View from ENE showing SE fronts of main foundry workshops
SC 779150
Description View from ENE showing SE fronts of main foundry workshops
Date 26/3/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 779150
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Rose Street Foundry, Rose Street, Inverness, Highland This shows the three bays of new workshops built for the company on the north side of Rose Street in 1893. Though the general form of these shops is typical of such buildings, the rounding of the arrises and the lunettes above the doorways is unique in Scotland. In 1971 these premises were occupied by AI Welders, a company directly descended from the Rose Street Foundry Co, which made welding machines. In the 1980s they sold this works to a supermarket company, and moved to a new factory on the Longman Industrial Estate. This has since closed. This concern was established in the mid-19th century, and moved into new premises in 1893. The firm were general engineers, and made, among other things, railway footbridges and suspension bridges, and even a locomotive for the Brora Colliery tramway. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/19/42
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