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Kilmarnock, Hill Street, Longpark Pottery View showing flint kiln
SC 617898
Description Kilmarnock, Hill Street, Longpark Pottery View showing flint kiln
Date 25/6/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 617898
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Longpark Pottery, Hill Street, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire This pottery was founded in 1888 by J & M Craig to make sanitary earthenware products, such as water closets and washhand basins. The firm was taken over in 1918 by Shanks & Co Ltd. This became part of the Armitage Group in 1969, and of the Blue Circle Group in 1981. This shows one of the two flint kilns in the pottery, built to calcine (burn) flint so that it could be ground into a fine slurry for making the hard glaze for sanitary ware. The other kiln was located directly behind this one. This was the last sanitary pottery in Scotland, and was closed in 1981. It has since been dismantled. The flint kilns were the last to operate in Scotland. Disused examples still survive in Glasgow and near Kirkcaldy. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H69/526/1A
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