Dalserf Coke, Coal and Brickworks, Swinehill, South Lanarkshire aka Swinhill. (SBH – Note – I am uncertain where exactly the brickworks with regards Dalserf Coke, Coal and Brickworks were located. Can anyone clarify this please?)
1858 – Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for 1858 Dalserf, clay of coal measures. Name of freeholder – Duke of Hamilton. Manufacturer – John Marshall. Manufacture – bricks.
Below – 1858 – Swinehill Colliery, Coke Ovens and Tileworks. (SBH – Note these tileworks appear to have been known as Hailstonemyre Tileworks – Did the Swinehill Colliery take over these tileworks c. 1858?)
1866 – 1868 -Dalserf Coal, Coke and Oil Company Ltd, Glasgow.
25/03/1874 – Glasgow Herald – Works store and dwelling house to let. A newly-erected commodious store and dwelling house situated at the works of Messrs Miller and Rogers, Dalserf Collieries Coke and Brickworks, Swinhill near Stonehouse to be let immediately for one or more years. For particulars apply at the Glasgow Office, 122 Wellington Street or to the manager at the works.
1878 – Dalserf Coke, Coal and Brickworks, Office 122 Wellington Street, Glasgow.
1886 – Miller George, Dalserf Collieries, Swinhill, near Larkhall; Office, 204 Stobcross St. Glasgow.
Below – 1896 – Cornsilloch Collieries. No reference to a brickworks.
Below – 1896 – Swinhill Colliery. No reference to a brickworks.
17/05/1911 – The Scotsman – Important sale of colliery plant and machinery, coal washing, cleaning and brickwork plant at Cornsilloch Collieries, Dalserf, on an early day. Shirlaw Allan and Co have received instructions from Messrs Archibald Russell limited owing to the termination of the lease to sell by auction, the whole plant, as above. Hamilton. May 1911.
08/07/1911 – Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser – Sale on 03/08/1911 and 04/08/1911 – Cornsilloch Collieries, Dalserf – Colliery and brickworks plant.
Below – 1859 – Bog Colliery and nearby clay pit. 1886 – Hamilton McCulloch & Co, coal masters and fire clay goods manufacturers, Home Farm and Bog Collieries & Works (On the estates of His Grace the Duke of Hamilton), near Hamilton. Head Office 88 Great Clyde Street. Branches 111 West Nile Street, Glasgow, 34…
Canmore 27/07/1849 – Glasgow Herald – Farm to let – Darngaber containing about 73 acres or thereby is four miles from Hamilton, to which there is an excellent road and a ready market for all description of farm produce. There is a going tilework on the farm and coal and lime close by. 1851 – Glasgow…
Hailstonemyre Tileworks, Near Birkenshaw, Dalserf, South Lanarkshire possibly aka Swinehill Tileworks. (SBH – Note – see also the Dalserf Coke, Coal and Brickworks, Swinehill, South Lanarkshire as their Swinehill Colliery and Coke ovens appears to have been build on the site of the Hailstonemyre Tileworks c. 1858) Below – 1858 – Hailstonemyre Tileworks Below –…
Machan Tilework, Larkhall, South Lanarkshire aka Mauchan. Below – 1858 – Mauchan Brick and Tile Works. (Not detailed on the 1896 map). 1858 – 1861 – ScotlandsPlaces – A wooden shed, a kiln, and a dwelling house, used for the manufacturing of bricks and tiles. Wrought by the propritor J. Marshall Esqr. of West Mauchan…
Found at Muirhead, Lanarkshire. Tannochside Brickworks, Uddingston, Lanarkshire A R – Archibald Russell . . .
1858 – Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for 1858 – Sunnyside, clay of coal measures. Name of freeholder – Mr Russell. Manufacturer – Mr Russell. Manufacture – Estimated annual production, 146,384 fire bricks, 622,077 composition bricks, 41,350 misc items. 1858 – 1861 – ScotlandsPlaces – Sunnyside Fire Brick and…
(Note – SBH – The references below indicate the continued occupation of the Hamiltonhill Brickworks by the Allan family for some considerable time. There are a couple of grey areas with regards to the 2 newspaper articles dated 1873 and 1891 in that they are for the sale of Hamiltonhill Brickworks. I am assuming these…
Tannochside Brickworks, Uddingston, South Lanarkshire. Canmore Archibald Russell Ltd – mining details The information on Archibald Russell from research by Debrett is as follows: Archibald Russell “Old King Coal” the son of Archibald Russell and Jean nee Wright, was born 1830/1 at Govan. He resided at Wishaw House and Auchinraith House, Blantyre and died 11 April 1904…
Wishaw Collieries & Brickworks and Broxburn Shale Oil, Coal & Brickworks. Canmore Info Below – 29/11/1844 – Glasgow Herald – Tile and brick works to let, Wishaw Estate. Below – 24/12/1849 – Glasgow Herald – James Ferguson acting as an agent for the Wishaw Tile and Brick Works plus details on some products being manufactured….
There is little doubt that James Young made bricks to construct his employee’s houses etc and also exploited the fireclay seams to make refractory bricks for his numerous enterprises – but did he mark them. See Young’s and Young which appears to be a different Company. (Note – SBH – Young and Young’s have both been found on-site…
