Interior View showing man working in brass foundry

Description Interior View showing man working in brass foundry

Date 12/5/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 784697

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Shotts Iron Works, Burnbrae Road, Shotts, North Lanarkshire This shows the interior of the brass moulding shop, with the moulder putting the finishing touches to a mould for a bearing shell on top of the 'tub', the traditional place for brass moulding. The tub contains moulding sand, and the moulder's tools are on the shelf to the right. This foundry was part of the iron smelting works, and was still doing part of the job it was designed to do, making castings for equipment used in the pits in the area. The National Coal Board closed these works in the late 1970s, and this building has been demolished. This works was founded in 1802 by the Shotts Iron Co, and continued to smelt iron until 1947, when the coal industry was nationalised. It had always had a foundry and engineering works, and these were retained by the National Coal Board. They were still operating on a limited scale in 1971. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/41/29

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