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Southhook Fireclay Works View from ESE showing E and S fronts of headgear and associated building with chimney on right
SC 617925
Description Southhook Fireclay Works View from ESE showing E and S fronts of headgear and associated building with chimney on right
Date 25/6/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 617925
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 is a general view of the clay-mining pit from the south-east, with the winding engine house and boiler house chimney on the right. The corrugated iron-clad building on the left presumably originally housed the screens for sorting coal by size while loading it into railway wagons. 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 H69/529/1A
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