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Kirkcaldy, Station Road, Caledonia Linoleum Works View from NE showing part of station platform with S blocks of linoleum works in background
SC 595605
Description Kirkcaldy, Station Road, Caledonia Linoleum Works View from NE showing part of station platform with S blocks of linoleum works in background
Date 22/7/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 595605
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Caledonia Linoleum Works, Station Road, Kirkcaldy, Fife Floorcloth manufacture was started in Kirkcaldy by Michael Nairn in 1847. The process involved coating coarse canvas with layers of paint. When linoleum was invented at Staines, its manufacture was quickly taken up in Kirkcaldy, which became renowned for the product. This shows part of the Caledonia Works of Barry, Ostlere & Shepherd, looking across the station. This was the westernmost of the Kirkcaldy linoleum works. The linoleum industry was badly affected by the fashion for fitted carpets and by the introduction of vinyl floor coverings. Barry, Ostlere & Shepherd's works had closed by 1967, and were demolished soon after. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/311/2C
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/595605
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