View from South of engine house Digital image of B 9306

Description View from South of engine house Digital image of B 9306

Date 4/3/1980

Collection Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco

Catalogue Number SC 730877

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 9306

Scope and Content Blowing engine house from the south, Dunaskin Brick Works, Waterside Iron Works, Dalmellington, East Ayrshire The Dalmellington Iron Company founded the iron works at Waterside in 1847. The works were bought in 1931 by William Baird & Company Limited who established a new firm called Baird & Dalmellington Limited and built the brick works. The brick works closed in 1976. This shows the clay elevator that projected from the 1865 extension to the original blowing engine house built in 1847. Waste clay was carried up the chute on a conveyer with scoops to the hut from which the clay was fed into the metal hopper below. The metal hut contained the motor for the elevator. When the complex was an iron works, the blowing engine house was where cast iron would have been produced by smelting iron ore with fuel and flux. The clay elevator was a brick works alteration when the blowing engine house was transformed to house the brick presses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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