Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life
Ironworks in Scotland, dating from the Post-Medieval
Scotland's noisiest museum, built on the site of the Summerlee Ironworks in Coatbridge, once the 'Iron Burgh' of Scotland. Features a recreated adit mine, working electric tramway, and a reconstructed row of miners' cottages. Coatbridge had 17 ironworks at the industry's peak in the 1860s.
- Type:
- Ironworks
- Period:
- Post-Medieval
- Coordinates:
- 55.86°N, 3.99°W
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