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Belnahua Slate Quarries View of cornish boiler in winding engine house

SC 555575

Description Belnahua Slate Quarries View of cornish boiler in winding engine house

Date 1978

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

Catalogue Number SC 555575

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Former slate quarries, Belnahua Island, off Luing, Argyll This island was worked for its slate in the 19th and early 20th century, to the extent that the island itself was almost completely removed by the quarries, the surviving island being composed mainly of slate waste. This view shows a Cornish boiler (that is, one with a single central flue] used to supply steam to a winding engine used to draw slate out of the deep quarry. The extent of the windswept growth round it is evidence of the time since its abandonment. The quarries were worked out before the First World War, and the island abandoned. Much of the metalwork was removed for scrap, but in 1978 enough remained to show how the quarries had been worked. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H78/270/1

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/555575

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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