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Two Ballantine brothers started the foundry business at Bo'ness in the 1820s and when one bought out the other in 1856 Arthur Ballantine & Sons was established. The current New Grange Foundry was built in 1876 and continues in use today. Ballantines merged with the Bo’ness Iron Co in 1987, becoming Ballantine Bo’ness Iron Company which is now styled Ballantine Castings Ltd. The business continues to manufacture a wide range of cast iron products.

Gate at the long established Ballantine iron foundry at Bo'ness. The cast iron sign states 'No admittance to works. All enquiries to office'.

Incline from the adit level up to the processing works of the Birkhill Fireclay Mine. P. & M. Hurll Ltd., a fire-brick manufacturer based at Glenboig (North Lanarkshire) acquired the Birkhill estate in 1916 and drove a series of adits on both sides of the River Avon in the 1930s. Peak production was in the 1950s and the pillar and stall workings eventually extended for around 6 miles underground in the 1970s just before the company went into liquidation in 1980.

P. & M. Hurll Ltd., a fire-brick manufacturer based at Glenboig (North Lanarkshire) acquired the Birkhill estate in 1916 and drove a series of adits on both sides of the River Avon in the 1930s. Peak production was in the 1950s and the pillar and stall workings eventually extended for around 6 miles underground in the 1970s just before the company went into liquidation in 1980. This bridge carried the rails from the adit of Mine No.3 on the west bank to the incline on the east bank that lead up to the processing works. In 1987 the workings were opened as a tourist attraction, but this has been closed for some time now with little sign of an imminent reopening. Sadly the processing works was demolished a short while ago.