Bredisholm Clay Fields, Bothwell, South Lanarkshire

24/05/1850 – Glasgow Herald – A valuable field of coal, ironstone, fire clay and other minerals to be let … The whole coal, ironstone, fire clay and other minerals in that part of the Farm of Aitkenhead, on the Estate of Bredisholm in the Parish of Bothwell, extending to 100 acres or thereby and bounded on the North by the Calder Water and the portion of the Bredisholm mineral field to the north thereof, let to, and presently being wrought by Messrs Chas Tennant 7 Co, St Rollox …

Below – 1897 – Ellismuir Brickworks adjacent to Bredisholm Collieries. The Brickworks are gone by 1910.

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