What better way to end than quote from James Rowan.

And so,- sadly, the mining village of Glencraig, has ceased to exist, but with the tearing down, of those miners rows, a “way of life” had ended, for gone with the bricks and mortar, went also, the intimate neighbourliness, and true friendships, created by living and working so close together, bonded often by sheer poverty. May it still live in the hearts and minds of all who once lived there, and in the history and heritage, of those who follow on?