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Southhook Fireclay Works View from NE showing E and N fronts of headgear
SC 617917
Description Southhook Fireclay Works View from NE showing E and N fronts of headgear
Date 25/6/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 617917
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 timber headframe of the clay pit, with the edge of the winding engine house on the left. The gantry on the right took hutches (small wagons) of clay to the brickmaking plant. The pit was 78.6m deep. 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, who promptly closed the works. There were still some remains of kilns surviving in the late 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H69/528/1A
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