View from South-East. Digital image of A 81260.
SC 730045
Description View from South-East. Digital image of A 81260.
Date 30/9/1987
Catalogue Number SC 730045
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 81260
Scope and Content Dunaskin Brick Works, Waterside Iron Works, Dalmellington, East Ayrshire, from south-east Dunaskin Brick Works was founded after the Dalmellington Iron Company, Ayrshire, amalgamated with William Baird & Co of Lanarkshire, in 1931. The brick works was built around the former blast engine house from which the blast engines had been removed sometime after iron smelting ceased in 1921. This shows the brick works eleven years after their closure in 1976. The two brick chimneys were originally part of the Dalmellington Iron Works and were attached to its boiler house and early blast heating stoves. Several buildings from the brick works have survived, but the machinery was taken for reuse elsewhere. In 1947 Bairds was taken over by the National Coal Board, who later passed control of the brick works to the Scottish Brick Company. Dunaskin prospered until the 1970s when recession in the construction industry, and a reduction in the quality of available clay, affecting the quality of the bricks, led to its closure. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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