View from W showing NW and SW fronts of engine house
SC 645930
Description View from W showing NW and SW fronts of engine house
Date 1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 645930
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Muirkirk Iron Works, East Ayrshire The seams of ironstone and coal outcropping at Muirkirk attracted a partnership of central Scotland men to establish the Muirkirk Iron Company in 1786 to build an iron works there. It was taken over in 1856 by the Eglinton Iron Co, who re-equipped it, and kept it up to date until 1921, when it closed. This shows the blowing engine house built by the Eglinton Iron Co to house a vertical blowing engine to supply blast air to the range of furnaces ranged along the furnace bank on either side of the engine house. The Gothic treatment is unusual for an industrial building. The works was not demolished until the 1930s. When it was, the furnace bank and this engine house were retained. They passed to the National Coal Board in 1947. In 1968, the Board, concerned by proposals to schedule the remains as an ancient monument, demolished them without warning. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/65/5/27
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