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Bothwellhaugh

Photograph at the Bothwellhaugh plaque

This cairn was erected on the site of the former mining village of Bothwellhaugh. In its heyday in the 1920s it was a thriving community of approximately 2,000 people. At its centre the Hamilton Palace Colliery, virtually the sole employer and the way of life for the entire village. When the colliery finally closed in 1959 the village slowly died and by the 1960s nothing was left but memories. To all the people who ever lived there it was always affectionately known as "The Pailis"

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Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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