Dumbreck Coke Ovens Detail of coke ovens
SC 601687
Description Dumbreck Coke Ovens Detail of coke ovens
Date 6/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 601687
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Dumbreck Coke Ovens, Dumbreck Colliery, North Lanarkshire These by-product-recovery coke ovens were built early in World War II to recover coal tar products needed in explosives and dyestuffs manufacture. The coke was used in the blast furnaces at Gartsherrie Ironworks. This view shows a section of the ovens. Each of the doors shown was the end of a compartment in which coal was distilled. When all the by-products had been distilled off the doors were removed, and the red-hot coke pushed out and sprayed with water. These ovens processed coal from the Kilsyth collieries which had previously been made into coke in beehive ovens, which did not recover by-products. The works closed c.1966 and has since been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/278/1D
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