Dalmellington, Waterside Ironworks, Dunaskin Brickworks General view from W
SC 573386
Description Dalmellington, Waterside Ironworks, Dunaskin Brickworks General view from W
Date 1981
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 573386
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Former Dalmellington Iron Works, Waterside, near Patna. Ayrshire This was originally an iron-smelting works built by the Dalmellington Iron Co. It closed as an iron works in 1921, and much of it was demolished in the early 1930s, leaving the workshops, two chimneys, the blowing engine houses and the power station. This view shows the site from the south west. The blowing-engine houses are in front of the right-hand chimney, with to the left one of the two brick kilns built in 1936 on part of the blast-furnace site. To the left of the other chimney is the furnace bank The Dunaskin Brickworks was built by Bairds and Dalmellington Ltd, an amalgamation of the coal interests of the Dalmellington and Eglinton iron companies. The works was designed to supply both common and engineering bricks. It closed in 1976. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H81/4/16
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