View from WNW Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.
SC 867003
Description View from WNW Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.
Date 14/5/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 867003
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Water-powered iron-smelting furnace, Bonawe Iron Works, Taynuilt, Argyll The charcoal-fuelled iron works established in the central and western Highlands of Scotland in the 17th and 18th centuries were all water-powered, by rivers with large catchments and hence regular flows. The last to work was Bonawe, powered by water from the river Awe. This view shows the furnace at Bonawe in 1976, before the area round it was excavated. The blowing house was to the left of the furnace, with the waterwheel beyond the wall adjoining the base of the furnace. The blast to heat the furnace was originally provided by bellows, but latterly by blowing cylinders. Bonawe remained water-powered until its closure in the early 1870s. The wheelpit was excavated in the late 1970s, and revealed that the wheel was of the low breast type, with a close-fitting masonry pit. The route of the lade from the river Awe is now a footpath. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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