Alexander, it seems, was too ambitious. The Scotland Street forge failed to displace Lancefield, and in 1861 he went bankrupt. He died in 1862.
The Scotland Street premises later fell into the hands of Lancefield, before they too were eclipsed by Beardmore's even mightier Parkhead Forge.
Jan 31, 2026 17:53None of the Fultons' sites has left any trace today.
It's possible that one of the last physical relics of this ambitious engineering dynasty, which rose for fifty years with the rising Clyde, is a few words on a cage they built to guard someone else's bones.
