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the flakes of soot which fill the air, and settle on his face. To experience
Coatbridge it must be visited at night when it presents a most extraordinary spectacle.... From the steeple of the parish church the flames of no fewer than fifty blast furnaces may be seen.... The flames have a positively fascinating effect. Now they shoot far upward, and breaking off short, expire among the smoke; again spreading outward, they curl over the lips of the furnace, and dart through the doorways, as if determined to annihilate the bounds within which they are confined; then they sink low into the crater, and come forth with renewed strength in the shape of great tongues of fire, which sway backward and forward, as if seeking with a fierce eagerness something to devour.
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time. They cultivated the land extensively and by the 16th century had leased most of the lands to farmers. Many of the local place names are descended from those used by the monks, such as
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is a most interesting seat of industry, it is anything but beautiful. Dense clouds of smoke roll over it incessantly, and impart to all the buildings a peculiarly dingy aspect. A coat of black dust overlies everything, and in a few hours the visitor finds his complexion considerably deteriorated by
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There have been centuries of coal workings across the area. In 1791, there was disaster at Coats Pit when the canal burst and six miners were drowned. A large part of modern-day
Coatbridge has been undermined by underground coal workings. The modern day car parks skirting both sides of the South
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to a world leading centre of iron production in the 19th century. Development took off at an incredible rate in the 19th century and led to massive changes to the landscape and an explosion in the population.
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plan of 1949 described Coatbridge as "situated over a flooded coalfield" Tenements in Coatbridge were not built to same height as Glasgow tenements, due to danger of subsidence
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