Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

17/08/1894 – Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald –  Bernard Reilly, tramp labourer was fined 5s or 3 days imprisonment for sleeping at the Auchenharvie Brickwork. Below – 1895 – Auchenharvie Brick Works, Stevenston. Below – 1909 – Auchenharvie Brick Works, Stevenston. The brick works are not marked on the 1938 OS Map. 21/08/1908 – The Iron and…

Douglas Firebrick Company Limited,  Dalry – Source Kenneth W Sanderson. William Douglas, a master blacksmith, and his wife Janet, had a son, John, born at Moorhouses, Stevenson, in 1822.  John grew up in the clay industry, and became the manager of the Corse-hill Tile Works, Dreghorn, where on 4th May 1855, his eldest child was…