page_title: Glenboig
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Glenboig / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: postofficeannual00glas (find matches) Title: The Post-Office annual Glasgow directory Year: 1828 (1820s) Authors: Subjects: Publisher: Glasgow&#160;: printed by J. Graham for the letter-carriers of the Post-Office Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: PURE ALUMINIUM Warranted Best Quality in the Market, X1376a and Steel Founders, Engineers, and all Metal Workers. ALUMINIUM BRONZES. ALUMINIUM BRASSES.FERRO AND STEEL ALUMINIUM. Particulars, Price Lists, and Terms on application.Special Quotations for large Quantities. Gold Medal, International Exhibition, Paris, 1881)—fiold Medal, Exhibition of Mining andMetallurgy, London, 1890—Gold Me-lal International Exhibition, Edinburgh, 181)0. ADVERTISEMENTS. 233 GLENBOIG UNION FIRE-CLAY CO. (LIMITED^ Contractors to Her Majestys Home and Indian Governments and the principal National Arsenals. Text Appearing After Image: ^^^/=rr;i Telegraphic Address- GLENBOIG, GLASGOW. Glasgow Telephone JVo.—1003. Coathridge Telephone Xo. Shipping Ports—Glasgow, Greenock, Grangemouth, m If-. Leith, South Alloa, and Boness. 234 ADVERTISEMENTS. R. S. NEWALL &amp; CO., OKIGIXAL PATENTEES OF CriTTV\7ISTEID WIE/E I?/OE=E DIXOIM &lt;i CORBITT R. S. NEWALL &amp; CO., Ld., Having acquired the above-named Old Establislied Business, continue to supplv IMPROYEIPATENT WIRE ROPES as heretofore Manufactured by R. S. NEWALL &amp; Co. IRON AND STEEL ROPES Of the highest Quality for Collieries, Railways, Suspension Bridges, Tramways, ShipsRigging, &amp;c. LICENSED MANUFACTURERS OF LANGS Patent Wire Rope, which does not break on the crown of the Strands in bending rouniDrums and Pulleys, thereby giving greater safety; also LAIDLERS Patent Rope made from Sector Shaped Wire, which gives a smooth and perfectlycylindrical form to the Strands and greater surface to resist abrasion. PATENT GALVANISED STEEL-WIRE FLEXIBLE HAWSERS AND CABL Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Glenboig is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland lying north of Coatbridge and to the south east of Kirkintilloch and is approximately 10 miles from Glasgow City Centre. According to a 2012 estimate, the population of Glenboig was 2780.
  Historically the settlement formed the south eastern extremity of the ancient Gaelic province of the Lennox which lay roughly within the former county of Dunbartonshire. The etymology of the name is uncertain but may mean "boggy or soft glen". Some online maps refer to the area as Marnock but locals call the area Glenboig.
  Glenboig's main industry was fireclay and Glenboig's name was known across the world.
context_section_description: Glenboig's main industry was fireclay, centred on the General Refractories and Glenboig Union Fireclay Company Limited's Star Fireclay Works, which made refractory products for the steel and iron industries. Aerial photographs of the works are available. The Glenboig Union Fire-clay Company Limited dates back to 1836.
  Glenboig's only railway station closed in 1956. The closest is now Gartcosh. Glenboig's brick making industries ceased after the closure of the last brickworks, P&M (Peter & Mark) Hurll's in July 1980. 
  The village's first school was built between 1875 and 1876; it has since been replaced.
caption: Advertisement with pictures of the Star Works and the Old Works at Glenboig with the Cumbernauld Works below[7]
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