Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Found at Auchenheath, Lanarkshire. The need to detail this stamp with ‘No 1’ implies there are perhaps other bricks to find such as ‘No 2’! Clydesdale Brick & Quarry Co Ltd, Auchenheath. . . .

Canmore Referenced – A smaller concentration (of brickworks) was to be found at Auchenheath, with the Old and New Auchenheath Tileworks (CAVLP 089/090), and the nearby Clydesdale Brick and Quarry Works (CAVLP 091). c.1878 – Tank locomotive owned by Clydesdale Brick & Quarry Co Ltd, Auchenheath. 1903 – Clydesdale Quarry Co. quarry owners (Alex. McMurdo, manager). 1908…

Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. Believed to be  John or James Baird – Brick and Tile Works, Auchenheath and Kirkuirhill. . . . .

Auchenheath Tile and Brickworks, Auchenheath, South Lanarkshire aka Auchinheath. Canmore Below – 1858 – Auchenheath Tileworks. 21/09/1870 – Glasgow Herald – Brick and tile work to let on the Hamilton Estates. To let, Auchenheath brick and tile works in the parish of Lesmahagow for such a number of years as may be agreed upon. The…

Crown Fire Clay Works, East Nelson Street, Gallowgate, Glasgow. (1872 – 1873 – Thomas Brownlie of Heatheryknowe Coal Co – House, 1 Carlton Terrace, North Woodside, Glasgow) (Heatheryknowe Coal Co., coal masters & manufacturers of fireclay goods, 182 Hope St.; depot, St Rollox). (Note – SBH – Could this be a Brownlie family connection?). 1880…

17/06/1820 – Caledonian Mercury – The brick s making business is now extremely flat. There are thirty-five brick manufactories within about two miles of Glasgow, of these only 10 are working and twenty-four are totally idle. Every field is supposed to produce 500,000 bricks yearly, consequently, there has been a falling off of 12,000,000 in…