Found by Gordon Wyle at Greenhill, Bonnybridge.
Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire.
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This lovely example of a ‘Forth’ brick was found by Uri Geller during the refurbishment of a museum he owns in Old Jaffa, Israel. The building sits on top of an old olive oil soap factory and this brick was found inside an old furnace which formed part of the works. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge,…
Found by Segev Moisa on the beach at Jaffa, Israel. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . .
Found by Fabrizio Morelli in the foundations of his house at Huinca Renanco, Córdoba, Argentina. The house was built in 1927. Below – BAP Forth – Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. I believe this brick is manufactured for the South American Railway network. click here. . Below -BAP = Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway. “LGSM” is an…
Found by Chris Tilney in the Northumbria area. This example is not in my possession. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . .
1931 – “A list of distinctive marks, trade names and trademarks appearing on bricks, tiles, stone and sanitary ware” states that fire bricks stamped ‘Beaver’ were being manufactured by Campbell & Co along with bricks stamped ‘Phoenix’, ‘Vulcan’ and ‘Forth’. (Note – SBH – I have a hard copy of this document. I have not…
Found by Ian Suddaby at Tamfourhill, Falkirk. This example is not in my possession. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . .
Found by Ian Suddaby at Tamfourhill, Falkirk. This example is not in my possession. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. I believe this brick is manufactured for the South American Railway network. click here. FCCC also stands for the Central Cordoba Railway, Argentina. .
Found by Patrick Keith Griffin in Rhode Island, USA. . . . . . Below – Forth – Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. Below – Gartcraig Scotland – Gartcraig, By Millerston, Glasgow.
Found by Isabel and David Fairgrieve on a slag heap at the site of the old Tamfourhill Coal Pit, Falkirk. This example is not in my possession. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . .
Found by Peter Shapter in the at Kelligrews, Newfoundland, Canada. Peter states – It was found near an abandoned railway track so it may have been in a firebox of a locomotive. If my suspicion is correct it had a firebox for coal. But it may have been converted to oil-fired in its last days…
