Editing Lanarkshire (section)

==Mining industry==
From the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth century Lanarkshire profited from its rich seams of coal in places such as [[Glenboig]].<ref name=vob/> As the coal industry developed around Glasgow in the 1700s the price of coal to the city rose under the control of a cartel of coal owners.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hutton|first=Guthrie|title=Lanarkshire's Mining Legacy|year=2012|publisher=Stenlake Publishing|location=Catrine|isbn=9781840336061|page=3|url=http://www.stenlake.co.uk/books/view_book.php?ref=167|access-date=27 December 2012|archive-date=11 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711120936/http://stenlake.co.uk/books/view_book.php?ref=167|url-status=dead}}</ref> The solution was to carve out a canal to take advantage of the good (and uncontrolled) coal deposits of the Monklands area. By 1793, the Monklands canal was completed and the Lanarkshire coal industry thrived.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hutton|first=Guthrie|title=Lanarkshire's Mining Legacy|year=2012|publisher=Stenlake Publishing|location=Catrine|isbn=9781840336061|pages=3|url=http://www.stenlake.co.uk/books/view_book.php?ref=167|access-date=27 December 2012|archive-date=11 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711120936/http://stenlake.co.uk/books/view_book.php?ref=167|url-status=dead}}</ref> The resulting boom lasted for over 100 years but reached its peak by the second decade of the twentieth century and even two world wars failed to halt the contraction. Output in the county continued to fall and the National Coal Board concentrated investment in Ayrshire, Fife and the Lothians. By 1970 there were only four collieries left in Lanarkshire and the closure of Cardowan in 1983 brought the long decline to an end.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hutton|first=Guthrie|title=Lanarkshire's Mining Legacy|year=2012|publisher=Stenlake Publishing|location=Catrine|isbn=9781840336061|pages=3, 4|url=http://www.stenlake.co.uk/books/view_book.php?ref=167|access-date=27 December 2012|archive-date=11 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711120936/http://stenlake.co.uk/books/view_book.php?ref=167|url-status=dead}}</ref>