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Scottish Ironwork
22 Alexandra Place
Stirling
Scotland
FK8 1UN
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Who are we
In May 2006, Andrew Laing and David Mitchell (founding Trustees) invited a number of like minded people to form a new Management Committee to take the work of the Foundation forward.
Andrew Laing

Andrew Laing is the third generation of his family to run Charles Laing & Sons at the Beaverbank Foundry in Edinburgh. Originally specialising in engineering castings, Laing's developed an expertise for conservation work using traditional methods.

Andrew is passionate about keeping the Scottish foundry tradition and techniques alive, setting up one of the last greensand moulding apprenticeships specifically in architectural ironwork. He undertakes much architectural bronze work and is very interested in the Edinburgh tradition in this field. He has become especially interested in the iron foundries of the East Coast and particularly Edinburgh.
Andrew Laing
David Mitchell
David Mitchell

David Mitchell currently works in the Technical Conservation Research and Education Group of Historic Scotland, the Scottish Government Agency charged with protecting Scotland's built heritage.
He is currently undertaking a research project on the historical development of architectural cast iron on the West Coast of Scotland, producing technical guidance for the conservation and repair of cast iron structures. He is also producing a book about Walter MacFarlane & Co Ltd.
Prior to working for Historic Scotland, David was a Director of Heritage Engineering in Glasgow where he spent ten years involved in restoration and conservation of cast iron structures throughout the UK and oversees.
 
Ali Davey
Ali is a Research Fellow with Historic Scotland in architectural ironwork. She recently has completed her postgraduate thesis on architectural ironwork in her native Ireland, where she also mapped out the location of Scottish ironwork found there. Ali Davey
 
Jim Fleming
Jim Fleming Jim is a Director of Heritage Engineering in Glasgow and specialises in bandstands. He is obviously particularly interested in those which are cast iron, and even better if they were made in Scotland !
 
John Bolton
John has spent many years scouring the country for ironwork, and with a civil engineering background has a particular interest in water features. John maintains the online database for the Foundation. John Bolton
 
Robin Murdoch
  Robin is an archaeologist by profession with a keen interest in industrial archaeology, involved in the excavation of Summerlee Ironworks. He has undertaken research on Charles D Young, one of the earliest iron building manufacturers in Scotland.

A word of thanks
Our thanks to the RIAS and Millennium Commission for seeing the public benefit of our project, our Mentor John Hume, Heritage Engineering for images and archive information, The Mitchell Library, Italian Museum of Cast Iron, Historic Scotland staff, Stirling Council, Smith Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow University Business Archives, Glasgow West Conservation Trust, The William Patrick Library, Glasgow Sculpture.com, PMSA, and all those people who continue to help and push us onwards.

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