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Interior View showing woman working on 'baby' brick-making machine
SC 787056
Description Interior View showing woman working on 'baby' brick-making machine
Date 23/4/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 787056
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Grahamston Firebrick Works, Falkirk This shows a belt-driven brick press for making 'baby' bricks, which are, as the name suggests, smaller than standard-sized fire bricks. This is situated behind the pan mills used for preparing the fireclay for forming into bricks. This works closed on 30 April 1971, and this photograph was taken on the last 'making' day, 23 April. The firm was still a partnership, between a Miss Winifred Towers and her father. As the moulds for the 'specials' were made of wood, the founding of the firm by a carpenter is not as unusual as it might appear. In 1971, this works was owned by the firm of J & A Towers, which had been founded in the early 20th century, but the works had been in existence since 1857. In 1971 they were making hand-moulded 'special' firebricks for foundries, and small machine-moulded 'baby' bricks used in building fireplaces for coal fires. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/32/1
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/787056
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