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Interior. View upwards towards nesting boxes.
SC 556451
Description Interior. View upwards towards nesting boxes.
Date 20/9/1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 556451
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Former beam engine house, Grangepans, Bo'ness, West Lothian This building was probably built to house a Newcomen engine pumping out of a pit at its west end. The purpose of the arched openings in the sides is obscure. After it was abandoned it was adapted as a dovecot. This view shows the interior of the engine-house as modified when it was converted into a dovecot, with nesting boxes inserted into the upper part of the building, and a monopitch roof put on it. This is one of a small group of surviving Newcomen engine-houses in Scotland, the others being at Saltcoats, Caprington (Kilmarnock) and possibly at Kilmux, Kennoway. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H79/161/1
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/556451
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