#coatbridge

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1892 – Birth of revolutionary and feminist, Margaret Skinnider, in Coatbridge, Scotland. She fought during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.

‘Scotland is my home, but Ireland my country.’ –Margaret Skinnider Margaret Skinnider was born to immigrant parents from Co Monaghan. She became a mathematics teacher in Scotland and was active in the women’s suffrage movement. She also joined the Glasgow branches of the Irish Volunteers and Cumann na mBan in 1914; she also joined the women’s rifle club, becoming a first class shot. She was…

[jason-1971]

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday the often underrated World Champion boxer Ricky Burns born April 13th in Coatbridge.

Ricky has had a sterling career as one of the best British boxers of recent times. He has repeatedly upset the odds to win world titles at three separate weight divisions – Super Featherweight, Lightweight and Super Lightweight. Ricky has made history by becoming the first Scottish fighter to hold a world title in 3 different weight categories!

Ricky is considered one of boxing’s “nice guys” as well as a superb role model. He recently made a comeback, winning a fight against Argentina’s Emiliano Dominguez Rodriguez by unanimous decision in Sunderland in December, his first fight in two years.

Burns hasn't officially retired, so we might yet see him return to the ring but currently he is training fighters now so getting himself a fight may not be as high priority as it was a few years back. Hi promoters Probellum were planning an event at the Hydro back in August which he was due to headline, but it never came together. From what I heard it may well have been set up as a farewell fight. Based on that it's likely he wants one more to go out on in front of a home audience.

As well as working with one or two pros he is one of the main coaches for Boxing Scotland.

[the-casbah-way]

BRUH for my current fic i decided to make it that jamie went to the coatbridge seminary purely because it's the only one i can write about without having to do any research and i randomly named one of the priest characters after a priest i knew in high school and when i looked up the coatbridge seminary for a reference thing there was a quote from a priest with the same fucking name

[northlanarkshiregardencare]

North Lanarkshire Garden Care

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Address : Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, ML5

Phone Number: 07463 186724

Business Hours: Monday to Sunday : Open 24 Hours

[lesliecommercials]

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[unteriors]

Coatbridge Circuit, Kinross (Perth), Western Australia.

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Helen Liddell

Helen Liddell was born in 1950 in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. At the age of 26, Liddell became the first female General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party. Liddell served as an MP from 1994 until 2005. In 1997, she became Economic Secretary to the Treasury. During her time in Parliament, Liddell also served as Minister of State for Transport and Energy Minister, and was the first woman to serve as Secretary of State for Scotland. From 2005 until 2009, she was British High Commissioner to Australia.

[blobsky]

Fuck me, what’s next? Zombies in Coatbridge m?

OH WELL, BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME

[aitoolswhitehattoolbox]

Phlebotomist - SSS2

Company DescriptionAn organisation with a strong purpose, vision and goal – we’re all about living health confident.PositionPhlebotomist£19,845 per year (OTE of up to £38,000 pa with commission, expenses and overtime, Expenses and Benefits)We would be looking to recruit people from various areas in and around; Coatbridge, Moodlesburn, Bishopsbriggs, Cumbernauld, Stepps, Uddinggston, Croy,…

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1971 – Death of Revolutionary, Margaret Skinnider, in Glenageary, Co Dublin.

“Scotland is my home, but Ireland my country.” –Margaret Skinnider Margaret Skinnider’s mother was Scottish and her father was originally from Co Monaghan. She became a mathematics teacher in Scotland and was active in the women’s suffrage movement. She also joined the Glasgow branches of the Irish Volunteers and Cumann na mBan in 1914; she also joined the women’s rifle club, becoming a first…

[thelenazavaroniarchive]

16th October 2024.

𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟓. The Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser carried an advertisement for Lena's show at The Glasgow Apollo on the 21st.

𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟎. The Belfast Telegraph carried an advertisement for Lena's show at The New Vic.

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟐. The Bexhill-on-Sea Observer wrote about the season making a loss at the De La Warr Pavilion, mentioning that in Hastings Lena alone made a bigger loss in 5 weeks.

𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟑. The Sunday Mirror published an interview with Bonnie Langford, in it she mentioned that she never suspected that Lena was probably going home and throwing up everything that she had eaten.

𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟒. ITV broadcast Des O’Connor Tonight from 8.00pm - 9.00 pm, With Lena as a guest, she sang Memory from the musical cats and was then interviewed by Des. It was her first appearance since becoming ill two years earlier.

𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟔. The Torbay express reported that Lena and Jimmy Cricket’s show wasn't as successful as expected.

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗. Most newspapers reported on Lena’s funeral.

𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔. In his autobiography, Peter Davison recalls that there always seemed to be a sadness about Lena.

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏. The Scottish Daily Mail looked back at Lena’s life.

[scotianostra]

Katherine Stewart Macphail was born on 30th October 1887 at Whifflet, Coatbridge.

Katherine Stewart MacPhail was the third of four daughters of Jesse and Dr Donald MacPhail, a doctor. MacPhail was the only daughter in the family who showed an interest in her father's work.

As a young girl, she entered the father's office and watched him examine the patients or treat wounds; she also went with him to visit patients on remote farms. In addition, her decision to dedicate her life to medicine was probably influenced by her uncles who were successful doctors: James led a missionary hospital in India, and Alex was a professor of anatomy at the University of Glasgow.

Her undergraduate record suggests she was a conscientious, bright student and her name appears several times on the prize-list. In her first year she gained a second-class certificate in Practical Zoology. The following year, 1907-1908, she took a first class certificate in Physiology, and in subsequent years, second class certificates in Anatomy (1908-1909) and Surgery (1910-1911). She graduated MB ChB in 1911. In other words, a very smart cookie and it ran in the family, her sister Isabel Macphail, had graduated MA the previous year.

When war broke out, the sisters offered their services to the Scottish Women’s Hospitals. Women were not permitted to serve in the armed forces, but a group of energetic medical women, spear-headed by Edinburgh graduate Elsie Inglis, equipped and staffed their own hospitals, with the support of the National Women’s Suffrage Societies.

Their offer of these facilities to the Government at home was turned down, but the French showed more willing and the first of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service was set up at Royaumont towards the end of 1914. Further hospitals followed in Serbia in early 1915. Isabel and Katherine set off for Serbia, Isabel as an orderly, Katherine as a surgeon. Apparently, Katherine was initially worried about what the other members of the unit would be like. She wrote:

We knew we were being sent out under the auspices of the Suffrage Societies, and each was afraid that every other was a strong supporter, but were much relieved to find that almost none of us was what might be called ‘strong’, and that Serbia was the common bond, not suffrage.

When she arrived there, she and another junior doctor, Adeline Campbell, were dismayed by the tasks they were given to do at Kragvievatz, and felt that an orderly could have done them. They persuaded their superior, Dr Soltan, to release them, and they went on to the Military Hospital at Belgrade, incurring the wrath of the committee of the Scottish Women’s Hospital, who declined to employ Katherine again. Undeterred, Katherine continued her lifetime’s work in Serbia.

After the war Katherine remained in Serbia, running her own small hospital, the Anglo-Serbian Children’s Hospital in Belgrade with some funding from the Scottish Women’s Hospitals and the Save the Children Fund. Her war work had been honoured by the Serbian government, which conferred the distinction of the Serbian Order of St Sava and the Serbian Red Cross.

Her work was far from finished, however. In 1934 she established the English-Yugoslav Hospital for Treatment of Osteoarticular Tuberculosis in Sremska Kamenica. She continued her work there until 1941, when she and other British residents were taken prisoner by the Germans.

She was repatriated, but returned to Belgrade in 1945 with one of the first relief units. Under a new post-war regime, foreigners were less welcome. After the nationalisation of the hospital she left for Scotland in 1949 and settled in St Andrews, where she lived until her passing in 1974 aged 86.

[the-casbah-way]

i'll level with you boys once my degree is over and i've gained some semblance of financial stability i might fuck off and move to glasgow for a bit. i miss the west but i'm not quite ready to go back to lanarkshire. that's something to be saved for if i ever live to relative old age. which is unlikely at this rate. i'll fuck about for a while and rediscover god and then i can go back to coatbridge or something. but for now glasgow is calling me

[paisleyphotographs]

A pedestrian who died following a serious crash in Paisley has been named

The crash happened around 8.10am on Wednesday, 18 September, 2024, where two men were struck by a car on Hawkhead Road. Emergency services attended and the two men, aged 50 and 40, were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital with serious injuries. The driver of the car was uninjured. Stephen Craig, 50, from Coatbridge, died in hospital on Sunday, 22 September, 2024. His family have…

[itdisneymatter]

Leaving on a jet plane

So its finally time, in just a few hours we head to the airport and we are currently flying out to Orlando, Florida for our first holiday in 5 long years, after much rescheduling since we originally intended to go back in 2019. And of course with that, THE BLOG returns (I am sorry in advance, truly)! This was meant to be posted before now (last night, then this morning, now whatever time zone we are flying across), but the last 24 hrs, nay the whole week has been absolutely choc-a-bloc, from lastminute.com stuff at work to the important stuff like making customised t-shirts, fixing switch controllers and making up snackle boxes (which we couldn’t use anyway because of someone’s stupid stupid peanut allergy).

And since the last time we were there, we’ve seen more than a few changes.

Our “kids” are no longer kids really. Patrick turns 18 at the end of the month and is off the Uni is September. Roberts in studying Advanced Physics and Applied Maths and doing a HNC in Cyber FREAKING Security all while still in six year. And Grace is the only one who is not yet taller than me which I don't think that’ll be the case for very much longer. Oh and fun fact: Grace is older that Patrick was the last time we were here back in 2017… eesh! No more buggies (well not ruling that out completely for me and Ann), and obviously no more tantrums or arguing from the kiddos (lol, I wish).

Old School

Social media, since the last time, has seen a big change. Patrick laughed at me when I told him I was continuing to use Tumblr for my blog, because everyone’s on YouTube, Tiktok or Instagram these days (well maybe not even Insta, I can’t keep up). I’m a terrible speaker so me doing live, unedited vLogs is an absolute no-go. And Tiktok? I’m sorry I just cant, I dont have the actual energy or sanity to plan and film a little skit of me talking to myself, pretending to be another character (seriously can we check on these people I’m worried for them). And the purpose of this blog is mainly to create a somewhat historical record of our events, intended mainly for personal consumption. Anyway, I’m too committed now to stop and this continues to be the format, however boomer it is.

I digress.

So only a short unofficial update today before we start the main event and roll out a rundown of our daily escapades. Michael graciously dropped us off at the airport this morning with our luggage which came in at just under the limit (not looking forward to smashing said limit on the return leg that’s for sure). Check in and security was fairly breezy and managed to get an obligatory pint & some decent Eggs Royale for breakfast oh and a wee sneaky purchase of a nice 14yo Aberlour. This, mainly for me during our three weeks, will also likely be Patrick’s first sip of alcohol EVER, as he won’t legally be allowed to drink until he’s back home and above the country’s legal age limit. Not bad for his first ever drink and sure beats Rolling Rock for a quid or so down at McFly’s in Coatbridge watching Shifter on a school night 😏

Best laid plans

Writing down this last part from the sky above the Atlantic, we have about 4 hours left until we land in Melbourne. I had, rather optimistically planned to watch ALL of The Last of Us and play the Switch at the same time but due to having about 8 hrs of sleep all in in the past 72hrs, and the kids probably not far behind, we pretty much all crashed as soon as we took off. So all in all I’m about two episodes in and had my Switch on for a total of 30 minutes. At least we’ll be rested for when we get there, though will probably play havoc with the old body clock, with an emphasis on old. Absolute belter from Grace because we’ve been plane buddies today - she turned around to me after struggling to get back to sleep at one point due to the noise and said “there’s too many kids on this flight” Oh dear… 😂

Itinerary is locked in (on a nicely formatted Excel spreadsheet I may add), and contains everything from Restaurant prices and happy hour deals down to best snacks and secret hacks at each of the parks. We’ll be kicking things off with Islands of Adventure tomorrow on our first full day (it would have been Magic Kingdom but they don’t do 21 day tickets any more 🤷🏻‍♂️). Once we pick up the car, we plan to head via Disney Springs to pick up our Magic Bands and grab some food (if we’re hungry which we probably won’t be). Then onward to the hotel to get unpacked, grabbing the traditional Starbucks at the Java cafe, grabbing some provisions at Walmart then heading to bed for some semblance of sleep.

Pauline & Kevin have been here since last Sunday too so we’ll also be catching up with them this week and it looks like they’ve had a blast thus far… 😁

Right I’m going back to watching The Last of Us on plane tv and kidding myself on I’m going to get back to sleep, so will catch you guys on the flippity flip!