Grangemouth Patent
— 04/09/2016Found at Bo’ness Grange(mouth) Pate(nt) . . . . Below – ‘Grangemouth’ to front ‘Patent’ to back . ******************************************** Below – this example was found in Latvia .
Grangemouth fire brick works
— 25/10/2016 0 86Grangemouth Firebrick Works, Skinflats, Grangemouth, Falkirk c. 1850s to 1912.
Grangemouth Coal Co was founded in 1839 with main premises at Grangemouth Colliery.
The company extracted fireclay, ironstone and coal from mines in Bothkennar, Falkirk and Polmont, leased from the Earl of Zetland. By the mid-19th century the company was also
operating Grangemouth Brickworks, making fireclay bricks and ornamental terracotta pottery and exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
24/10/1851 – Kincardinshire Advertiser – Great Exhibition Crystal Palace, London – Honourable mentions – Grangemouth Coal Company – terra cotta.
1867 – Grangemouth Fire Brick and Tile Works. GG Mackay, Manager.
1878 – Grangemouth Coal Co – Coal Masters and Fire brick makers – George G Mackay was Managing Partner.
1882 – Brick and Fire Clay Makers. Grangemouth Fire Brick Works, (fire bricks, composition bricks, vases, chimney cans, grate backs, Kinnaird’s vent linings, &c., of finest quality, at moderate prices), Grangemouth Coal Co. — George G. Mackay, managing partner.
1886 – 1887 -Grangemouth Fire Brick & Tile Works, Grangemouth ; George Mackay, managing partner
1893 – 94 – Grangemouth Coal Co (and brick and fire-clay makers) S. Basin St.
Below – 1878 – advert Grangemouth Coal Company.
10/06/1912 – The Scotsman – Important sale of colliery and electric plant and machinery, brickworks plant etc at Grangemouth Collieries, Grangemouth on Thursday 20th June, 1912 at 10.30am. Shirlaw, Allan & Co have received instruction from Messrs The Grangemouth Coal Co Ltd owing to termination of lease to sell by auction the whole plant and will dispose of the first portion as above. Hamilton – June 1912.
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