Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Hyndshaw Fireclay Mine, Morningside, Newmains, North Lanarkshire. 1896 – Morningside Mine – Morningside Coal Co, Newmains. Coal and Fire Clay mined. John Gray Manager. (Note – SBH – This is believed to be the Hyndshaw Mine) 1920 – Special report on the mineral resources of Great Britain – Chapel Coal Company Limited. Morningside Brickworks, Newmains….

Goodock Fireclay Mine, Morningside, Lanarkshire – Source Kenneth W Sanderson. 1938 – The Morningside Fireclay Company worked the Goodock fireclays known locally as the Watsonhead fireclays from Watsonhead No 1 mine  – started in 1938. 1959 – Watsonhead No 1 mine – closed. 1959 – Watsonhead No 2 mine – opened. 1961 – Watsonhead No 1 mine –…

Found at Manderston near Linlithgow and kindly donated by Nick Basden. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire . . . .  

Found at the Coltness Iron Works, Newmains. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire . . . .

Found by Gordon Wyle in Broxburn, West Lothian. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire . . . .

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

Found in Glasgow Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire . . . .

Foundin Falkirk Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire. . . . . Below – The same stamp on an elongated arch brick.  

Details and photograph have been forwarded by Carlotta Bigagli. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire During an urban archaeological excavation in 2017, undertaken inside an historical palace in Firenze, Pistoia e Prato, Italy and commissioned by the Provincia di Firenze and directed by the SoprintendenzaArcheologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Città Metropolitana di Firenze e…

Found by Willie Guthrie on the foreshore of Loch Lomond in Balloch Country Part, West Dumbartonshire. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire. So does anyone know what Altos stands for? . . .   Below – A near perfect example found in St Petersburg, Russia