Found in the Glasgow area.
Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow.
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Found by Chris Hill, Jack Whittles and Christa Stone at Mount Sicker, near Duncan, British Columbia, Canada. The area was a small mining community which operated c. 1898 – 1909. Information Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. These bricks were stamped with an ‘X’ or a small square and would appear to be variations…
(Note – SBH – I am not convinced these works were a brick or fire clay works but I have added them for interests sake for the time being) Below – 1885 – Glasgow Herald – Porcelain Bath and Fancy Clay Works, recently erected but not used and belonging to the cessio Estates of Oliver…
The following information and photographs have been supplied by Jack Whittles and Christa Stone from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Jack states “Recently I have been collecting many bricks from a colliery site on Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada. The Colliery was for the Cumberland Coal Mines that were in operation from about 1888 to 1961….
These bricks were photographed in Millsville, Nova Scotia, Canada by Alena Martin. Alena states ” I was talking pictures of our original coal burning fire place and it caught my interest! Our house was built in Rural Nova Scotia (Millsville / Scotsburn) in 1886 by the Young family. Could these be Gartcraig bricks? One is…
‘Gartcraig’ and ‘Heatheryknowe, Patent, Glasgow’ bricks found by Romney Brain Port at Blakely on Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA. Romney states ” In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Port Blakely Mill operated as one of the largest lumber mills in the world (for many of those years, it was). (https://portblakely.com/port-blakely/our-story). Walking the shores of Port Blakely…
Found Bonnyside, Bonnybridge. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow . . . .
Found Bonnyside, Bonnybridge. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
Found by Guillermo Dubosc on the banks of the River Uruguay, City of Salto, Uruguay. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
Photographed on Robben Island, Near Cape Town, South Africa. The island was used as a leper colony and to isolate political prisoners such as Nelson Mandela and Jacob Zuma. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . .
Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
