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Glengarnock Steel Works, Smithy; Interior General View

SC 529793

Description Glengarnock Steel Works, Smithy; Interior General View

Date 18/4/1978

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 529793

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Glengarnock Iron and Steel Works, Ayrshire This complex was founded by Merry and Cunninghame as an iron smelting works in 1840. Steel manufacture began in the 1880s when a basic Bessemer plant was installed. Acid open-hearth steelmaking began in the First World War. This view shows the interior of the smithy, with a Massey air hammer on the right, and the smiths standing by. On the floor are rabbles, tools used in the open-hearth furnaces. This was a typical maintenance smithy of its day, capable of making many of the parts necessary to keep a large works going. Part of the shop dated to the early ironworks, but the walls of the hammer bay were raised in the 20th century. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H78/69/3

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/529793

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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