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Inchcoonans Tile Works View from NNE showing chimneys, buildings and clay pipes

SC 502409

Description Inchcoonans Tile Works View from NNE showing chimneys, buildings and clay pipes

Date 12/8/1976

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 502409

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Inchcoonans Tile Works, Errol, Perthshire This large works was in operation by 1863, and made agricultural drainage tiles as its main product, but also produced bricks, and probably pantiles for roofing. It had both round and rectangular kilns, with associated moulding shops and drying sheds. This view shows part of he works from the entrance, with two round downdraught kilns to the right and a rectangular downdraught tile kiln to the left. Note the stockpiles of clay drainage tiles in front of the kilns. This works stopped making drainage tiles in the early 1980s, and turned to making facing bricks, changing its name to the Errol Brickworks. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H76/198/6

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/502409

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Collection Level (551 147) Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

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