Photo - boiler shop and smithy at Middleton Hall.

code: LVSAV2019.103

Collection code:
LVSAV2019.103
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Photographs
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Description

B&W negative copied in 1990 from official albums then held at Grangemouth refinery.

After formation of Scottish Oils Ltd in 1919, Middleton Hall became the administrative centre for the Scottish shale oil industry with central offices, laboratories, stores, workshops, garages and motor repair depot. This view of the boiler shop and smithy at Middleton Hall and show rolls, folding machine and radial arm drills.. These workshops were vacated by Scottish oils by c.1980 ? and the buildings are now (1998) used by Motherwell Bridge Thermal Ltd for the manufacture and repair of petrochemical equipment for the North Sea.

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