Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter



Dates

  /  /1904Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter
Loch Leven Water and Electric Power Co created by Act of Parliament. (Was to merge with the North British Aluminium Co Ltd.)
  /  /1905Loch Leven Water and Electric Power Co
Construction of Blackwater Dam, pipeline and hydro-electric power station alongside Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter begins.
  /  /1905Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter
Construction of Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter begins.
  /  /1907Loch Leven Water and Electric Power Co
Construction of Blackwater Dam, pipeline and power station for Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter complete. (Alternative date 1908.)
  /  /1907Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter
Kinlochleven Smelter Pier under construction, contractor Robert McAlpine.
  /  /1908Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter
Electric tramway in use between Kinlochleven Smelter Pier and Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter.
  /  /1909Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter
Construction of Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter complete. The site had 76 smelters.
  /  /1989Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter
Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter carbon factory demolished.
  /  /2000Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter
Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter closed. The hydro-electric power station remains in operation, connected to the National Grid.
  /  /2002Kinlochleven Aluminium Smelter
Site partly demolished, cleared and redeveloped as Kinlochleven Climbing Centre.