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PB the Cairn
Lochwinnoch
The purpose of the site is to help those new to the village to connect with its past and for those who have left for pastures new to remember what was left behind
Fire
Fire Damage to Joe's August 1893
A fire gutted Joseph Johnstone's Viewfield Chair and Cabinet Works in August 1893. The factory had commenced operation 5 years earlier in 1888. It was thought the fire started in a wood store directly above the boiler room. There was a mechanism to release steam sufficient to suppress any outbreak of fire. This clearly failed to achieve its key design parameter.
Fire Damage to Joe's August 1893
A fire gutted Joseph Johnstone's cabinet works in August 1893. The factory had commenced operation 5 years earlier in 1888. It was thought the fire started in a wood store directly above the boiler room. There was a mechanism to release steam sufficient to suppress any outbreak of fire. This clearly failed to achieve its key design parameter.
Fire Damage to Joe's August 1893
A fire gutted Joseph Johnstone's cabinet works in August 1893. The factory had commenced operation 5 years earlier in 1888. It was thought the fire started in a wood store directly above the boiler room. There was a mechanism to release steam sufficient to suppress any outbreak of fire. This clearly failed to achieve its key design parameter.
Fire Damage to Joe's August 1893
A fire gutted Joseph Johnstone's cabinet works in August 1893. The factory had commenced operation 5 years earlier in 1888. It was thought the fire started in a wood store directly above the boiler room. There was a mechanism to release steam sufficient to suppress any outbreak of fire. This clearly failed to achieve its key design parameter.
Fire Damage to Joe's in the year 2000
Taken in 2000. Fate has not been kind to buildings constructed in this location. The first one was destroyed by fire (1883), the second destroyed by a gale (1884) the third had an extension added in 1908 and the enlarged complex suffered a major fire later that year. The site succumbed to fire for final time 107 years after the first incident.
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