View from SSE showing stockyard and cupola

Description View from SSE showing stockyard and cupola

Date 22/2/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 779258

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Comelybank Foundry, Broad Street, Denny, Falkirk This shows the cupola, a modern one with a spark-arresting top. The box round the middle covers the charging platform. The moulding shops are behind the cupola and to the left. This view is taken looking along the stockyard, served by a travelling overhead crane. On the left are piles of road castings. This foundry was owned by the Comelybank Foundry Co Ltd. It was making pipes, manholes and a special gear wheel at the time of this visit. The pipes and manholes were dipped in hot tar, as seen here, after fettling, as a precaution against rusting. The iron founding industry was a speciality of the south-east corner of Stirlingshire, with the towns of Larbert, Denny, Falkirk and Bonnybridge all having several firms engaged in this business. This was a small general foundry, built in the late 19th century, which also made aluminium castings. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/10/14

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/779258

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