"Dunipace"

Maker
Unknown
Production date
Circa 1910
 Description
View across fields and a single track railway to houses and the Anchor Brickworks with its two chimneys. The houses are mainly two-storey but there is a three-storey tenement with external stair. Two items of agricultural machinery are lying at the edge of the field.
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Object detail

Department
Photo
Collection
Herd, Walker, Photo Collection/Family & Personal Papers Group
Maker
Production date
Circa 1910
Subject person
Subject place
Anchor Brickworks/Stirling St/Dunipace/Dunipace area
Avon Burn/Dunipace/Dunipace area
Dunipace/Dunipace area
Subject notes
The freight line passed over the Avon Burn. The works belonged to John G Stein. He bought a bing of fireclay and ganister waste left over from ironstone workings and from 1896 produced common brick from three Hoffmann kilns. After installing brickmaking machines rather than employ hand making, production capacity rose to 150,000 bricks a week. The bing of blaes lasted until 1931. Stein sold his bricks for twice the direct production costs. Anchor bricks were used to finish the Gleneagles Hotel. ALLAN CRES WAS BUILT ON THE FIELDS
Accession number
P13185

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