Morningside, Allanton Pipe Works View from S showing E rectangular downdraught kiln

Description Morningside, Allanton Pipe Works View from S showing E rectangular downdraught kiln

Date 8/9/1977

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

Catalogue Number SC 519442

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Allanton Brick, Tile and Fireclay Works, Morningside, Lanarkshire This was a large heavy ceramics works, owned by Loudon and Russell, which latterly specialised in making salt-glazed sewer pipes. It had in 1977 eight round and four rectangular downdraught kilns, all oil-fired. This view shows the pan mill used to crush fireclay before it went to the pug mill, where it was mixed with water to make a stiff plastic clay which could be moulded into pipes. The clay came to the works in the lumpy form seen in the foreground. The works was purchased by the Hepworth Group, closed in 1977, and demolished in 1979. It was the last of a number of Scottish works making salt-glazed fireclay pipes. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H77/78/2

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/519442

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