Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Vladimir Smirnov writes:- The bricks were found by Eugeny Filinsky in Abkhazia, Gagra city. It is a resort at the coast of the Black Sea. Bricks were found in chimneys and fireplaces during restoration works in the Palace of Duke Alexander Oldenburg (1904). Forth – Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. Mac Brand – Manufacturer unknown…

Found by Gordon Wyle at Greenhill, Bonnybridge. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . .

This Forth brick was found and photographed by Ze’ev Erlich and Shay Shemesh. It was found in a ruined furnace or kiln near Sde Ilan, northern Israel. It was most likely a lime kiln. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . . .

Forth bricks found in Zikhron Ya’akov, Israel by Tal Ben Zion. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . .   . . Below – Google map of the general area of the find site.

Photographed by Angela Henry. These bricks line a fireplace at Angela’s house in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The house was built c. 1960. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . . . . .

Found by Craig Muirhead on 17/09/2012. Craig is a keen scuba diver and was diving on the wreck of the SS Politician. She lies just off Calbhaigh Rock in the Sound of Eriskay, Scotland in very shallow water. The brick was found in one of the ships boilers and there were several other ‘Forth’ bricks…

Photographs and information courtesy of Stuart Harrison. “There is an old sugar mill in southern Mauritius (Bel Ombre) which has been redeveloped as a small shopping mall. A nice touch is that they have used some of the original mill’s bricks as paving in the new centre.” . . . Glenboig A1 Calder Bonnybridge Brand…

Forth and Thistle bricks in Jamaica. Photographed in situ by Ailsa Henderson. The bricks made up a pathway around the Distillery Buildings at the Appleton Rum estate In Jamaica. The Forth and Thistle bricks are both firebricks and will have been used at the distilleries or possibly at any local sugar refinery plant. . .

Found by Doug Douglas at Shingle Bay, Pender Island, BC, Canada. Forth – Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow The Forth bricks were found  at one time a small sea port. It was called Shingle Bay. There appears to have been a fish processing plant there at one time…..

Scottish bricks found  by Enrique Kunz on the banks of the River ‘de la Plata’, in Buenos Aires city and surroundings Argentina Several of these finds – FCCA and FCO,  support the theory of Scottish bricks being manufactured in Scotland for South American Railway Companies – click me  . . . Gartcraig Glenboig FCCA –…