Camlachie ( gd, Camadh Làthaich) is an area of the city of

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in Scotland, located in the East End of the city, between

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to the north, and Bridgeton to the south. Formerly a weaving village on the Camlachie Burn, it then developed as an important

industrial suburb An industrial suburb is a community, near a large city, with an industrial economy. These communities may be established as tax havens or as places where zoning promotes industry, or they may be industrial towns that become suburbs by urban spra ...

from the late 19th century, only to almost entirely disappear from the landscape when those industries declined a century later. It gave its name to the former constituency of the

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, Glasgow Camlachie which existed between 1885 and 1955. In the 21st century, much of the historic Camlachie territory is occupied by the Forge Retail Park (part of

The Forge Shopping Centre The Forge Shopping Centre (or Parkhead Forge) is in the East End of Glasgow, in Parkhead. The shopping centre bore the name from the former William Beardmore and Company steel works site, which had closed in 1983. History Construction The ...

complex which stretches west from its main site at

Parkhead Parkhead ( sco, Pairkheid) is a district in the East End of Glasgow. Its name comes from a small weaving hamlet at the meeting place of the Great Eastern Road (now the Gallowgate and Tollcross Road) and Westmuir Street. Glasgow's Eastern Necropo ...

and was built on the site of the

William Beardmore and Company William Beardmore and Company was a British engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area. It was active from 1886 to the mid-1930s and at its peak employed about 40,000 people. It was founded and ...

steel forge, the area's major employer until its closure in 1983). Other streets which were traditionally part of Camlachie have become more associated with the

Barrowfield Barrowfield is a neighbourhood of Glasgow, Scotland, close to Celtic Park, home of Celtic F.C., which lies immediately to the east. It is bounded by the A89 road (Gallowgate) to the north and the A74 (London Road) to the south. History Being ...

and Gallowgate neighbourhoods following several redevelopments which caused the loss of most of the older buildings in the area and consequently its integrity as a defined district of the city.

Notable people

* William Nixon,

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of the Free Church of Scotland 1868/69

External links

Camlachie
at

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Camlachie during the Industrial Revolution
at ''The Glasgow Story''
Camlachie, the forgotten village
at ''Parkhead History'' Areas of Glasgow Parkhead History of Glasgow {{glasgow-geo-stub