Strathbungo Brickworks, Strathbungo, Glasgow AKA – Coplawhil or Coplawhill Brickworks? (Note – SBH – This brickworks relationship confuses me. Can anyone firm up on the meagre information recorded here?).
1884 -1885 – James Goldie & Son, brickmakers; Works, Sandyacres, Langside Road, Coplawhill, Victoria Road, Shawfield Toll, Rutherglen Road, and Woodend, Crow Road, Partick.
Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. James Goldie and Son, Westholm or Westthorn Brickworks, Glasgow. The ‘Goldie’ stamp comprises of raised letters. This stamp has however been stamped over a Jas Goldie & Son, Old Langside Road, Glasgow 1885. This brick is frogged to both sides. . . .
14/07/1923 – Glasgow Herald – Man was not long on the world’s stage when he commenced to work clay and impress on its plastic surface his primitive ideas. A common clay brick, even to the initiated tells its story and forms an important clue in the history of man. In Scotland, the earliest bricks made…
This brick was found by Javier Pérez while diving in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Alicante, Spain. Manufactured by Gilchrist & Goldie, Shawfield Toll Brickworks, Glasgow. . . . .
Found by Richard Dobbin in the Bridgeton area of Glasgow. Manufactured by Gilchrist & Goldie, Shawfield Toll Brickworks, Glasgow. . . . .
Many thanks to Terrence Honore and the Palmiste Historical Society for the following information. These Scottish bricks were found on the Cedar Grove, Canaan Palmiste Estates, Trinidad. They were formerly owned by Scotsmen like the Lamonts. A chimney of bricks from that era 1810, still stands, along with bridges and a few other structures. The…
Muirhouses Brickworks, Eglinton Street, Glasgow. (See also Barlinnie Fireclay Works and Campbellfield Brick Tile and Pottery Works and Strathbungo Brickworks). (Note – SBH – I believe the brickfield indicated south of Lily Bank Road is the Lilybank Brickworks. The narrative below states that the Muirhouses Brickworks were built illegally so that is perhaps why they…
Found by Nina C Baker in the Glasgow area. I am not in possession of this example. Although the date area of the brick is broken it looks fairly certain that it reads 1865. (Far right of the bottom line of text). Gilchrist & Goldie Old Langside Road Glasgow. . .
Found by Dr Ian Law at Balmore near Torrance. This example is not in my possession. (Note – SBH – This is recorded meantime as 1893 but it may read 1898). James Goldie and Son, Crow Road, Partick. Goldie, James & Son, brickmakers; Works, Sandyacres, Langside Road, Coplawhill, Victoria Road, Shawfield Toll, Rutherglen Road and…
Found by Griselda Estrada de Acevedo and Marta Diaz in Colon Province, beyond Nuevo Tonosí, Panama. This was found on the family farm. Many thanks to Cristhian Acevedo for sending the photograph and information. Gilchrist & Goldie Crow Road Partick Glasgow 1882. . . .
Jordanhill Brickworks were in operation until the raw materials were exhausted in 1928. From them were drawn the bricks for part of Glasgow Corporation’s housing estate at Knightswood. Whitewashed low roofed houses occupied by workers in the brickfields while modern buildings were raised around them struck a note of incongruity for a year or two….
