(Note – SBH – I have added the Scottish tag here as although the bricks themselves were manufactured in Northumbria, the clay was mined in Scotland).
Found Inverkeithing, Firth of Forth.
Pict IOX18 ?
During the First World War, (c.1916) Adamsez Ltd, sanitary ware manufacturers, of Scotswood, Newcastle, diversified into the manufacture of firebricks under the name, Scotswood Furnace Company. It was operated as a subsidiary to W C Gibson and Co Ltd. When G H Ramsay and Co were taken over by Adamsez Ltd in 1923, refractory brick manufacture was moved to their premises at Swalwell. The business was then separated from W C Gibson and Co Ltd and became Adams Pict Firebrick Co Ltd.
Adam Pict fireclay company – Border Quarry, Saltcoats – This company was based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The quarry at Border Farm, Saltcoats worked a seam of bauxitic clays. c.1930 – c. 1960.
Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay – An allochthonous deposit? – S.K. Monro, F.C.Loughnan and M.C. Walker. 1944 – 1967 – Bauxite Clay, Dubbs Quarry, Saltcoats. (Note – SBH – I believe this was operated by the Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Company Ltd. Did they also possibly supply Adams-Pict Fire Brick Works, Scotswood, Newcastle?)
(Note – SBH – I have added the Scottish tag here as although the bricks themselves were manufactured in Northumbria, the clay was mined in Scotland.) During the First World War, (c1916) Adamsez Ltd, sanitary ware manufacturers, of Scotswood, Newcastle, diversified into the manufacture of firebricks under the name, Scotswood Furnace Company. It was operated…
Found Newcastle upon Tyne. Produced at the Adams-Pict Firebrick Works at Swalwell, (the site of the earlier Ramsay works on the River Derwent, a tributary of the Tyne and some three miles west of Gateshead), these (INSO) insulating bricks were produced from a mixture of clay, sawdust and diatomite, (a soft, siliceous, sedimentary rock, easily…
Found Newcastle upon Tyne (Note – SBH – I have added the Scottish tag here as although the bricks themselves were manufactured in Northumbria, the clay was mined in Scotland*) Adams Pict fireclay company, Scotswood, Newcastle. . . .
