Moodiesburn

**Moodiesburn** is a residential suburb fund 8 mile north-east o Glesga ceety centre, in the North Lanrikshire cooncil aurie o Scotland. It is fund on the A80 road, atween Stepps an Cummernaud.

## History
The origins o the name aiblins came fae the common Scots surrname Moody. Twa Three auld documents shaw Moodiesburn wi sindry spellins includin maps bi Richardson, Forrest, an William Roy. Moodiesburn (or Mudiesburn) wus umwhile pairt o the parish o Cadder. The New Statistical Accounts recordit 30 faimilies an 143 people in 1836. In 1846 thare war reportit tae be 35 hooses wi 220 people bidin ben thaim. Taewards the end o the 19t yearhunner, the population fell tae as law as 150. The town wis biggit-up in the 20t yearhunner wi employment in coal minin an aboot psychiatric institution Stoneyetts Hospital. In the 1930s, widden hooses war pit thegither on the Gartferry House estate.

### Auchengeich minin mishanter
In September 1959, 47 men deed in a coal mine near Moodiesburn whan a fan thit wis purifeein the air in the mine went on fire acause o an electric faut. The men war bogies traivellin tae the coal face tae stairt wirk, an acause o the odious smeuk, thay war abandont fae sauftie.The mine wis fluidit at the hinder end; thae wis juist the ae survivor. The minin accident wis ane o the warst wi-in the UK in the 201 yearhunner, leain 41 weemin widowed an leain 76 bairns wioot a faither.

The First Meenister o Scotland at the time, Alex Salmond, kythed a memorial on 18t September 2009. Its centrepiece, a bronze statue o a pickman, wis stolen wi-in weeks but replaced the follaein year efter a fundraisin drive. Norman Buchan wrocht a song, "Auchengeich", anent the mishanter, recordit bi Dick Gaughan an The Easy Club.

### Eftermath an economic doukin
Local minin doukit in the years follaein the disaster. Stoneyetts stappit operatin in 1992, follaed bi Scottish Power an Reekie Plant Hire sites closin in 1996. A 1999 airticle in *[[The Observer]]* lamentit Moodiesburn's lack of local employment, as weel as the increasin disaffection fur its younger residenters:

Auchengeich sewage wirks an the Moodiesburn Hoose Hotel – umwhile the Bedlay Dowager Hoose – war closed in 2003 an 2008, respective-like. Twa career options stey in the area: landscapin product supplier Charcon Scotland (pairt o Aggregate Industries), an food processin company Devro.

## Laundmerks

Bedlay Cemetery is the local cemetery fur Moodiesburn. The nearbi Bedlay Castle has stuid fae the late 16t yearhunner.

The toun incluide a communitie centre an librar, a pickman's weelfare club (*the Auchengeich Miners Welfare*; Scots: the Auchengleich Pickmans Weelfare), a multi-denominational schuil (Glenmanor Primary, affiliatit wi Cryston Secontary Schuil), a Church of Scotland parish kirk, a Roman Catholic kirk, an an unthrilt evangelical kirk cawed New Beginnings (Scots: New Stairtins). Thare is the Silver Larch public hoose, a Knights of Saint Columba social club an a coffee shop cawed The Coffee House an aw.

Awtho the auldest biggins an the oríginal clachan stuid at the Cummernauld Road junction (A80), an Sonteyetts Road, its centre muived aboot 300 yaird (270 m) north durin the mid-20t yearhunner wi the biggin o a smaw biggin-up o timer-panelled hames (Hillhead Avenue etc.), an than raxit across the follaein decades. The communitie's 1950s cooncil hoosin (Bridgeburn Drive, Langdale Road, Genmanor Avenue etc) is kent as "Auld Moodiesburn" - tho a substantious nummer o thae hames a nou awnt private-like. A wheen o hooses wi updatit facílities war biggit in the 1960s, an cried the "electric scheme" bi local fowk. Modren hames hiv been biggit-up in this pairt o Moodiesburn syne, includin bi Taylor Woodrow (1989), Persimmon (1997) an Lovell (2016). The widdershins north-eastren end by Devro heid quarters, is maistly private residenters bi Christian Salvesen (1970), Tay/Wimpey (1992), Bellway (1995) an Persimmon (2006 and 2018). Miller Homes are set tae big on the umwhile Stoneyetts Hospital site as o 2019.

A wee estate o new cooncil biggins wis pit up in the mids o the Salvesen area in 2013.

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