Old Photograph First Avenue Auchinloch Scotland

Old photograph of cottages on First Avenue in Auchinloch, Scotland. Auchinloch, Gaelic: Achadh an Locha, is a village in North Lanarkshire. There is some evidence that the religious revivals of the 18th century touched the village. The housing used to consist mainly of two parallel rows of single storied weavers cottages. Around the year 1860 there were 126 inhabitants. Industrialisation came in the 1880s, with the opening of the Lumloch colliery, and then in the 1920s Wester Auchengeich Colliery near Moodiesburn. The latter closed in 1968. Patrick Baird, merchant. Built the school and preached a sermon each Christmas Day.


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