Found Newcraighall, Edinburgh.
Allan & Mann, Port Eglinton, Glasgow.
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Below – The same mark on a shaped brick found in Falkirk.
Below x 2 – The same mark on a shaped brick found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area.
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Below – The same mark on a shaped brick. Found by Michael Fallone in Glasgow.
Below – The same mark on a ‘stop’ brick. Found by Michael Fallone in Glasgow.
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Below – The same stamp on a bull nose example. Found by Willie Guthrie on the site of the old Lennox Foundry, Glasgow.
Below – The same stamp on a brick found by Declan McGeough in Glen Forest Park on the edge of West Belfast Northern Island.
Found by Michael Fallone in Glasgow. Allan & Mann, Port Eglinton, Glasgow. Alternative brickworks include: Rutherglen Pottery, Glasgow. Mallsmire Works, Myrtle Park, Crosshill, Glasgow. . Below – I believe this says 4’6 as opposed to 4 6 Below – Note the groove crossing the width of the brick.
This brick is in the possession of Jimmy Dobson in the USA. It was found in a river in New Hampshire, USA. Allan & Mann, Port Eglinton, Glasgow. Alternative brickworks include: Rutherglen Pottery, Glasgow. Mallsmire Works, Myrtle Park, Crosshill, Glasgow.
Photographed by Hamish Fenton. The brick was located inside the small back window of the Oil Store at Port Stoth, Isle of Lewis. This example is not in my possession. Allan & Mann, Port Eglinton, Glasgow. Alternative brickworks include: Rutherglen Pottery, Glasgow. Mallsmire Works, Myrtle Park, Crosshill, Glasgow.
Brick Works, Waternish, Bay, Isle of Skye Please see this page on my website which relates to Allan and Mann Glasgow bricks being used to construct a lodge at Waternish – click me. A local at Waternish has suggested that the bricks found at the lodge came from a brickworks in ‘Bay’ – Waternish is…
Many thanks to Sandy Sutherland for making me aware of this as it greatly assists dating such brickmarks. The gatehouse was built in c.1864 and the bricks shown are original to the build. Red brick stamped – Allan & Mann Patent Glasgow. Buff brick stamped – Allan & Mann Govan Patent Glasgow. Below – The…
1841 – 1842 – Peter Smith, brick and tile maker, Crosshill. Letters left at 68 King Street, Glasgow. Below – 17/03/1856 – Glasgow Herald – Sale at Crosshill Brickworks. Cathcart Road. 21/03/1856 – Glasgow Herald – Sale today – Bricks, old wood, tiles etc at Crosshill Brick and Tile Works at 12 noon. Hutchison and…
This trough is in the possession of June from the Hamilton area. Allan & Mann, Port Eglinton, Glasgow. Alternative brickworks include: Rutherglen Pottery, Glasgow. Mallsmire Works, Myrtle Park, Crosshill, Glasgow. The stamp is to the front face of the trough. .
21/08/1854 – Glasgow Herald – Ground near Parkhead to be feued and ground for brickfields to be let. To be feued, those parts of the Estate of Carntyne, lying in the immediate vicinity of Messrs Napiers Forge and adjacent to the road from Glasgow to Edinburgh by Duke Street. Those parts of the lands are…
The following photos were kindly supplied by Tony Bedassie who found these bricks on a beach in Trinidad. Etna, Patent R.Brown Paisley, Gartcraig Patent Glasgow, Patent Wilson & Son Glasgow, Glenboig, Gartcosh, Allan & Man Govan Patent Glasgow, Atlas and possibly Coltness. Etna Brickworks, Armadale, West Lothian. Alternative brickworks include: West Works, Armadale, West Lothian….
The works were owned by the Ironmaster William Dixon of Govan. It is believed the brickworks were operational pre-1854 and were managed by Allan and Mann, St Enoch’s Square, Glasgow. c.1854 – Brickworks established? Below – 1858 – Mallsmire Fire Brick Works. 24/11/1869 – Glasgow Herald – Court of Session – Allan and Mann V…
