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View from SSE showing partially demolished kiln
SC 786789
Description View from SSE showing partially demolished kiln
Date 15/4/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 786789
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Buccleuch Brick Works, Sanquhar, Dumfries & Galloway This shows the last of the range of kilns to retain its superstructure. Its top has partly collapsed, and some of the iron bands round the base have gone, but it is otherwise in original condition. The arches round the base are the fireholes. This works closed in about 1958, but was still reasonably intact in the mid-1960s. By 1971 the kilns had been almost completely demolished, and since then the rest of the complex has also gone. Terracotta bricks were popular as they were non-porous, and did not retain soot on their surfaces. This works was established in about 1889 to make terracotta bricks. It consisted of a large moulding shop and eight large round downdraught kilns, all of which had conical superstructures, probably later additions. The clay came from quarries to the north-east and south-east on narrow-gauge tramways. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/31/42
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