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Location Geography Area Ranked 19th - Total 470 km² - % Water ? Admin HQ Motherwell ISO 3166-2 GB-NLK ONS code 00QZ Demographics Population Ranked 4th - Total (2006) 323,800 - Density 689 / km² Scottish Gaelic - Total () {{{Scottish council Gaelic Speakers}}} Politics North Lanarkshire Council http://www. ...
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Airdrie can refer to: Places Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, in Scotland Airdrie, Alberta, in Canada Football (Soccer) Clubs Airdrieonians the defunct team from North Lanarkshire (Scotland) Airdrie United their re-incarnation ...
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The ML postcode area, also known as the Motherwell postcode area[2], is a group of postal districts around Airdrie, Bellshill, Biggar, Carluke, Coatbridge, Hamilton, Lanark, Larkhall, Motherwell, Shotts, Strathaven and Wishaw in Scotland. ...
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Airdrie (Gaelic An Àrd Ruigh/An Àrd Àirighe) is a town within North Lanarkshire, Scotland[1]) . // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...
Location Geography Area Ranked 19th - Total 470 km² - % Water ? Admin HQ Motherwell ISO 3166-2 GB-NLK ONS code 00QZ Demographics Population Ranked 4th - Total (2006) 323,800 - Density 689 / km² Scottish Gaelic - Total () {{{Scottish council Gaelic Speakers}}} Politics North Lanarkshire Council http://www. ...
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It lies on a plateau roughly 400 ft (130 m) above sea level, and is approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of Glasgow. Airdrie, along with its neighbour Coatbridge, forms the area known as the Monklands. As of 2001, it had a population of 36,326 — of which 96% were born in Scotland [2]. For other meanings, see Plateau (disambiguation). ...
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, Coatbridge is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland approximately 9 miles east of Glasgow. ...
Monklands can mean several things: Monklands district Monklands (Bad nam Manach in Scottish Gaelic) was formerly (1975-96) the name of a local government district in the Strathclyde Region of Scotland. ...
History
The history of a settlement near modern-day Airdrie may be dated back to AD 577, which was the year of the Battle of Arderyth[1](Airdrie). This was a battle between Rydderych The Bountiful, King of Strathclyde, and Aeddam The Perfidious, King of Kintyre. While few have heard of the main protagonists, amongst Aeddam's contingent was the Celtic bard, Merlin. Merlin's patron, Gwennddolan, was killed during the battle in which Merlin was awarded for his verses recording the battle. The history of Airdrie between the Battle of Arderyth and AD 1162 is unclear, due to the scarcity of written historical records. For other uses, see Battle (disambiguation). ...
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Strathclyde (Srath Chluaidh in Gaelic) was one of the regional council areas of Scotland from 1975 to 1996. ...
Kintyre shown within Argyll Kintyre is a peninsula in western Scotland in the south-west of Argyll. ...
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Merlin Ambrosius (Welsh: Myrddin Emrys (Merlin the Wise); also known as Myrddin Wyllt (Merlin the Wild), Merlin Caledonensis (Scottish Merlin), Merlinus, and Merlyn) is the personage best known as the mighty wizard featured in Arthurian legends, starting with Geoffrey of Monmouths Historia Regum Britanniae. ...
Chronology
1162 to 1850 Airdrie owes its existence to its location on the "Hogs Back" - the ridge of land running from east to west. One very important aspect of the town’s history were the "monks", hence the name of the area; Monklands. The monks were farmers and most of the land they used is known today as “Four Isles” (a housing estate named after four Scottish islands; Mull, Islay, Iona and Luing in the Petersburn area of modern Airdrie). The Monks of Newbattle had numerous establishments throughout the area including a farm grange at Drumpellier, Coatbridge, a Court House at Kipps, a Chapel in the area of Chapelhall and a number of corn mills - one being the original Airdrie Meal mill. The Monks were also expert in the construction of roads. In the 12th century they established the original Glasgow to Edinburgh road via Airdrie and Bathgate, to link up with their lands in Newbattle in East Lothian. Tobermory with 700 people, the largest settlement on Mull, is home to the only whisky distillery on the island. ...
Islay (pronounced ; Scottish Gaelic: , or ee-luh), a Scottish island, known as The Queen of the Hebrides, is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides. ...
Iona is a small island, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. ...
Luing (An t-Eilean Luinn in Gaelic) is one of the Slate Islands, in Lorne, in the west of Argyll in Scotland, about 16 miles south of Oban. ...
A Roman Catholic monk A monk is a person who practices monasticism, adopting a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle, usually in community with others following the same path. ...
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Kipps is a book by H.G. Wells, based on elements from his own life. ...
A chapel is a private church, usually small and often attached to a larger institution such as a college, a hospital, a palace, or a prison. ...
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In those days travelling was often dangerous. Horses were still very rare and could only be afforded by the rich. Low lying ground was usually extremely difficult to navigate because of the numerous bogs, forests and burns - not to mention the possibility of ambush by a footpad or robber. Hence, it became much more practical to travel on the high ground (the "High Way") where one could avoid the mud and the robbers. These roads (tracks) became known as the King's Highway. Virgin boreal acid bogs at Browns Lake Bog, Ohio A bog is a wetland type that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material. ...
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Definitive evidence of the existence of Airdrie as a tenantry was only made clear in 1503. The old Monks road was via Cliftonhill (an area now in neighbouring Coatbridge), Airdrie House (now the site of Monklands Hospital), Aitchison Street, High Street, Hallcraig, Flowerhill and Colliertree. It was along this road that the first houses in Airdrie were built. Development was slow and it was only around 1650 that evidence of the number of inhabitants was known at around 500 for the Airdrie area. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (825x530, 51 KB) Summary Scan of map Licensing This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less. ...
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Monklands Hospital, affectionally known as The Monklands or simply Monklands by local residents, is a busy district general hospital with 24-hour Accident and Emergency facilities and has 478 inpatient beds and 57 day beds in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland NHS Lanarkshire. ...
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Airdrie first came to prominence for its weaving industry. Airdrie Weavers Society was founded in 1781 and flax was being grown in sixteen farms in and around the burgh. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, coalmining was in progress and around thirty colliers were employed. Weaving continued to flourish making up a substantial part of the population of over 2,500 around the turn of the 19th century. The rapid pace of population growth continued and by 1821 there were 4,862 inhabitants. At this time the number of houses being built increased dramatically and 1821 by a private Act of Parliament, Airdrie became a free and independent Burgh of Barony. Due to the fact it was "independent", as it had all the powers of a Royal Burgh. Tweed loom, Harris, 2004 Woven sheet Weaving is an ancient textile art and craft that involves placing two sets of threads or yarn called the warp and weft of the loom and turning them into cloth. ...
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Voting in the early part of the nineteenth century was rather hit or miss as not only locals but residents outside the burgh were allowed to vote. In general it was not popular at any rate with only thirty eight attending the election meeting. In 1821 the first election of a town council took place and by August had appointed an assessor, procurator fiscal, master of police and a town crier. Image File history File links Airdrie_town_clock. ...
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In 1824 it was decided to build the Town House, which is now a local landmark known as the “town clock.” In 1832 the Town House was used as a hospital due to the cholera outbreak of this year. It was originally designed by Alexander Baird. Cholera (or Asiatic cholera or epidemic cholera) is an extreme diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. ...
By 1850, the population had grown to 12,418.
1850 to 1920 The enormous growth in population was not due to high birthrate, but instead due to an influx of residents from the Highlands and predominantly Ireland. This followed the potato famine of the mid 1840s and also reflected the change from cottage industry to heavy industry in the area. Most of the Irish immigrant population were involved with mining and labouring. This led to an increase in ironwork foundries around the area. Because of this explosion in industry, railway links were soon established (circa 1830) and by 1862, the Airdrie and Bathgate Junction Railway provided a direct link to Edinburgh with Airdrie South Station providing the starting point for trains to Glasgow. Lowland-Highland divide Highland Sign with welcome in English and Gaelic The Scottish Highlands (A Ghà idhealtachd in Gaelic) include the rugged and mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. ...
Potato famine may mean or refer to: The Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849) The Highland Potato Famine (1846 - 1857) The potato famines of the mid 19th century arose from an infestation of potato blight, Phytophthora infestans, which spread across Europe in the 1840s. ...
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The term foundry originally was a synonym for an ironworks or general metal works where metal casting operations were performed. ...
In August the Public Libraries Act (Scotland) 1853 was passed, and in November Airdrie Public Library was the first in Scotland. Public Libraries Act 1850 The Public libraries Act of 1850 was legislation passed by the British Parliament. ...
First Airdrie Public Library building (opened 1894), on Anderson Street, showing founding date of 1856 Airdrie Public Library is a public library in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. ...
An evolution of the rise in population and industry prompted for more accessible water supplies. Until the mid 1800s, various wells were put in place feeding from surrounding streams in the area. These served to provide many houses with private wells. By 1846 Airdrie and Coatbridge Water Company was founded to construct (along with Forth and Clyde Canal Company) the reservoir at Roughrigg.
Around the mid 1800s, several local newspapers began appearing and notably the Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser, which is still the most popular local paper today. Also at this time, football and cricket began to emerge as popular sports. Owing to the formation of the Football under Association rules and through this beginning, Excelsior (the local football team until then) became Airdrieonians FC in 1878. Race meetings were also held in the town (1851 - 1870) but this land became the golf course for the newly formed Airdrie Golf Club in 1877 (which later moved site to and Glenmavis in 1884). A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ...
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Airdrieonians F.C. was a Scottish Football team that became defunct at the end of the 2001/2002 season. ...
Education posed a major problem with severe overcrowding in the few schools available, therefore three new school boards were established. Fees were routinely charged within the schools with the belief they should be self-supporting until the Act of 1889 when some of the infant classes in schools were relieved of this burden. Airdrie Academy was built in 1895 and by 1919 all school boards were dissolved and Lanarkshire Education Authority took over responsibility for education throughout Lanarkshire. Airdrie Academy is a secondary school within Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. ...
Lanarkshire (Siorrachd Lannraig in Gaelic) is a traditional county of Scotland. ...
Airdrie Public Observatory, one of only four public observatories in the UK - all in Scotland, was founded in the first library building in 1896, and is still operated in the present building by ASTRA, a Scottish space-flight society and registered charity. Airdrie Public Observatory (55° 51 56 N, 03° 58 58 W) is in the town of Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland. ...
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By the turn of the century and certainly by 1910, variety shows were becoming popular in the area and by 1911 the Pavillion in Graham Street was built which after initially being used as a music hall started showing cinematographic pictures. Unfortunately it was destroyed by fire in 1917 but was rebuilt in 1919 (closed in 1970 for re-development). The New Cinema was opened in 1920 in Broomknoll Street but has since closed. The town had no suitable venue for larger functions so in 1912 the Sir John Wilson Town Hall was opened (following a generous offer from Sir John Wilson covering the total cost of 13,500 GBP). This still stands and is used for major events in the town. A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits. ...
1920 onwards At the end of the First World War, Airdrie was hard hit with many casualties from the war and also many inhabitants emigrated. The population only rose by 3% to around 26,000 by 1931. The depression years had made a great impact on the town and several well known manufacturers ceased to exist and few replaced them. It was reported that 50% of the registered population were unemployed. The Church groups tried to provide some comfort for the poor folk in the area and set up educational and work experience projects to help and by 1936 the Airdrie Churches Council had attracted national interest through their work culminating in a building in Graham Street being provided for them (Mutual Service Club). This is now Airdrie Community Centre. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...
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Airdrie Public Library, the first public library in Scotland, was eventually built on its present site in 1925 after years of moving from one site to another. Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
 First Airdrie Public Library building (opened 1894), on Anderson Street, showing founding date of 1856 Conditions in the town did not really improve until well after the Second World War but in 1949 a major pharmaceutical company (Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd) and Banner Textiles Ltd were attracted to the town (between them employing 1200). With this impetus, new companies began to consider Airdrie as a viable option for business and in 1958 Pye Scottish Communications Ltd opened employing over 1000 people. The emergence of industrial estates was also prevalent around this time. (Newhouse; Chapelhall; Brownsburn) A well known building in the town is Airdrie Arts Centre - opened in 1967, it is still a popular venue for concerts and plays. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (2,560 × 1,920 pixels, file size: 568 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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Modern Airdrie Airdrie town centre has changed much in the last 10 years with a new road scheme and a shift in emphasis with the type of shopping it offers. Graham Street, the main pedestrianised street, has recently been refurbished and has had the pedestrian precinct area upgraded. New housing complexes are being built around this suitably situated commuter town and notably in Chapelhall, Rochsoles and Glenmavis, the former Boots factory site in Rawyards and the former Imperial Tube Works in Cairnhill. Car-free zones (also known as auto-free zones and pedestrianised zones) are areas of a city or town in which automobile traffic is prohibited. ...
The local football team, Airdrieonians F.C., whose history included winning the Scottish Cup in 1924 and reaching the final in 1975, 1992 and 1995, faced financial troubles resultant from the Taylor Report instructing clubs to have all seated stadia. The team sold their stadium at Broomfield to a supermarket chain but had various planning applications rejected in their bid to build a new stadium. Their period of homelessness meant fans travelled to Cumbernauld, to Clyde F.C.'s stadium for home matches. Attendances decreased and shortly after moving to their new stadium the club found themselves in administration and later were announced to be insolvent. Airdrie was without a football league club until the formation of Airdrie United who bought over Clydebank football club and regained their status in the football league under the new name. Airdrie United F.C.'s a new stadium is officially called Excelsior Stadium (but known as New Broomfield), formerly Shyberry Excelsior on land adjacent to Carlisle Road and the Petersburn area of the town. Airdrieonians Football Club, more commonly known as Airdrie were a Scottish professional football team from the town of Airdrie, in the Monklands area of Lanarkshire. ...
In Chapelhall, the EuroCentral link for Europe allows direct links with Europe by rail and road connecting to London and onto France. Boots closed their factory in 2004 and housing and a new school are being constructed on the site. Albert Bartlett & Sons have expanded their fresh produce operations to a new site on the Stirling Road towards Cumbernauld which vastly increases their presence in the town. The headquarters of beCogent Group, a major leader in telesales and virtual help-desking is within the Cairnhill area of the town, in part of the former Pye factory. railroads redirects here. ...
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BeCogent Group (otherwise known simply as beCogent, or shorthand BeCo) is a Scottish call centre company that provides outsourced telesales, customer relations and helpdesk services to a variety of companies, on both an inbound and outbound basis. ...
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In 2006, Monklands Hospital accident and emergency was to downgrade to a nurse-led community casualty unit. This would result in NHS Lanarkshire having two consultant-led accident and emergency departments at Wishaw General Hospital and Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride [2] This decision was widely criticised, including the former Home Secretary, John Reid MP, voicing his disapproval of the plans [3]. In September 2006, the plan was approved by Lewis MacDonald, Deputy Health and Community Care minister [4] [5]. In May 2007, the Labour administration lost out to the Scottish National Party in the Scottish Parliament Elections 2007 and the decision was overturned by the new Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Nicola Sturgeon. She demanded that NHS Lanarkshire find a way of keeping three fully functioning consultant-led A+E departments in Lanarkshire [6]. NHS Lanarkshire have since put forward seven possible combinations of keeping three A+E departments open, which have now been delivered for public scrutiny [7] Monklands Hospital, affectionally known as The Monklands or simply Monklands by local residents, is a busy district general hospital with 24-hour Accident and Emergency facilities and has 478 inpatient beds and 57 day beds in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland NHS Lanarkshire. ...
Monklands Hospital, affectionally known as The Monklands or simply Monklands by local residents, is a busy district general hospital with 24-hour Accident and Emergency facilities and has 478 inpatient beds and 57 day beds in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland NHS Lanarkshire. ...
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NHS Lanarkshire is responsible for improving the health of more than 553,000 people living within the North and South Lanarkshire local authority areas. ...
NHS Lanarkshire is responsible for improving the health of more than 553,000 people living within the North and South Lanarkshire local authority areas. ...
Hairmyres Hospital is located in East Kilbride. ...
East Kilbride (Cille Bhrìghde an Ear in Scottish Gaelic) is a large town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. ...
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John Reid PC (born 8 May 1947) is a British politician who is Home Secretary and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Scottish constituency of Airdrie and Shotts in the United Kingdom. ...
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Future - The reopening of the Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link.
- Re-building of local schools.
- Down-grading of Monklands Hospital?
- Building of Airdrie Business Centre.
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Population According to the 2001 Census, Airdrie's population of 36,326 was: UK Census 2001 logo A nationwide census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 29 April 2001. ...
- 47.31 male, 52.69% female.
- 20.7% were under 16, 16.67% were pensioners.
- 46.61% were married (first marriage), 29.81% were single.
- 95.74% were born in Scotland or described their nationality as Scottish.
- only 0.42% spoke Gaelic.
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Ian Bannen (June 29, 1928 - November 3, 1999) was a Scottish character actor and occasional leading man. ...
Sandy Clark is a former professional football (soccer) player and is now currently a football coach as well as doing regular punditry work for BBC Scotland. ...
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Craig Easton (born February 26, 1979 in Bellshill) is a Scottish footballer who currently plays in central midfield for Leyton Orient in the Coca-Cola League One. ...
Brian John McClair (born December 8, 1963) in Bellshill, Scotland) is a former Scottish international soccer player, notable for his near eleven-year spell at Manchester United F.C., as well as important tenures at Scottish clubs Celtic F.C. and Motherwell F.C.. During his period at Manchester United...
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Politics
Westminster The area that the Airdrie and Shotts constituency now envelops has had a prominent place on the front benches of the House of Commons at Westminster with high profile ministers and members of Her Majesty's Government. Constituencies commonly known as Airdrie and Shotts are: Airdrie and Shotts — a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
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John Smith QC (September 13, 1938 – May 12, 1994) was a British politician who served as leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his sudden and unexpected death from a heart attack on 12 May 1994. ...
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Helen Liddell (born December 6, 1950, in Coatbridge, Scotland) is a British politician, was M.P. for Monklands East, then for Airdrie and Shotts from 1994 to 2005, and is British High Commissioner to Australia. ...
The Secretary of State for Scotland (Rùnaire Stà ite na h-Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is the chief minister in the government of the United Kingdom with responsibilites for Scotland, at the head of the Scotland Office (formerly The Scottish Office). ...
High Commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment. ...
John Reid PC (born 8 May 1947) is a British politician who is Home Secretary and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Scottish constituency of Airdrie and Shotts in the United Kingdom. ...
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is the British cabinet minister who has responsibility for the government of Northern Ireland. ...
The Secretary of State for the Home Department (the Home Secretary) is the chief United Kingdom government minister responsible for law and order in England and Wales; his or her remit includes policing, the criminal justice system, the prison service, internal security, and matters of citizenship and immigration. ...
Holyrood The current member of the Scottish Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts is Karen Whitefield MSP who has held the seat since the instatement of the Scottish Parliament. For the national legislative body up to 1707, see Parliament of Scotland. ...
Karen Whitefield (born 8 January 1970, Bellshill) is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts constituency since 1999. ...
Local government Prior to the reorganisation into unitary authorities in 1996, Airdrie was under the authority of Monklands District Council. After 1996, it became under the authority of North Lanarkshire Council. Currently, the leader of the council is Jim McCabe, Labour councillor for Viewpark. A unitary authority is a term used in a two-tier local government system to describe a unit of local government that operates as a single tier. ...
Monklands (Bad nam Manach in Scottish Gaelic) was formerly (1975-96) one of nineteen local government districts in the Strathclyde region of Scotland. ...
North Lanarkshire (Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath in Gaelic) is one of 32 council areas in Scotland. ...
References - Begg, E. and Rich, D. (1991) On the Trail of Merlin. ISBN 0-85030-939-5
- Geddes, C.M. (1995) Airdrie 300:A Souvenir Brochure. Motherwell: Monklands Library Services. ISBN 0-946120-29-3
- Hutton, G. (1997) Lanarkshire's Mining Legacy. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 1-84033-015-5
- McCutcheon, C. (1994) Old Airdrie. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 1-872074-34-0
- Moir, H. (2001) Airdrie. Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7524-2368-1
- Scobbie, J.K. (1985) Book of Airdrie'. Motherwell: Monklands Library Services. ISBN 0-946120-08-0
- Wilson, R. (1997) Old Airdrie Villages. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 1-84033-004-X
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