Found in the Glasgow area.
Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow.
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Found by Brady Treneer on the St. Croix river, Robbinston, Maine, USA. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. The manufacturer of this brick is unknown but I am beginning to lean heavily toward it being a Gartcraig brick due to the volume of Gartcraigs that turn up on foreign shores. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works,…
Found by Karen Prytula in Quebec, Canada. Karen states:- The forest is near Lake Dumont, Quebec. This area was worked by lumbermen anytime between 1840 and early 1900s. Close to the pile of bricks were the remnants of a big furnace. We are not sure what the furnace was for … We think it was…
Gartcraig Scotland No 6 brick found in Rockland, Ontario, Canada by Helen Pace. Helen says ” We are a small community of under 10,000 and the town arose from the Edwards Mill in the mid to late 1800s. It is a Francophone community. Our home, a millers home, is dated approximately 1905 however, a fire…
The following Scottish bricks are in a collection held by Craig Powell. Craig lives in Merredin, Western Australia. Below – A Nettle stamped brick. This is a product of John G Stein. This brick was found in the Swan River smack in the middle of Perth. An area that was reclaimed riverside land that had…
This brick was found by Mike Whalen. It was found on the banks of the Black River, close to Middleton, off of Allen Lake Road. It is possibly an old mill site. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
Found by Craig Zderich and Leslie Bell. Craig states ” The bricks were found 4 hours north of Kalgoorlie at an old mine site called Bellevue the mine has a very old history dating back to 1860s. There was a town just over the road that does not exist anymore called Sir Samuel which, in…
Found by Christian Pedersen in the remains of Fiddlehead Farm, located near Powell River, BC, Canada. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
Found by Michael Wiggin at the site of an old lime kiln/quarry at Green Head in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Gartcraig Scotland Gaskil. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . Link – Lime, or quicklime, is produced from carbonate sedimentary rocks like limestone. Lime is then used for a variety of…
These bricks were found by an unknown party at the long-vanished gold rush town of Fairview, near Oliver, in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. Fairview was abandoned by 1919. The bricks are currently stored within the Oliver Museum. Photographs by Ralph Mills. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . Below –…
These bricks were found by Guillaume Girard on the banks of the Ottawa River near to Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada. Other brickmarks found nearby were “T Carr” from the NE of England and a brick stamped “National” which may well have Canadian or American origins. Around the 1900s this area was heavily used in the…
