Dalbeattie has a ghost story – A desperately sad tale of the brick kiln that stood near the bottom end of Port Street. It appears that a young girl who was about four or five, wandered into the kiln whilst it was being stacked for the first firing. The firing had begun before the frantic mother, living further up Port Street, thought to come down and to ask if the ‘wean’ had slipped into the works.
When the kiln was opened and unloaded, the intense heat had apparently left very little of the girl or her doll. The wind across the top of the chimney made a wailing sound, so ever after the locals would shun the area after nightfall. The ‘wailing ghost’ vanished after the kiln was demolished in the 1950s.
Below – 30/10/1841 – Carlisle Journal – Article on land draining in Ayrshire. Early drain ‘tubes’ were made at Drongan Pottery. The article describes various methods for creating a drain and states that in 1841, Ayrshire could boast 54 tileworks. . . Below – 30/12/1846 – Dumfries and Galloway Standard – Article on land draining…
Dalbeattie Brickworks, Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire aka Munches Brick and Tile Works. The flood plain of the Urr has excellent deposits of blue clay, which were quarried for brickmaking once imported coal ensured a good fuel-supply. It seems strange that Dalbeattie should make bricks, but the labour cost of working granite is considerable. Many of the so-called…
Kindly donated by Tommy Henderson, Dalbeattie Museum. McEwan and Shaw – New Tile Works, Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire George Shaw, New Tile Works, Dalbeattie . . . Below – front Reverse
Found Dundee. Find location suggests Scottish origins but…. Any ideas. Something like Dunshalt Brick and Tile Works, Auchtermucthy, Fife – which is 20 miles or so from the find site or the Den Brick and Tile Works, Kirkcaldy, Fife. . . Below – Many thanks to Chris McIntyre for the following information. The DBT bricks…
