Shotts Miner's Welfare Institute
| In 1921, as a result or the findings of the miners'
welfare commission, a progressive scheme to benefit the mining
communities was proposed. Substantial grants were to be made available
for social welfare projects. These were to be organised ay local level. Shotts and District welfare Committee was established in order to co-ordinate plans for the scheme and to administer the Central Welfare Grant of £26,000. Under the chairmanship of Mathew Brown, Managing Director of Shotts Iron Company, the committee members, most of whom were local miners, decided that the money could best be spent by providing a center that all Shotts people could enjoy. By April 1923 plans for the Institute were well advanced. Contractors were appointed for the new building designed by Mr. John Steel, FRIBA, from Wishaw, and work started on the site in Dyfrig Street. Built of brick and roughcast with the exterior decoration of smooth bands of cement, the building had an imposing appearance. It cost over £11,000, of which £9,000 was met was met from the grant and approximately £2,000 was raised locally. |
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