Bargeddie, Drumpark Brickworks, Staffordshire Kiln Detail of firehole
SC 510230
Description Bargeddie, Drumpark Brickworks, Staffordshire Kiln Detail of firehole
Date 1977
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 510230
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 one chamber of the Staffordshire kiln. This kiln had 16 transverse-arched chambers, arranged so that bricks could be loaded, fired and unloaded from different parts of the kiln at the same time. 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 H77/26/16
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