Shotts Ironworks View from SE
SC 424411
Description Shotts Ironworks View from SE
Date 3/4/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 424411
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content National Coal Board Workshops, Iron Works, Shotts, Lanarkshire These workshops were taken over from the Shotts Iron Company when coal was nationalised in 1947. They included an iron foundry and a brass foundry, as well as remains of the iron-smelting works, which closed at the end of 1946. This view shows the iron foundry on the left and the furnace bank of the smelting works on the right, with the roofless blowing-engine house in the angle between them. The tower on the furnace bank supplied water for cooling the nozzles - tuyeres - through hot air was blown into the blast furnaces which were in a row in front of the bank. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/25/12
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