View from S showing part of SSW and ESE fronts of blowing-engine house
SC 659040
Description View from S showing part of SSW and ESE fronts of blowing-engine house
Date 13/7/1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 659040
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 two blast-furnace blowing engine houses, which had survived the demolition of the furnaces after 1947. The one with the arched openings was probably built in the 1840s. To its left is what was probably the original engine-house of 1802, with a semi-cylindrical blast receiver on the roof. These engine houses were demolished in the late 1970s, along with most of the other buildings on the site, leaving only a section of furnace bank and a hot-blast tower. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/65/17/17
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