Southhook Fireclay Works View showing brick kilns

Description Southhook Fireclay Works View showing brick kilns

Date 25/6/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 617919

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 one of the firebrick kilns at the works. This appears to have been of the Hoffmann regenerative type, though the chimney is unusually short. A heap of fired bricks can be seen on the right. 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 H69/528/1B

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