Iron and Clay : Photographs of our local industrial past

This exhibition is a selection from an archive of photographs taken by Tom Astbury who worked as the photographer for Falkirk Council’s Museum Service between 1979 and 1983. At that time the Museum was engaged in a project to record.

During the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries there were around 60 foundries and 25 brickworks listed in Falkirk District. By the time Tom was photographing these workplaces, and the people who worked within them, the industries were rapidly closing.