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  • Heathfield
    — 02/12/2014

    Found at Heathfield Fire Clay works by Bill Cranston.   Heathfield Fireclay Works, Garnkirk. . . . .

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  • Callendar
    — 02/12/2014

    Found Roughcastle Fire Clay Works, Bonnybridge. Callendar Brick And Fireclay Works, Glen Works, Glen Village, Falkirk, Stirlingshire. . . . .    

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  • Cannerton
    — 02/12/2014

    Found Banknock Cannerton Brickworks, Banknock, Stirlingshire Alternative Names –  Bonnybridge, Banknock, Cannerton Brick Company. . . .  

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  • Bonnybridge 22
    — 02/12/2014

    Found Drum Farm, Bonnybridge. Bonnybridge Silica & Fireclay Co Ltd, Bonnybridge. alt Calder Firebrick Works, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. alt Chapelhall Works, Lanarkshire. Hepworth Ceramic Holdings plc (GR-Stein Refractories Ltd. parent co) bought the Bonnybridge Silica & Fireclay Co. Ltd in 1972, closed Bonnybridge works in 1973 and closed Chapelhall in 1980. Therefore between 1972 and 1980, GR-Stein…

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  • 20
    — 02/12/2014

    Found Banknock. Unidentified maker. Find location would suggest Scottish origins but… . . .  

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  • Octo F
    — 02/12/2014

    Found Banknock – could be Octo E. (Note – SBH – I cannot locate the relevant photograph for this page. Hopefully I will stumble across it one day! Nor can I find the brick in my brick shed so perhaps it was left at the find site for some reason – too large to carry?)….

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  • Castlecary
    — 02/12/2014

    Found Newmains, Morningside, North Lanarkshire. Castlecary Fireclay & Lime Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire. . . . .    

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  • Street
    — 02/12/2014

    Found  Banknock Street Brothers, Appin Coal and Fire Clay Works, Townhill, Dunfermline  – Fire clay – J.S. Street, Manager. Note the thumb print to bottom left. . . .      

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  • FCP Forth
    — 02/12/2014

    Found Roughcastle Fire Clay Works, Bonnybridge. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. I believe this brick is manufactured for the South American Railway network. Click here. . . .

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  • Forth
    — 02/12/2014

    Found Roughcastle Fire Clay Works, Bonnybridge Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . . Below- a very similar stamp on an arch brick found in Bathgate. Below – A very similar stamp on a bullnose brick found at Roughcastle by Gordon Wyle.

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  • Forth
    — 02/12/2014

    Found Roughcastle Fire Clay Works, Bonnybridge Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . .  

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  • BAP
    — 02/12/2014

    Found Roughcastle Fire Clay Works, Bonnybridge. Unidentified manufacturer. Find location would suggest Scottish origins. Considering the find location it is likely this is a product of the Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. I believe this brick was manufactured for the South American Railway network. Click me. .

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  • BAP Forth
    — 02/12/2014

    Found Roughcastle Fire Clay Works, Bonnybridge. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. I believe this brick is manufactured for the South American Railway network. click here. BAP = Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway. . .

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  • Stepends
    — 29/11/2014

    Found Firth of Clyde, Glasgow. Stepends Brickworks, Plains, Airdrie, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Newmains Fireclay Works, Morningside, Lanarkshire, Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke, Lanarkshire . .      

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  • Carmichael Alloa Patent
    — 29/11/2014

    Found at the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh. Alloa Brick & Tile Works, Craigward, Clackmannanshire. This brick was produced by W. R. & J Carmichael. Brick & Tile works of Alloa. Carmichael Alloa to front. Patent to rear. . .        

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  • Brick development through the centuries.
    — 29/11/2014

    Previously considered to be an inferior material to stone, brick construction was rarely used in Britain until the close of the middle ages. Gerard Lynch looks at its historical development over the last 600 years. 1485 – 1603 – Tudor Brickwork – The popularity of the material can be traced to the revival of brick-making in…

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  • WD with diamond design
    — 28/11/2014

    Found on the Firth of Clyde. WD with an elongated diamond design between the initials. Unidentified maker. Find location would suggest Scottish origins but … . . See this link regarding a similar brick found in Australia. There is a suggestion from Australian brick collectors that this WD brick with the central diamond logo was…

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  • Hugh McIntyre Holmpark Glasgow 1882
    — 28/11/2014

    Found the Firth of Clyde, Glasgow Mclntyre & Co., brickmakers, Toryglen, near Mallsmire, Glasgow. Hugh McIntyre, Brick Maker, Blackfalls, Rutherglen. House, 139 Allison Street, Govanhill. However, I cannot find a reference as yet to the Holmpark area . .  

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  • John Paterson & Son Patent Glasgow
    — 28/11/2014

    Found Firth of Clyde John Paterson – Brickmaker, (John Paterson & Son) Hillfoot, Nithsdale ,Pollokshields John Paterson & Son – Brick and Tile Maker, 522 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow. . . .   Below – the same stamp on a ‘stop’ brick. Found by Michael Fallone in Glasgow. .  

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  • K & C
    — 28/11/2014

    Found Firth of Clyde, Glasgow Keir & Cawder, Bishopbriggs Works, Glasgow. Alternative brickworks include: Blackhill Works, Glasgow. Holytown Works, Glasgow. Summerston Works, Glasgow. Cadder Works, Glasgow. .

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  • Allan & Mann Patent Glasgow
    — 28/11/2014

    Found the Firth of Clyde, Glasgow Allan & Mann, Port Eglinton, Glasgow. Alternative brickworks include: Rutherglen Pottery, Glasgow. Mallsmire Works, Myrtle Park, Crosshill, Glasgow. . .  

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  • Speirs Gibb & Co Paisley – Caledonia
    — 28/11/2014

    Found on the Firth of Clyde, Glasgow Speirs Gibb & Co Paisley to the front frog  – and Caledonia on the rear frog. Note the raised lettering to both sides. Speirs Gibb & Co,  Caledonia Fireclay Works, Paisley. . . .    

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  • Blochairn Glasgow
    — 28/11/2014

    Found on the Firth of Clyde, Glasgow Blochairn Sand and Fire Clay Co, Blochairn, Glasgow. . . . .

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  • Alumina
    — 28/11/2014

    Found Firth of Clyde, Glasgow. Brickmark states Alumina. The mark is on a curve with the letters at either end being the smallest and rising to the top of the M. Find location would suggest Scottish origins but…. Possibly an early  Eglinton brick or a James Dougall & Son brick or a Douglas brick or indeed a…

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  • ‘Triangle’ A
    — 28/11/2014

    Found Firth of Clyde, Glasgow Triangle symbol followed by an A I believe this is a Douglas Fireclay Works, Dalry, Ayrshire product as per this reference. I will record it as such until proven otherwise. “The VIIth International Ceramic congress was held in Britain in 1960, and on 24th May the members visited the Douglas…

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  • Finlay Hamilton
    — 28/11/2014

    Found Firth of Clyde, Glasgow. Hamilton Brickworks, Hamilton, Lanarkshire. . . . .

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