Rose Street Foundry

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96 - 104 Academy Street, formerly offices of the Rose Street Foundry and Engineering Company
Centre of Inverness in 1902 showing Rose Street

57°28′51″N 4°13′36″W / 57.480710°N 4.226797°W / 57.480710; -4.226797 Rose Street Foundry was an industrial facility established in Rose Street, Inverness in the 1830s. It was the property of the Inverness Iron Company[1] until 1872 when the Northern Agricultural Implement and Foundry Company Limited was established to take over the Inverness Iron Company.[2]

In 1881 this company was responsible for building the Greig Street Bridge, Inverness.

In 1885 a new premises were found at 18–21 Rose Street.[2] The architect – and Provost of Inverness – Alexander Ross – who had obtained ironwork from the foundry for various of the buildings he had built[3] – was engaged as the architect.[3]

Aside from making agricultural implements, the company also worked on contracts for the Highland Railway.[3]

There were two fires at foundry, the more seriously one being in 1888, with a second one in 1897.[4]

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