View from WNW showing WSW front of number 12 with numbers 45-49 Cotton Street on left and gas works in background

Description View from WNW showing WSW front of number 12 with numbers 45-49 Cotton Street on left and gas works in background

Date 3/3/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 717879

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Aberdeen Gas Works, Cotton Street, Aberdeen This works was founded in 1840 as a private venture, and was purchased in 1871 by Aberdeen Town Council. It was converted to vertical-retort operation, probably in the inter-war period, but closed in 1972. It had its own locomotives to bring coal from the docks or from Guild Street Goods Station. This shows the works from the south west, with the vertical retort-house to the left, and the water-gas plant to the right, both towering over the tenements On the right is part of a grain mill in Cotton Street. This works was one of the last large vertical-retort works in Scotland, and was not closed until 1972. The locomotives surviving at closure have all been preserved, as have two of the exhauster engines. Most, if not all, of the rest of the works has been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/5/25

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/717879

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