Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Found by Julian Phillips at Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia. Morningside Fireclay Works, Newmains, North Lanarkshire. . . . .  

Found by Gary Underhill at Goldfield, Nevada, USA. This was a surface find near the site of an 1860s bank building in Goldfield. . . . Below – Morningside – Morningside Fireclay Works, Newmains, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Found at Oakvale, Livingston. Morningside Fireclay Works, Newmains, North Lanarkshire. This was inadvertently left at the find site. . . .

Found at Oakvale, Livingston. Morningside Fireclay Works, Newmains, North Lanarkshire. . . . .

Found by Ian Suddaby in the West Lothian area. I am not in possession of this example. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire. The mark above Morningside is unclear. It may be an underscored 1 or an inverted ‘T’ or it could be a random ‘blemish’. . . Below – A similar mark found on a…

Many thanks to Shayne Campbell, President & Executive Director Settlers, Rials & Trails – Argyle Museum, for permission to use the photographs of their Scottish bricks. The following bricks are in the possession of the Argyle Museum, Winnipeg, Canada. The bricks were obtained from a junkyard in Winnipeg and are believed to have been salvaged…

Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire. . . . .

Found by Matt Elsworth. . . . . Below – Morningside – Morningside Fireclay Works, Newmains, North Lanarkshire. Below – Gartcraig – Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. Found on the shore at Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada.

Found at Oakvale, Livingston. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire. . . . .

The following Scottish bricks were found by Consuelo Bravo Antúnez in the heart of the Atacama Desert, Chile. The Atacama Desert was a huge source of sodium nitrate (saltpetre) which was mined on a large scale until the early 1940s. The UK imported many many shiploads of the saltpetre and it appears they supplied many…