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Bellshill est une ville du North Lanarkshire en Écosse, située dans la banlieue nord de Motherwell et à l'est de Glasgow. La population était de 30 000 habitants en 2001. Église de Bellshill
Apr 26, 2012 · Pictures and narratives of Bellshill, A town near Glasgow in Scotland, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s
Coatbridge and Bellshill is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system. It was created for the 2024 general election , covering most of the old Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill constituency.
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The earliest record of Bellshill's name is handwritten on a map by Timothy Pont dated 1596; the letters are difficult to distinguish. It's possible that it reads Belſsill with the first s being an old-fashioned long s. The site is recorded as being east of "Vdinſtoun" and north of "Bothwel-hauch" (which confusingly is above "Orbeſton" on Pont's map...
Bellshill once had six primary schools, including Belvidere Primary School.This was closed in early June 2010 and has now been demolished. Holy Family Primary School was founded in 1868. It moved to new buildings in 1907 to accommodate the influx of Lithuanian, Polish and Irish Catholics seeking work in the area. Other primary schools include Sacre...
Historically a Relief Church for 1000 people was built in Bellshill in 1763. Today several churches serve the town. St Andrews United Free Church of Scotland sits at Bellshill Cross whilst the Church of Scotland parish churches are at opposite ends of the Main Street. Bellshill Central Parish church is opposite The Academy, and Bellshill West Paris...
Bellshill lies at an important point on Scotland's motorway network, situated around 1+1⁄2 miles (2.5 kilometres) south of the M8 motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh and their respective airports. It is about the same distance north of the M74 motorway to and from England; the A725 roadrunning directly to the west of the town links the two. The ...
The Bellshill Cultural Centre has a free library. Various singers, such as Sheena Easton, and sportsmen such as Sir Matt Busby and Billy McNeill hailed from the town (a statue of McNeill at Bellshill Cross was unveiled in 2022).
Bellshill is also known for its music, especially since the mid-1980s. Bands such as the Soup Dragons, BMX Bandits, and Teenage Fanclub put Bellshill on the map as an indie rock hot-spot in Scotland. 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 ...
The town has a football team, Bellshill Athletic, that plays in the Scottish Junior Football West Premier League. They play their home games at Rockburn park. They had moved from Tollcross, Glasgow, after New Brandon Park was closed to reduce costs. Bellshill also has the Sir Matt Busby Sports Complex that opened in 1995. (It is named after the lat...
The following list refers to notable people who were born in Bellshill, although they did not necessarily reside there. The town was home to Lanarkshire's maternity hospitalin the latter part of the 20th century. 1. Jackie Bird, journalist and broadcaster 2. Doug Cameron, Australian politician 3. Gregory Clark, economist 4. Thomas Clark, poet 5. Ro...
The original village of Bellshill, situated at the east end of Viewpark, was formed from a row of quarry workers' houses belonging to a Mr Bell who owned the stone quarry that lay south of the village.
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Bellshill est une ville du North Lanarkshire en Écosse, située dans la banlieue nord de Motherwell et à l'est de Glasgow.
