Interior View showing brick making machinery

Description Interior View showing brick making machinery

Date 1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 685601

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Caledonian Brick Works, Carlisle Road, Larkhall, South Lanarkshire This works was built in about 1898 to make common bricks from colliery waste, using a 14-chamber Hoffmann continuous kiln to fire them. It was one of many such works built in central Scotland from the 1880s to the 1950s. This shows a Bradley & Craven stiff-clay brick press, with, in front, the conveyor taking the unfired (green) bricks to a point where they could be charged into the kiln. Presses like this were standard equipment in the Scottish brick industry. From the 1960s the common brick industry declined sharply, as house building slowed down and other materials, like mass concrete and breeze blocks took over. Where brick continued in use it was generally plastic-clay facing bricks that were wanted. This one closed in 1990 and has been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/5/33

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/685601

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