Millburn Roads Depot
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Millburn Roads Depot
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 30 Nov 2010
This is the view across the railway line towards the depot, as seen from a Image The site was formerly occupied by Millburn Pyroligneous Works (or Millburn Works), where a process of wood distillation was carried out: wood was heated in the absence of air (rather than being burned) in order to extract useful organic compounds. Image faces this depot on the other side of the main road (Image). See http://www.valeofleven.org.uk/pyroligneous.html (at the Vale of Leven website) for a page of old photographs, several of which show the pyroligneous works; for example, in photo 11 on that page, the nearby Image is clearly visible. About 12km to the north, on east Loch Lomondside, there was a pyroligneous works near Balmaha (Image): see https://canmore.org.uk/site/151458/balmaha-pyroligneous-acid-works (at Canmore).
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Image Location
Latitude
55.97764
Longitude
-4.585164