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Castlecary Fireclay Works

Brickworks (20th Century)

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Castlecary Fireclay Works rose on twenty-eight acres in 1904 to mine the largest known Glenboig clay field in Scotland. John G. Stein and Co built a colossal plant capable of shaping one hundred thousand fire bricks daily, driven by a five-hundred horsepower engine and lit by its own dynamo. The opening ceremony marked the transition from raw earth to industrial might when Stein turned the steam valve amid cheering workmen.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castlecary Fireclay Works as Brickworks (20th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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