Alloa, Glasshouse Loan, Alloa Glass Works, Glass Cone General view of works building and south glass cone
SC 604526
Description Alloa, Glasshouse Loan, Alloa Glass Works, Glass Cone General view of works building and south glass cone
Date 1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 604526
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Alloa Glass Works, Glasshouse Loan, Alloa, Clackmannan This works was founded in 1750 to make glass bottles. It had a chequered history in its early days, and for a time abandoned bottle making for the manufacture of window glass. It was probably originally engaged in making bottles for the export of beer. This shows one of a pair of glass cones built in about 1825 to replace earlier cones. This one was disused in 1968. Behind it is a large gas holder at the former Alloa Gas Works. The white material in the foreground (known as 'cullet') is broken glass which would be recycled by remelting. This works has for many years belonged to United Glass, originally a subsidiary of The Distillers' Co Ltd, and now of United Distillers & Vintners. It was greatly enlarged in the 1970s, and is now Scotland's only glass bottle works. This cone has been demolished, but the other one has been preserved. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/410/1D
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