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View from NE showing fanlight above door on NE front of central (W) block
SC 710307
Description View from NE showing fanlight above door on NE front of central (W) block
Date 1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 710307
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Old Foundry, Lugiebank Road, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire The Forth and Clyde Canal reached Kirkintilloch in the early 1770s, and was completed though to Maryhill in 1775. Kirkintilloch became very much a canal village, with foundries in particular drawing supplies of pig-iron and coke via the canal, and sending the castings out in the same way. This shows a cast iron fanlight above one of the doorways in the old moulding-shop range. The character of the fanlight suggests that it may have been cast in the 1840s or earlier. At some time the doorway has been narrowed. This foundry was the first of several in the town, of which the Lion and the Star were the largest. The Lion lasted into the 1970s. All have now been demolished, and a relief road now crosses the site of this one. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/32/18
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