East Cowcaddens Fire Brick Works, Cowcaddens, Glasgow

(Note – SBH – Please read this in conjunction with the Port Dundas Fire Brick Works as they appear to have been situated very close and indeed they may actually be the same site with Malcolm Paterson operating it prior to Murray’s and Co – for clarification if possible!).

1820 – M Paterson & Co, fire brick makers, Port Dundas, Glasgow.

04/11/1820 – Carlisle Patriot – Sequestrations. Malcolm Paterson & Co, fire brick manufacturers, Port Dundas.

4/1822 – The Edinburgh Magazine – Scottish bankruptcies  – Malcolm Paterson & Co, fire brick manufacturers, Port Dundas, Glasgow.

Below – 26/04/1822 – Glasgow Herald – Valuable fire brick works to be sold. That plot or steading of ground in East Cowcaddens Park and on the right-hand side of the road leading from Glasgow to Port Dundas containing 1302 square yards or thereby with the whole buildings and machinery erected thereon, presently occupied by Messrs Malcolm Paterson and Co, fire brick makers …

1825 – Malcolm Paterson, fire brick manufacturers, Port Dundas, Glasgow.

Below – 1830 – East Cowcaddens Quarry. (Note – this map does not show the brickworks but it does refer to East Cowcaddens where they may have been situated. However, the advert dated 26/04/1822 above may infer that the fire brick works marked on this map may be those that were known as East Cowcaddens. ‘Canmore’ has these works detailed as the Port Dundas Fire Brick Works but they may have been one of the same but in slightly different timescales).

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