Found by Eddie McLean in Glasgow.
Note the ‘eyelid’ to the top right of the frog.
John Porter & Sons, Jeanfield or Janefield Brickworks, London Road, Glasgow.
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Below – The same mark on a bullnose which obscures the ‘L’. This brick also appears to have been stamped initially on a side too.
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Below – The same mark on a shaped brick used to build the Dalmarnock Ironworks. Found by Michael Fallone.
Below – The same mark on a shaped brick used to build the Victoria Bread and Biscuit Works. Found by Michael Fallone.
Below – The same stamp on a brick found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. It is stamped to both sides. The cutaway corner is covered in about 4 layers of paint but it looks quite uneven and this bricks may have had the stop end manually chiselled in rather than being moulded to this shape.
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Below – The same stamp on a brick found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. This is a stop end brick where one corner is chamfered to a ‘point’
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Below – This brick photographed by Frank Lawson appears to have been printed over a John Porter, Jeanfield. So this puts the two stamp variations in the same time bracket. So were the stamps being used at the same time or was this the point in time where one was discontinued and the other started?
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1897 – Annual report of the School Committee of the City of Boston – … New Primary Schoolhouse, Vernon street, Roxbury, additional, §14,000. — It will be noted that the next few weeks will witness the completion of several school-houses begun during the previous year, including this new Primary School-house containing ten rooms, and replacing…
Messrs Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd, Main Street, Coatbridge. Clyde Tube Works, Main Street, Coatbridge. Canmore – This building now appears to be a courthouse. Information. 22/09/1906 – Coatbridge Leader – Messrs Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd. Description of new offices. Messrs Stewart and Lloyds Limited have just completed the erection of new offices at the corner…
Many thanks to Mike Allan for the following information and photographs. Mike states – These two octagonal chimney ‘cans’ were salvaged by me from our family house at Osborne Place, Dundee (built 1869). Methven, Kirkcaldy, was in the business of both homewares and utilities. Garnkirk, Lanark, made utilitarian wares. Ours was one of 4 houses,…
Ian Suddaby states – Carrick Academy in Maybole, Ayrshire is soon to replaced with a modern community hub, school and leisure centre. The existing school was built from red brick and red sandstone in 1925 and extra accommodation was added in the 1970s. Digging work in the grounds suggests that the 1925 building was made…
Yoker Railway Station, Yoker, Glasgow aka Yoker Ferry Station. The bricks below were recovered by Michael Fallone and his grandson Max Borland at the site of the Yoker Ferry Station, Yoker, Glasgow. The outward appearance of the bricks with regards colour and texture is exactly the same but the bricks were manufactured by two completely…
Found by Drew Mitchell in the Fife area. This brick came from an internal, original wall of Drews house and is therefore dated 1892 as per the house build. Appin Brickworks, Townhill, Dunfermline. . . . .
Canmore – Exploratory excavations near the edge of the Merse have revealed an area that was either the off-loading area for the 18th-century jetty or the site of a brickworks known to be functioning in the 1750s. An unroofed structure annotated ‘Old Brick Kiln’ is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map *******************************…
The Oban Hills Hydropathic Sanatorium was a proposed Hydropathic Hotel in Oban, Scotland. Construction of the hotel began in 1881 on a hill east of the downtown overlooking the town and the harbour. Had it been completed the hotel would have been a major landmark on the Oban skyline. The hotel was never completed due…
20/02/1886 – Falkirk Herald – Field young grass, about 6 acres. Hay or grazing. Apply Thomas Burns, The Firs Brick and Tile Work. 29/01/1887 – Alloa Advertiser – For sale. Quantity of drain pipes, various sizes, house tiles and flower pots, all superior quality. Load C.R or N.B Rail. James Potter, Firs Brick and Tile…
23/07/1884 – Dundee Courier – Reference to Mr Porter, Loanfield Brickworks, Glasgow owning a show pony. (Note – SBH – I wonder if this should read Jeanfield Brickworks which were occupied by John Porter & Sons)
