Found by Darrian Borick, heritage management postgraduate student in Australia at the University of Queensland. Darrian was on a field trip in North Queensland at a regional town called Ravenswood (a 19th-century gold mining town).
The bricks in the attached photo are located in a pathway to the house (no longer standing) of L Wilson of the New Ravenswood Ltd mining company (The early 1900s). This is a remote part of Australia, although in the late 1880s/early 1900s there was a substantial gold rush with many brick furnaces and industrial chimney stacks up to 90ft high built. Several still remain.
Both Glenboig and Starworks Glenboig stamped bricks were found.
Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig, Lanarkshire.
Alternative brickworks include:
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Found by Ian Suddaby around the Inner Bay at Inverkeithing in Fife Ian states – A Glenboig 24A square slab. I’m not sure what these were used for and leaving aside the slight differences in the way the letters are stamped, the 24 part is interesting. Lots of 24 stamped slabs have been found around…
Cityside Brick, Pipe and Fireclay Works, Bellside, Glasgow. This Cityside Glasgow brick was found by Asley Gerónimo, Oscar Sánchez and Osvaldo Jimenez. They found the brick in a cemetery of an old sugar mill in Havana, Cuba. Osvaldo states – “The Mi Rosa sugar mill where it was found is located in the municipality Quivicán,…
This brick was found in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA by Larry Cormier. Larry states ” My family purchased a home in Waltham Massachusetts in 1961. I believe it was built in the early 1920s. About 20 years ago we had some landscaping work done in the back yard and uncovered a brick walk. We left it…
This brick was found by Laszlo Kincses at Chomutov in the Czech Republic. Stein, Castlecary Fireclay Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire. Stein, Manuel Firebrick and Refractory Works, Whitecross, Stirlingshire. Stein & Co, Anchor Brickworks, Denny, Stirlingshire. Milnquarter Fireclay & Gannister Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. .
Found in the base structure of a former glasshouse in the walled garden of Westport House, Co. Mayo, Ireland. Photographed by Susan Roundtree. William Wilson & Son, Brick maker and builder, Eglinton Street and Pollokshaw Road, Glasgow. . . .
Found by Ian Suddaby at Westfield, West Lothian. I am not in possession of this example. Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Glenboig Star Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Glenboig Fireclay Works, (Old Works) Glenboig, Lanarkshire.
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. . . .
Many thanks to Mark Schulze for the following 4 photographs taken in 2020 and information. Mark states – This brick stack (Starworks J*D Glenboig) is in Discovery Hut on Ross Island, Antarctica, where I worked for the last few months. British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott built the hut just after the turn of the…
The following photographs were kindly forwarded by Carol Durant, Vice President of the Rockingham District Historical Society in Western Australia. These Gartcraig stamped bricks are exhibited within the Rockingham Museum. The bricks were found locally and it is believed they would have been unloaded at the Port of Rockingham c. 1875 – 1908. Gartcraig Fire…
Found by Craig Powell at Mount Palmer, Yilgarn, Western Australia. Craig states:- There was an entire town at Mount Palmer but the hotel ruins are all that’s left. The brick was from a house site across from the hotel with several broken ones looking like a fireplace. Houses were mostly tin miners shacks around the…
