Muirkirk, Gasworks View from ENE showing ENE front of purifier house
SC 513763
Description Muirkirk, Gasworks View from ENE showing ENE front of purifier house
Date 6/8/1977
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 513763
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 open-sided shed which housed the two purifier boxes and, behind the elevated tank, the washer and scrubber. The retort house was on the left. The older of the two retort-house chimneys is on the left. 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 H77/55/9
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