. This photo taken around 1940 shows Jimmy Brownlie's mobile fish and chips van, with his son Andrew (b. 1933) on the running board. Our thanks to Andrew Brownlie and his niece Helen for this photo and to Rozsa Halls for removing an imperfection from the photo.
The mobile fish and chip van operated by Country Refreshments in Coalburn in 2020. Thanks to Gilbert Thomson for this photo.
These vans feature in more detail in an article on Mobile Fish and Chip Vans in Coalburn.
Welcome
The Jim Hamilton Heritage Society of Coalburn was established in 2004.
Meetings
Meetings are held normally on the FIRST and THIRD Wednesdays each month; from SEPTEMBER until APRIL, 7.30pm - 9pm, in Coalburn Bowling Club, next to the Coalburn Miners Welfare's One Stop Shop.
There is an invited guest speaker at each meeting and non-members are welcome to attend.
Coalburn's One Stop Shop
Heritage Centre
The Society runs the Heritage Centre in the One Stop Shop which contains an archive of photographs, documents and artifacts relating to Coalburn's social history and mining heritage. The majority of these were collected by the late Jim Hamilton.
Officials 2019/20
| Chairman | Peter McLeish |
| Vice-Chairman | Gilbert Dobbie |
| Secretary | Geoff Brown (Tel. No: 01555 820379) |
| Treasurer | Marion McBain |
| Membership Secretary | Betty Nicol |
Newsletter
An informative 12-page newsletter, designed and produced to a high standard by the Society is published quarterly and distributed FREE to members. (Non-members £2)
It also features a record of village events and articles of local interest submitted by members.
What's new
Paintings by Billy Clelland of Pipe Majors Donald Williams and James Findlay. This story features in the Society's Summer Newsletter.
- A new article on Mobile Fish and Chip Vans in Coalburn. Added 8th July 2020. Updated on the 17th July to include details supplied by Peter McLeish of another mobile van.
- A photograph of Railway Terrace in the 1920s has been added to the section on roads.
- Because of the coronavirus epidemic, all of the remaining activities of the Society, the Coalburn Gala and the Society's Exhibition have been cancelled and we await to see whether it will be possible to start activities again in the Autumn. However, Helen Brownlie has produced an excellent Summer newsletter (see below) which has been posted to all members by Betty Nicol and is now available online.
- The Summer 2020 Newsletter is now available.
- Photos of the filming of The Big Man, 1990.
- A pictorial account of the history of Coalburn Schools. Added 11th February 2020