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For more than half a century, the typical Scottish mining village of Glenbuck, whose population did not exceed 1700 flourished where football was concerned. The small remote village was so poor that it had no electricity or indoor toilets. Listen here to Sam Purdie describe the living conditions.
The remains of the football pitch where the ‘Glenbuck Cherrypickers’ played is still there – and there has been talk recently of reviving the team and playing again on the site. The area otherwise is dominated by a massive now disused open cast mine.
Sep 4, 2019 · A Bill Shankly memorial was renewed on Monday in the former Liverpool manager's birthplace as part of the official opening of the Glenbuck Heritage Village. The Scottish Mines Restoration Trust has worked to restore several former opencast sites across Scotland in recent years, with Glenbuck now a visitor attraction in order to cement the ...
Feb 27, 2016 · Glenbuck has been depopulated for close to half a century, unable to withstand the collapse of heavy industry. Though its name still features on maps of Scotland, opencast mining has all...
Oct 12, 2022 · For many years the bustle and life of Glenbuck was almost lost entirely. Opencast mining destroyed the former village’s landscape, including almost all of its architecture (save one church wall), leaving the environment resembling a ‘black moonscape’, according to Sam.
Dec 4, 2015 · In these navel-gazing times of scrutinising Scottish youth football and its concomitant failures, it is worth pausing to consider the details: Glenbuck, forged by iron and fuelled by coal, was a...
He died in 1914, and in the following decades his inheritors, in order to avoid paying tax on the family home, eventually removed the roof (after 1945?) and the house soon crumbled as the softer red local Mauchline sandstone is highly friable when exposed to rain.
