Kiln That Fired Millions of Clay Pipes Was Unearthed

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A Kiln That Fired Millions of Clay Pipes Was Unearthed Under a Montreal Bridge - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/montreal-clay-pipes-excavated

 

[mso489]

I love Montreal, and now it's the center of pipe archeology too. It's a great city, beautiful and somewhat well planned, high rises limited, etc.

 

[anotherbob]

that's awesome.

 

[mso489]

Blatter and Blatter ought to have a photo exhibit in the store, unless and until a museum can be founded on site, or nearby. It's a worthy historical subject.

 

[diamondback]

Whoa! How cool is that?

Great find, thanks for sharing.

 

[Mtlpiper]

Really interesting article - thanks for sharing, @mso489 Blatter et Blatter used to be my local B&M, will mention this to them when I pop in.

 

[olkofri]

Awesome! In Canada!

Never been to Montreal. Maybe I have an extra reason now. ?

 

[B.Fee]

Great post
Mahalo ?

 

[alaskanpiper]

Rad.

 

[stbruno70]

I love Montreal, and now it's the center of pipe archeology too. It's a great city, beautiful and somewhat well planned, high rises limited, etc.

Montreal and Quebec are both fabulous cities.

 

[Parsimonious Piper]

Very interesting article. History of all sorts never fails to fascinate.

 

[jpmcwjr]

From the article:

As luck would have it, they found a brick kiln demolished down to its flooring. It’s circular, and shot through with narrow chambers. “They’re channel-like structures, through which the air would flow into the oven, and other openings where they could put charcoal in to heat up the kiln,” Roy says. The Henderson operations were vast: in 1871, the factory’s 50 workers, mostly Scottish or Irish immigrants, produced 7 million pipes.

Wow!

Great find!

 

[bnichols23]

Wow. Just that.

 

[vates]

"The historic garbage still litters the shore of London’s River Thames—to the point that when mudlarks canvass the shore for treasures at low tide the pipes “crack and pop underfoot.”"

wow

 

[jpmcwjr]

vates- could you give a bit more context to the Thames mention- is there also a shore side pipe manufacture that existed in London?

 

[vates]

It's from the very same article in the OP.

 

[jpmcwjr]

So it is! Thank you.

By the 19th-century, clay pipes were mass-produced in England, Scotland, France, and Germany, as well as Canada, Walker writes. The historic garbage still litters the shore of London’s River Thames—to the point that when mudlarks canvass the shore for treasures at low tide, the Wall Street Journal reported, the pipes “crack and pop underfoot.” Old clay pipes are often traceable to their source, because many manufacturers were in the habit of stamping their name along the stem. “To judge by the frequency of finds, stems marked HENDERSON or HENDERSON’S represent by far the most important marker or makers,” Walker writes.

Henderson refers back to the Montreal manufacture.