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Coatbridge, Whifflet Foundry
Foundry (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Coatbridge, Whifflet Foundry
Classification Foundry (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Steel Roll Manufacturers, Rb Tennent, Ltd
Canmore ID 74173
Site Number NS76SW 22
NGR NS 7378 6428
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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View showing Sentinel 040 VB 'John' locomotive at foundry
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
10/7/1967
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
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Main Offices: view from ESE within Boardroom
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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Main Offices: view from WNW within Boardroom, showing portrait of R B Tennent
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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SC 2617982
Main Offices: view of Executive Toilet, showing Shanks stall urinal and pedestal wash-hand basin (lavatory)
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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Engineering Shop: general view from S, showing roll being prepared on large grinding machine (right)
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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SC 2617993
General view from SW of S side of works, including S end of (left to right) Foundry, New Moulding Bay, Dressing Shop, Engineering Shop, Turning Shop and Heat-treatment Shop, with General Stores (extreme right)
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2617995
General view from SSE or S side of works, including (left to right) Offices and Laboratories, New Foundry, Foundry and Moulding Bay
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2618001
View from NW of Building No.34 (function unknown)
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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General view from SSE showing internal railway track, Building 34, and (in background) New Foundry, with Offices to left
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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View from E along S side of block containing Dressing, Engineering, Turning and Heat-treatment Shops, the brick extensions containing a light machine shop
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2618009
View from NE of N end of Offices, with GEC 'Stephenson' diesel pug locomotive and unfinished steel roll on wagon, awaiting delivery to Dressing Shop
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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DP 146437
Advertisement for The Coatbridge Tinplate Company, Coatbridge, Thomas Justice & Sons, Whitehall Street, Dundee and Lochside Coal & Fireclay Company, Townhill, Dunfermline
General Collection
1905
© Courtesy of HES (Illustration from Scotland's Industrial Souvenir, vol.2, 1905)
SC 2617979
Main Offices: view from S at landing level of main stairs
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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SC 2617983
Main Offices: view of Executive Toilet, showing Shanks stall urinal and pedestal wash-hand basin (lavatory)
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2617986
Dressing Shop: view from NNE showing roll awaiting treatment in one of five bogie annealing furnaces, each gas-fired, and made by Burdon of Glasgow
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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SC 2617991
Heat-treatment Bay: elevated view from S, showing (right) five bogie-annealing furnaces, and in background, two hood furnaces (all gas fired)
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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SC 2618003
Detailed view from E of main entrance to Office building
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2618012
General view from NW of N side of works, including N facades of Foundry and Packing Department
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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Coatbridge, Whifflet Foundry View showing Sentinel locomotive
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
10/7/1967
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
SC 682137
View showing Sentinel 040 VB 'John' locomotive at foundry
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
10/7/1967
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
SC 2617984
Foundry: general view from S within former casting shop, showing cast-iron stanchions supporting steel over-head crane track. Moulten steel was previously supplied by an open-hearth furnace at the S end of the bay (now removed)
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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SC 2617987
Packing Department: elevated view from W showing rolls being prepared for dispatch, and Marshall Fleming (of Motherwell) overhead crane installed in 1958
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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SC 2617989
Turning Shop: elevated view from S, showing rolls being finished on turning machine, and (above) 80-ton capacity Marshall Fleming (of Motherwell) overhead crane
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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SC 2617996
View from S along SW side of range of buildings containing Offices and Laboratories
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2618007
View from E of Building 34, with Offices behind
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2618017
View from N of works Offices, dated 1946, and built from English red Accrington brick
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2617975
Main Offices: view from ESE within Boardroom
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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SC 2617990
Turning Shop: elevated view from S, showing rolls being finished on turning machine, and (above) 80-ton capacity Marshall Fleming (of Motherwell) overhead crane
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2617992
Dressing Shop: view from S in N end of bay, showing 40-ton capacity Marshall Fleming (of Motherwell) overhead crane (built in 1957), and fabricated-steel crane track
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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SC 2617998
View from W of W side of New Foundry (dated 1955), and Gatehouse
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2618010
View from SE of works Offices, dated 1946, and built from English red Accrington brick
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2618013
View from ENE of NE corner of New Foundry
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2618019
General view from SW of Gatehouse building
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 682135
View showing Sentinel 040 VB 'John' locomotive at foundry
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
10/7/1967
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
SC 2617978
Main Offices: view from NE at first floor level of main stairs
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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SC 2617981
Main Offices: view from NE at ground floor level of main stairs
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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SC 2617997
View from W of W side of New Foundry (dated 1955), and Gatehouse
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2617999
Elevated general view of works from NW
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2618000
View of Gatehouse buildings from SW
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2618005
View from SSW of Foundry
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2618015
View from SE of E side of Heat-treatment Shop
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 682134
View showing Sentinel 040 VB 'John' locomotive at Whifflet Foundry, Coatbridge.
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
10/7/1967
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
SC 2617976
Main Offices: view from WNW within Boardroom, showing portrait of R B Tennent
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2617980
Main Offices: view from NE at ground floor level of main stairs
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
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SC 2617985
Smithy: view from N showing hearth (right), and part of pneumatic hammer (far left) and side hammer (left), both made by B & S Massey Ltd of Manchester
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
2/11/1995
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2618008
View from NE of N end of Offices, with GEC 'Stephenson' diesel pug locomotive and unfinished steel roll on wagon, awaiting delivery to Dressing Shop
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2618011
General view from NW of N side of works, including N facades of Foundry and Packing Department
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2617994
General view from SW of S side of works, including S end of (left to right) Foundry, New Moulding Bay, Dressing Shop, Engineering Shop, Turning Shop and Heat-treatment Shop, with General Stores (extreme right)
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2618014
General view from NE of N side of works, including Packing Department
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 682133
View showing Sentinel 040 VB 'John' locomotive at foundry
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
10/7/1967
© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)
SC 2618002
Detailed view from E of entrance to Laboratory and Research Department in main Office building
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2618016
View from ENE of N side of Packing Department
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
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SC 2618018
View from S of Gatehouse building
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
16/11/1995
© Crown Copyright: HES
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Old Monkland (Monklands)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Monklands
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS76SW 22 7378 6428
TB Industrial photographic survey to follow.
