Prestonpans Saltworks General View
SC 517092
Description Prestonpans Saltworks General View
Date 1977
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 517092
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Former saltworks, Prestonpans, East Lothian This was the last saltworks in Scotland. It was on the seashore, and originally, like many others, made salt by evaporating seawater in large iron pans. Latterly the surviving pan was used for refining rock salt, a process which ended in about 1959. This view shows the front of the works, which was being demolished in 1978. The buildings seen here were probably warehouses. The works was used for packaging salt until the early 1970s. The sea-salt industry was distinctively Scottish, and flourished in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It declined sharply after 1825, when the excise on salt, which had favoured the Scottish industry, was removed. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/29a/13
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