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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 684222
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/684222
NY16NE 148 centred 18290 65150
Works [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, August 2009.
For associated housing (NY 1805 6508), see NY16NE 149.
(Location cited as NY 183 652). Newbie, boiler works, built 1898 on by Cochran & Co. A large group of single-storey workshops of various dates. The original bays are wooden-framed, with Belfast roofs, and are wooden-clad: later additions are steel-framed. Two early Cochran boilers are preserved in the apprentice-training school.
J R Hume 1976.
Newbie boiler works, situated on the W bank of the River Annan to the SW of Annan town (NY16NE 133), has been recorded from aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1994). Latterly known as Cochran's Boiler Works the site was recently taken over by Rolls Royce Power and is thought to be the 'largest boiler works in Europe'.
Information from RCAHMS (MKO, JH) 15 July 1998.
