Explore the modern history of the Seven Lochs’ Communities.
Before industry came to the region in the 1830s, the area of modern day Cardowan was taken up with the lands of the Card…
The area around modern-day Easterhouse was once a quiet, rural region. Like other communities around the Seven Lochs, Ea…
The community of Gartcosh has sometimes been called “a place with no history”, although you don’t have to look far to fi…
Garthamlock first appears on maps from the 1750s, as a tiny settlement called ‘Garthamloch’. The lands around Garthamloc…
A community has existed in the area of modern day Glenboig for hundreds of years, but it was not commonly known by that …
The present-day community of Millerston covers an area north of the Cumbernauld Road, next door to neighbouring communit…
The lands on which modern-day Ruchazie now sit were once part of a large country estate owned by the Hamilton of Silverh…
Today, thousands of people make their home in the modern community of Stepps, but in years gone by it was a rural area d…