The union was founded in 1893 as the Lanarkshire Miners' Federation, bringing together local miners' unions based in Bellshill, Blantyre, Hamilton, Larkhall, and elsewhere.
Other high profile former residents include actress Una McLean and media executive Colin Paterson.
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Larkhall is home to snooker player and 2006 World Snooker Championship winner, Graeme Dott.
The Rondo Theatre, in Bath, was established in 1989 through the generosity of Doreen and Wilf Williams, who bought the former church hall from St. Saviours Church, Larkhall in 1976 and gifted the freehold to a newly formed charity, The Rondo Trust for the Performing Arts.
The Larkhall Line was opened as an extension to Argyle Line services in December 2005 by First Minister Jack McConnell.
She has campaigned vigorously for changes to the law in relation to corporate culpable homicide, following the death of four constituents in Larkhall, and won the Herald Campaigner of the Year in recognition of her work on this issue.
It will run between Chatelherault Country Park and Larkhall by widening and upgrading the footway of Carlisle Road (A72 and B7078) to cycleway status.
The Family School at Larkhall is a small, alternative school, based in South London, UK, founded by Polly Griffiths in 2007/8 to offer a Democratic education model to primary age children.