View from ENE showing crane and yard

Description View from ENE showing crane and yard

Date 16/3/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 777363

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Seaview Iron Works (Dock Foundry), Commissioners Street, Bo'ness, Falkirk This shows finished castings stockpiled in the yard. In the foreground are gratings for road gullies, and to the left, casings for gas or water stopcocks. The derrick crane in the background was installed to handle larger castings, and the moulding boxes to make them. This foundry was built in part on the site of the Bo'ness Pottery. It closed in the early 1980s, and the goodwill was taken over by the other Bo'ness foundry, A Ballantyne & Sons Ltd. The Dock Foundry was demolished and the site used for a supermarket. This foundry was established in 1900 by Stewart & Moir. Originally it was a general foundry, making, among other objects, gates and railings. By 1971 it was owned by the Bo'ness Iron Co Ltd, and made mainly road castings, but also some seat ends and gratings. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/16/17

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/777363

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap