General view of the interior of the ropewalk from the North
F 5534
Description General view of the interior of the ropewalk from the North
Date 10/1974
Catalogue Number F 5534
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 343031
Scope and Content Interior of rope-walk of Forth and Clyde Roperie at Kirkcaldy, Fife The Forth and Clyde Roperie was founded in 1850 by a local boat-builder and a twine manufacturer for making soft-fibre ropes, and became the Forth and Clyde Roperie Company Limited in 1896. It went on to make hard-fibre ropes up to 320 metres long. Strands of rope were spun together into thicker rope along these tracks. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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