Many thanks to Rick Weber for the following photographs and information.
Rick states – We live in Western Head Nova Scotia Canada in the old Western Head schoolhouse built in 1859. I have a pile of old red bricks behind a tree on the edge of the marsh on our property. My wife notice them last May when we purchased the house. I was doing some yard work today and went over to the bricks and noticed the Gartcraig brick peeking out under one of the red bricks. I pulled it out, washed it off and immediately got on the internet to research my find. I was about to send you a picture of the brick but decided to go back to the pile and have another look. I picked every red brick off the pile and found the Gartcosh bricks in the muddy marsh! I’ve also sent pictures of the schoolhouse from way back in the day and a picture of it now so you can actually place the bricks with its original home. The red bricks were not stamped.
Below – Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, by Millerston, Glasgow.
Gartcosh Fireclay Works, Gartcosh, Glasgow.
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Found by Karen Colpitts in Saint John, New Brunswick Canada. The bricks were part of an old lime kiln near an abandoned quarry. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . Below – The original brick structure. Photo 1932 from Michael Milburn. Below – all that is left of the kiln in 2022….
Found by Kristin Schwab on the Merrimack River in Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
The following Scottish bricks were found by Tim Westley in and around Sydney Harbour, Australia. . . . . Below – Ferguslie Patent – Robert Brown & Son, Ferguslie Fire Clay Works, Paisley. Below – Gartcraig – Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. Below – Hurll – Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks…
Found by Thomas Walsh near Vancouver, USA. Thomas states it was found due east of the location of the first lumber mill here in the area during the 1800s as part of the Hudson Bay Company. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
13/11/1840 – John O’ Groat Journal – A very interesting letter from Sydney, under date 6th June last, reached a few days ago. Its writer is a gentleman belonging to Caithness-shire, for some time settled in Sydney. As the information it contains can be relied on, we present our readers with the following extract –…
Found by NSM Archaeology. Gartcraig brick from the Queen’s Marque project in downtown Halifax. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . . . . .
This fire brick was found by Dennis F. Jones on the Minas Basin beach in Tennycape, Nova Scotia, Canada. This example is not in my possession. X Gartcraig or + Gartcraig. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . .
This fire brick was found by Dennis F. Jones on the Minas Basin beach in Tennycape, Nova Scotia, Canada. X Gartcraig or + Gartcraig. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . .
Found by Ian Suddaby in the Midlothian area. This example is not in my possession. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. Ian states – This is a Bellied Chimney Pot. Made at Millerston, Glasgow by the Gartcraig Fire Clay Co., probably in the late 19th century. The maker’s mark looks like it was flat and…
These 2 partial Gratcraig bricks were found by an unknown party near Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada. . . . . Below – ‘Gartcraig’ – Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow.
