View from SW showing SSE front of furnace bank
SC 659035
Description View from SW showing SSE front of furnace bank
Date 13/7/1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 659035
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Shotts Iron Works, North Lanarkshire This works was founded in 1802 by the Shotts Iron Co, and greatly enlarged in the 1840s to use the hot blast process. It survived until 1947, when the nationalisation of its coal mines resulted in its closure and demolition. The associated foundries and workshops continued in operation until the 1970s. This shows the eastern part of the furnace bank, from which materials were charged into the row of blast furnaces along its base. The tower on the bank supplied water for cooling the blast nozzles (tuyeres) of the furnaces. This section of furnace bank survives, but has been buried in rubbish tipped since the 1970s. The tower has been demolished, but another one still exists, on an exposed section of furnace bank. The other buildings on the site have all been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/65/17/12
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