Southhook Fireclay Works General view from E showing S half of works
SC 617901
Description Southhook Fireclay Works General view from E showing S half of works
Date 25/6/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 617901
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Bourtreehill Fireclay Mine & Works (Southhook Fireclay Works), near Dreghorn, North Ayrshire This complex had its origins in a coal mine sunk by the Bourtreehill Coal Co Ltd, probably in about 1875. The colliery closed in 1924, but the pit was retained for the mining of fireclay for the works which had been constructed on an adjacent site in 1889. This shows the clay mine on the left, with the brick-pressing house on the right. The chimney serves the two Lancashire boilers supplying steam to the winding engine in a building to the left. This fireclay works belonged to the Southhook Pottery Co Ltd. The firm was taken over by Shanks & Co Ltd in 1963, who were in turn taken over by the Armitage Group in 1969, and who promptly closed the works. There were still some remains of kilns surviving in the late 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H69/526/1B
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