View showing mould for chimney pot

Description View showing mould for chimney pot

Date 15/4/1971

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 786797

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Buccleuch Brick Works, Sanquhar, Dumfries & Galloway This shows half of a plaster mould for the top of a chimneypot. Though much of the output of the works was bricks of a range of standard shapes and sizes, it also made 'specials', such as this, made by 'slip casting' a fluid mixture of clay and water, with much of the water being absorbed by the plaster. 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 H35/71/31/34

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