Alloa Coal Co Ltd Meta
— 27/04/2019Found by Alan Robertson and Nikki Seats in the Alloa area. Alloa Coal Co Ltd – Meta Brickworks, Fishcross, Clackmannanshire. . . . .
Devonside Brick and Tile Works, Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire
Brick Work, Devonside, Tillicoultry.
1877 – M Penman, Brickmaker, Devonside.
Below – 04/03/1882 – Alloa Advertiser – This article mentions the Devon brick works at Devonside. Alloa Coal Company appear to be referred to as the owners.
1886 – J & P Govan – Brick and Tile Maker, Devonside, Tillicoultry.
(Note – SBH – I believe this will be the same J & P Govan that had the brickworks at Cornton, Stirling and an interest in the clayfields at Longriggs).
Below – 1898 – Brick Work, Devonside, Tillicoultry. The works are not in use by 1920 – old clay pits are noted on the map.
1901 – Directory of clay workers – John Govan, 23 Wallace Street and Cornton, Stirling. N.B. – Inchcoonans, Errol, Perthshire and Devonside, Tillicoultry, R.S.O., Clackmannanshire.
Below – 26/01/1901– Alloa Advertiser – Brickwork at Devonside, Tillicoultry for sale.
Below – 15/06/1901 – Alloa Advertiser – Miller Bros sue James Fyfe for £4 8s 6d after the brickworks were sold in February last. Miller Bros state they bought bricks during the sale and that Fyfe removed them prior to being uplifted.
25/08/1942 – Dundee Courier – An article about children finding a hand grenade at a disused coup adjoining the former Devonside Brickworks, Tillicoultry. Four children died.
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Meta Brickworks, Fishcross, Clackmannanshire
— 04/08/2017Meta Brickworks Fishcross, Clackmannanshire aka Old Sauchie Tower Brickworks. Canmore Info from Andrew Wood – The META coal mine, brickwork & briquetting plant was named after Meta Mary Graham Mitchell. She was the mother of the Managing Director of the Alloa Coal Company, Sir Harold Paton Mitchell. After the mine was nationalised in 1947, the…
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— 28/07/2017Found in Alloa. Probably manufactured by the Alloa Coal Co Ltd at the Meta Brickworks. . . . .
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Longriggs Brick and Tile Works, Coalsnaughton, Clackmannanshire
— 19/06/2017Longriggs Brick and Tile Works, Coalsnaughton, Stirlingshire may in fact just have been a clay pit and a source of clay for John Govan at Cornton Brick and Tile Works, Stirling. Below – 1861 – Longriggs Farm. (Note – SBH – I can find no reference to a brickworks or claypits around Longriggs on the…
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Alloa Coal Co Ltd, Alloa
— 06/12/2014Found by Andrew Wood in the Stirlingshire area. Alloa Coal Co Ltd – Meta Brickworks, Fishcross, Clackmannanshire. . . . .
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Alloa
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