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Glengarnock Steel Works, Smithy; Interior Group photograph of smiths
SC 529800
Description Glengarnock Steel Works, Smithy; Interior Group photograph of smiths
Date 18/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 529800
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 group of workers standing beside a hearth. The two on the left were blacksmiths, with their long aprons to protect their legs from sparks. 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 H78/69/8
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/529800
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