Found by Ian Suddaby on the site of the old Bonnyside Brickworks, Bonnybridge. Unknown maker. Find location and stamp may suggest Scottish origins but … The find location may suggest the brand is a product of James Dougall, Bonnyside Brickworks. (Note – SBH – I also think this brick may be made by the same…
Found in the Broch Burn, Nitshill by Ian Suddaby. Although this brick is incomplete, it is highly likely that it reads, ‘Celtic’ but it looks like a much earlier version than the other ‘Celtic’ bricks listed on the SBH website. Unknown maker. Find location and stamp may suggest Scottish origins but … Find location may…
Found by Pete Rainville in a creek in the middle of a forest just off a logging road in Ontario, Canada. It is believed this brick may have been manufactured in Scotland by an unknown maker. I also think this brick may be made by the same makers as the MAC Brand bricks. . . .
The following Scottish bricks were found by Consuelo Bravo Antúnez in the heart of the Atacama Desert, Chile. The Atacama Desert was a huge source of sodium nitrate (saltpetre) which was mined on a large scale until the early 1940s. The UK imported many many shiploads of the saltpetre and it appears they supplied many…
Vladimir Smirnov writes:- The bricks were found by Eugeny Filinsky in Abkhazia, Gagra city. It is a resort at the coast of the Black Sea. Bricks were found in chimneys and fireplaces during restoration works in the Palace of Duke Alexander Oldenburg (1904). Forth – Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. Mac Brand – Manufacturer unknown…
Found on the Atlas/Etna/Bathville Brickworks sites, Armadale, West Lothian. Unidentified maker. Find location would suggest Scottish origins but … (SBH – Note – Although I still cannot say 100% who manufactured this brick, I am in no doubt who it was manufactured for – Macbeth Brothers, Agents, Importers and Engineers, Bombay, India.) (SBH – Note…
These were found by Joaquin Reyes at an old rice mill here in Imus City, Cavite, Philippines. Joaquin states ” As a background, my great-grandfather established that rice mill sometime between 1929 and 1934. Our family operated it for around sixty-five years before closing it down. The mill was abandoned for a number of years before…
Found at Carberry Colliery, East Lothian and kindly donated by Nick Basden. Scotia FW & Co. The stamp looks like ‘SG’ but it is definitely ‘SC’ – the tail on the ‘C’ is a fault in the brick. Unidentified maker. The name is Scottish in appearance but its origins are in doubt. Although the Scotia…
The following Scottish bricks were photographed at the Andromeda Botanic Gardens in Barbados by Barney Corrigan. . . . . . Below – Mac Brand – Believed to be Scottish but not confirmed. Below – Starworks, Glenboig. Below – Gartcraig. Below – DB 7232 Karrena 611 / 10A AW – Dykehead Fire Brick Works, Bonnybridge…
The following Scottish bricks were found by Igor Tarasov in Vladivostok, Russia. The bricks were found in ruined furnaces which formed part of the Soviet Army barracks in Vladivostok. Firebricks stamped ‘Boghead’ and ‘Scotia’ and a building brick marked ‘Mac Brand’ The manufacturing origins of the Scotia and Mac Brand are not confirmed but I believe…
