# ironworkthursday localhistorymonth happybirthday otd wesaluteyou museumweek forthbridge lanarkshire gartsherrie coatbridge onthisday

Here you can see a shingling hammer at work, bashing the impurities out of the ball of molten iron that has just been removed from a furnace. Find out more: https://t.co/iCPxLNIcb8 From the at

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2021-06-10

Robert Owen, born 1771, industrialist and social reformer who managed

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2021-05-14

Happy 130th birthday to the a masterpiece largely built using open-hearth steel. Here are some of the related objects in NL Museums & Archives collections

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2020-03-04

The journey of the Bairds of Gartsherrie from humble farmers to Scotland's most powerful ironmasters shows the massive economic changes happening in central Scotland in the mid-1800s. You can read more here https://t.co/YL00QGyOA0

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2020-02-28

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS PICTURE?

The engraving here is from an 1858 painting by Daniel MacNee. It shows ironmaster James Baird surrounded by his senior staff at

But where is the original painting? If you know we would love to hear from you!

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2020-02-11

in 1858 Robert Owen, Welsh-Scottish industrialist and social reformer, pioneer of the New Lanark community, died

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2019-11-18

James Watt, a man of many talents: 1780 the firm of James Watt & Co was established to make the world’s first duplicating machines, to save time while copying plans

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2019-03-20

Join hundreds of visitors on December 30th & 31st and travel on one of the last steam trains in Scotland this year! Black Bun Hogmanay Trains at : https://t.co/4B2xEnLM8j

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2018-12-23

Feast your eyes on some incomparable knitting and meet the maker on 24/25th February at : https://t.co/paJ9k7W4HM

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2018-02-04