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Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works, coke ovens View showing large block of coal storage bunkers
SC 525229
Description Glasgow, Clyde Iron Works, coke ovens View showing large block of coal storage bunkers
Date 4/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 525229
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Clyde Iron Works, Tollcross, Glasgow This works was founded in 1786 as a coke-smelting iron works. As latterly existing it was substantially as rebuilt from the late 1930s to provide molten iron for steelmaking at the nearby Clydebridge Steel Works. This view shows a large block of coal storage silos at the coke-ovens which supplied coke to the furnaces. Different grades of coal could be stored in individual silos, and blended as required to make good coke. The combination of the iron works and steel works created Scotland's first integrated steelmaking complex. Clydebridge made steel by the open-hearth process, and the phasing out of this process resulted in closure in 1978. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/46/1
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/525229
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