market building, facing West Canal Street and within the Blairhill and Dunbeth conservation area</li> <li>Summerlee Heritage Park 2008 extension – Spaceship style glass and metal addition to existing building by North Lanarkshire Council's in-house Design Services Team<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Monkland_Canal" title="Monkland Canal">Monkland Canal</a> (completed 1791<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) was used in the 19th and 20th century to transport coal and iron to <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a>. The town centre section of the canal was interred in pipe between Sikeside and Blair Road in the mid-1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_28-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some sections of the Monkland Canal can still be seen today between Townhead and Drumpellier. Coatbridge is adjacent to the <a href="/wiki/M8_motorway_(Scotland)" title="M8 motorway (Scotland)">M8</a> and <a href="/wiki/M73_motorway" title="M73 motorway">M73</a> motorways. The <a href="/wiki/M74_motorway" class="mw-redirect" title="M74 motorway">M74 motorway</a> is also a short drive away. The major cities of <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stirling" title="Stirling">Stirling</a> and Glasgow are all within commuting distance. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scotrailbc.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Scotrailbc.jpg" decoding="async" width="192" height="191" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="191" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>Due to the number of rail lines running through Coatbridge, it was once dubbed the "<a href="/wiki/Crewe" title="Crewe">Crewe</a> of the North".<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are six railway stations on the four railway lines that bisect the town: <a href="/wiki/Motherwell_to_Cumbernauld_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Motherwell to Cumbernauld Line">Motherwell-Cumbernauld Line</a>; <a href="/wiki/Argyle_Line" title="Argyle Line">Argyle Line</a>; <a href="/wiki/Whifflet_Line" title="Whifflet Line">Whifflet Line</a>; and <a href="/wiki/North_Clyde_Line" title="North Clyde Line">North Clyde Line</a>. The six stations within Coatbridge and on these lines are: <a href="/wiki/Blairhill_railway_station" title="Blairhill railway station">Blairhill</a>; <a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_Central_railway_station" title="Coatbridge Central railway station">Coatbridge Central</a>; <a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_Sunnyside_railway_station" title="Coatbridge Sunnyside railway station">Coatbridge Sunnyside</a>; <a href="/wiki/Coatdyke_railway_station" title="Coatdyke railway station">Coatdyke</a>; <a href="/wiki/Kirkwood_railway_station" title="Kirkwood railway station">Kirkwood</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Whifflet_railway_station" title="Whifflet railway station">Whifflet</a>. </p><p>Coatbridge has had additional passenger stations, such as <a href="/wiki/Langloan_railway_station" title="Langloan railway station">Langloan</a> and Calder Station (Greenend); these stations have been closed for many years. </p><p>McGill's Buses are responsible for most of the bus services in the town, after buying out most of the smaller local companies. The buses are all in Go Zone 8 on the McGill's network. The buses link all the major neighbourhoods with the 212 continuing on to Airdrie, Plains and Caldercruix. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Neighbourhoods">Neighbourhoods</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Neighbourhoods"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Neighbourhoods_of_Coatbridge" title="Neighbourhoods of Coatbridge">Neighbourhoods of Coatbridge</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coatbridge_from_the_air_(geograph_2519022).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Coatbridge_from_the_air_%28geograph_2519022%29.jpg/220px-Coatbridge_from_the_air_%28geograph_2519022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Coatbridge_from_the_air_%28geograph_2519022%29.jpg/330px-Coatbridge_from_the_air_%28geograph_2519022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Coatbridge_from_the_air_%28geograph_2519022%29.jpg/440px-Coatbridge_from_the_air_%28geograph_2519022%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Aerial view of Coatbridge (2011) including the Langloan and Dundyvan areas (left/bottom) and the town centre (right/centre).</figcaption></figure> <p>The earliest map showing Coatbridge is by <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Pont" title="Timothy Pont">Timothy Pont</a>, published in <a href="/wiki/Johan_Blaeu" class="mw-redirect" title="Johan Blaeu">Johan Blaeu</a>'s <i>Nether warde of Clyds-dail</i> (1654). The districts of Dunpelder (Drumpellier), Gartsbary (Gartsherrie), Kanglon (Langloan), Kirkwood, Kirkshawes (Kirkshaws) and Wheetflet (Whifflet) are all evident.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The present day neighbourhoods of Coatbridge are Barrowfield, Blairhill, Brownshill, <a href="/wiki/Carnbroe" title="Carnbroe">Carnbroe</a>, Cliftonhill, Cliftonville, Coatbank, Coatdyke, Cuparhead, Drumpellier, Dunbeth, Dundyvan, Espieside, Gartsherrie, Greenhill, Greenend, Kirkshaws, Kirkwood, Langloan, Old Monkland, Rosehall, Shawhead, Sikeside, Summerlee, Sunnyside, Townhead and <a href="/wiki/Whifflet" title="Whifflet">Whifflet</a>. The Blairhill and Dunbeth neighbourhoods are part of the <i>Blairhill and Dunbeth conservation area</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Whitelaw Fountain (named in honour of <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Whitelaw" title="Alexander Whitelaw">Alexander Whitelaw</a>, an industrialist and MP) is situated in the town centre on the corner of Main Street and South Circular Road, but was formerly about 50 m west, at what is now the centre of a roundabout.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CoatbridgeCollege.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/CoatbridgeCollege.JPG/220px-CoatbridgeCollege.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/CoatbridgeCollege.JPG/330px-CoatbridgeCollege.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/CoatbridgeCollege.JPG/440px-CoatbridgeCollege.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_College" title="Coatbridge College">Coatbridge College</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coatbridge_High_School_(geograph_3033746).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Coatbridge_High_School_%28geograph_3033746%29.jpg/220px-Coatbridge_High_School_%28geograph_3033746%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Coatbridge_High_School_%28geograph_3033746%29.jpg/330px-Coatbridge_High_School_%28geograph_3033746%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Coatbridge_High_School_%28geograph_3033746%29.jpg/440px-Coatbridge_High_School_%28geograph_3033746%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The modern building of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge_High_School&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Coatbridge High School (page does not exist)">Coatbridge High School</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_College" title="Coatbridge College">Coatbridge College</a> was built as Scotland's first college in the 1860s. As Coatbridge has moved away from the traditional heavy industries the teaching focus has shifted from traditional industry courses towards commerce, care and the arts. After resisting previous mergers, it became a campus of the multi-site <a href="/wiki/New_College_Lanarkshire" title="New College Lanarkshire">New College Lanarkshire</a> in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/St._Ambrose_High_School" title="St. Ambrose High School">St Ambrose High School</a><sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (which opened a new building in 2013), <a href="/w/index.php?title=St_Andrew%27s_High_School,_Coatbridge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="St Andrew's High School, Coatbridge (page does not exist)">St Andrew's High School</a><sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (which opened in 2006 following a merger of the defunct Columba H.S. and St Patrick's H.S.) and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge_High_School&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Coatbridge High School (page does not exist)">Coatbridge High School</a><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (new building opened in 2008 on the site of St Patrick's previous campus – Coatbridge's old campus is now occupied by Greenhill Primary and Drumpark Primary) are the main secondary schools serving the town. The first two are Roman Catholic; it is one of few places in Scotland where the number of denominational schools is greater than non-denominational. St Ambrose was the subject of an HMI follow-up assessment visit in January 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-nlancs_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nlancs-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sports journalist and broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Bob_Crampsey" title="Bob Crampsey">Bob Crampsey</a> was formerly headmaster of St Ambrose, prominent football referee <a href="/wiki/Willie_Collum" title="Willie Collum">Willie Collum</a> taught religious education at the school in the early 2000s, and singer/television presenter <a href="/wiki/Michelle_McManus" title="Michelle McManus">Michelle McManus</a> is among the former pupils. Rosehall H.S. was a previous school in the town, whose pupils now typically attend Coatbridge. Coatbridge also has several <a href="/wiki/Special_education_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Special education in the United Kingdom">special needs schools</a> including Pentland School (primary school), Portland High School, <a href="/wiki/Drumpark_School" title="Drumpark School">Drumpark School</a> (now primary department only), Willowbank School (high school) and <a href="/wiki/Buchanan_High_School,_North_Lanarkshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Buchanan High School, North Lanarkshire">Buchanan High School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nlancs_100-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nlancs-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_services">Public services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Public services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coatbridge forms part of the Western water and sewerage regions of Scotland. <a href="/wiki/Waste_management" title="Waste management">Waste management</a> is provided by the North Lanarkshire local authority. Water supplies are provided by <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Water" title="Scottish Water">Scottish Water</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Government-owned_corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Government-owned corporation">government-owned corporation</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Government" title="Scottish Government">Scottish Government</a>. Coatbridge's <a href="/wiki/Distribution_network_operator" title="Distribution network operator">distribution network operator</a> for electricity is <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Power" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Power">Scottish Power</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coatbridge is served by <a href="/wiki/Monklands_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Monklands Hospital">Monklands Hospital</a>, sited on the Airdrie side of the Coatbridge/Airdrie border. The <a href="/wiki/NHS_board" class="mw-redirect" title="NHS board">NHS board</a> is <a href="/wiki/NHS_Lanarkshire" title="NHS Lanarkshire">NHS Lanarkshire</a>. <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" title="Scottish Fire and Rescue Service">Scottish Fire and Rescue Service</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Statutory" class="mw-redirect" title="Statutory">statutory</a> <a href="/wiki/Fire_services_in_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Fire services in Scotland">fire and rescue service</a> which operates in Coatbridge. Policing in Coatbridge is provided by the <a href="/wiki/Police_Scotland" title="Police Scotland">Police Service of Scotland</a> (Lanarkshire Division). The <a href="/wiki/Strathclyde_Partnership_for_Transport" title="Strathclyde Partnership for Transport">Strathclyde Partnership for Transport</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Scottish_public_bodies" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish public bodies">public body in Scotland</a>, has direct operational responsibilities, such as supporting (and in some cases running) local bus services, and managing integrated ticketing in Coatbridge and other areas from the former <a href="/wiki/Strathclyde" title="Strathclyde">Strathclyde</a> region.<sup id="cite_ref-SPT_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPT-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Transport_Scotland" title="Transport Scotland">Transport Scotland</a> manages the local rail network.<sup id="cite_ref-SPT_102-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SPT-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The local authority responsible for community-based service in Coatbridge is <a href="/wiki/North_Lanarkshire_Council" title="North Lanarkshire Council">North Lanarkshire Council</a>. The council provides local services related to <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a>, <a href="/wiki/Social_work" title="Social work">social work</a>, the environment, <a href="/wiki/House" title="House">housing</a>, road maintenance and <a href="/wiki/Leisure" title="Leisure">leisure</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:People_from_Coatbridge" title="Category:People from Coatbridge">Category:People from Coatbridge</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Admiral_(Royal_Navy)" title="Admiral (Royal Navy)">Admiral</a> <a href="/wiki/James_Stirling_(Australian_governor)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Stirling (Australian governor)">Sir James Stirling</a>, first <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Western_Australia" title="Governor of Western Australia">governor of Western Australia</a></li> <li>Rev <a href="/wiki/William_Currie_McDougall" title="William Currie McDougall">William Currie McDougall</a>, poet and subject of the Coatbridge Free Church scandal</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jock_Cunningham" title="Jock Cunningham">Jock Cunningham</a>, miner, mutineer and Republican Brigade commander during the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Frew" title="Alan Frew">Alan Frew</a>, songwriter and lead vocalist for Canadian band <a href="/wiki/Glass_Tiger" title="Glass Tiger">Glass Tiger</a></li> <li>Anti-<a href="/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse" title="Child sexual abuse">child sexual abuse</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bullying" title="Bullying">bullying</a> activist, <a href="/wiki/Sandra_Brown_(campaigner)" title="Sandra Brown (campaigner)">Sandra Brown</a>, attended Coatbridge High School</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Marshall_(preacher)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Marshall (preacher)">Rev Dr Peter Marshall</a> (27 May 1902 – 26 January 1949) <a href="/wiki/Chaplain_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="Chaplain of the United States Senate">Chaplain of the United States Senate</a>, whose biography was the basis of the Oscar-nominated film <i><a href="/wiki/A_Man_Called_Peter" title="A Man Called Peter">A Man Called Peter</a></i>, was born in Coatbridge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Lees_(politician)" title="Robert Lees (politician)">Robert Lees</a>, member of the <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Wisconsin State Senate">Wisconsin State Senate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willie_McDonald" title="Willie McDonald">Willie McDonald</a>, footballer for <a href="/wiki/Manchester_United" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchester United">Manchester United</a> and <a href="/wiki/Coventry_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Coventry City">Coventry City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cha_Burns" title="Cha Burns">Cha Burns</a> (1957–2007), guitarist with the Scottish folk band, The Silencers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sean_Clark_(footballer,_born_1980)" title="Sean Clark (footballer, born 1980)">Sean Clark</a>, former footballer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/JJ_Gilmour" title="JJ Gilmour">JJ Gilmour</a>, vocalist with the Scottish folk band, <a href="/wiki/The_Silencers_(band)" title="The Silencers (band)">The Silencers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jock_Stein" title="Jock Stein">John "Jock" Stein</a> (footballer and football manager) who led <a href="/wiki/Celtic_F.C." title="Celtic F.C.">Celtic</a> to the <a href="/wiki/European_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="European Cup">European Cup</a> in 1967, the first British club to win this trophy, played for Albion Rovers</li> <li>Prof <a href="/wiki/James_Clark_Gentles" title="James Clark Gentles">James Clark Gentles</a>, first specialist in fungal diseases of the human body</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Graham_(footballer,_born_1944)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Graham (footballer, born 1944)">George Graham</a> (footballer and football manager) played with <a href="/wiki/Aston_Villa" class="mw-redirect" title="Aston Villa">Aston Villa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chelsea_F.C." title="Chelsea F.C.">Chelsea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arsenal_F.C." title="Arsenal F.C.">Arsenal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manchester_United" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchester United">Manchester United</a> and managed Arsenal and <a href="/wiki/Tottenham_Hotspur" class="mw-redirect" title="Tottenham Hotspur">Tottenham Hotspur</a> lived in Bargeddie</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hue_and_Cry_(band)" title="Hue and Cry (band)">Hue and Cry</a> a successful band from the 1980s; brothers <a href="/wiki/Greg_Kane_(musician)" title="Greg Kane (musician)">Greg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pat_Kane" title="Pat Kane">Pat Kane</a> are from the Blairhill area of Coatbridge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Gallagher_(actor)" title="Frank Gallagher (actor)">Frank Gallagher</a>, actor (<i><a href="/wiki/River_City" title="River City">River City</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Taggart_(series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Taggart (series)">Taggart</a></i>, etc.) was born in Coatbridge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Carroll_(broadcaster)" title="Bill Carroll (broadcaster)">Bill Carroll</a>, radio host</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heather_Suttie" title="Heather Suttie">Heather Suttie</a>, DJ and radio presenter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamie_Quinn_(actor)" title="Jamie Quinn (actor)">Jamie Quinn</a> actor and musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerry_Maher" title="Gerry Maher">Gerry Maher</a> (Jurist), Professor of Criminal Law, University of Edinburgh, attended St Patrick's High School</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Walker_(lawyer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Neil Walker (lawyer)">Neil Walker</a> (Jurist), Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nure and Nations, University of Edinburgh attended Coatbridge High School</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Kerr_(footballer)" title="Mark Kerr (footballer)">Mark Kerr</a>, Scottish footballer, played for <a href="/wiki/Aberdeen_F.C." title="Aberdeen F.C.">Aberdeen</a>, and managed <a href="/wiki/Ayr_United_F.C." title="Ayr United F.C.">Ayr United</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iain_Munro" title="Iain Munro">Iain Munro</a> (footballer) <a href="/wiki/St_Mirren_F.C." title="St Mirren F.C.">St Mirren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hibernian_F.C." title="Hibernian F.C.">Hibernian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rangers_F.C." title="Rangers F.C.">Rangers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sunderland_A.F.C." title="Sunderland A.F.C.">Sunderland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stoke_City_F.C." title="Stoke City F.C.">Stoke</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team" title="Scotland national football team">Scotland</a>, taught at Coatbridge High School</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Murray_(rugby_union)" title="Hugh Murray (rugby union)">Hugh Murray</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Russell_(footballer)" title="Johnny Russell (footballer)">Johnny Russell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dundee_United_F.C." title="Dundee United F.C.">Dundee United</a> footballer attended Coatbridge High School</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Kissock" title="Joe Kissock">Joe Kissock</a>, former <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_men%27s_national_football_team" title="New Zealand men's national football team">New Zealand international footballer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ricky_Burns" title="Ricky Burns">Ricky Burns</a> (boxer), World Super Featherweight, Lightweight, Super Lightweight Champion</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Watt" title="Tony Watt">Tony Watt</a>, former Celtic FC striker, scored for Celtic in win against <a href="/wiki/FC_Barcelona" title="FC Barcelona">Barcelona</a> in 2012, now plays for <a href="/wiki/Dundee_United_F.C." title="Dundee United F.C.">Dundee United</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Millar" title="Mark Millar">Mark Millar</a>, writer (Wanted, Kick-Ass, Super Crooks and many other creator owned, Marvel & DC titles)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jock_Kane" title="Jock Kane">Jock Kane</a>, intelligence officer and GCHQ whistleblower<sup id="cite_ref-TelegOct13_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TelegOct13-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Parker_(mining_engineer)" title="Joseph Parker (mining engineer)">Joseph Parker (mining engineer)</a> born in Coatbridge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Meechan" title="Mark Meechan">Mark Meechan</a> (Count Dankula), YouTuber and politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Trainer" title="Stephen Trainer">Stephen Trainer</a>, football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Welsh" title="Stephen Welsh">Stephen Welsh</a>, football player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Twin_towns">Twin towns</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Twin towns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coatbridge is <a href="/wiki/Sister_city" title="Sister city">twinned</a> with:<sup id="cite_ref-NLC2_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NLC2-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Denis,_Seine-Saint-Denis" title="Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis">St. Denis</a>, France</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campi_Bisenzio" title="Campi Bisenzio">Campi Bisenzio</a>, Italy</li> 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">8 January</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Excerpt+from+the+Minute+of+Meeting+of+Coatbridge+Area+Committee+Held+on+23+June+1998&rft.pub=North+Lanarkshire+Council&rft.date=1998-06-23&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmars.northlan.gov.uk%2Fxpedio%2Fgroups%2Fpublic%2Fdocuments%2Freport%2F042280.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACoatbridge" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coatbridge&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Dillon, Des (2007) <i>Monks</i>, Luath Press Ltd</li> <li>Drummond, Peter and James Smith (1982) <i>Coatbridge: Three Centuries of Change</i>, Monkland Library Services</li> <li>Drummond, Peter (1985) <i>The Population of Monklands in the 1980s</i>, Monkland Library Services Dept</li> <li>Miller, Andrew (1864) <i>The Rise of Coatbridge and the Surrounding Neighbourhood</i>, Glasgow</li> <li>Miller, Thomas Roland (1958) <i>The Monkland Tradition</i>, Thomas Nelson and Sons</li> <li>Moir, Helen (2001) <i>Coatbridge (Images of Scotland)</i>, The History Press; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7524-2132-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-7524-2132-8">0-7524-2132-8</a></li> <li>Van Helden, Oliver (2000) <i>Old Coatbridge</i>, Stenlake Publishing</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Airdrie,_North_Lanarkshire" title="Airdrie, North Lanarkshire">Airdrie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellshill" title="Bellshill">Bellshill</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Coatbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumbernauld" title="Cumbernauld">Cumbernauld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilsyth" title="Kilsyth">Kilsyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mossend" title="Mossend">Mossend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motherwell" title="Motherwell">Motherwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shotts" title="Shotts">Shotts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stepps" title="Stepps">Stepps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viewpark" title="Viewpark">Viewpark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wishaw" title="Wishaw">Wishaw</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="4" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ScotlandNorthLanarkshire.png" class="mw-file-description"><img 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