(Note – SBH – The following references relate to James Goldie and Robert and William Gilchrist, brickmakers from the Glasgow Area. They operated brickworks at Woodend, Claythorn, Shawfield, Sandyacres and Coplawhill. I have been unable to link the entries below to a specific brickworks so I have created this page to ensure they are recorded)
20/02/1866 – Glasgow Evening Citizen – Bankruptcy proceedings – Donald McArthur, brick builder, Glasgow … and Alex Goldie of Gilchrist and Goldie, one of the creditors.
1869 – office – 40 St Enoch Sq, Glasgow.
1868 – 1869 – Robert Gilchrist, brickmaker and builder, 9 Macfarlane Street, Glasgow.
1869 – 1870 – Robert Gilchrist, brickmaker and builder, 9 Macfarlane Street, Glasgow.
1875 – 1876 – Alexander Goldie (of James Goldie and Son and Gilchrist and Goldie) res. Millbrae House, Langside, Glasgow.
James Goldie (of James Goldie and Son and Gilchrist and Goldie). House 1 Kerrsland Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow.
1878 – James Goldie, brick builder and maker 1 Kersland Street, Great Western Road, Glasgow.
1879 – 1888 – 2 Kirklee Circus, Kelvinside is formerly known as 2 Windsor Circus. James Goldie (Of James Goldie & Son, & of Gilchrist & Goldie, brick builders & contractors, 40 St. Enoch Square).
31/08/1883 – Dundee Courier – James Goldie & Son, brickmakers, Glasgow were yesterday fined £2 2s 6d including costs under the Factory Act for employing boys without certificates of fitness to labour.
1883 – 1884 – Robert Gilchrist, brickmaker and builder, 9 Macfarlane Street, Glasgow. House 7 Somerville Place, Glasgow.
25/06/1889 – Greenock Telegraph – The Paisley Gas Corporation has accepted the offer of Jas Goldie & Son, brick manufacturers, Glasgow for erecting of a new gas holder and tank. The tank is to be 38 feet deep and diameter 162 feet. The contract price is £12, 500. The storage capacity of the holder will be 1,400,000 cubic feet. This will be the second-largest holder in Scotland, the largest being in Glasgow.
1901 – Directory of clay workers – Jas. Goldie and Son, 52 St. Enoch Square, Glasgow, Scotland. Terra Cotta bricks from blue plastic clay. Tel. 868
Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. James Goldie and Son, Westholm or Westthorn Brickworks, Glasgow. The ‘Goldie’ stamp comprises of raised letters. This stamp has however been stamped over a Jas Goldie & Son, Old Langside Road, Glasgow 1885. This brick is frogged to both sides. . . .
14/07/1923 – Glasgow Herald – Man was not long on the world’s stage when he commenced to work clay and impress on its plastic surface his primitive ideas. A common clay brick, even to the initiated tells its story and forms an important clue in the history of man. In Scotland, the earliest bricks made…
This brick was found by Javier Pérez while diving in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Alicante, Spain. Manufactured by Gilchrist & Goldie, Shawfield Toll Brickworks, Glasgow. . . . .
Found by Richard Dobbin in the Bridgeton area of Glasgow. Manufactured by Gilchrist & Goldie, Shawfield Toll Brickworks, Glasgow. . . . .
Many thanks to Terrence Honore and the Palmiste Historical Society for the following information. These Scottish bricks were found on the Cedar Grove, Canaan Palmiste Estates, Trinidad. They were formerly owned by Scotsmen like the Lamonts. A chimney of bricks from that era 1810, still stands, along with bridges and a few other structures. The…
Found by Nina C Baker in the Glasgow area. I am not in possession of this example. Although the date area of the brick is broken it looks fairly certain that it reads 1865. (Far right of the bottom line of text). Gilchrist & Goldie Old Langside Road Glasgow. . .
Found by Dr Ian Law at Balmore near Torrance. This example is not in my possession. (Note – SBH – This is recorded meantime as 1893 but it may read 1898). James Goldie and Son, Crow Road, Partick. Goldie, James & Son, brickmakers; Works, Sandyacres, Langside Road, Coplawhill, Victoria Road, Shawfield Toll, Rutherglen Road and…
Found by Griselda Estrada de Acevedo and Marta Diaz in Colon Province, beyond Nuevo Tonosí, Panama. This was found on the family farm. Many thanks to Cristhian Acevedo for sending the photograph and information. Gilchrist & Goldie Crow Road Partick Glasgow 1882. . . .
Jordanhill Brickworks were in operation until the raw materials were exhausted in 1928. From them were drawn the bricks for part of Glasgow Corporation’s housing estate at Knightswood. Whitewashed low roofed houses occupied by workers in the brickfields while modern buildings were raised around them struck a note of incongruity for a year or two….
Canmore Strathbungo Brickworks, Strathbungo, Glasgow AKA – Coplawhil or Coplawhill Brickworks? (Note – SBH – This brickworks relationship confuses me. Can anyone firm up on the meagre information recorded here?). 1884 -1885 – James Goldie & Son, brickmakers; Works, Sandyacres, Langside Road, Coplawhill, Victoria Road, Shawfield Toll, Rutherglen Road, and Woodend, Crow Road, Partick.
