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MS 500/57/2 Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
1 sheet - map extract with general notes (site not visited by SIAS)
2 sheets - site sketches: pan mill details and layout, 9.6.1984, part of Scottish Industrial
Heritage Society survey
1 sheet - notes from secondary sources, with correction after 1984 visit
1 letter - SIAS officer to Jack Sanderson, Falkirk Museum re dating of the mine
(12.6.1984)
1 memo - invitation to members of the Scottish Industrial Heritage Society to survey the
mine, shortly to be restored (9.6.1984)
1 sheet - press cutting: Linlithgowshire Journal & Gazette (28.1.1988), 'Why mine was
important' (importance of fireclay to industry, talk given by G. Douglas of SIAS)
1 sheet - press cutting: The Scotsman, 25.4.1983, 'Pit visit may be end of the line for
tourists'
2 sheets - copies of reports/analyses of fireclay samples taken from Birkhall Mine, and
Glenboig works, 1968 and 1955 respectively
1 leaflet - advertising Bo'ness Heritage Trust, with photo of Birkhill clay mine
1 newsletter - 'Bo'news', May (1988?), article: "A Better future from our Industrial past?"
1 sheet - copy of 'Bo'ness Heritage Area' newsletter re the Birkhill project: '11 million ton
of heritage'
14 sheets - Fire Certificate, July 1979
2 labels (for delivering fireclay) from the works
1 plan - plan of 'Birch-hill' mine, showing 'Workings in Glenboig Lower Fireclay Seam'
20 views, Falkirk Museum contact prints (not dated)
c. 1980
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B 26574 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
General view with mine manager's cottage in foreground.
c. 1980
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B 26575 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View at pit-head.
c. 1980
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B 26576 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View of site of railway weigh bridge.
c. 1980
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B 26577 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View of site of railway siding.
c. 1980
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B 26578 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View in miners' 'bothy' at pit-head.
c. 1980
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B 26579 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View of bridge over River Avon and mine entrance.
c. 1980
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B 26580 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View in mine looking back towards entrance.
c. 1980
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B 26581 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View of underground haulage.
c. 1980
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B 26582 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
Interior.
View of mine.
c. 1980
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B 26583 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
Interior.
View of mine.
c. 1980
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B 26584 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View of haulage way to pit-head.
c. 1980
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B 26585 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View of pit-head.
c. 1980
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B 26586 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
Detail showing counter-weight system to keep tension on continuous haulage.
c. 1980
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B 26587 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View of 'Hutch' showing method of clamping hutch to haulage.
c. 1980
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B 26588 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View of 'Hutch' showing method of clamping hutch to haulage.
c. 1980
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B 26589 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View of scales for weighing hutch.
c. 1980
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B 26590 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View of crusher for crushing bricks.
c. 1980
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B 26591 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View of pit-head, with mechanism for tipping clay from hutches into crusher.
c. 1980
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B 26592 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View of hutch above crusher.
c. 1980
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B 26593 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
View of pan mill.
c. 1980
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B 26594 PO Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco
Detail of pan mill: mesh through which clay passes.
c. 1980
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MS 7434 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Material relating to Birkhill Fireclay Mine and transcript of commentary by Ross Letham, 2011
c. 2011
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MS 8324 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Information leaflet on Birkhill Clay Mine experience, Falkirk Council area. Site now demolished.
c. 1993
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