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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 671947
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/671947
NJ90NE 6 9507 0661
(Location cited as NJ 950 064). Founded 1840, acquired by Aberdeen Corporation in 1871. This large vertical-retort works was closed in 1972 and jas been largely dismantled.
Two old holders, with cast-iron guides, still survive, as does an exhauster house with two horizontal steam engines (one by Waller of Stroud, the other by J Garvie Junior & Co., Aberdeen) and one vertical, by Waller, driving Waller exhausters. This group has been preserved by the Scottish Gas Board.
In the repair shop area small steam hammer by Cochrane of Barrhead, a Loudon Bros radial drill, and a small wooden 'foundry-type' crane.
J R Hume 1977.
(Location cited as NJ 946 074). Remains of a gasometer, Pitoddrie stadium.
Air photograph: AAS/00/12/ct.
NMRS, MS/712/100.
