View from SSW showing glass cone and works buildings

Description View from SSW showing glass cone and works buildings

Date 9/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 769487

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Glass Cone, Alloa Glass Works, Glasshouse Loan, Alloa, Clackmannan This shows the northern cone, which still housed a furnace in 1970. The covered conveyor took sand, lime and soda, the raw materials for glass-making to the oil-fired furnace inside the cone, which also housed a bottle-making machine. 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 H35/70/56/39

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