Furnace, Craleckan Ironworks View from SSW showing WSW and SSE fronts
SC 602581
Description Furnace, Craleckan Ironworks View from SSW showing WSW and SSE fronts
Date 1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 602581
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Iron-smelting Furnace, Craleckan Ironworks, Furnace, Argyll & Bute This furnace was built in 1755 by the Argyle Furnace Company, a partnership formed by the Duddon Furnace Co of Cumbria. It was built to use charcoal made from local woods to smelt ore imported from Cumbria. The iron made was then exported to England. This shows the furnace from the north-east. The furnace stack is long out of use, and has trees growing out of it. The building to the right was the casting house, in which molten iron from the furnace was run into sand moulds. It had been converted into a garage by 1967, when this photograph was taken. The works closed in 1812, and most of it then fell into decay. It was, however so well built that the masonry was still almost intact in the 1960s. Some consolidation was undertaken in the 1970s by the Ministry of Works (now Historic Scotland). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/372/1C
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