View showing kiln
SC 686268
Description View showing kiln
Date 8/1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 686268
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content North Woodside Flint Mill, No 125 Garriochmill Road, Glasgow This mill was built in 1846 for Kidston, Cochran & Co, china and earthenware manufacturers, of the Verreville Pottery, Lancefield. It was built to calcine flint, and to grind them into a fine powder to be used in making pottery glazes. It had a central waterwheel driving two grinding pans, one on either side of the wheel. This shows the kiln used for calcining the flints, after it had been reinforced with concrete in the 1950s. It closed in the late 1950s, and most of the remains were demolished in 1964, hence the derelict state of the kiln. Latterly this mill produced ground flint to make glaze for sanitary ware made in Ferguslie, Paisley. It was the last water-powered mill to work in Glasgow. The remains of the mill were excavated and consolidated in the early 1970s, but have now reverted to a state of nature. This kiln survives. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/68/25/30
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