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Manuscripts MS 500/43/2 Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. 5 sheets- map extracts. 13 sheets- rubbings from various brick and tile samples, made by the works; rubbings taken 4/1979. 2 sheets- site sketches of date stamp and company seal, 4/1979. 1 sheet- xerox from photographs B 26290 and B 26292. 1 card- with contact tel. no. for Mr Gilmour at Kilchattan Works. 1 letter- from T. Gilmour re. Kilchattan Kilns, 12/05/1981 (T. Gilmour owner of the works). 7 sheets- notes from various sources, mostly from newscuttings (1896-1934), covering such aspects of the works as Mr Gilmour's new works at Drumchapel; transport problems at Kilchattan; history, workforce & fuel. etc. 3 sheets- notes from newspaper cuttings, 1902 to 1978, re. history, transport, employees, etc.; including information from T. Gilmour and poem written at Kilchattan Butts, 1902. 5 sheets- copy of the lease for Kilchattan works, 1885, including 'Copy Plan of Kilchattan Tile Works' the red parts showing the buildings erected by Mr Gilmour. 17 sheets- xerox copy of title deed n/d. copied Dec 1978 with site plan and maps. 71 sheets- xerox copy of account book for 'M.S Vineyard', the boat owned by T. Gilmour of Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works, 1920's. 79 sheets- xerox copy of annual accounts & production book, 1883-1919. Copied 1978. 2 sheets- copy of extract from "Reminisces of a long life: A Home Among the Hills". d:after 1853, by Todd? (Reference made to a brother starting a new brick and tile works in Bute, and having financial difficulties: possible reference to Iain Todd, who leased the works in 1860s? Author Mr Todd, the elder (see also MS/500/44/32 Dalquharran Tile Works). 12 sheets- xerox copies of letters, orders & articles from the works: including reminisces of the works by T. Gilmour, 13/12/1949 & a copy of a letter from Garfield Todd, Prime Minister of S. Rhodesia, written late 1940s (Garfield Todd, grandson of Iain Todd...) 1 sheet- key/ description of works site layout, following visits on 11/1978, 4/1979, 19/08/1980. 1885 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 9286 Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. Detail of wash-hand basin, installed c.1920. 22/8/1980 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 9287 Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. Detail of steel pipe with flat and rod at end- was outlet under drying floor. 22/8/1980 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 9288 Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. General view from West of kiln burner's house. 22/8/1980 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 9289 Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. General view of works site from South-West. 22/8/1980 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 9290 Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. View from West in the quarry, c.1900. c. 1900 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 9291 Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. View from West in the quarry, c.1900. c. 1900 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 9292 Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. View of Kilchattan. 1/1981 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 9293 Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. View of chimney being demolished, c.1930 c. 1930 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 26407 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. View from North-West after great storm of Jan 1927, which blew down the drying shed that lay n/s. c. 1927 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 26408 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. Group photograph showing the work force at Kilchattan with accompanying sketch key identifying all the men. c. 1910 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 26409 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. View of the works with workers from South. See MS 500/43/2 c. 1910 Item Level
General oblique view looking towards Kingarth, taken from the E. On-line Digital Images DP 057287 RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital General oblique view looking towards Kingarth, taken from the E. 31/10/2008 Item Level
Extract of the OS 1st edition map, 1869. On-line Digital Images SC 1173719 Extract of the OS 1st edition map, 1869. 1869 Item Level
General view of building interior, taken from S. On-line Digital Images DP 078105 RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography General view of building interior, taken from S. 19/5/2009 Item Level
Detail view of N wall, taken from S. On-line Digital Images DP 078106 RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography Detail view of N wall, taken from S. 19/5/2009 Item Level
Detail view of W wall, taken from E. On-line Digital Images DP 078107 RCAHMS Field Survey Digital Photography Detail view of W wall, taken from E. 19/5/2009 Item Level
Digital Files (Non-image) GV 004577 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu Map: Distribution of Improvement period sites and activilty. 8/2010 Item Level
Oblique aerial view of Kingarth centred on the parchmarks of the possible long cists and the field boundaries, taken from the E. On-line Digital Images DP 091386 RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital Oblique aerial view of Kingarth centred on the parchmarks of the possible long cists and the field boundaries, taken from the E. 21/6/2010 Item Level
Map - Distribution of Improvement period sites and activilty. On-line Digital Images DP 097425 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu Map - Distribution of Improvement period sites and activilty. 8/2010 Item Level
Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works.
 View of the works with workers from South. On-line Digital Images SC 1263470 Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. View of the works with workers from South. c. 1910 Item Level
Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works.
Group photograph showing the work force at Kilchattan with accompanying sketch key identifying all the men. On-line Digital Images SC 1499401 Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works. Group photograph showing the work force at Kilchattan with accompanying sketch key identifying all the men. c. 1910 Item Level