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The Shotts Iron Company was founded in 1801 by Hugh and Robert Baird, Civil Engineers, Glasgow, when they took out a lease of minerals at the border between the parishes of Shotts and Cambusnethan. Later George Munro, Walter Logan and John Baird became partners and by 1810 Hugh and Robert Baird had been replaced by Robert Bogle and John Blackburn. The company grew to include collieries, brick and lime works, 5 blast furnaces, a foundary, an electricity power station, central workshops and 290 houses. Following the nationalisation of the coal industry the Company went into voluntary liquidation and ceased trading on 31 March 1947. |
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Archival history |
The Shotts Iron Company records were deposited in the National Archives of Scotland in two batches. CB21, the Registers of Shareholder 1871-1923; minute books, ledgers etc relating to Baton Collieries Ltd., Hillhousrigg Colliery; Kepplehill Coal Company, 1906-1946 were deposited by the National Coal Board in 1967. GD1/3, Sederunt books, 1824-1958; contracts of co-partners etc, 1825-1946 were deposited by the liquidator in May 1955 and August 1958. GD1/3/22-23 were purchased from McNaughton's Bookshop, Edinburgh in October 1985, |