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View from NNW showing roof and part of NNE front of former pyroligneous acid works
SC 659079
Description View from NNW showing roof and part of NNE front of former pyroligneous acid works
Date 25/7/1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 659079
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Pyroligneous Acid Works, Black Glen, South Ayrshire This was a pyroligneous acid works established in the mid-19th century to make a form of crude acetic acid by distilling wood in closed retorts. Wood tar and methyl alcohol were produced as by-products, and charcoal was left as a solid residue. This shows the works from the north-west. The sheds on the right probably housed the retorts, and there would have been a chimney to provide draught for the fire used to heat the retorts. By 1965 the works was used as a store. This works was at one time run by Stewart Turnbull & Co (Camlachie) Ltd, who had several such works. The products were taken to their Camlachie works in Glasgow, where the acid was used to make mordants for calico printing and the charcoal and alcohol made spirit blacking for iron founders. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/65/19/4
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