Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Found by Tucker Kennedy in the Ayrshire. This is a paver or byre block and it is salt glazed. Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. . . . .

The Warrix Fireclay Works were erected about 1896 and utilsed the fireclay extracted from the Warrix Coalpit whichwas situated nearby.   These works closed c. 1938. 1896 – Bourtreehill Coal Company  – sewerage pipes, chimney cans, fire bricks, gas retorts, flooring tiles, flower vases and other clay goods. Specialties – white and yellow enamelled kitchen and…

Found Glasgow. Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire . . . .

Found at Auchenmade, Ayrshire and kindly donated by Jim Archibald. Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire . . . .

Found by Urban Östlund who states ” the brick was found in  a storehouse for paper or pulp which was destroyed in a fire on the 4th of august 1955 and that was the end of the paper manufacturing in Furuögrund Bourtreehill Coal Co – Bourtreehill & Warrix Collieries & Bourtreehill, Lochhead & Warrix fire clay & enamelling works, Dreghorn…

Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. Canmore 23/12/1871 – Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald – Fire clay goods. Composition and fire bricks now on sale here. Bourtreehill Fire Clay Works by Irvine. 27/10/1871 1872 – James Findlay, Bourtreehill Coal Co and Fire Clay Manufacturers, Dreghorn, Irvine, Kilmarnock Info  – Tokens such as this were unofficial pieces of…

Found at Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. . . . . Below – The same stamp on a salt glazed paver or byre / stable block. Found by Tucker Kennedy in the Irvine area of Ayrshire. .

Found at Bourtreehill Fire Clay Works, Drummuir Farm, Ayrshire. This is a piece of broken water or sewer pipe. Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. . . . . *********************************************************************** Below – this is a section of wall coping still in place on top of a wall separating the road from the Bourtreehill Fireclay Works and it…

Found at Leith by Ian Suddaby Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. . . . . . Below – Found at Bourtreehill Fire Clay Works, Drummuir Farm, Ayrshire. This is a section of wall coping still in place on top of a wall separating the road from the Bourtreehill Fireclay Works .

Found at Bourtreehill Fire Clay Works, Drummuir Farm, Ayrshire Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire.   . . . . Below – Outside opening  17″ x 9 3/4″, Female outside diam 13 1/2″, Male outside diam 10″, widest section 28″ .