Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

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

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…

Below – 1855 – This map shows the probable location of the Invertiel Brickworks when they were established at some date in the future. 27/04/1877 – Dundee Courier – The Invertiel Limeworks. These limekilns, situated about half a mile from the West Bridge Turnpike on the road to the Grange, have been closed for above…

Found in Fife  – JC Invertiel Brick and Lime Works, Kirkcaldy. . . . .        

Found Granton Firth of Forth. William Torrance, brickmaker and lime burner, Invertiel Road, Kirkcaldy. W Torrance, brick and lime master, Camps Lime Works, Wilkieston, Midlothian. . . .        

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. . . . .