Mobile tyres fitting service in Cumbernauld and District
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fitting service for Cumbernauld and District. See our tyres price
check comparison. No call out charge. All leading brands
of car tyres, van tyres, 4X4 tyres & run-flat tyres. We
fit tyres at your place of work or home driveway. Tyres
fitting and balancing is fully guaranteed. Also car
batteries. Our low prices for tyres and car batteries
are fully inclusive, no hidden extras. We don't have
expensive tyres depots so our prices are always low.
We offer a complete range of tyres backed up by our
efficient and cost effective mobile tyres fitting
service for Cumbernauld and District. So, rather than having to
travel to a traditional tyre depot to have tyres fitted,
you remain at home or at work and we come to you. This
is much more convenient… and, it also greatly reduces
our operating costs so we are able to slash our selling
prices of tyres by up to 40%.
Unlike many companies selling tyres on-line we have a
head office call centre. This provides advice and
technical information on all aspects of tyres. Also, for
those who prefer to place their order for tyres by
telephone, rather than by buying tyres on-line, we have
a freephone facility (0800 028 9000).
We are proud of our Customer service record, and we
fully guarantee our work. Please feel free to call our
freephone telephone number if you would like personal
help and service, we are always ready and willing to
explain the choices and make sure you are happy with our
sales and service for car tyres and car batteries.
More about Cumbernauld and District
Despite its title of a New Town, Cumbernauld can trace
its history back two centuries and more, having been
built around an old estate and an 18th century laird's
house complete with picturesque park.
The last 200 years have seen a steady growth in that
original estate and today Cumbernauld is a significant
community acting as an overspill for people living in
Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The original settlement here may have taken place in
Roman times under the shelter of the Antonine Wall. By
the early Middle Ages the settlement must have grown to
a respectable size to warrant the Comyns placing their
chapel here. With the Flemings' decision to build their
castle and make Cumbernauld their principal seat, the
place would assume its present form which is the
classical layout of a medieval Scottish town, with its
principal street running from castle to church.
Cumbernauld Parish Church owes its foundations to the
early chapel built by the Comyns at the end of the
twelfth century. A brief notice appears on record in
1500 when Cumbernauld like other places in Britain at
this time, was badly hit by the plague - the notorious
Black Death.
The Village population was so decimated that the
surviving inhabitants had great difficulty in carrying
the bodies for burial to the parish cemetery at the old
kirk of St Ninian's in Kirkintilloch, so a successful
application was made to the See of Glasgow for
permission to open a new burial ground "at the Chapel in
Cumbernauld". In the churchyard, the oldest visible
headstone is dated 1654.
The primary building of Cumbernauld house is a great
rectangular block, having a central main portion
projecting both frontally and to the rear; the frontal
portion is surmounted by a classical triangular pediment
containing the Fleming coat-of-arms, the rear portion
takes the form of a bay carrying pedimented windows. The
central window pediment on the first floor carries the
completion date - 1731.
At the West end of the village is Dalshannon Farm. This
farmhouse is the best example in the District of a
"longhouse", of 17th century date.
The development of the village of Dullatur was due to
the Glasgow to Edinburgh Railway which, in 1876, opened
a station to encourage Glasgow commuters to move to the
district.
Prior to the station there had been a small group of
houses and two examples of the older dwellings are
Dullatur House, of 18th century origin and East Dullatur
House, which was built around the 1800's. The commuters
caused the 'Dullatur Villas' to be constructed and,
along with the land on which they were built, the
village was designated a Conservation Area. Two of these
villas, Dunluce and Woodend in Prospect Road, are of
particular interest since both were designed by
Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, who has many other examples
of classic Greek styling in the Glasgow area.
Dullatur, 'Dubh Leitir' or 'Dark Hill Slope', has long
been associated with local history, especially the
Antonine Wall. Built by Lullius Urbicus, The Governor of
Britain in AD 142 on the orders of Emperor Antonius
Pius, it passed to the north of the present Cumbernauld
on the north slope of the ridge at Dullatur.
A Roman camp at Dullatur, actually under Dullatur
House, one of the primary forts at Castlecary and the
secondary forts at Westerwood and Croy Hill were all
occupied by the 2nd and 6th Legions. The legionnaires
kept guard at these far-flung and most northerly
outposts of the Roman Empire, scanning northwards across
the Kelvin Valley to the Kilsyth Hills and beyond, ever
watchful and aware of possible surprise attacks from the
wild northern Picts. Courtesy of Wikimedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbernauld |
