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Falkland, Well Brae, Linoleum Works
Works (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Falkland, Well Brae, Linoleum Works
Classification Works (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) St John's Works
Canmore ID 68117
Site Number NO20NE 100
NGR NO 2535 0715
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/68117
- Council Fife
- Parish Falkland
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
Publication Account (2013)
ST JOHN’S LINOLEUM WORKS
Falkland, A 912, on hillside
NO2535 0715
The older part was built in brick between 1892 and 1912: a range of buildings with a serrated row of roofs over arched windows at each drying chamber, the whole fringed by balconies for access. At first making floorcloth, it expanded considerably in 1933 when it was owned by S C W S (Scottish Wholesale Co-operative Society). The reinforced concrete framework is filled with glass and brick, and makes no concession to the ‘heritage’ location of a village containing Falkland Palace.
A lino works requires tall drying chambers in which to dry the freshly pressed linoleum. These have been floored across to make the works suited to other uses. Until 2013 this meant production of plastic packaging bags by the papermaker Smith Anderson and Co, based in Leslie, Fife. Raw materials were stored at the west of the complex in large warehouses clad in corrugated iron.
M Watson, 2013
