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Millhouse, Building View from SE showing SE front of building with gunpowder works bell on the right

SC 554043

Description Millhouse, Building View from SE showing SE front of building with gunpowder works bell on the right

Date 29/3/1979

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

Catalogue Number SC 554043

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Gunpowder village, cottages, bell, Millhouse, near Kames, Argyll This village was built to serve a gunpowder works which was founded in 1839. The remains of the works and village cover a large area. This view shows a storage building beside the main road through the village, presumably not a magazine for finished powder, and possibly a charcoal store. The bell on the post was rung in emergencies. The Kames gunpowder works was sited to take advantage of remoteness from centres of population, convenience for shipping, and availability of suitable wood for charcoal making. The works had its own fleet of vessels to convey the product. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H79/29/15

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/554043

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Collection Level (551 147) Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

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