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NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social · Feb 18
Did you know that you can leave comments on objects on our museum collections website?

Here are some of our users' responses to a brick from Glenboig, once the world's largest producer of firebricks
www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...
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We're taking this week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme of dramatic art very literally AND shamelessly pandering to #swifties with this wonderful cast bronze plaque of Ophelia in front of the Arras in Hamlet. It's from Colzium House #Kilsyth artuk.org/discover/art... #taylorswift
A hand-painted bronze plaque in a wooden frame. It shows a young woman standing in a long dress in a doorwa with a suit of armour to the right and and blue and gold cloth behind her. She is reading a book which she holds in both hands.
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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There’s still time to sign up for our conference on the theme of Narratives and Memories of Industrial Work and Heritage

It’s on Friday 31 October @ The Engine Shed in Stirling stickssn.org/events/
A photo of men lifting chains overlaid with yellow text reading: STICK CONFERENCE: ‘Narratives and Memories of Industrial Work and Heritage’ 31 October 2025. Stirling’.
October 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Have you heard about our Decolonising North Lanarkshire's Museums Collections project?

Join us at Summerlee Museum at 2pm tomorrow (Wednesday) to find out about our collections' colonial links & how we are addressing them north-lanarkshire-council-museums.arttickets.org.uk/summerlee-mu...
A photograph of women at work in a cotton mill (Airdrie Cotton Works) in the early 1900s.
October 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is haunted by ghosts & ethereal art

We can imagine Bet Low's 'Moon and Clouds' above a graveyard at the start of a Hammer horror film!
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An almost monochrome oil painting of a cloudy night sky with toward the top left the hazy glow of the moon, which is large in the picture.
October 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Animals are the theme for this week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange

This sunny scene is 'Calves Resting' by 'Glasgow Boy' David Gauld (1865-1936) artuk.org/discover/art... #ScottishArt
Three white and brown calves lying together in sunlight below a tree in a meadow. There appears to be a hill in the background.
September 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is all about impressive buildings but we think it could do with a bit more #IndustrialHeritage

This c.1930 drypoint etching by an unknown artist is of Gartsherrie Iron Works #Coatbridge artuk.org/discover/art...
An industrial site with a cluster of tall, cylindrical structures, below which a group of small figures work with long rods at a casting bed from which steam is rising.
September 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The latest exhibition at North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre #Motherwell is 'Back to the Drawing Board' which celebrates the art of technical drawing

It runs until 25 October. Here's a link to a filmed interview with former draughtsman Stuart Graham www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/exhibition/b...
View of a museum exhibition. In the foreground a low display case contains a large book containing ink drawings of machinery. Beyond, there are mounted drawings on the walls, a video screen and lightboxes for children to use. Another view of the exhibiton. In the fore ground a drawing of a crane is displayed on a colourful wall graphic.
September 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Lots of lovely things in 'Back to the Drawing Board', the next exhibition at North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre in #Motherwell, all about the art of technical drawing

This tracing from 1907 is of a George Russell & Co 4 ton electric wharf crane for the Clyde Navigation Trust

Exhibition opens Friday
A large (approximately A0 size) tracing in black ink on blue-ish paper. It shows elevations of a crane which has a cross-girder base that is on wheels. It is seen at an angle, protected by acrylic. A straight-on view of the same tracing seen in the previous picture.
September 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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News | Artworks highlighting Scotland’s links to British Empire donated to museums – works from the John Shaw Collection gifted to @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social and @paisleymuseum.bsky.social
Artworks highlighting Scotland’s links to British Empire donated to museums - Museums Association
Works from the John Shaw Collection gifted to The Hunterian and Paisley Museum
www.museumsassociation.org
August 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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From Springburn to South Africa: @uofglasgow.bsky.social Material Culture & Artefact Studies placement student Megan has written this story about the colonial connections of one of our biggest exhibits, the Garratt locomotive at Summerlee Museum www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/from-s...
View of a large, industrial steam locomotive with one of its two tenders in the foreground. The loco is painted black but has a red cow-catcher at the end. There is a large warehouse-like building in the background.
August 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Call for papers: SCA Annual Conference 2025

We are inviting proposals on the theme ‘Celebrating Success’, showcasing achievements, innovations, and collaborations shaping the sector.

Find out more and submit: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/sca-a...
SCA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025 – CALL FOR PAPERS - Scottish Council on Archives
04 August 2025
www.scottisharchives.org.uk
August 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Opportunity | Become a member of our Nation Committees 👤

We're looking for 12 members to join our committees to support our work in the four nations of the UK, with places available for 3 members to join each of our England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales committees.

Apply by 14 September 👇
Opportunity | Become a member of our Nation Committees - Museums Association
We're looking for 12 members to join our committees to support our work in the four nations of the UK
www.museumsassociation.org
August 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Want to know who keeps #MiningLandscapes Breaking Barriers project team on the proverbial straight and narrow. Nip to 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/blog to meet the new Advisory Board.
#Coal #MiningHeritage
August 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange takes us to Wales

This is one of three wonderful early drawings in our collection by Welsh miner turned artist & teacher Vincent Evans (1896-1976). It shows miners laying a charge in a drilled hole in the coal face artuk.org/discover/art...
A pastel drawing of two miners at work in the underground workings of a mine. The both stand upright and one holds a pole horizontally above his head, the end of which the other is guiding into a hole in a rock face.
August 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is all about religious art

This banner was painted in about 1889 for the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Brotherhood (there was also a Sisterhood) which ran in #Kilsyth until 1910 & promoted sobriety & mutual support artuk.org/discover/art...
A dark blue banner with an image of a church with text under it reading 'Kilsyth High Church. Courage Brother do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night, there's a star to guide the humble, trust in God and do the 'right.' Above the picture of the church is painted an elaborate ribbon with large text reading 'P.S.A. BROTHERHOOD'.
August 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1729 Thomas Newcomen, inventor of the 1st successful steam engine died

The 1810 Farme Colliery Engine, one of just 3 surviving rotative Newcomen engines worked for 100 years in #Rutherglen & is now preserved at Summerlee Museum #Coatbridge www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...
Squarish, sepia-tinted monochrome photo showing a mine pit head in Victorian times. Men stand around a single storey engine house on top of which is the engine's rocking beam. In front a flywheel is connected to one end of the beam by a thick iron connecting rod. In the foreground an old haystack boiler has been repurposed as a bothy and a man sits inside. Others stand around the engine. In the background is a tall wooden structure with winding wheels on top,
August 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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The 90s needs you!

As part of the ‘Summerlee: New Stories, New Audiences, Better Lives’ redevelopment project, in partnership with the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the 1990s have arrived at Summerlee Museum

Tomorrow & select days over the summer a 1990s bedroom is open & we need your feedback
Corner of a mocked-up 1990s young person's room with lots of posters and clothing hanging up Part of a mocked-up 1990s young person's bedroom with a 'Friends' poster over the firelace and clothing hanging up. A bed by a window with posters for Oasis, Blur, etc stuck on the wall behind.
July 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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#OnThisDay in 1770 two of the greatest engineers of their age met for the 1st time, beside the #MonklandCanal in what is now #Coatbridge www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/a-famo...

The photo shows the filled-in Sheepford Basin where construction of the canal began that year under James Watt
Photo from a bridge looking down at a large, grassy depression, beyond which are trees and buildings. In the foreground is the bridge parapet made of riveted iron with a stone pier on the left.
July 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Banner of the Glasgow Typographical Society (1817), an early trade union founded by the letter-press printers of Glasgow.

Imagine carrying that at a rally, knowing that every single person present was surreptitiously checking the kerning.

(Pic: pistachio.gla.ac.uk/case-studies/)
Two sides of a traditional trade union banner ("Glasgow Typographical Society / Instituted 1817"). One side shows a vaguely Classical scene with the mottos "Let there be light" and "Union is strength"; the other shows the interior of a printworks.
July 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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This little fragment of industrial housing has a Summerlee connection @nlheritage.bsky.social

The New Orbiston rows in #Bellshill were built c.1892 by the Summerlee Iron Company for miners & their families. Map courtesy of @natlibscot.bsky.social
A dog-leg section of brick wall with stone blocks in the middle section. That part is the end of a miners’ row & the rest is part of a boundary wall. A map showing rows of terraced housing surrounded by fields. A red circle indicates the portion in the photos. A view of the other side of the wall, showing the surviving exterior corner of the miners’ row which is made of brick with large stone blocks on the corner.
July 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The theme for this week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is self-portraits

This is Thomas Hudson who ran a boilerworks in Coatbridge. Hudson died in 1828 but his business continued for another 50 years & much of the machinery is in Summerlee Museum #Coatbridge artuk.org/discover/art...
A three quarter length portrait in oils of an older man with white hair and short beard standing with his hands in the pockets of his large, buttoned grey overcoat. He wears a white shirt and colourful, striped tie. The back ground is a plain orangey-brown.
July 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Volunteering today with @archscot.bsky.social dig on the site of Robert Owen’s New Orbiston manufactury nr Bellshill

Our trench is already looking interesting now we’ve cleared the vegetation @scotindustria.bsky.social @sticknetwork.bsky.social @nlheritage.bsky.social q
Four people in an area of woodland using a blue measuring tape to mark out a trench. The rectangular trench cleared of vegetation and marked out with red string. A view of the South Calder Water, a small river overhung by trees on both sides.
July 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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This week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is about summer & here is 'Sun Shower' (1973) by Charles T K MacQueen

MacQueen was born in Glasgow and studied at @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/art...
A square, abstract painting largely made up of areas of blues in different patterns and brushstrokes. There are also areas of dark paint.
July 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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The Travelling Gallery is at Summerlee Museum in #Coatbridge today until 4pm with the group exhibition Seedlings: Diasporic Imaginaries

Full details here travellinggallery.com/current-exhi...
Current Exhibition - Travelling Gallery
Current Exhibition Seedlings: Diasporic Imaginaries Emil Alrai, Iman Datoo, Remi Jabłecki, Radovan Kraguly, Zeljko Kujundzic, Leo Robinson and Amba Sayal-Bennett 6 June to 14th August 2025 Continuing ...
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July 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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In 2023, volunteers uncovered a rare visible example of an early mine shaft at a 17th-century mansion in Stirlingshire 👷

Want to help investigate this unusual feature, no experience required? Register to join the team from 19 July before spaces fill up: www.digitscotland.com/events/banno...
Photo of the front of a grand mansion with gravel driveway
July 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM