Garngard brick works, Garngad Road, Glasgow.
1878 – Miller & Young, Pottery Manufacturers, Garngad Hill, Glasgow (Note – SBH – connected – probably not?).
Below – 1896 – Blochairn Quarry which was later renamed Garngad Quarry.
1904 – 1905 – John Dodds, moulding sand, ground fireclay and composition brick maker, 470 Garngad road ; ho., 575 Alexandra parade.
Below – 1910 – Garngad Quarry. The Brickworks were up and running but they are not marked.
Below – 1933 – Ganrgad Brick Works.
1936 – 1937 – Garngad Brick & Sand Co. Ltd., brickmakers and Sand quarries, 460-470 Garngad road, N ; Tel. No., Bell 2994.
Below – 09/08/1939 – The Scotsman – I.R.A soldiers – Men refuse to plead at Glasgow High Court – Ten years in jail for one……. the relevant reference to the brickwork part of the article is copied below….100 sticks of gelignite and 514 detonators stolen from the Garngad Brick & Sand Co. Ltd.
19/08/1899 – Falkirk Herald – Discovery of minerals near Kilsyth – Mr Street, who recently acquired Coneypark and Tomsyne Estates, Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, has been conducting operations to ascertain what minerals underlie these estates. The existence of various valuable coal and clay seams, also a very rich seam of shale, never hitherto known occur locality, has been…
Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Gartliston (opened 1889) and Garnqueen (opened 1895) which was closer to Glenboig village, being about 1 mile south east of the village. Canmore – Gartliston Canmore – Garnqueen Monklands – a cracking read – A personal recollection By Bob McMillan P & M Hurll Ltd owned Birkhill Clay Mine in…
(Note – SBH – I find the information on the brickworks at Aberhill, Denbeath, Methil and Wemyss very confusing with regards names and locations that seem to swap and move! If anyone can clarify the situation for me or point out information that is perhaps listed wrongly against a particular brickworks then please get in…
1899 – Bartonshill Brick Company, Brickmakers, Bargeddie, Glasgow. 22/11/1902 – Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser – Brick kiln lodger – On Monday at Airdrie J.P Court John Murphy, miner, of no fixed residence. was charged with lying in a brick-kiln at Bartonshill Brickworks, on Monday, 17th November, without the permission of the owner. On pleading guilty the accused was…
The Calder Fireclay Company was founded in 1880 by Robert Fleming & Co with a brickworks at Armadale. The Company was reconstructed in 1892 as the Calder Fireclay Co and passed into the control of the Paine family who erected a brickworks 2 miles south east of Airdrie near the Carnbroe Iron Works. They also…
Canmore Greenfield Brickworks, Shettleston, Glasgow were later known as Frankfield Brickworks 27/05/1899 – Dundee Advertiser – New joint stock companies, Scotland – Greenfield Coal and Brick Company, Greenfield Colliery, Shettleston – to purchase from Thomas Spittal, contractor, Shettleston his business of colliery proprietor and brick maker, and to carry on the business of miners, smelters,…
Sited close to the glassworks, and probably dates back to about 1750. An advertisement in the Stirling Journal of 20th July 1820 offers common brick at 30 shillings per thousand and firebricks at 70 shillings per thousand. The firebricks very superior having been fully proved in the strongest furnaces. It was managed by W &…
Below – 15/12/1892 – Dundee Courier – A labourer James Clark was charged with having on 9th December at the colliery office at Muiredge, belonging to Messsrs Bowman produced to James Dryburgh, Cashier a ticket or order stating “Brick work pit, Dec 12 1892, Please pay Wm Macaky 3 days 4 hours at 3s per…
21/08/1854 – Glasgow Herald – Ground near Parkhead to be feued and ground for brick fields to be let. To be feued, those parts of the Estate of Carntyne, lying in the immediate vicinity of Messrs Napiers Forge and adjacent to the road from Glasgow to Edinburgh by Duke Street. Those parts of the lands…
22/03/1890 – Motherwell Times – Four labourers with no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to lodging in a brick kiln in Watsonville Brickworks in contravention of the Trespass Act and were dismissed with an admonition. 1896 – John Watson Limited – Watsonville Works, Motherwell. Office 123 Vincent Street, Glasgow.
