Kirkcaldy, Bennochy Road, Walton Linoleum Factory View from ESE showing SE front of linoleum works with trucks and coal merchant buildings in foreground

Description Kirkcaldy, Bennochy Road, Walton Linoleum Factory View from ESE showing SE front of linoleum works with trucks and coal merchant buildings in foreground

Date 22/7/1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 595609

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Walton Linoleum Works, Bennochy 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 Walton Works of Barry, Ostlere & Shepherd, looking across the coal yard. This spectacular works was built in 1900 by Barry, Ostlere & Shepherd to make inlaid linoleum, in which the pattern was built into the material rather than printed on to it. This works was named after the inventor of linoleum, Frederick Walton. It had a very tall ground floor for drying linoleum in festoons. Barry, Ostlere & Shepherd's works, including this one, had all closed by 1967, and were demolished soon after. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/312/2A

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/595609

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