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Glasgow, 100 Camlachie Street, Pyroligneous Acid Works View of blacking mill
SC 598288
Description Glasgow, 100 Camlachie Street, Pyroligneous Acid Works View of blacking mill
Date 18/5/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 598288
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Pyroligneous Acid Works, No 100 Camlachie Street, Glasgow This works was established in about 1813 by Turnbull & Ramsay, printers' colour makers. The printers they were supplying were calico printers, and as well as selling natural dyestuffs they also made mordants, used to fix the dyes on the cloth. This shows part of the works after the plant had been removed. This building was used for grinding charcoal, produced as a by-product of mordant manufacture, to make iron-founders' blacking. The prime product of these works, pyroligneous acid, was a crude form of acetic acid, made by distilling wood in retorts. It was used to make salts of tin aluminium and iron, which react with dyes to make fast colours. Wood alcohol was a by-product. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/247/1A
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