Walter Armstrong's Engineering Works,

Ridgway Street, are another example of the resources of the town; here are tools, and labour saving machines, suitable for making or repairing any article, from the small spring of a sewing machine, to the largest piece of machinery. At the period of a visit paid quite recently, there were quite a number of men and boys employed at the various benches, and in another department, gun repairing was being carried on, to say nothing of the shoeing forge in full swing.