Coalburn, South Lanarkshire
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Coalburn is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK.
[edit] History
Coalburn is a small isolated village that lies on the Coal Burn, a tributary of the Douglas Water, 3 miles (5 km) south of Lesmahagow. Coalburn developed from the 1850s as a railway settlement associated with local coal mines. With the closure of the last colliery in 1965 and the railway in 1971, the village population declined from a peak of nearly 2,300 to 1,000.[citation needed]
[edit] One Stop Shop
In order to provide a better quality of life the people of Coalburn have worked over the last few years to fund and renovate The Coalburn Miners Welfare by developing a modern One Stop Shop. The Coalburn One Stop Shop was opened just before Christmas 2003 and with the help of funding from Rural Challenge, Leader and many more. The One Stop Shop provides a number of community facilities under one roof. The aim was to help the community to develop IT skills, access training for jobs and improve the local childcare facilities. The One Stop Shop project has managed to maintain these aims and provide the community with various services of interest to young people and others, such as an IT suite, internet access, Cruets Cafe, a new childcare facilty, The Busy Bees, activity groups, various advice and employment services as well as an archive of local heritage for community use.
