Date: 15/08/2023

The future is bright for one of Scotlands most popular visitor attractions after it secured a substantial grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life in Coatbridge has received an initial award of £148,000 for consultation, feasibility studies, and research into a multi-million-pound development project.

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Glasgow Corporation No.1017 working on the tramway at the Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life at Coatbridge, on 26th July 2017. This tram was originally built as open-top double-decker No.17 for Paisley Corporation Tramways in 1904. The system was taken over by Glasgow Corporation Tramways in 1923 and in 1925 No.17 was rebuilt as an enclosed single-decker and renumbered 1017. It continued in service until 1960, latterly as a training car. Discovered some years later in a garden at Cambuslang, it arrived at Summerlee in 1991 where a full restoration took place and 2017 marked the 25th anniversary of its re-entry into service. (The Summerlee Museum occupies the site of the former Summerlee Iron Works that lasted for 90 years from 1836 to 1926.)
Location: Summerlee Heritage Centre
Company: Summerlee Iron Company
26/07/2017 David Bosher

Gibb & Hogg, Airdrie, 0-4-0ST no 16, built in 1898, the last surviving locomotive from this manufacturer, now safely inside the refurbished Summerlee Heritage Museum on 18 October 2008.
Location: Summerlee Heritage Centre
Company: Summerlee Iron Company
18/10/2008 Bill Roberton

NCB no 9, (Hudswell Clarke 895/1909) which spent its latter years at Bedlay Colliery, in the yard at Summerlee Heritage Centre in August 2006. Sunnyside station is just beyond the roadbridge in the background.
Location: Summerlee Heritage Centre
Company: Summerlee Iron Company
29/08/2006 John Furnevel

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