Linlithgow Foundry

  • Causewayend Foundry
  • Linlithgow Foundry Co.
Illus: 1897 Ordnance Survey Map (National Library of Scotland).

Sites & Monuments Record

Causewayend, Muiravonside          NS 961 760

Timeline

1877: Works suitable for a foundry, wagon building or repair shop, advertised for sale.

1886: William Gardner, sole proprietor of the Linlithgow Foundry Co.

1890s: General builder’s castings and pipes.

1891: Until this date horses had been used to take goods to the Union Canal, this was replaced by a railway with locomotives.  Business run by William Gardner, William Gardner junior and James Gardner.

1911: James Brown, manager, left.

G.B. Bailey, 2021