Tag: Tarbrax

Tarbrax Shale Mining

postcard
Year: 1920

This is a view of the shale mining community of Tarbrax. The view was probably taken in the 1920s. At this stage, shale mining was becoming less profitable as the…

Pont's map of Lanarkshire, 1596

Auchengray and Tarbrax

map
Year: 1596

The maps relate to Tarbrax and Auchengray and cover the period from 1596 when Timothy Pont’s Map was completed till Thomson’s map of Lanarkshire in 1832. The maps used in…