Image:GravestoneOfJamesParaffinYoung(ThomasNugent)Apr2006.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikimedia Commons logo This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Gravestone of James "Paraffin" Young, near to Inverkip, Inverclyde, Scotland, Great Britain

James Young lived at nearby Wemyss Bay. In 1850 he patented a process for extracting oil from cannel coal and was responsible for the shale bings (such as this one NT0576 : Shale Bing, Philpstoun.) in West Lothian. Young and his wife are buried side by side in the old graveyard in Inverkip.

This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Thomas Nugent and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution iconCreative Commons Share Alike icon
This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License (cc-by-sa-2.0). In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it under this or a similar cc-by-sa license.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment
current07:55, 28 January 2007480×640 (178 KB)Euchiasmus (Gravestone of James "Paraffin" Young, near to Inverkip, Inverclyde, Scotland, Great Britain James Young lived at nearby Wemyss Bay. In 1850 he patented a process for extracting oil from cannel coal and was responsible for the shale bings (such as this on)
The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.