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Bellshill (pronounced "Bells hill") is a town in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, ten miles (sixteen kilometres) southeast of Glasgow city centre and 37 mi (60 km) west of Edinburgh. Other nearby localities are Motherwell 2 mi (3 km) to the south, Hamilton 3 mi (5 km) to the southwest, Viewpark 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi (2.5 km) to the west, Holytown 2 mi (3 km) to the east and Coatbridge 3 mi (5 km) to ...
Bellshill. Bellshill (pronounced "Bells hill") is a town in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, ten miles (sixteen kilometres) southeast of Glasgow city centre. About 20,000 people live there. Category: Towns in North Lanarkshire.
Apr 26, 2012 · Collection. opensource. Item Size. 19.8M. Pictures and narratives of Bellshill, A town near Glasgow in Scotland, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Addeddate.
Bellshill. Situated between Coatbridge and Motherwell, 9 miles (14.5 km) southeast of Glasgow, the town of Bellshill lies to the north of the South Calder Water. It includes the neighbourhoods of Orbiston, Hattonrig, Milnwood, Mossend and Shirrel. Formerly a weaving village, Bellshill developed as a mining town with the arrival of the railway ...
The scene - known as the Bellshill Sound or the Bellshill Beat - was celebrated by influential DJ John Peel in the Channel 4 television series Sounds Of The Suburbs. Bellshill continues to produce well respected and influential independent pop music, with members of Mogwai and De Rosa hailing from the town.
These were built from 1902–30, with the largest 10 metres in diameter and 18 metres high – it was known as Big Ben. A large number of Lithuanians, escaping poverty and persecution, came to the Bellshill area and, by 1914, possibly as many as 5,000 had settled in the area. Many of them worked as miners where the pay was much better than they ...
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Bellshill Lanarkshire. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Bellshill like this: Bellshill, a mining town of Bothwell parish, N Lanarkshire, 9 miles by road ESE of Glasgow, 3 5 / 8 S of Coatbridge, and 4 N by E of Hamilton, with stations on the Uddingston ...
