View from NNW showing NW front of engine house

Description View from NNW showing NW front of engine house

Date 1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 646004

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 Co 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 from the south-east. It was 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. It was on the site of an earlier engine house, also castellated, but without the Gothic windows. 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 H35/65/10/4

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/646004

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