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Holytown (, (スコットランド・ゲール語:Baile a' Chuilinn))〔(List of railway station names in English, Scots and Gaelic – NewsNetScotland )〕 is a small village outside Motherwell in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. ==History== Pronounced 'Holy' (like in the bible) 'town' - Holytown. The area was born and grew on the back of the nearby coal mining industries in the 18th century, although the roots of the town stretch back to at least the 17th Century, where records show that a meeting house was used for prayer services for the community. One old description of the town from the 19th century from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland by Francis H Groome, 1885 is as follows:
Reports of living conditions showed that the residents of the town lived in tough conditions in the 19th century. In 1913, one report describing housing in Jerviston Square said that the housing "may be taken as an example of houses that are very near the border line of the habitable standard".〔(Scottish Mining Villages - Housing )〕 Working in mining was a dangerous life with long hours, and accidents resulting in multiple deaths were not uncommon in Lanarkshire. Life was harsh, but forged the character of the working class mining community in the face of hardship, especially the politics of Keir Hardie, the founder of the Labour Party in the UK. The Holytown Miners' Association was a local union formed in the 1840s. In 1847 the union attempted to restrict output, to combat a 1s (5p) per day wage reduction proposed by the owners. The owners imposed a 3-month 'lockout', which ended in defeat for the union. In 1855 the union merged with the Scottish Coal and Iron-stone Miners' Protective Association. According to the Board of Trade Reports there was another Association of the same name formed in the early 1890s. With an estimated membership of 200 for both 1894 and 1895 it became a branch of the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union in 1896. Many have drifted away since the early 1990s due to the decline in the coal industries. The bulk of people in the town are now employed in blue collar roles including manufacturing and retail roles. The local Euro Terminal set up in the 1990s has not materialised with a huge boom in jobs as hoped. Other well-known local employers include Honeywell, a large electronics firm based in the Newhouse industrial estate. Notable people from Holytown include the politicians Keir Hardie and footballer Harry McShane. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Holytown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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