General view looking East from kiln. Digital image of B 9236

Description General view looking East from kiln. Digital image of B 9236

Date 20/5/1982

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

Catalogue Number SC 741487

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 9236

Scope and Content Stacked drains, Cruden Bay Brick & Tile Works, Aberdeenshire Established in 1902 by a Mr Cruikshank, the works were producing 12,000 bricks per day by 1906. Field drains were also made in 1906 when 32 men and boys were employed. In 1947 the works were extended and modernised and by 1960 five million bricks a year were being produced. The works closed in 1990. This shows drains stacked up and stored on the site, looking east from the kiln. Field drains do exactly what the name implies, although modern ones are a form of pipe, earlier ones being horseshoe-shaped and sitting on a flat base. They are buried in lines under the soil of a field to assist its drainage and are very important in the land improvement process. The kiln was coal-fired, being changed to gas sometime in the 1970s. Originally built as a 14-chambered Hoffman Kiln in 1902, it was extended to 16 chambers in 1947. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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