Govan Iron Works

Govan Iron Works
Govan Iron Works
	Location within Central Glasgow
Built	1739
Location	525 Crown Street, Glasgow;
Coordinates	55°50′36″N 4°15′12″W / 55.8432°N 4.2534°W
Products	Iron rods and bars
Employees	800 in 1842
Owner	William Dixon
Defunct	1966

Govan Iron Works was an ironworks with five blast furnaces that was founded in 1839 by William Dixon and located in 525 Crown Street in Govanhill, Glasgow.

Formation

In 1800, Govanhill was well-established with coal mines with many of them owned by William Dixon, an English coal merchant from Northumberland who had moved to Scotland in 1770, when he was 17 to find work, as a "collier laddie", eventually becoming a miner. Dixons career in mining progressed when he first became a colliery manager, then owner of Calder Iron Works and Wilsontown Ironworks.

References

↑ Day, St. John V., ed. (1876). "The Iron Works". Notices of Some of the Principal Manufactures of the West of Scotland. Glasgow: Blackie & Son. p. 36.
↑ "Glasgow, 525 Crown Street, Govan Ironworks And Miners' Row". Canmore. Edinburgh: Historic Environment Scotland. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
↑ Mitchell, Ian R. (2005). This city now : Glasgow and its working class past. Edinburgh: Luath Press. ISBN 9781842820827.
1 2 Crouzet, François (30 October 2008). The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-521-08871-8.
↑ Maw, J.H.; Dredge, J., eds. (22 August 1879). "Govan Iron Works". Engineering. XXVIII: 143.
↑ "Dixon's Blazes: a Family of Ironmasters". CultureNL. Glasgow: Culture and Leisure NL Ltd. Retrieved 24 November 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[1] Day, St. John V., ed. (1876). "The Iron Works". Notices of Some of the Principal Manufactures of the West of Scotland. Glasgow: Blackie & Son. p. 36.

[2] "Glasgow, 525 Crown Street, Govan Ironworks And Miners' Row". Canmore. Edinburgh: Historic Environment Scotland. Retrieved 13 October 2024.

[3] Mitchell, Ian R. (2005). This city now : Glasgow and its working class past. Edinburgh: Luath Press. ISBN 9781842820827.

[cam-4] 1 2 Crouzet, François (30 October 2008). The First Industrialists: The Problem of Origins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-521-08871-8.

[5] Maw, J.H.; Dredge, J., eds. (22 August 1879). "Govan Iron Works". Engineering. XXVIII: 143.

[Dix-6] "Dixon's Blazes: a Family of Ironmasters". CultureNL. Glasgow: Culture and Leisure NL Ltd. Retrieved 24 November 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)