Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

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. . . . .

Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .

Source – Arthur H Vinal in his book Edmund March Wheelwright and the chestnut hill, suggests that Wheelwright, Architect,  used Gartcraig bricks in several buildings. “Wheelwight experimented with the pale yellow Scottish firebricks that he used back to front to expose the random black streaking from the kiln, as for instance in the palatial Larz Anderson…

Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .

Found by Erin Dippel at Gaspe, Quebec, Canada. This was once a WW2 Naval Base. It is uncertain what, if anything was on this site prior to the Naval Base. The  name of the beach is called “Boom Defence Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . . The Gartcraig bricks were found strewn along…

Found by Lorna Beecroft. Lorna states ” We found a Gartcraig brick today when we were cleaning up the bricks and debris from a chimney I tore down that was original to our house. There was only one of these bricks mixed in with other local bricks in the chimney and boy, would we ever love to…

Found by Jennifer Shelby,  in Crooked Creek near the village of Riverside-Albert in New Brunswick, Canada. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . . .

The following Scottish bricks were photographed at the Andromeda Botanic Gardens in Barbados by Barney Corrigan. . . . . . Below – Mac Brand – Believed to be Scottish but not confirmed. Below – Starworks, Glenboig. Below – Gartcraig. Below – DB 7232 Karrena 611 / 10A AW – Dykehead Fire Brick Works, Bonnybridge…