Charlestown Limekilns View from S across harbour
SC 618965
Description Charlestown Limekilns View from S across harbour
Date 1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 618965
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Charlestown Lime Works, Charlestown, Fife This works was established by the 5th Earl of Elgin between 1756 and 1759 to exploit a thick seam of limestone on his estate. The works was on a large scale, with an associated planned village and a harbour for shipment of lime and import of coal. This shows part of the original range of limekilns from the south-west, looking across the harbour. The kiln shafts are situated between the arches. The brick shed on top of the kilns housed machinery for crushing limestone. The works stopped burning lime in the 1930s, but continued to crush limestone until 1956. Much of the lime was used for agricultural improvement, but some was used for building, and for preventing coal-dust explosions in mines. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H68/499/2B
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