Muirkirk, Gasworks, Interior View showing part of bank of hand filled retorts and ascension pipes in retort house
SC 513749
Description Muirkirk, Gasworks, Interior View showing part of bank of hand filled retorts and ascension pipes in retort house
Date 6/8/1977
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 513749
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Muirkirk Gas Works, Ayrshire This small gas works was one of the last coal-gas plants in Scotland. Like most such works it had been adapted throughout its life, and most of its equipment was typical of mid 20th century gas-making practice. This view shows the interior of the retort house, with one complete setting of seven retorts, heated by the burning of gas generated in a 'producer' fired with by-product coke through the round door. The works had three settings of seven retorts. This works closed in the late 1970s, and has been demolished. The Scottish Gas Board, which owned the works, made a film of its operation as a record of the small coal gas works that were until the 1950s very widespread in Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H77/54/10
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