A Five-Minute Guide to Viewpark The Quintessential Ex Mining Town. Viewpark: Miner’s territory. Where the residents are the grandkids, sons, daughters, and even great-grandkids of the miners that worked throughout North Lanarkshire at the various pits. Viewpark was built in the ’40s, specifically to house these miners and their families. When the pits eventually closed…
Bellshill lies somewhere between Motherwell and Rutherglen in North Lanarkshire. It is one of those places that was originally a group of different villages that eventually merged. We have a fair few of those in Scotland. For example; the village of Orbiston is an important part of Bellshill… The name is pronounced exactly as you…
What’s it called? Cumbernauld. Yeah, yeah, we know… copying an eighties ad for an opening is almost unforgivable. However, every single person over thirty in Scotland knows the answer to the question “What’s it called?”. This was thanks to an advertising campaign none of us can forget… It still haunts our dreams. Watch the video…
Wishaw was once a North Lanarkshire industrial powerhouse before the steel mills closed and it was forced to seek a new identity. The one place in Scotland that is greyer than the overcast sky. There is a theory that Wishaw high street is where shops come to die. It definitely has an ‘end-of-the-world’ feel to…
Craig Taylor