Interior View showing man tapping cupola
SC 786577
Description Interior View showing man tapping cupola
Date 16/3/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 786577
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content New Grange Foundry, Links Road, Bo'ness, Falkirk This shows the cupola being tapped into a barrow ladle of 'traditional' type. The keeper, with his protective visor and leather apron and leggings, and steel-tipped boots, is on the right, having just broken out the fireclay plug which holds the molten iron in the crucible of the cupola. This foundry is still in operation in 2003, and took over the goodwill of the Dock Foundry when it closed in the 1980s. Ballantynes are now the largest makers of ornamental castings in Scotland. This foundry was established in 1856 as a general foundry, making, among other objects, architectural ironwork. It 1971 it was owned by A Ballantyne & Sons Ltd, and still made architectural ironwork, and also engineering castings, using a range of moulding techniques. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/16/5
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