Haddington, Rosehall Foundry View from NW
SC 424329
Description Haddington, Rosehall Foundry View from NW
Date 2/4/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 424329
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Former Rosehall Foundry, Haddington, East Lothian In the 19th century most Scottish market towns had small foundries making castings for local businesses and farmers. By the 1970s most had closed, as cast iron had been replaced by steel for most purposes. This view shows the moulding shop of the foundry, where the moulds were made into which molten iron was poured to make castings. The pantiled roof gave some ventilation, supplemented by the roof-ridge ventilators seen here. Foundries like this could make products such as road castings, firegrates, plough and other implement parts, and waterwheel and other machinery parts. They could recycle scrap iron by re-melting it in their simple cupola furnaces. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/20/12
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