Qualla: Caldercruix https://qualla.com/caldercruix en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Caldercruix https://qualla.com/caldercruix Caldercruix: Introduction https://qualla.com/caldercruix/ 'Caldercruix called and said that she don't want the same thing.' That is You Me at Six, on their 2021 album Suckapunch, name-checking a village of 2,440 people in North Lanarkshire that almost nobody outside Scotland has heard of. The frontman's former fiancée came from here. The song made Caldercruix briefly, weirdly internet-famous in a way the place itself has never been - a small semi-rural village named for the crooks and bends of a river, four miles east of Airdrie, with a closed paper mill in its industrial past and a recently reopened railway station tying it back to Glasgow.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/caldercruix-wp/gcvj-caldercruix-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Caldercruix: The Bends in the River https://qualla.com/caldercruix/ Caldercruix takes its name from cruiks - Scots for bends or crooks - in the North Calder Water, the river that runs through the village. The river itself was named for its calder (a Brittonic root meaning 'hard water' or 'rocky stream') flowing northwards before joining the Clyde...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/caldercruix-wp/gcvj-caldercruix-the-bends-in-the-river.mp3 0:06 2 full Caldercruix: Paper and Coal https://qualla.com/caldercruix/ The Industrial Revolution found Caldercruix late but found it thoroughly. By the mid-19th century the village had a large paper mill drawing water from the North Calder and using local coal to fire its boilers. Papermaking and mining together gave Caldercruix its 19th-century pop...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/caldercruix-wp/gcvj-caldercruix-paper-and-coal.mp3 0:06 3 full Caldercruix: The Station That Closed Twice https://qualla.com/caldercruix/ Caldercruix railway station was built in 1863 on the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway, one of the small branch lines that knitted central Scotland together for the coal trade. It served passengers for almost a century before British Rail closed the line in January 1956 - one casua...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/caldercruix-wp/gcvj-caldercruix-the-station-that-closed-twice.mp3 0:06 4 full Caldercruix: The Song https://qualla.com/caldercruix/ You Me at Six are a Surrey rock band who have never been particularly Scottish. Their lead singer Josh Franceschi, however, was once married to a woman from Caldercruix, and when their relationship ended he wrote 'Glasgow' for the 2021 album Suckapunch. The chorus mentions Calder...

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