View from E showing NE front and part of SE front of former engineering works

Description View from E showing NE front and part of SE front of former engineering works

Date 13/7/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 659036

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 former engineering shop, in front of the furnaces. Shotts, like Carron and Muirkirk among early Scottish iron-smelting works, made castings and machinery as well as pig-iron. This building probably dated from the early 19th century. It was disused in 1965. This building was demolished soon after this photograph was taken, but much of the complex survived into the 1970s as a National Coal Board workshop. Only a section of furnace bank and a hot-blast tower still exist above ground, but part of the furnace bank is buried in rubbish. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/17/13

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/659036

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