Saltcoats, Beam Engine House View from SW
SC 437923
Description Saltcoats, Beam Engine House View from SW
Date 4/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 437923
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Ruin of beam-engine house, Saltcoats, Ayrshire This engine house is reputed to have been built to house the second steam pumping engine to be installed in Scotland, constructed in 1719. This engine, of the Newcomen type, was designed to drain coal mines. This view shows the engine house from the south west. The engine would have pumped water from a mineshaft in front of the broken wall on the right. The water beyond results from mining subsidence. The coal mines operated by the Cunninghames of Auchenharvie in this vicinity of this engine house were among the largest and most advanced in Scotland in the early 18th century, They served the Irish market by sea. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/89/1
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