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View from SSE showing SSE front of blowing-engine house
SC 676092
Description View from SSE showing SSE front of blowing-engine house
Date 1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 676092
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Carron Iron Works, Larbert, Falkirk This works was founded in 1759 by Carron Company, a chartered company established to smelt iron and to make castings and bar iron. It was the first large integrated works of its kind in the world. The original blast furnaces were retained, much modified, until the 1890s when these ones were built. This shows the blowing engine house of the 1890s furnaces from the south. This was probably built to house steam-reciprocating blowing engines, though the furnaces were latterly served by turbo blowers. The chimney at the rear served the boiler house which supplied steam to the blowing engines. This was the last set of hand-charged blast furnaces in Scotland, and was typical of the furnaces built in the 1880s and 1890s to replace the first-generation furnaces of the 1830s and 1840s. These ones closed in 1963, and were demolished in about 1968. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/66/7/23
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