Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Found in the Aberdeenshire area by Ian Suddaby. This is a roof ridge. Appin Fire Clay Works, Townhill, Dunfermline. . . . .

Below – 10/05/1828 – Edinburgh Evening Courant – (Note – SBH – Could this be reference to an early brickworks at Townhill?) Below – 1853 – Townhill Brick Works. 12/01/1880 – Dundee Courier – …..since the Townhill Coal Company settled down in the village ( Townhill Village) some sixteen years ago, the place has rapidly…

Alexander Wilson & Son Terracotta Manufacturers, Lochhead Works, Dunfermline. In 1851, the Great Exhibition (for which the Crystal Palace was built) was held in Hyde Park, London. The exhibition was a great success and led Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, to propose the creation of a permanent series of facilities for the enlightenment of the public in the area, which…

This brick has been kindly donated by Joe from Blairgowrie. The bricks had formed part of an extension to the Fearnan Primary School, Loch Tay which was added c. 1910. Street Brothers, Appin Coal and Fire Clay Works, Townhill, Dunfermline  – Fire clay – J.S. Street, Manager. . . .

Lochside Coal and Fireclay Company Limited, Townhill, Dunfermline Canmore 12/04/1902 – l New brickworks at Townhill opened by Lochside Brick and Fireclay Works (Journal p4 col 7) Below – 1905 – Advert Lochside Coal and Fireclay Company Below – 01/02/1905 – Dundee Courier – Dispute over a pipe. (07/03/1905 – the outcome ) 2/11/1906 – …

1886 – Street Brothers, Appin Brick and Tile Works and Richard Street & Sons, Townhill ( page 551) 17/09/1887 – Dunfermline Saturday Press –  Unwarrantable use of water – At a meeting of the Water Works Committee on the 8th inst, the superintendent reported that Messrs Street Brothers, Appin Brick and Tile Works had without…

Inverkeithing Brick Works later renamed The Inverkeithing Fire Clay Works and The Fire Clay and Brick Co, Inverkeithing. 1837 – James McVicar – Firebrick Maker, Inverkeithing. (Note – SBH – It is likely but not certain that the references below to Mr McVicars brick works may well be the early occupier of the Inverkeithing Fire Clay and…

Found on the fore shore at Inverkeithing, Fife Appin Brickworks, Townhill, Dunfermline . . . .

Found in Fife area – JC Street Brothers, Appin Coal and Fire Clay Works, Townhill, Dunfermline  – Fire clay – J.S. Street, Manager . . . .    

Found by TM in Fife Appin to front XII to rear Appin Brickworks, Townhill, Dunfermline   . . . .