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These works have lately been erected Boghead, near Bathgate. They belong to Messrs J. Young &Co of Manchester ; but being conducted strictly as a secret work," little known in the district r…
Source: The Falkirk Herald. - Read moreThe Shale Districts
The history of manufactures contains few more striking examples of the successful prosecution of commercial enterprise than those presented to us in the rise and progress of the ex…
Source: The Scotsman. - Read moreA description of Addiewell Oil Works under construction
In our previous article on the shale district, we showed that Bathgate owes its prosperity to the discovery of the Boghead mineral. Fifteen year…
Source: The Scotsman. - Read moreA Visit to the Forth Bank Chemical Works
The Forth Bank Works are situated in the lower part or outskirts of the ancient royal burgh of Stirling, on one of the tongues of land formed by the many links…
Source: Morning Journal. Reprinted in the Stirling Observer. - Read moreA Visit to the Forth Bank Chemical Works
The Forth Bank Works are situated in the lower part or outskirts of the ancient royal burgh of Stirling, on one of the tongues of land formed by the many links…
Source: Morning Journal. Reprinted in the Stirling Observer. - Read moreDESCENT INTO A SHALE PIT.
By far the largest shale work in the United Kingdom is that of James Young & Co., whose manufacturing premises at Addiewell have been planted in the very heart of the sha…
Source: The North Briton. - Read moreThe development of the mineral oil manufacture forms one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of modern industry. Only a quarter of a century has elapsed since attention was directed to the…
Source: The Falkirk Herald and Linlithgow Journal, December 28th 1871 - Reprinted from the Scotsman. - Read moreAMONG THE OIL WORKS OF SCOTLAND—NO. II. Young's paraffin oil company's works, Addiewell.
AFTER a run from Glasgow of about thirty miles, and an easy walk, let our reader imagine himself perc…
AMONG THE OIL WORKS OF SCOTLAND—NO. II. Young's paraffin oil company's works, Addiewell.
AFTER a run from Glasgow of about thirty miles, and an easy walk, let our reader imagine himself perc…
Source: The Petroleum Monthly, published in Oil City PA. USA. - Read moreBroxburn Oil Works
Each retort is capable of containing 17½ cwt. of shale. By way of showing the saving of coal effected by using the spent shale, it may be said that, while the Henderson patent retor…
Source: The Scotsman. - Read more