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Dundee, Dundee Harbour, Camperdown Oil Works
Oil Refinery (20th Century), Tar Works (20th Century)
Site Name Dundee, Dundee Harbour, Camperdown Oil Works
Classification Oil Refinery (20th Century), Tar Works (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Nynas Camperdown Refinery; Camperdown Bitumen Refinery; Briggs Oil Refinery
Canmore ID 72774
Site Number NO43SW 123
NGR NO 41760 30680
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/72774
- Council Dundee, City Of
- Parish Dundee (Dundee, City Of)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
Publication Account (2013)
BRIGGS OIL REFINERY: Wm. Briggs began making asphalt in Retford, in
1939, moving to Greenock, Arbroath and finally Dundee, where the bitumen business continues.
On the north side of East Dock Street, several oil tanks are located behind the lower front wall of Dundee Flour Mills, (rest demolished, East Dock
Street / Roodyards Road, NO43SW 573) built 1875/7 for J Forbes White by Cottiers and Co of London.
Only oil refinery in Scotland outside Grangemouth complex.
M Watson, 2013.
