View from NW showing N and W fronts of offices

Description View from NW showing N and W fronts of offices

Date 14/8/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 766087

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Girvan Gas Works, Gas Lane, Girvan, South Ayrshire This shows the offices and gas showroom in the centre, with the retort house on the left. The tall chimney belongs to Creagaran Mills, a hosiery works, and the short one is the retort house chimney. In the office, among other things, the heating value of the gas was continuously monitored. To prepare coal gas for customers the tar and ammonia were removed, and were saleable. This left hydrogen sulphide as the last unwanted impurity, which was removed in purifiers before sale to customers. Girvan Gas Works closed in the mid-1970s when the town was connected to the Gas Grid. This was one of the last coal-gas works in Ayrshire, and still used hand-charged retorts in 1970. It was relatively large because of the number of summer visitors, most of whom stayed in boarding houses. The retort house had an opening to the street, allowing the operation of the works to be viewed by small boys. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/48/38

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/766087

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap