Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Found at the Craigrigg Brickworks. Craigrigg Works, Westfield, West Lothian. . . . .

I have added this page to my website for interests sake due to its nearness to English and Scottish Tile Works and the stamped bricks seen on site. Nottylees Lime Kiln is situated near Nottylees Farm and right on the edge of the old Berwick to Kelso Railway about 1/4 of a mile  West of…

Found on the shore at Alloa. Darngavil Brickworks Ltd, Craigrigg Works, West Lothian. Alternative brickworks include: Darngavil Brickworks Ltd, Darngavil Works, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. . . .

Found in the Glasgow area. Darngavil Brickworks Ltd, Craigrigg Works, West Lothian. Alternative brickworks include: Darngavil Brickworks Ltd, Darngavil Works, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. . .

Broomhouse Brickworks, Broomhouse, North Lanarkshire. (Are Broomhouse Brickworks and Broomhouse Brick Co Limited 2 different companies who at one time operated the same site?) Canmore Info –  Opened 1883, closed 1 January 1917, re-opened 2 June 1919, closed 24 September 1927. The station here closed in 1927 but the signal box remained open. The signal box…

Darngavil Brickworks Ltd, Craigrigg Works, West Lothian aka Craigrigg Brickworks. Alternative brickworks include: Darngavil Brickworks Ltd, Darngavil Works, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. Canmore Canmore 04/10/1884 – Lanarkshire Upper Ward Advertiser – To let clay, blaize and fire clay, part of the lands of Dargavil for the purpose of making bricks – for particulars apply at Darngavil Colliery…

(Note – SBH – Could these brickworks be the source of bricks marked Garowhill and Garrowhill?) Gartocher Coal and Brick Company, Barrachnie brick manufacturers, Garrowhill, Glasgow. 30/06/1928 – Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser – At Barrachnie Colliery, Baillieston, owned by the Mount Vernon Coal Coy., Ltd., a new brick producing plant is in course of erection, and it…

Found at the Gartliston Works, Glenboig. Note the  round ended from within the outer square ended frog. Darngavil Brickworks Ltd, Craigrigg Works, West Lothian. Alternative brickworks include: Darngavil Brickworks Ltd, Darngavil Works, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. .  

Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. Alexander Whitelaw & Co, Dargavel brick works, Bishopton. . . . .  

Found at Whitecross, Linlithgow Darngavil Brickworks Ltd, Craigrigg Works, West Lothian. Alternative brickworks include: Darngavil Brickworks Ltd, Darngavil Works, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. . . Below  – The same stamp on a brick found at Alloa but note the additional horizontal ribs above and below the main frog design.