Found on the shore at Maryport, Cumbria.
Calsil – possibly an abbreviation for ‘Calcium Silicate’
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The following are references to brick manufacturers using calcium silicate.
Below – 12/03/1931 – West Sussex Gazette – Midhurst Brick Company, Midhurst, Sussex. 37s 6d per 1000.
1966 – Construction News – Related news to the manufacture of Calcium Silicate bricks – Calcium silicate brick manufacturers are losing millions of pounds every year because their products are being unfairly blacklisted.
That is the claim of the Calcium Silicate Brick Association (CSBA), which has launched a campaign against the growing inclusion of its products on lists of deleterious materials in building contract documents.
John Saunders, chairman of the CSBA and a director of Ryarsh, the UK’s largest maker of calcium silicate bricks, said: The problem has got worse with the increased use of legal documents, such as collateral warranties, in the building industry and with the increasing trend towards subcontracting of design and contract management.
The so-called blacklists developed from documents originally intended to exclude genuinely deleterious materials asbestos, for example. According to Mr Saunders, these lists have gradually been extended, probably by over-cautious and ill-informed legal professionals, to include other products which pose no risk.
Ryarsh manufactures calcium silicate bricks to British Standard BS 187 and was awarded an Agreement certificate for its calcium silicate bricks five years ago. Last year, in an open letter, British Board of Agreement director Peter Hewlett described the blacklisting of calcium silicate bricks as unjustified and based on misconceptions.
Research conducted in 1994 by the Construction Industry Research and Information Association found 68 products, not originally identified by any collateral warranty documents, included on lists of proscribed materials. Calcium silicate bricks appeared on nearly half these lists.
Mr Saunders said that all members of the CSBA had suffered a loss of business as a result of the blacklists and that the effects had been more significant than the recession.
Up to 25 per cent of potential business has been lost.
It wouldn’t be exaggerating to say that the problem has brought the industry to its knees, said Mr Saunders.
The CSBA campaign aims not only to publicise the problem but also to confront every case it finds. This will involve supporting specifiers who are banned from using calcium silicate bricks and lobbying government with the aim of keeping product blacklists out of public sector contracts.
We will also take legal recourse if we can find the right case, said Mr Saunders.
A legal precedent was narrowly missed recently when a Scottish manufacturer, Kirkforthar Brick, challenged the inclusion of calcium silicate bricks on a blacklist used by West Lothian District Council. The council agreed to lift the ban before a court ruling could be made.
1968 – Records of Shirlaw Allan, Industrial auctioneers, Hamilton, Scotland. For sale – Calcium silicate brick making plant and machinery, Cochran Chieftain steam package boiler.. stationary air compressors etc at Rosewell Brickworks, Rosewell near Bonnyrigg.
Below – 27/12/1968 – Acheson, Cookstown manufacturer of Calcium Silicate bricks in Northern Ireland since 1963.
Found to the South West of St Petersburg, Russia. (Near the Estonian border). Many thanks to Vladimir Smirnov for sending the photograph. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . . Below – This similar stamp was also found in St Petersburg, Russia and in an old stove lining. It is in the possession of Vladimir…
Found by Ian Suddaby at the site of the old Roslin Gunpowder Works, Roslin. This example is not in my possession. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . .
Found by Ian Suddaby in the Edinburgh area. Note the 3 ‘pimples’ above ‘hill’. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . .
Found by Ian Suddaby at Portobello. This example is not in my possession. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . .
Found by Ian Suddaby in the Edinburgh area. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . . . Below – The same stamp on a similar brick found by Ian Suddaby at the same location.
24/04/1975 – The Scotsman – Scotland’s brickmakers build Scotland’s future. Scottish members of the Scottish Brick Development Association. Cherryton Brick Company. Dewar and Finlay Ltd. Glasgow Iron and Steel. Kirkforthar Brick Co Ltd. Motherwell Brick Co. Scottish Brick Co Ltd.
Dougie Somerville, Bonnyrigg worked at the Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian from 1957 to 1979. By the time he started work Whitehill had stopped making salt glazed water and sewage pipe. The sheds that had been used for this purpose were still in situ and full of moulds and tools as well as assorted products….
Found at Bonnyrigg Pit ‘Kiln’, Mid Lothian and kindly donated by Nick Basden. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . . .
Found at Bonnyrigg Pit ‘Kiln’, Mid Lothian and kindly donated by Nick Basden. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian.. . . . .
Found in Jedburgh, Scottish Borders. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . . .
