View from North-West. Digital image of B 9323

Description View from North-West. Digital image of B 9323

Date 12/3/1980

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

Catalogue Number SC 730882

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 9323

Scope and Content Dunaskin Brick Works from the north-west, 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 a conveyor that connected the transverse arch kiln on the right with a retaining wall on the left. The building with the arched windows in the background was the blowing engine house. Coal came from a hopper through the chute sticking out of the retaining wall (left), and travelled along the conveyor and into the kiln. A transverse arch kiln contains a number of chambers where bricks were fired. More bricks could be baked in this kiln because the chamber arches lay across the flow of the fire which meant that they did not have to be a set length. Originally the blowing engine house was where cast iron would have been produced but when the iron works became a brick works it was converted to house brick presses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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