View from ENE showing NNE and ENE fronts of machine moulding shop
SC 782202
Description View from ENE showing NNE and ENE fronts of machine moulding shop
Date 3/5/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 782202
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Columbian Foundry, Bonnybridge, Falkirk This shows the east side of the machine moulding shop from the south-east. The masonry retaining wall probably dates from the initial construction of the foundry, but the corrugated asbestos-clad workshops are probably of the 1930s. In the centre is an aqueduct under the Forth & Clyde Canal. In 1971 the works was making components for gas stoves, and, in a separate unit, institutional and other large-scale cooking stoves, mainly out of stainless steel. The works has since closed and been demolished. This works was established in about 1870 by Smith & Wellstood to make American solid-fuel stoves. James Smith, the founder, came over from the United States in 1855, and at first made stoves in Glasgow. In 1876 the Bonnybridge works was making about 60,000 stoves a year. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/39/4
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