View from E showing NNE front of S block
SC 787248
Description View from E showing NNE front of S block
Date 26/4/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 787248
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Victoria Foundry, Paton Street, Galashiels, Scottish Borders This shows the foundry yard, with one gable of the light moulding shop of c.1920 on the left, and part of the heavy moulding shop on the right. The building in the background housed the dressing shop, and pattern store. The firm's customers included marine, bakery, chemical, textile, and motor engineers. By 1971 many of these businesses had closed. This foundry had closed and been demolished by 1974. It probably owed its earlier competitive situation to lower wages for men in a town dominated by employers of women. This foundry was established in about 1880 by Thomas McLaren & Sons, a partnership of six brothers. It became a limited company in 1944. Though so far away from the central belt it specialised in engineering castings, some of considerable size and weight, for a wide range of customers. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/34/5
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