View from E showing glass cone with gasholder in background
SC 769477
Description View from E showing glass cone with gasholder in background
Date 9/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 769477
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Glass Cone, Alloa Glass Works, Glasshouse Loan, Alloa, Clackmannan This shows the southern cone, which was disused by 1970. The openings at ground level gave the glass-blowers access to the molten glass in the central furnace. The brick cone acted as a chimney, providing draught to the coal-fired furnace, and cool air to the glass-blowers, working in intense heat. By 1970 coal firing of glass furnaces and hand-blowing of bottles had long gone. In this works oil-fired furnaces supplied molten glass to automatic machines for bottle making. Most of the output was and is whisky bottles. The works is now owned by United Glass, a subsidiary of the Diageo Corporation. This works was founded in about 1750 by Lady Frances Erskine of Mar. At different times it made window glass and glass bottles, but by the end of the 18th century seems to have concentrated on the latter. Two new glass cones were built in about 1825, and one still survives on the edge of the works. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/56/38
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