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Ochiltree Tileworks, Interior View showing pipes in rectangular downdraught kiln
SC 513819
Description Ochiltree Tileworks, Interior View showing pipes in rectangular downdraught kiln
Date 6/8/1977
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 513819
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Ochiltree Tile Works, Ayrshire This works was built to make agricultural drainage tiles, which it continued to do until closure in 1982. The kilns latterly used were both downdraught, one rectangular (1961) and the other round !1968), replacing inefficient updraught kilns. This view shows the interior of the rectangular kiln, with tiles being stacked for firing. When the kiln is in operation the hot gases from the fireholes will emerge at the top of the side walls, and be deflected across the roof and down through the tiles This was the last drainage-tile works to operate in lowland Scotland. It was demolished immediately after closure in 1982. Clay drainage tiles were supplanted by perforated plastic pipes, which were easier to lay. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H77/58/13
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