Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Found on top of a garden wall in Kilmarnock and photographed by Lynne McKinnon. This example is not in my possession. Southhook and Shawsrigg Fire clay Co Ltd, Bonnyton Works, Kilmarnock. . . .  

There are countless references to brick and tile prices within individual pages on my website but the articles recorded here are more generic in nature. 01/01/1824 – The Scots Magazine – Glasgow. There have been a great many additions built to the old cotton mills at Glasgow, this summer, besides the new ones erected in…

Found by Ian Suddaby in Knockentiber, Kilmarnock. Messrs John Gilmour & Co., Manufacturers of Bricks and Tiles, Bonnyton, Kilmarnock. . . . . Below  – The same stamp on a later style brick found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. Note the letters are raised on this example. . Below – One side of…

Shawsrigg Fireclay and Enamelling Company, Larkhall, North Lanarkshire. See also Southhook Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. See also Bonnyton Fire Clay Works, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. Shawsrigg or Shawrigg. Shawrigg Fire Clay and Enamelling Co., Ltd – The company was incorporated in 1895 to continue the business carried on by William Hunter at Jamaica Street,…

Found at Ardrossan, Ayrshire Bonnyton Fireclay Works, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. . . . .

Bonnyton Fire Clay Works, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. See also Southhook Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. See also Shawsrigg Fireclay and Enamelling Company, Larkhall, North Lanarkshire. Southhook Fireclay Works – Dreghorn – The works was on the site of Southhook Colliery No. 1 Pit, which provided the fireclay. Slater’s Directory states that John McKnight &…

Found on the Ayrshire coast by Tucker Kennedy. This corner is all that is left of the salt-glazed trough. Messrs John Gilmour & Co., Manufacturers of Bricks and Tiles, &c., Bonnyton Kilmarnock. 10, Cook Street, S.S., Glasgow. . . . Below – Many thanks to Ronan Diver for the following photographs and information. This is…

Found at Kilwinning, Ayrshire. Patent J Gilmour & Co Kilmarnock Messrs John Gilmour & Co., Manufacturers of Bricks and Tiles, &c., 10, Cook Street, S.S., Glasgow. . . . Below – A fine example of the same stamp found by Ian Suddaby in Knockentiber, Kilmarnock.

I have added this post to the site as Messers Dobbie appear to have been prolific merchants and acted as Agents for many well known Scottish brick making companies. Below – 1886 – 1887 – Agent for Prestongrange Fireclay Goods Manufacturing Company and The Glenboig Union Fireclay Company Limited and Gilmour, Anderson & Co, Bonnyton Fireclay Works,…

Found by RJ in the Beith area. Gilmour Morton & Co Ltd, Bonnyton Fireclay Works, Kilmarnock. Gilmour Morton & Co Ltd to front and Gilmour & Co Kilmarnock on rear. . . . .