Found by Michael Fallone at the Phoenix Tube Works, Dalmarnock Road, Glasgow during demolition.
Unknown maker.
Find site would suggest Scottish origins but …
Canmore – Former Phoenix Tube Works, Dalmarnock Road, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire This was a very large tube works established by James Menzies and Co, who had been wrought-iron tube makers on a smaller scale in Glasgow. Menzies later amalgamated with A and J Stewart and Clydesdale, later Stewarts and Lloyds. The offices of c1905, were unusually elaborate for a heavy industrial establishment, though on the main road from Glasgow to Rutherglen. The single-storey workshops were behind and to the left of these offices. By 1979 much of the works had been converted into the Dalmarnock Road Trading Estate, but part of the workshops were used as a tube warehouse by the British Steel Corporation.
Ian Suddaby states – Carrick Academy in Maybole, Ayrshire is soon to replaced with a modern community hub, school and leisure centre. The existing school was built from red brick and red sandstone in 1925 and extra accommodation was added in the 1970s. Digging work in the grounds suggests that the 1925 building was made…
Yoker Railway Station, Yoker, Glasgow aka Yoker Ferry Station. The bricks below were recovered by Michael Fallone and his grandson Max Borland at the site of the Yoker Ferry Station, Yoker, Glasgow. The outward appearance of the bricks with regards colour and texture is exactly the same but the bricks were manufactured by two completely…
Found by Drew Mitchell in the Fife area. This brick came from an internal, original wall of Drews house and is therefore dated 1892 as per the house build. Appin Brickworks, Townhill, Dunfermline. . . . .
Canmore – Exploratory excavations near the edge of the Merse have revealed an area that was either the off-loading area for the 18th-century jetty or the site of a brickworks known to be functioning in the 1750s. An unroofed structure annotated ‘Old Brick Kiln’ is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map *******************************…
The Oban Hills Hydropathic Sanatorium was a proposed Hydropathic Hotel in Oban, Scotland. Construction of the hotel began in 1881 on a hill east of the downtown overlooking the town and the harbour. Had it been completed the hotel would have been a major landmark on the Oban skyline. The hotel was never completed due…
20/02/1886 – Falkirk Herald – Field young grass, about 6 acres. Hay or grazing. Apply Thomas Burns, The Firs Brick and Tile Work. 29/01/1887 – Alloa Advertiser – For sale. Quantity of drain pipes, various sizes, house tiles and flower pots, all superior quality. Load C.R or N.B Rail. James Potter, Firs Brick and Tile…
Many thanks to Sandy Sutherland for making me aware of this as it greatly assists dating such brickmarks. The gatehouse was built in c.1864 and the bricks shown are original to the build. Red brick stamped – Allan & Mann Patent Glasgow. Buff brick stamped – Allan & Mann Govan Patent Glasgow. Below – The…
Found by Jeannie Cooper next to one of the broken piers. Maker is unknown. Find location would suggest Scottish origins but … 27/05/1871 – Dundee Peoples Journal – It is understood that the contractors for the Tay Bridge have arranged for obtaining a large quantity of bricks from Messrs Robert Small & Co, brick and tile…
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…
Linoleum Works, Well Brae, Falkland AKA St Johns Works. Canmore – St Johns Linoleum Works, Falkland. The older part was built in brick between 1892 and 1912: a range of buildings with a serrated row of roofs over arched windows at each drying chamber, the whole fringed by balconies for access. At first, making floorcloth, it…
