Worked out with Richard and the resistance band today. Strengthen that back, arms and legs, oh and chest!
Get Faith
Hands working for God, making the world a better place, helping people where they live, showing love and caring in God's name! Good job! They found a sidewalk under all the grass and debris, cleaned alleys and empty lots. On this day:
2012 - It was a Saturday and explains why I get nothing done around here and getting into trouble/fun is so easy for me. When I went out to water the plants neighbors asked what was going on tonight?, and then Ann called and said there was a garage sale at the marina, after which the neighbors all came back and we bbq'd and visited in the yard - all night. I love my life, friends and family. Maybe you don't like that much activity - but a social life is a big part of staying healthy and living a long life. What are your neighbors doing tonight?
1930 - The Veterans Administration of the United States was established. This was a good thing! and still is!
Parenting
Just tried to watch and learn from TV the new dance - "Watch me ? Watch me Nay Nay" Lindsey and Merri were doing it Sunday. I hate to be left behind, I got the broken leg part down I think. It is important to keep up with current trends - so you can embarrass and entertain your children.
Come Get These Memories - of the Sixties
On the way home, Suzie was very quiet and
looked like she was going to cry.
“Did you fall and get hurt?” I asked her.
She just nodded no.
“What happened? Didn’t you have a good time?”
She started to sniffle and looked up at
Mr. Walters in the front seat.
“Was Mr. Walters mean to you?”
She glanced up to the front seat in
obvious fear and shook her head no. I
noticed he was watching in the rear view mirror. I couldn’t imagine what might have happened
to upset her, but stories later of him touching girls and lifting up their skirts
made me think of what might have gone on that night. Again, I must have been a smoke screen, maybe
he hadn’t planned on taking me, but couldn’t get out of it. Glad I was there for Suzie.
But he didn’t teach Wolf to dance I can tell
you that. He danced like he was trying to get behind you by going through you.
Motherwell Scotland I know this is extensive, but interesting what can happen in a span of 100 years or so.This is where our Grandmother/Great-Grandmother was from. Helen McKenzie McGregor North Lanarkshire Council Offices |
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Even further back in time, the Romans ran their main road to central Scotland along this side of the Clyde Valley, crossing the South Calder Water at a spot on the north west side of today's Motherwell. Here they built a fort and a bath house, though they didn't stay in Scotland for long.
 The Brandon Centre | |
 Town Centre | |
 South Dalziel Parish Church | |
 Crest on the Old Dalzell Works Offices |
The town's excellent communication links led to the development of a number of major iron and steel works on the north east side of the town. A wide range of other heavy engineering companies were established in the same area, building everything from munitions (a good business to be in during the First World War), to bridge components, to trams. By the 1930s most of Scotland's steel production, including that in Motherwell, was in the hands of the Coleville family, and it remained so until the steel industry was nationalised in 1967.
In 1959 the government persuaded the Colevilles to begin work on a vast new steelworks, which was to become Ravenscraig, occupying much of the land to the north east of Motherwell. By 1961, 1.2 million tonnes of iron was emerging from Ravenscraig's blast furnaces: more than the total production of Scotland's industry in the 1800s. After nationalisation of the industry, the British Steel Corporation raised production of the blast furnaces further, producing 3 million tonnes each year from the early 1970s. By the mid 1970s employment in BSC's various plants on the east side of Motherwell reached 13,000 people.
The 1980s brought catastrophic decline. The steel strike of 1980 lost BSC important markets, and this was followed by the closure of the Linwood car factory in 1981 and the Bathgate truck factory in 1986, both very important customers. By 1989 Ravenscraig employed just 3,200 people. Worse was to follow. 400 years of Scottish ironmaking came to a close on 24 June 1992, when Ravenscraig closed: the iconic gasholder bearing the Ravenscraig name was demolished in July 1996. Today only the Dalzell Plate Mill remains of Motherwell's once thriving iron and steel industry, employing several hundred people rolling steel brought by train from Middlesbrough into plate steel of various shapes and sizes.
The huge area once occupied by the Ravenscraig Steelworks has been steadily cleaned of industrial pollution and seems likely to end up being reused to provide a new regional centre, significantly expanding the Motherwell you see today. And that is a Motherwell that has moved on from its reliance on heavy industry: though as a visit to its beautiful new Heritage Centre shows, without forgetting its past.
 Dalzell Plate Mill |
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