Old Travel Blog Photograph Academy Bellshill North Lanarkshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Academy in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. A Scottish town located 10 miles south east of Glasgow city centre and 37 miles west of Edinburgh. In the late 1800's large coal and iron deposits were discovered nearby and a number of mines opened, the first being the Thankerton mine. Bellshill once had 6 primary schools including Belvidere Primary School. This was closed, however, in early June 2010 and has now been demolished. Holy Family Primary School was founded in 1868 and moved to new buildings in 1907 to accommodate an influx of Lithuanian, Polish and Irish Catholics seeking work in the area. Other primary schools include Sacred Heart Primary, Mossend Primary, Noble Primary, St. Gerard's Primary and Lawmuir Primary. There are two fairly large secondary schools, Bellshill Academy and Cardinal Newman High School.



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