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Dumbreck Coke Ovens General View
SC 601694
Description Dumbreck Coke Ovens General View
Date 6/1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 601694
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 the boiler house. The shed on the left covered the stokehold. The elevator raised the coal used for the boilers, which were of the Lancashire type. The brick covering of the boilers can be seen to the left of the chimney. The pumps and the other fixed plant in the works was mainly powered by steam. This was probably to protect the works from disruption of electricity supplies, a risk in wartime. The works closed in about 1966 and has since been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/279/1C
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/601694
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