Kirkcaldy, Station Road, Caledonia Linoleum Works View from N showing WNW front of cork warehouses

Description Kirkcaldy, Station Road, Caledonia Linoleum Works View from N showing WNW front of cork warehouses

Date 22/7/1967

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 595615

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Caledonia Linoleum Works, Station Road, Kirkcaldy, Fife Floorcloth manufacture was started in Kirkcaldy by Michael Nairn in 1847. The process involved coating coarse canvas with layers of paint. When linoleum was invented at Staines, its manufacture was quickly taken up in Kirkcaldy, which became renowned for the product. This shows part of the Caledonia Works of Barry, Ostlere & Shepherd from the rear. The buildings seen here were used for storing cork which was ground up and mixed with linseed oil to make the wearing surface of linoleum. The cork used was the waste left after bottle corks had been cut out. This works was one of five operated by Barry, Ostlere & Shepherd in the west end of Kirkcaldy. The former Shepherd works was at Pathhead, to the east. All their works, including this one, had closed by 1967, and were demolished soon after. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/312/1D

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