Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area.
Bell, Hornsby & Co, 197 Pollokshaws Rd; Brickfields, Polmadie, Glasgow, Langlands, Govan, Blairdardie, Duntocher.
Canmore AKA – Coplawhil or Coplawhill Brickworks. Bell, Hornsby & Co. were a building and contracting firm, and one of many brick manufacturers in the Glasgow area. From the 1860s to the 1890s, local brick was widely used for factories, and for the internal and rear walls of stone-faced commercial and domestic buildings. ). Of…
Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. Bell, Hornsby & Co. 197 Pollokshaws Rd; brickfields, Polmadie, Glasgow, Langlands, Govan, Blairdardie, Duntocher. . . . .
1875 – 1876 – Langlands Brick Company– Langlands, Govan, Glasgow. 1878 – 1879 – McNeish, William (at Langlands Brick Works, 168 M’Lean st). 1893 – A letterhead references Bell Horsby and Co operating the Langlands Brickworks.
Bell, Hornsby & Co, Brick makers, Glasgow. 1863 – Bell and Hornsby letterheads of 1893 state the works were established in 1863. 1869 – Hornsby Bell & Co, Blairdardie, New Kilpatrick. 1869 – Bell, Hornsby & Co. 197 Pollokshaws Rd; brickfields, Polmadie, Glasgow, Langlands, Govan, Blairdardie, Duntocher. 1873 – 1874 – Bell, Hornsby & Co. 197 Pollokshaws Rd. 1896…
07/10/1879 – Glasgow Herald – Theft of oats from the stables at Polmadie Brick Works, Govan occupied by William and Thomas Stevenson. 31/08/1883 – Dundee Advertiser – At Paisley on Wednesday Messrs Bell and Hornsby, Polmadie Brickworks, were charged with employing a girl under the age of sixteen years in their brickworks. The offence was…
Dargavel or Dargarvel. See Alexander Whitelaw. 1869 – 1870 – Whitelaw Alexander & Co., brickmakers. builders, and contractors, 8 Lyle street. Works, Dargarvel Brickworks, Bishopton Whitelaw Alexander (of Alexander Whitelaw & Co.), 23 Lynedoch street (page 185). 30/03/1872 – 1876 – 1877 – Whitelaw Alexander & Co., builders, contractors, and brick- makers, 76 Drumfrochar road…
Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. A. & T Hamilton., brick and tilemakers, Titwood, by Strathbungo, and Lilybank; brickworks, off Eglinton street. This is a curved chimney brick. Note the reversed ‘N’s on both examples. . . Below – Same brick mark on a ‘normal’ brick. Found in Glasgow area by Stevie…
Found Firth of Forth, Glasgow. Bell, Hornsby & Co. 197 Pollokshaws Rd; brickfields, Polmadie, Glasgow, Langlands, Govan, Blairdardie, Duntocher. . . . .
