Great Cumbrae Island, Millport Gasworks View of scrubber, gasholder in background

Description Great Cumbrae Island, Millport Gasworks View of scrubber, gasholder in background

Date 1980

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

Catalogue Number SC 573223

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Millport Gas Works, Millport, Great Cumbrae, Bute (Argyll and Bute council area) Millport Gas Works was founded in 1840 to serve the fishing village and seaside resort of Millport, which developed as a result of the rise of Clyde steamboat services. The works was subsequently much enlarged to cope with peak holiday demand. This view shows the washer and scrubber. The square box at the base is a Livesay washer, in which the gas from the condenser is bubbled through water. The scrubber above contains revolving brushes dipping in water. The condenser, washer and scrubber were all devices to remove tar and ammonia from the gas made in the retorts by distilling coal. Millport was the last works in the British Isles to make gas from coal. apart from coke ovens. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H80/100/3

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