Old travel Blog photograph of the Miners Welfare Institute in Coalburn, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Coalburn is a small isolated village that lies on the Coal Burn, a tributary of the Douglas Water, 3 miles south of Lesmahagow. Coalburn developed from the 1850s as a railway settlement associated with local coal mines. The station closed to railway passengers in 1965 and the last colliery and mineral traffic on the railway was in 1968. The Miners Welfare Institute was opened in 1925 built from money supplied by the Lanarkshire Welfare Fund. This was set up by a levy of one penny per ton of coal extracted locally going towards the " social betterment of mining districts."
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My Granny, Mary McLaughlin Wallace was born on Garden Street, Coalburn on the 2nd of June 1934. She died last year and I miss her terribly. This building would have been a stones throw from where she was born, thank you for sharing this online. Do you know what year it's from approximately?
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