Processing and Manufacturing Please choose one ADMINISTRATION AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS COMMUNICATIONS CONFLICT CULTIVATION ENCLOSURES ENERGY EXTRACTION FLOODING GRAZINGS HOUSING KNOWLEDGE LEISURE MANUFACTURE PERCEPTION SETTLEMENTS TRADES Animal products Plant products Textiles Minerals Metals Agricultural engineering works, West Barns, East Lothian During the 19th and 20th centuries, the mechanisation of farming created a market for a wide range of field and steading equipment. Blacksmiths continued to produce forged ironwork, in malleable iron, notably as plough-makers. However, cast-iron work allowed for standardisation and cost saving. To produce it, makers had to have access to iron-founding facilities. The West Barns works has a brick-built machine shop, dating from the 1870s. Before iron-founding became centralised in urban locations, small, rural firms, such as Sherriff's of West Barns, produced both wrought and cast iron goods. Sherriff's specialised in grain-sowing machinery, an appropriate product for the most fertile arable district in Scotland. Resource pack   1     2     3     4