Laying foundations for oil refinery plant, Grangemouth
Maker
Unknown
Production date
1922?
Description
View of a large platform being created by pouring concrete into a low structure built of brick. The area nearest the camera has been filled and the more distant area is being filled by a group of workmen working with a bogey on rails. There are wooden wheel barrows with iron wheels in the foreground.
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Object detail
Scottish Oils purchased the farm lands belonging to Easter, Mid and Wester Saltcoats. The refinery was built at Wester Saltcoats to process Middle East crude. The remaining land is still being farmed. The hay crop has been gathered by hand but has still to be taken in, or gathered into stooks and then built into haystacks.
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