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Birkenshaw, Caledonian Brickworks View from N showing E side of kiln and ancillary buildings to E of kiln

SC 614844

Description Birkenshaw, Caledonian Brickworks View from N showing E side of kiln and ancillary buildings to E of kiln

Date 24/6/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 614844

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Caledonian Brick Works, Carlisle Road, Birkenshaw, Larkhall, South Lanarkshire This works was founded in about 1898 to make common bricks from colliery waste. It was typical of many such works in central Scotland, with a single Hoffmann continuous kiln. This shows the kiln on the right. The covered conveyor took coal to the top of the kiln for firing it. On the left is a barrow for taking unfired bricks for stacking in the kiln. The device beside the kiln was an oil burner for lighting the coal fires in the kiln. The Hoffmann kiln is a long brick box containing two long parallel passages. By a complex system of flues the passages are divided into sections, or chambers, which can be separately heated and cooled, the hot gas from cooling being used to preheat bricks before firing, economising on fuel. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H68/483/1C

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/614844

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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