tarboat's photos with the keyword: ayrshire

Highhouse Colliery, Auchinleck, commenced production in 1894. Owned by Bairds & Dalmellington Limited from 1931 until nationalisation, the two shafts were 177m and 174m deep. In 1948 output was 420 tons per day, 185,000 tons per annum, using longwall and stoop and room working. 473 employees. There were screens for dry coal but washing was done at the nearby Barony Colliery. The mine was closed in 1983 and this headgear and winding house, complete with steam winder, are the main remaining structures. They have been listed by Historic Scotland.

The Aldons lime works had a long history of operations and in the mid-nineteenth century there were three kilns running here. This is the last and largest one built. The two draw tunnels served just one large pot. All three kilns survive in differing states of dilapidation.

Whilst chasing limekilns I found this lovely little corrugated iron building. The windows suggest that perhaps this was once an office for the nearby quarry.

This pit was sunk in 1894 and operated until 1983. The preserved headframe is of unusual design and replaced a wooden structure c1968. The winding house beneath contains a steam winding engine built c1896 by Grant, Ritchie and Co Ltd, Kilmarnock.

The Walker Club was formed in 1844 in Londonderry to perpetuate the memory of the Rev. George Walker, who raised a regiment under Lord Charlemount for the defence of Dungannon, and when Dungannon was abandoned he and his regiment made their way to Derry, to help in the defence of the City. He then became Joint Governor. He fought with King William at the Battle of the Boyne, where he was killed on the 1st day of July, 1690. The club forms part of the "Associated Clubs of the Apprentice Boys of Derry". There are a number of branches to be found in Ayrshire. I was out in Ardrossan when the sound of fifes and drums drifted up the main road and it was clear that the Ardrossan branch was parading within the town. As they passed someone spotted my camera. There did not appear to be many younger men involved.

Quarry cottage and limekilns at the Glenmuir Limeworks east of Cumnock in Ayrshire. The quarry and kilns here seem to have been disused in 1858 but by 1896 were back in use. The 1906 map shows them as disused again.

Kersland Brickworks, Dalry, Ayrshire. On the site of the former Kersland Ironstone Pit, the works operated from around 1900 to c1939.

Littlemill (Knockshinnock) Colliery and Brickworks at Rankinston, Ayrshire.

Dalmellington Iron Co. The original Dunaskin brickworks was situated in Dunaskin Glen at Waterside, Ayrshire. The brickworks was built in the 1850's by the Dalmellington Iron Company to serve the ironworks at Waterside. The Dalmellington Iron Company was founded in 1848 by Henry Houldsworth, a Glasgow cotton mill owner. The company owned the ironworks at Waterside and operated a number of mines in the surrounding area. The brickworks manufactured firebricks for lining the furnace and for building the ancillary buildings, such as the workshop range, needed to service the ironworks. The brickworks in Dunaskin Glen closed in 1928 and was resited on the ground where the furnaces used to stand. The bricks were stamped DICO, or more rarely D Co, standing for Dalmellington Iron Company. The ironworks closed in 1921 but the company continued to operate their mines until 1930 when bankruptcy caused the company to fold. In 1931 the brickworks was taken over by William Baird and a new company formed, Baird and Dalmellington Ltd. The Brickworks featured a Staffordshire transverse arch kiln that had 14 connected chambers which were heated to 1,100-1,200°C by an under-floor heating system. The draught from the chimney drew heat through each chamber and up to 16,000 bricks were fired for two weeks in each chamber. In 1947 the brickworks came under the ownership of the Scottish Brick Company after nationalisation of the industry. The brickworks closed in 1976.

The Lanemark Coal Company opened its brickworks in the early 1890s adjacent to its Boigside No.2 Pit just north-west of New Cumnock in Ayrshire. The company collapsed in1908 and the works was closed although the collieries were taken over by New Cumnock Collieries Ltd in 1909.

J & M Craig was formed by two brothers, James and Matthew, in 1847, with fireclay and brick works at Dean and also at Hillhead in Kilmarnock and at Perceton, near Irvine. They also made high class sanitaryware. The company was incorporated as J.& M. Craig Ltd in 1896 but went into liquidation in 1923. At both sites the company worked coal and fireclay mines.

In 1873 John McKnight owned Kilmarnock Colliery, to the south of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. This was already an old colliery at that time and had gone by 1896.

Inside this Belgian Kiln at the Dunaskin Brickworks, Waterside, Ayrshire. A continuous kiln and a variation on the Hoffmann Kiln, it was intended to produce less discoloured and overburned bricks by separating the burning coals from the bricks by using fuel grates across the floor. The dampers and flues are controlled from below unlike the Hoffmann. This particular kiln comprises 24 chambers and was built in 1935 by William Cleghorn of Newmains. Production ended here in 1976.

J & M Craig was formed by two brothers, James and Matthew, in 1847, with fireclay and brick works at Dean and also at Hillhead in Kilmarnock and at Perceton, near Irvine. They also made high class sanitaryware. The company was incorporated as J.& M. Craig Ltd in 1896 but went into liquidation in 1923. At both sites the company worked coal and fireclay mines.

Gilbertfield colliery and brickworks, Cambuslang, Lanarks. Owned by the Cambuslang Coal Company.

The Bourtreehill Coal Co. Ltd, Dreghorn once operated a mine and brickworks just to the north of Dreghorn village. The brickworks appears to have started c1875 and ran until 1969.

New Cumnock Collieries Limited. Brickworks associated with Bank No.6 Colliery, New Cumnock. The works was closed by the National Coal Board c1960.

Belgian Kiln at the Dunaskin Brickworks, Waterside, Ayrshire. This continuous kiln is a variation on the Hoffmann Kiln and was intended to produce less discoloured and overburned bricks by separating the burning coals from the bricks by using fuel grates across the floor. The dampers and flues are controlled from below unlike the Hoffmann. This particular kiln comprises 24 chambers and was built in 1935 by William Cleghorn of Newmains. Production ended here in 1976.