Margaret Rowbotham read maths @ Cambridge University. Trained in #WWI #engineering workshops. Superintendent of #Tongland #Kircudbright car factories. Founding member of WES. #engineered cars #munitions #steamlaundries managed #hotel, an #engineering co & many apprentices incl Beatrice Shilling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Dorothea_Rowbotham
The Galloway Hydro Scheme: Part Five, Tongland Power Station

Tongland Power Station is the largest and last Power Station in the Galloway Hydro Scheme. In this final episode in this series about the Galloway Hydro Scheme, we look at the building of Tongland …

Angela Miller
The Galloway Hydro Scheme: Part Five, Tongland Power Station

Tongland Power Station is the largest and last Power Station in the Galloway Hydro Scheme. In this final episode in this series about the Galloway Hydro Scheme, we look at the building of Tongland …

Angela Miller

The Doughs, Tongland, Kirkcudbright, Scotland between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of landscape and architecture in Scotland Scotland Kilmarnock

#Doughs #Tongland #Kirkcudbright #Scotland #Kilmarnock #photography #historicalPhotos

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002695007/

Annette Ashberry 1st woman elected to Society of Engineers @TheIET. 1920s worked #Tongland car factory, set up & ran Atalanta Ltd womens' engineering co. Invented prize winning dishwashing machine. @womensengsoc memb. Later made mini garden for Queen b Mar 1894 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Ashberry
#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth#WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Marguerite EG Stocker apprentice engineer @ Galloway Engineering Co in #Tongland #Scotland which advertised professional training & was "a fine university for women engineers". Later Governor of HM Prison Askham Grange #Yorkshire 1959-67 b. #OTD 2 Mar 1901 bit.ly/2PhldZI

#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth#WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Margaret Rowbotham read maths @UniCambridge & worked in #WWI engineering workshops, Superintendent @ #Tongland #Kircudbright. Founding @WES1919 member engineered 🚗 munitions, steam laundries hotel, 2 engineering co’s & many apprentices d. #OTD 23 Feb 1978 bit.ly/2WLbF9y

#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth#WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery