Are you or your family one of North Lanarkshire’s many thousands of immigrants or emigrants?

North Lanarkshire Council Museums Service is holding an exhibition about the history of immigration and emigration in Lanarkshire!

Stories of Migration (working title) opened  at Motherwell Heritage Centre on 5^th December 2009 until 28^th March 2010. We would like to tell the stories of Lanarkshire’s diverse people and communities, from Scots who travelled abroad in search of work to families who came from overseas to start a new life in the area.

Since the rise of industrialisation in the nineteenth century, North Lanarkshire has seen the arrival of many thousands of new people to the area. Some migrated from other parts of Britain, while others came from further afield; for instance, Italy, Eastern Europe and Asia. At the same time, numerous Scots from North Lanarkshire were making their way overseas to start new lives in the New World and elsewhere. Some emigrants left behind families, while others returned to North Lanarkshire after several years or even decades.

Are you or your family one of North Lanarkshire’s many thousands of immigrants or emigrants? Are you willing help us celebrate the area’s shared heritage by telling us your story or lending us related photographs, documents or objects?

If you would like to contribute to the exhibition or find out more, please contact:

Jenny Noble

Social History Curator
NLC Museums & Heritage
Summerlee, Museum of Industrial Life
Heritage Way
Coatbridge ML5 1QD

Tel: 01236 423 256

Email: noblej@northlan.gov.uk