Sheepford Boiler Works

The boiler making workshop of Thomas Hudson and Company was on Locks Street, Coatbridge.

Hudsons was founded in 1870 and built not only boilers but also items for the coal mining industry such as screens. The screens were perforated steel plates that were used to sort the coal.





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Thomas Hudson patented two boiler designs of his own. The works was enlarged and re-equipped around 1890.

In later years the firm no longer made boilers, concentrating instead on the production of perforated plates. The Sheepford Works eventually closed in the 1980s but some of the machinery was saved and brought to Summerlee. It is now a unique and important part of our Recognised Collection of National Significance.

The company archive is cared for at North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre, Motherwell.