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General view from S showing SW front
SC 712999
Description General view from S showing SW front
Date 4/10/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 712999
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Pettycur Glass Works, Kinghorn, Fife This works was established in 1902 to make glass bottles for the Scotch whisky trade, which had expanded enormously in the previous 20 years. It was probably intended to supply bottles to Haigs, who had a large bottling plant at Markinch, not far away. This view shows the works from the pier at Pettycur, looking north. Note the sea wall to protect the works from erosion. It probably originally used seashore sand to make the glass, hence the site. As can be seen it is a small works. Despite its small scale this works survived until 1982, when there was a slump in the Scotch whisky trade. It was demolished soon afterwards, and the site redeveloped for housing. It originally had its own steeply-inclined railway siding from the former Edinburgh & Northern Railway. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/56/18
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