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Farme Colliery winding engine was built around 1810 for a colliery at Rutherglen. This atmospheric winding engine worked for just over 100 years and in 1915 it was presented to Glasgow Corporation for preservation. After many years in storage the engine was loaned to the Summerlee Heritage Trust at Coatbridge and in the 1990s what remains was largely re-erected as an exhibit at Summerlee Heritage Park. Whilst in storage it is regrettable that various parts had been lost including the legs that supported the beam which required a new steel frame to be fabricated. Today this engine is one of only three remaining rotary Newcomen engines, with the other two being in the Henry Ford Museum at Dearborn. The operation of these atmospheric winding engines must have required great skill and today nobody knows how it was done. Perhaps one day a replica will be constructed which will allow us to understand the techniques required.

Eglinton Silica Brick Co. Ltd. produced firebricks from the 1860s at Dundyvan Silica Brick Works near Coatbridge.

Seen on a fence at the Thomas Bolton copperworks in Froghall. William Bain and Co Ltd started business in 1859 in the old Lochrin Distillery in Edinburgh as Lochrin Iron Works – producing iron fencing and gates for estates in Scotland. In 1888 the works was moved to Coatbridge. William Bain Fencing Ltd continues in business today, having moved the Lochrin Works to Cumernauld where they still supply palisade fencing to a range of designs.