carfin brick worker
Museum
Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life
Date
1910
Object Number
A5569
Title

Mary McMahon at Carfin Brickworks

Object Category
Archives
Object Name
Photograph, black and white
Description

Female brick worker, Mary McMahon at Carfin Brickworks. Whole families worked in the brickworks, including women who were employed to run pallets of bricks into the kiln for firing and to lift finished bricks off the machines. In later years they also made ‘specials’ which were handmade bricks. 

Method
Gift
Location
Reproduction on display at Summerlee Museum