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Sunday, 1st August 2010

 
Moodiesburn


Moodiesburn first enters the history books as a stopping-place on the main stagecoach route between Glasgow and Stirling. In November 1805 the Wew North Star Coaches' were advertised as running between Glasgow and Stirling ~By Moodie's-burn and Lone head, Drawn by four able Horses, with careful Drivers and Guards". A few houses on the south side of the main road, just west of the crossroads, are all that remain of this phase of Moodiesburn history. The convenient roadside location of the Moodiesburn House Hotel also serves as a reminder of the village's role in former times.

On the northern fringes of Moodiesburn stood the mining village of Bridgend. It was built to provide homes for miners and other workers from the nearby Auchengeich Colliery, opened in 1905. The houses were mostly brick-built room-and-kitchen dwellings, with inside water-closet and scullery. A more primitive building on the site, the stone-built White Row', was a survivor from an earlier era. There were 104 dwelling in total, also ten ash-bins and a similar number of wash-houses, for use of the residents. Decline set in after 1959, when a calamitous disaster at Auchengeich Pit curtailed its working life, and the houses were vacated during the 1960s, with final site clearance in 1967. All that survives of a once-thriving village is the Auchengeich Miners Welfare Institute and a memorial to the 47 Auchengeich disaster victims nearby.

Modern Moodiesburn is essentially a group of housing estates. pirst to be erected were the timber houses on the former Gartferry Estate, in the 1930s. Some wartime pre-fab houses were later demolished, but further extensive development took place during the post-war period. A small primary school at Bridgend soon proved inadequate and was superseded by the new schools of Glenmanor (in 1965) and St Michael's (in 1969). A hall for Church of Scotland worshippers was opened in Blackavood Crescent by Chryston Parish Church in 1969. St Michael's Roman Catholic Church was dedicated in 1966. The Pivot Community Education Centre was opened in 1976, together with the adjacent library. A significant modern industry was established at Moodiesburn during 1964-5 when the sausage casing manufactory of Devro Ltd was built and opened. This provided significant employment opportunities for the growing Moodiesburn population.
 
 

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