Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area.
Garrowhill, Bailieston, Glasgow
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Barrachnie Colliery and Brickworks, Baillieston, Glasgow aka Garrowhill Brickworks. Gartocher Coal and Brick Company, Barrachnie brick manufacturers, Garrowhill, Glasgow. Canmore Below – 1910 – This map was published in 1947 but the details at the bottom seem to indicate it was surveyed in 1910. 1928 – 1939 – The 1985 publication ‘A survey of Scottish…
Found in Glasgow. Garrowhill, Baillieston, Glasgow. . . . . Below – A similar stamp on a slightly narrower brick but with a missing ‘R’. Found by Tucker Kennedy in Ayrshire. Below – A similar stamp on a brick from Frank Lawson’s collection. It is unknown where it was found. Note the missing ‘L’.
Found Kilbarchan area by Bill Spiers. Gartocher Coal and Brick Company, Barrachnie brick manufacturers, Garrowhill, Glasgow. . . . .
17/06/1820 – Caledonian Mercury – The brick s making business is now extremely flat. There are thirty-five brick manufactories within about two miles of Glasgow, of these only 10 are working and twenty-four are totally idle. Every field is supposed to produce 500,000 bricks yearly, consequently, there has been a falling off of 12,000,000 in…
Found at Drum Farm, Bonnybridge Garrowhill, Baillieston, Glasgow . . . . Below – The same brick mark on a slightly larger brick.
