View from N showing NW and NE fronts of S updraught tile kiln

Description View from N showing NW and NE fronts of S updraught tile kiln

Date 24/5/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 646153

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Auchenheath Brick and Tile Works, South Lanarkshire This works was built to make tile field drainage pipes, in about 1852. In 1965 it had two rectangular updraught kilns set in the angle between two ranges of drying sheds, used to dry out the 'green' tiles made by extruding plastic clay through a die of the appropriate shape and size. This shows one of the two kilns, with the rows of chimneys which give even heating of the tiles during firing. The fireholes are in rows along the sides of the kiln, protected by the asbestos sheeting seen here. Note the heaps of coal which will be used to fire the kiln, and the drying sheds to the rear. This was one of the last works to use updraught kilns, which were inefficient in the use of fuel, and produced dense smoke. The works closed in about 1971, and has since been demolished. In field drainage, clay tiles have been replaced by plastic pipes. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/13/26

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