Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Afton Tileworks, Straid, New Cumnock, East Ayrshire

— 30/10/2019

(Note – SBH – There is some confusion regarding bricks stamped AFTON with regards their exact origins. There was the Afton Brick and Tile Works at New Cumnock, the owners of which opened a brickworks at Sanquhar in 1852 and then much later there was the Afton Brick Company Limited which operated the brickworks at…

Straid Brick and Tile Works, New Cumnock, East Ayrshire

— 18/12/2017

Dr Jimmy Begg states – There is a  hand-drawn map of the turnpike roads of New Cumnock parish of 1851 (which show the new railway). On the west side of the turnpike road to Dalmellington, opposite Straid farm is clearly marked “Afton Tileworks”. Around 1850, the struggling Nithsdale Iron Company (1847-59), having run out of…

Lanemark Brickworks, New Cumnock, East Ayrshire

— 17/10/2017

Canmore Lanemark Brickworks may have been built on the original Afton Brickworks but the 1857 map does not show any works there so it is possible the early Afton Works were situated elsewhere. The new Afton Brickworks were later built nearby just to the north of the Lanemark Works and over the railway. Below –…