Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Found by Elaine Hall at New Hailes, Musselburgh. William Torrance – Brickmaker and Lime Burner, Inverteil Road, Kirkcaldy. W Torrance, brick and lime master, Camps Lime works, Wilkieston, Mid Lothian. . . .  

Found at Bonnyrigg, Midlothian. Camps Lime and Brick Works, Wilkieston, West Lothian. . . . .

Burnhouse Brickworks, Camps, Wilkieston, West Lothian formerly Camps Lime and Brickworks. 27/03/1900 – Edinburgh Gazette – Mentions a Mr Thomas Alexander Torrance, farmer, of Burnhouse, Kirknewton, trading as William Torrance, of the Camps Lime, Brick, and Fire Clay Works. This does suggest that both the Camps and Burnhouse bricks were manufactured at the same brickworks….

Camps Lime and Brick Works, Wilkieston, West Lothian. “A Survey of Scottish Brickmarks” lists little more than the word “Camps” in relation to this brickmark, so this is really an educated guess at where this brick was manufactured. Information on the Museum of Scottish Shale Oil website shows that the above works did have a…

12/01/1878 – Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian  – A disputed contract – An action was raised in the debts Recovery Court, Cupar, on Thursday, by James Clark, John Taylor, and Andrew Eadie, contractors, against William Torrance, Invertiel Lime Works, concluding for £50 8s 4d, as account for “tirring” ground at Invertiel Lime Quarry.  It…

Found in Fife  – JC Invertiel Brick and Lime Works, Kirkcaldy . . . Below – partial brick depicting W.Torran(ce)   There is also the distinct possibility (and the favourite choice of JC) that the Invertiel brick is a product of David Methven & Sons, Brick and Tile and Pottery Works, Links Street, Kirkcaldy which…

Found Granton Firth of Forth William Torrance – Brickmaker and Lime Burner, Inverteil Road, Kirkcaldy W Torrance, brick and lime master, Camps Lime works, Wilkieston, Mid Lothian. There is not trace of the word ‘Camps’ onthis brick as per my other example. . .        

Found Loanhead, Edinburgh. Burnhouse Brickworks, Camps, Wilkieston, West Lothian formerly Camps Lime and Brick Works. . . . .        

Found Seafield, Edinburgh Camps Lime and Brick Works, Wilkieston, West Lothian. . . . .