Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Found at the site of the old Etna Brick Works, Bathville. Bathville Brick and Fireclay Works, Armadale, West Lothian. . . . .

Found by Tucker Kennedy on the Ayrshire coast. Looks a very early example. Bathville Brick and Fireclay Works, Armadale, West Lothian. . . .

Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. United Collieries, Bathville and thereafter United Fire Clay, Bathville. . . . .  

Canmore John Watson of Glasgow bought the Bathville site in June 1859 for £10, 000 and shortly after built a brickworks to use the fireclay being mined with the coal. John Watson & Co were to become one of the biggest coalmasters in Lanarkshire, but in 1874 they ran into financial trouble and the Bathville…

Atlas Brick Works, Bathville, Armadale, West Lothian Canmore These works were situated directly East of the Etna Brick Works and they are the older of the two. It was started by Robert Fleming of Coatbridge and Mr Kopel Moritz. Info Below – 1886 – Robert Fleming & Co, Atlas Fire Brick Works. 04/02/1888 –  Falkirk…

Found on the shore at Grangemouth Firth of Forth. Bathville Brick and Fireclay Works, Armadale, West Lothian . . . .    

John Watson & Sons, Armadale, West Lothian. John Watson of Glasgow bought the Bathville site in June 1859 for £10, 000 and shortly after built a brickworks to use the fireclay being mined with the coal. John Watson & Co were to become one of the biggest coalmasters in Lanarkshire, but in 1874 they ran…

Found by Halldora Blair amongst ruins at Kuvikur, a former Danish trading post on the shores of  Reykjarfjördur, North West Iceland Bathville building bricks. Bathville Brick and Fireclay Works, Armadale, West Lothian c. 1880’s  to the 1970’s . . .   .

Kindly donated by Justin Parkes No lacy ‘C’ on this brickmark – the brick composition appears very different to my other example Robert Fleming Atlas Firebrick works Coatbridge. . . .    

Found by Ian Suddaby  in Haymarket, Edinburgh. Bathville Brick and Fireclay Works, Armadale, West Lothian. . . . .