General view from SSE showing part of ESE front of foundry with blowing-engine house in background

Description General view from SSE showing part of ESE front of foundry with blowing-engine house in background

Date 13/7/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 659042

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, on the left, the iron foundry, and in the centre, the two blowing engine houses. The one with the arched openings was probably built in the 1840s and to its left with a semi-cylindrical blast receiver on the roof what was probably the 1802 house. Note the hot-blast tower on the furnace bank. 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 H35/65/17/19

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/659042

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