This is a baby firebrick recovered from a skip in Gatehouse Fleet by MK.
Campbell & Co, Roughcastle Fireclay Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire.
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Below – This version is actually a bullnose with the top right hand corned being rounded off.
Many thanks to Cris Pasquali for the following photographs and information. Cris states ” I found these bricks in the Northern part of my city Rosario (Province of Santa Fe) on the coast of the Parana River. From the late nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century, railway, port and industrial activities were developed in…
Found by Gordon Wyle at Greenhill, Bonnybridge. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . .
Found at an unknown location in Scotland and kindly donated by Nick Basden. Sanquhar Brick and Tile Works, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire. This is a minature baby brick. It is also a ‘stop end’ brick. . . . . Below – A similar sized brick without the ‘stop end’. This was found by Joan Faithfull.
This Forth brick was found and photographed by Ze’ev Erlich and Shay Shemesh. It was found in a ruined furnace or kiln near Sde Ilan, northern Israel. It was most likely a lime kiln. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . . .
Found near Falkirk. Campbell & Co Falkirk, Roughcastle Fireclay Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. The stamps may be the same with the angled example possibly being distorted during firing. . . .
A small baby brick. Possibly a salesman’s sample. 3″ long. Buccleuch Terra Cotta Works, Sanquhar, Dumfries-shire. . . . . .
Find location in Scotland somewhere but I have forgotten exactly where. I will remember! Unknown maker. Find location would suggest Scottish origins but…. . . Below- photo of the stamp pencilled in and one without. .
Found in Kilwinning. Baby firebrick for a house open fire. Hurlford Fireclay Works, Galston Road, Hurlford, Ayrshire . . .
Photographed by Angela Henry. These bricks line a fireplace at Angela’s house in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The house was built c. 1960. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . . . . .
Found by Craig Muirhead on 17/09/2012. Craig is a keen scuba diver and was diving on the wreck of the SS Politician. She lies just off Calbhaigh Rock in the Sound of Eriskay, Scotland in very shallow water. The brick was found in one of the ships boilers and there were several other ‘Forth’ bricks…
