Bargeddie, Drumpark Brickworks, Beehive Kiln General View
SC 510225
Description Bargeddie, Drumpark Brickworks, Beehive Kiln General View
Date 1977
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 510225
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Drumpark Brickworks, Bargeddie, Lanarkshire This brickworks specialised in making heavy-duty engineering bricks, using clay from a pit on the site. Latterly it had a Staffordshire-type continuous kiln, eight rectangular, and one round, downdraught kilns. This view shows the only round downdraught kiln at this works. This type of kiln has fireholes round the perimeter, the hot gases from which rise to the top, where additional air causes complete combustion. The gases are drawn out of the kiln base. The works closed in 1977 and had been demolished by 1980. It was one of very few engineering-brick works in Scotland. Such bricks were fired at a higher temperature than common bricks, and were stronger and had lower moisture absorption. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H77/26/12
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