Glengarnock Steel Works View of power station and rolling mill
SC 529811
Description Glengarnock Steel Works View of power station and rolling mill
Date 18/4/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 529811
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 rolling-mill power station, built during the First World War, but not started until March 1919. Note the overhead lines supplying power to different parts of the works. The station was re-equipped during World War II. This was a typical works power station, but like most such it had been supplanted by drawing electricity from the National Grid. It had been disused for some years prior to 1978. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/70/1
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