New Lanark’s Arthur Bell retires...allegedly!
THE very building in which they held the retirement party for Arthur Bell probably wouldn’t still be standing if he and a few others hadn’t thrown themselves into rescuing New Lanark 40 years ago.
The heritage village’s Institute could hardly have been a more fitting setting, then, for the lunch held to mark his retirement as the chairman of New Lanark Conservation Trust, a post he held for the last seven years.
He has given four decades service to the re-birth of what was a ghost village but is now the jewel in Clydesdale’s tourism crown and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
For more information on Arthur’s retirement bash, pick up a copy of this week’s Carluke and Lanark Gazette which is in the shops now.