Alloa, Glasshouse Loan, Alloa Glassworks, Glass Cone View from SSE showing glass cone with part of base of chimney in foreground

Description Alloa, Glasshouse Loan, Alloa Glassworks, Glass Cone View from SSE showing glass cone with part of base of chimney in foreground

Date 1981

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

Catalogue Number SC 573685

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Glassworks, Alloa, Clackmannanshire (Clackmannanshire council area) This works was one of a number built in the 18th century to make glass bottles, others being in Glasgow and Leith. Two new glass cones were built in about 1825, and both survived until the late 1960s, when one was demolished. This view shows the interior of the glass cone which survived in 1981, The buildings round the base of the furnace housed bottlemaking machinery until the 1970s. The steel chimney served the glass furnace latterly in the cone. This cone housed a furnace until the late 1970s, when a major extension to the works was completed. The cone, a scheduled monument has been repaired and kept beside the new works, which is still very active. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H81/28/1

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/573685

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