Ochiltree Tileworks View from SSW showing SSW front of workshop and office with chimney in background

Description Ochiltree Tileworks View from SSW showing SSW front of workshop and office with chimney in background

Date 6/8/1977

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

Catalogue Number SC 513829

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 arrangement of the works, with the kilns, chimney and little office grouped in the angle of the L-plan range of drying sheds. The chimney, cooling tower and headgear in the right background were at the Barony Colliery and Power Station 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 H77/59/6

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/513829

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap