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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Feb 18

Did you know that you can leave comments on objects on our museum collections website?

Here are some of our users' responses to a brick from Glenboig, once the world's largest producer of firebricks
www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · 13d

Animals are the theme for this week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange

This sunny scene is 'Calves Resting' by 'Glasgow Boy' David Gauld (1865-1936) artuk.org/discover/art... #ScottishArt

Three white and brown calves lying together in sunlight below a tree in a meadow. There appears to be a hill in the background.

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · 20d

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is all about impressive buildings but we think it could do with a bit more #IndustrialHeritage

This c.1930 drypoint etching by an unknown artist is of Gartsherrie Iron Works #Coatbridge artuk.org/discover/art...

An industrial site with a cluster of tall, cylindrical structures, below which a group of small figures work with long rods at a casting bed from which steam is rising.

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Sep 5

The latest exhibition at North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre #Motherwell is 'Back to the Drawing Board' which celebrates the art of technical drawing

It runs until 25 October. Here's a link to a filmed interview with former draughtsman Stuart Graham www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/exhibition/b...

View of a museum exhibition. In the foreground a low display case contains a large book containing ink drawings of machinery. Beyond, there are mounted drawings on the walls, a video screen and lightboxes for children to use.

Another view of the exhibiton. In the fore ground a drawing of a crane is displayed on a colourful wall graphic.

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Sep 2

We have a video of a former draughtsman who talked about the first time he and his colleagues were shown computer aided design (at William Arrol & Co) & saw the writing on the wall

NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Sep 2

Lots of lovely things in 'Back to the Drawing Board', the next exhibition at North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre in #Motherwell, all about the art of technical drawing

This tracing from 1907 is of a George Russell & Co 4 ton electric wharf crane for the Clyde Navigation Trust

Exhibition opens Friday

A large (approximately A0 size) tracing in black ink on blue-ish paper. It shows elevations of a crane which has a cross-girder base that is on wheels. It is seen at an angle, protected by acrylic.

A straight-on view of the same tracing seen in the previous picture.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Aug 21

News | Artworks highlighting Scotland’s links to British Empire donated to museums – works from the John Shaw Collection gifted to @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social and @paisleymuseum.bsky.social

Artworks highlighting Scotland’s links to British Empire donated to museums - Museums Association

Works from the John Shaw Collection gifted to The Hunterian and Paisley Museum

www.museumsassociation.org

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Aug 22

From Springburn to South Africa: @uofglasgow.bsky.social Material Culture & Artefact Studies placement student Megan has written this story about the colonial connections of one of our biggest exhibits, the Garratt locomotive at Summerlee Museum www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/from-s...

View of a large, industrial steam locomotive with one of its two tenders in the foreground. The loco is painted black but has a red cow-catcher at the end. There is a large warehouse-like building in the background.

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Scottish Council on Archives @scotsarchives.bsky.social · Aug 14

Call for papers: SCA Annual Conference 2025

We are inviting proposals on the theme ‘Celebrating Success’, showcasing achievements, innovations, and collaborations shaping the sector.

Find out more and submit: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/sca-a...

SCA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025 – CALL FOR PAPERS - Scottish Council on Archives

04 August 2025

www.scottisharchives.org.uk

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Aug 13

Opportunity | Become a member of our Nation Committees 👤

We're looking for 12 members to join our committees to support our work in the four nations of the UK, with places available for 3 members to join each of our England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales committees.

Apply by 14 September 👇

Opportunity | Become a member of our Nation Committees - Museums Association

We're looking for 12 members to join our committees to support our work in the four nations of the UK

www.museumsassociation.org

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EcoMuseum of Scottish Mining Landscapes @mininglandscapes.bsky.social · Aug 9

Want to know who keeps #MiningLandscapes Breaking Barriers project team on the proverbial straight and narrow. Nip to 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/blog to meet the new Advisory Board.
#Coal #MiningHeritage

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Aug 14

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange takes us to Wales

This is one of three wonderful early drawings in our collection by Welsh miner turned artist & teacher Vincent Evans (1896-1976). It shows miners laying a charge in a drilled hole in the coal face artuk.org/discover/art...

A pastel drawing of two miners at work in the underground workings of a mine. The both stand upright and one holds a pole horizontally above his head, the end of which the other is guiding into a hole in a rock face.

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Aug 7

The church shown is Kilsyth's Burns Church which was demolished in 2002

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Aug 7

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is all about religious art

This banner was painted in about 1889 for the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Brotherhood (there was also a Sisterhood) which ran in #Kilsyth until 1910 & promoted sobriety & mutual support artuk.org/discover/art...

A dark blue banner with an image of a church with text under it reading 'Kilsyth High Church. Courage Brother do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night, there's a star to guide the humble, trust in God and do the 'right.' Above the picture of the church is painted an elaborate ribbon with large text reading 'P.S.A. BROTHERHOOD'.

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Aug 5

#OnThisDay in 1729 Thomas Newcomen, inventor of the 1st successful steam engine died

The 1810 Farme Colliery Engine, one of just 3 surviving rotative Newcomen engines worked for 100 years in #Rutherglen & is now preserved at Summerlee Museum #Coatbridge www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...

Squarish, sepia-tinted monochrome photo showing a mine pit head in Victorian times. Men stand around a single storey engine house on top of which is the engine's rocking beam. In front a flywheel is connected to one end of the beam by a thick iron connecting rod. In the foreground an old haystack boiler has been repurposed as a bothy and a man sits inside. Others stand around the engine. In the background is a tall wooden structure with winding wheels on top,

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Jul 29

These details will greatly help as we work to finalise our exciting overall redevelopment plans for Summerlee Museum, which will include many more 1990s objects & displays

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Jul 29

We’ve installed a temporary 1990s bedroom exhibit in our Miner’s Cottages this summer & are looking for your opinions on how it is laid out & the types of information it passes on to visitors

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Jul 29

The 90s needs you!

As part of the ‘Summerlee: New Stories, New Audiences, Better Lives’ redevelopment project, in partnership with the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the 1990s have arrived at Summerlee Museum

Tomorrow & select days over the summer a 1990s bedroom is open & we need your feedback

Corner of a mocked-up 1990s young person's room with lots of posters and clothing hanging up

Part of a mocked-up 1990s young person's bedroom with a 'Friends' poster over the firelace and clothing hanging up.

A bed by a window with posters for Oasis, Blur, etc stuck on the wall behind.

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Jul 28

#OnThisDay in 1770 two of the greatest engineers of their age met for the 1st time, beside the #MonklandCanal in what is now #Coatbridge www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/a-famo...

The photo shows the filled-in Sheepford Basin where construction of the canal began that year under James Watt

Photo from a bridge looking down at a large, grassy depression, beyond which are trees and buildings. In the foreground is the bridge parapet made of riveted iron with a stone pier on the left.

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Jul 28

Yes, Nether Johnston Colliery which is on our map extract closed in 1896 www.mindat.org/loc-387179.h...

Nether Johnstone Pits Nos 1 & 2 Colliery, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

Mine Owner(s): 1870 James Marshall 1873-1880 Glasgow Iron Co. 1890 Wishaw Estate 1895-1896 ...

www.mindat.org

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · Jul 22

Banner of the Glasgow Typographical Society (1817), an early trade union founded by the letter-press printers of Glasgow.

Imagine carrying that at a rally, knowing that every single person present was surreptitiously checking the kerning.

(Pic: pistachio.gla.ac.uk/case-studies/)

Two sides of a traditional trade union banner ("Glasgow Typographical Society / Instituted 1817"). One side shows a vaguely Classical scene with the mottos "Let there be light" and "Union is strength"; the other shows the interior of a printworks.

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Justin Parkes @justparkes.bsky.social · Jul 21

This little fragment of industrial housing has a Summerlee connection @nlheritage.bsky.social

The New Orbiston rows in #Bellshill were built c.1892 by the Summerlee Iron Company for miners & their families. Map courtesy of @natlibscot.bsky.social

A dog-leg section of brick wall with stone blocks in the middle section. That part is the end of a miners’ row & the rest is part of a boundary wall.

A map showing rows of terraced housing surrounded by fields. A red circle indicates the portion in the photos.

A view of the other side of the wall, showing the surviving exterior corner of the miners’ row which is made of brick with large stone blocks on the corner.

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Jul 17

The theme for this week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is self-portraits

This is Thomas Hudson who ran a boilerworks in Coatbridge. Hudson died in 1828 but his business continued for another 50 years & much of the machinery is in Summerlee Museum #Coatbridge artuk.org/discover/art...

A three quarter length portrait in oils of an older man with white hair and short beard standing with his hands in the pockets of his large, buttoned grey overcoat. He wears a white shirt and colourful, striped tie. The back ground is a plain orangey-brown.

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Justin Parkes @justparkes.bsky.social · Jul 11

Volunteering today with @archscot.bsky.social dig on the site of Robert Owen’s New Orbiston manufactury nr Bellshill

Our trench is already looking interesting now we’ve cleared the vegetation @scotindustria.bsky.social @sticknetwork.bsky.social @nlheritage.bsky.social q

Four people in an area of woodland using a blue measuring tape to mark out a trench.

The rectangular trench cleared of vegetation and marked out with red string.

A view of the South Calder Water, a small river overhung by trees on both sides.

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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Jul 10

MacQueen uses a rich colour palette in his works and this painting makes us think of summer by the pool with those lush blues!

NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Jul 10

This week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is about summer & here is 'Sun Shower' (1973) by Charles T K MacQueen

MacQueen was born in Glasgow and studied at @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/art...

A square, abstract painting largely made up of areas of blues in different patterns and brushstrokes. There are also areas of dark paint.

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