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Detail of pan mill. Digital image of B 9326

SC 730883

Description Detail of pan mill. Digital image of B 9326

Date 12/3/1980

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

Catalogue Number SC 730883

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 9326

Scope and Content Pan Mill, 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 pan mill which was where the clay was ground into small pieces. The clay was crushed by the two rollers and then fed through the perforated base of the pan from where a chute dropped the clay onto a conveyor belt in the basement. This belt carried the clay to the engine house where it was made into bricks in the brick presses. 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. Supplies of clay were produced from the spoil heaps of the coal and ironstone mines at Lethanhill and were transported to the works by rail and latterly by road. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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