Carberry Candles

Midlothian

1996

Pouring hot wax from a teapot to make candles

Scotland at Work  -  Carberry Candles, Midlothian, Scotland

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs                                                                                   Photograph taken 24 July, 1996

 

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   Scotland at Work  -  Carberry Candles, Midlothian, Scotland ©

 

Carberry Candles

Pouring wax from the teapot

Here, the worker is pouring hot wax from a teapot to make candles.  The company made a wide variety of candles.

Many were poured into containers, some were carved, and night lights were made by machine that produced them at the rate of 1,200 per hour, without wicks.

 

Carberry Candles

Scotland at Work

 

 

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