Old Photograph Post Office Coatbridge Scotland

Old photograph of people outside the Post Office on Church Street in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The town is part of the Greater Glasgow urban area. In 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army seized Coatbridge from government troops on their march to Edinburgh in an action described as the Canter of Coatbridge. The Monkland Canal was constructed at the end of the 18th century initially to transport coal to Glasgow from the rich local deposits. The invention of the hot blast furnace process in 1828 meant that Coatbridge's ironstone deposits could be exploited to the maximum by the canal link and hot blast process. The new advances meant that iron could be produced with two thirds less fuel. By the mid 19th century there were numerous hot blast furnaces in operation in Coatbridge.



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