Kindly donated by Wendi Bates.
Wendi believes she obtained the brick on a school trip (pre-1962) to some trade fair or other in South Africa.
This is only 3″ long and appears to be a salesman’s sample. (8cm x 4cm x 3cm 170g).
Note the letters ‘UN’ are obviously upside down but I suspect the whole stamp is actually upside down.
Dundee Brick and Tile Company, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Dundee Brick and Tile Company, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 04/11/1899 – St. Andrews Citizen – … Coincidently, with the battle of Dundee, and the sad death of General Symons there, it is interesting to note that the founder of Dundee is a Scotsman. This gentleman – Mr Peter Smith – is a native of Forfarshire, being…
13/11/1840 – John O’ Groat Journal – A very interesting letter from Sydney, under date 6th June last, reached a few days ago. Its writer is a gentleman belonging to Caithness-shire, for some time settled in Sydney. As the information it contains can be relied on, we present our readers with the following extract –…
Photographed on Robben Island, Near Cape Town, South Africa. The island was used as a leper colony and to isolate political prisoners such as Nelson Mandela and Jacob Zuma. The Gartcraig bricks were seen in an old graveyard. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . . .
Found by Nikki Stewart, Enviromental Officer, Kimberley Ekapa Mining JV, South Africa. These bricks were found on a slag heap at Kimberley, the home of South African diamond mining. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. and Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Glenboig Star Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Glenboig Fireclay Works,…
Many thanks to Bob Frost, Tasmania for directing me towards the following information. RMS Orcades was a British passenger ship that Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd of Barrow-in-Furness built as an ocean liner in 1937. Her owner was Orient Line, which operated her between Britain and Australia 1937–39, and also as a cruise ship. The Admiralty then requisitioned…
Canmore 07/06/1838 – Perthshire Advertiser – Pitfour Brick and Tile Works are now in operation and written orders will be received by William Hay, overseer, Pitfour. 28/05/1838. 16/04/1840 – Perthshire Courier – Pitfour Brick and Tile Works. Below – 26/11/1840 – Perthshire Advertiser – Pitfour Tileworks to let. Machinery includes 2 x steam-driven, Marquis of…
Allan & Mann Govan Patent Glasgow brick found in a shipwreck off Struis Point, Nr Arniston, South Africa (Struisbaai). **************** Allan & Mann, Port Eglinton, Glasgow. Alternative brickworks include: Rutherglen Pottery, Glasgow. Mallsmire Works, Myrtle Park, Crosshill, Glasgow. **************** Olivier and Nicolas from Belgium were visiting the “Shipwreck Museum” in Bredasdorp, South Africa when they…
Found Bo’ness. Cullinan Refractories, South Africa. Lexicon Conrand Company, South Africa . . . The high quality clay field found at Olifantsfontein while prospecting the Johannesburg-Pretoria leg of the NZASM line in the 1890s gave rise to the formation by Sir Thomas Cullinan of The Consolidated Rand Brick, Pottery and Lime Company which later became…
