Kirkcaldy, Bennochy Road, Walton Linoleum Factory View from NNE showing NE and NW fronts
SC 595613
Description Kirkcaldy, Bennochy Road, Walton Linoleum Factory View from NNE showing NE and NW fronts
Date 22/7/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 595613
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 the Walton Works of Barry, Ostlere & Shepherd from the east. This works was built in 1900 to make inlaid linoleum, in which the pattern goes right through the material. 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 H67/312/1C
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