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Great Cumbrae Island, Millport Gasworks View of purifier bottom boards
SC 573253
Description Great Cumbrae Island, Millport Gasworks View of purifier bottom boards
Date 1980
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 573253
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 wooden grids from the purifiers, which supported thin layers of powdered iron ore, which reacted with hydrogen sulphide in the gas to form iron sulphide and water. Note that the bars of the grids are triangular. Until the late 19th century coal gas was made primarily for lighting, as it was more convenient than oil lighting. 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 H80/101/3
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