Mossblown was a
coal mining community but the mines have been closed for some time now. Until the late 1940s - early 1950s, there was a working farm located near the centre of the village, called Whiskeyhall Farm. A nearby street takes its name from this farm. The area to the north-east of Mossblown was known as Drumley in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Drumley House School takes its name from here. There was a working pit, also called Drumley, and the houses, built for the pit workers, consisted of two miners' 'rows', the 'long row' and the 'wee row' (single storey dwellings, often housing large families, nine or more, in two or three rooms). There was a community 'wash hoose' (wash house) where the wives would meet and do all their families' washing, while the husbands would work long hours down the nearby pit. A private housing scheme was built in Mossblown's south-eastern quarter in the 1990s, adjacent to the old Annbank Church. The north eastern boundaries of the village on the B743 road towards
Tarbolton and
Mauchline were extended to include a housing scheme called The Meadows. ==Transport==