Knowehead, Brickworks General view from S showing main building
SC 449842
Description Knowehead, Brickworks General view from S showing main building
Date 29/8/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 449842
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Sand-lime brickworks, Locharbriggs, Dumfriesshire This brickworks was established by the Ballochmyle Brick Co Ltd to use stone dust and small stone fragments to make bricks. This was done by reducing the stone to powder, mixing it with lime, pressing the mixture into bricks, and steaming them. This shows the works from the end where the raw materials were taken in. The lower section to the rear housed the long cylinders in which the bricks were cured with high-pressure steam. Bricks made in this way are not as durable as fired bricks, but they are perfectly suitable for many purposes. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/236/15
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