View from W showing SW front of central (N) block

Description View from W showing SW front of central (N) block

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 710309

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 the building facing the old moulding-shop range, possibly even older than the 1840s. It appears that it was at come time occupied by McNeill's Lion Brand Roofing and Dry Hair Felt, an advertisement for which can be seen on the steam-engine house at the far end of this range. 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. In 1924 F McNeill and Co were making Lion roofing, slagwool, felt and bituminous sheeting. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/32/20

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/710309

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap