Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Found by Eddie Mclean in the Ayrshire area. Annbank Brickworks, Annbank, Ayrshire. . . . .

Buccleuch Terracotta Works, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire aka Buccleuch Brick and Tile Works. (Note – SBH – This page should be read in conjunction with the pages dedicated to the Sanquhar Brick and Tile Works and the Fauldhead Collieries Brick Works) 1962 – The Upper Nithsdale Coalworks from Pictish Times to 1925. Compiled by J C L…

Gartsherrie Ironworks Fireclay Works. These works were owned by William Baird and Co Ltd. C. 1840 – Brickworks started in order to supply the Gartsherrie Iron Works with firebricks. 14/10/1851 – Greenock Advertiser – Deaths – At Milton Street, Glasgow on the 12th inst, of consumption of the lungs, Mr Nichol Hillcoate, son of the…

The brickworks were situated on the south-east side of the ironworks. They supplied fireclay bricks for the blast furnace linings and taphole clay.  Once the railways arrived higher grade firebricks were brought in and firebrick manufacture at Muirkirk ceased. (Date unknown). 1788 – Muirkirk Ironworks were erected at Muirkirk, Ayrshire. 1789 – Canal basin constructed…

The brickworks were situated on the Lugar Ironworks Site just NE of Cumnock.  The Iron Works were established c. 1845 by Sir James Boswell. They were taken over in 1856 by the Eglinton Iron Company which was owned by William Baird and Co. The Lugar Ironworks were then moved 1/2 mile South to the location…

Eglinton Iron Fire Clay Works, Kilwinning. The Ironworks was started by William Baird & Co, in 1846, and the brickworks was on the western side of the ironworks. The ironworks prospered and had eight blast-furnaces working by 1859.  the brickworks shown on the map of 1911 is a very small one and could not have…

Found by Michael Kilner at Barr Wood Farm, Twechar, North Lanarkshire. This is situated near to the Gartshore Brickworks. Michael has found 3 similar bricks around this location. B & SS possibly stands for Bairds & Scottish Steel’ viz – William Baird and Co Ltd owned the Gartshore Brickworks. In around 1938, the company underwent…

Faskine Brickworks, Bank Street, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. 27/08/1885 – Glasgow Evening Citizen – Shocking death at Faskine Brickwork. A lad named John McCormick, 16 years of age, son of John McCormick, Faskine Row, Carnbroe came by his death in a shocking manner yesterday afternoon. He was engaged filling clay into the clay mixer at Mr Robert…

(Note – SBH – I believe Drumgrew Brickworks and Gartshore Brickworks are one of the same.) Canmore 1867 – William Baird and Co, Coal and Iron Stone Owners, Gartshore. 06/12/1933 – Kirkintilloch Herald – Brick manufacturing – Messrs William Baird and Co have started operations for the erection of a brickwork at Drumgrew, in the immediate vicinity…

Dunaskin Brick Works, Dalmellington aka Waterside Works. Info Canmore – Original brickworks built for the manufacture of firebricks in the mid-19th century and superseded (probably about 1930) by a new brickworks of the same name, which incorporated the blowing-engine house and two chimneys of the former Dalmellington Ironworks Dunaskin Fire Clay Works  –Dalmellington – Dunaskin…