Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Photographed by Martin Sneddon in the Ayrshire area. I am not in possession of this example. There may also be another word stamped above Warrix but it is unclear. Warrix Fire Clay Works, Irvine, North Ayrshire. . . .

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 utilised the fireclay extracted from the Warrix Coalpit which was 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. Specialities – white and yellow enamelled kitchen…

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…

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. 1886 – the Bourtreehill Coal Company extended it’s Broomlands No.9…

Found at Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, 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 bears the…

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. .