View from SSW showing SW front of engine house

Description View from SSW showing SW front of engine house

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 710514

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Dunaskin Brick Works, Waterside (Dalmellington) Iron Works, Dalmellington, East Ayrshire This iron-smelting works was opened in 1848 by the Dalmellington Iron Co to exploit the ironstone and coal of the plateau immediately to the north of the works. Because of the topography of the site the furnaces were charged from a bank-bank, the last to be built in Scotland. This shows the brick works built in the 1930s by Bairds & Dalmellington Ltd, who took over the coal interests of the Dalmellington Iron Co in 1930, with a Hoffmann continuous kiln to the left of the nearer chimney. Beyond that is the former iron-works blowing engine house, adapted to house the brick presses. The National Coal Board inherited the brick works in 1947, but was eventually obliged to sell it the Scottish Brick Company. They closed the works in about 1976, and sold the site to the Dalmellington and District Conservation Trust. The engine-house and kilns are now part of their Dunaskin open air museum. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/36/35

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/710514

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap