Alloa, Glasshouse Loan, Alloa Glass Works, Glass Cone General view of works building and south glass cone showing extractor chimney at base of cone

Description Alloa, Glasshouse Loan, Alloa Glass Works, Glass Cone General view of works building and south glass cone showing extractor chimney at base of cone

Date 1967

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 604619

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 still used in 1968 to house a glass furnace and bottle-making machine. The other one was disused. 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. The cone disused in 1968 has been demolished, but this one has been preserved. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/411/1A

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/604619

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