Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Found by Ben Fallon in the Glasgow area. This example is not in my possession. Claythorn Brick and Tile Works, Crow Road, Partick, Glasgow. (Claythorn or Claythorne?) . .  

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….

Canmore 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.

22/03/1865 – Glasgow Herald – Gilchrist & Goldie V Christie & Co – Sheriff Court – This was an action raised at the instance of Messrs Gilchrist and Goldie, brickmakers, Sandyacres, Langside Road, Glasgow against Messrs Christie & Co, 116 St Vincent Street, Glasgow and Mr Peter Christie, Kent Road, Glasgow. Summary of the case…

(Note – SBH – The following references relate to James Goldie and Robert and William Gilchrist, brickmakers from the Glasgow Area. They operated brickworks at Woodend, Claythorn, Shawfield, Sandyacres and Coplawhill. I have been unable to link the entries below to a specific brickworks so I have created this page to ensure they are recorded)…

(Note – SBH –  Mr Jas Goldie’s and William Gilchrist’s bricks are marked Shawfield Toll and I assume these are the same works as Shawfield Brickworks). 1849 – 1850 – James Goldie, brick builder, 78 Rutherglen Loan and 16 Cleland Street, Glasgow. (Note –  SBH – This appears to be a reference to Goldies pre…

Gilchrist and Goldie’s Woodend Brickwork – The main brickworks building stood on the west side of Crow Road just north of what is now Southbrae Drive but they also needed large areas of land nearby in order to dry their bricks on huge tables. Part of their area extended to a large field on the…

29/04/1865 – Glasgow Herald – Maryhill Cattle Show – B. W Dodds, Claythorn Brick and Tile Works, Partick exhibited samples of bricks and drain tile pipes which were commended. 23/11/1866 – Edinburgh Gazette – The Estates of Benjamin William Dods, presently residing at Partick, in the County of Lanark, formerly brick and tile manufacturer at…

Canmore 1840 – 1841 – Skatrigg Coal, Brick & Drain Tile Co, 37 Ropework Lane,  Glasgow. 1841 – 1842 – Skatriggs Coal, Brick & Drain Tile Co, 37 Ropework Lane,  Glasgow. 19/04/1844 – Glasgow Herald – Anti-corn law league … Requested attendees – Angus Campbell – Tilemaker, Skateriggs. Michael Broadly –  – Tilemaker, Skateriggs. Andrew…

Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. William Gilchrist, Brickmaker, Woodend, Crow Road, Partick. . . . .