View from SSW showing S front
SC 646033
Description View from SSW showing S front
Date 1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 646033
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content West Charcoal Shed, Bonawe Iron Works, Argyll & Bute This iron-smelting works was founded in 1752 by the partners in the Newland Furnace Co, near Ulverston, Lancashire, acting here as the Lorn Furnace Co. It was built to use charcoal made from local woodland as a fuel, ore being brought in ships from Lancashire, which returned with iron. This shows the larger of the two large charcoal sheds, which was, like the other one, charged from the back, through the doors seen here. Charcoal was only made in the summer, and had to be stored for year-round working of the furnace, hence the large size of the stores. The works operated until the early 1870s, and was then abandoned. The ore and charcoal sheds were then used for agricultural purposes. The works was repaired by the Ministry of Public Buildings & Works from 1967, and is now in the care of Historic Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/65/10/29
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