Found at Bo’ness, Firth of Forth.
Höganäs Bjuf AB has its roots in Höganäs Limited Company, founded in 1797. The first production of refractory bricks started in Höganäs in 1825, and since 1876 the company has been located in Bjuv, in the southwestern part of Sweden.
31/08/1898 – Edinburgh Evening News – refers to the sale of 30,000 Swedish made bricks – Anthony Gilchrist, Merchant, 250 Bonnington Road, Leith, Edinburgh.
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This fire brick was found by Francis Caven on the Brassie Shore, north shore heading towards Irvine, Ayrshire. AP Green, Missouri, USA bought the Douglas Fire Brick Company, Ayrshire from the Morgan Crucible Group in 1970. (Note – SBH – So was this brick an import or was it made in Ayrshire after the takeover…
This brick was found on the site of the old Jenny Lind Brickworks, Near Motherwell, Lanarkshire adjacent to the old site of the Ravenscraig Steel Works. It is a dense heavy brick and is believed to have been manufactured by Harbison Walker, USA. History – Harbison-Walker Refractories Company (Harbison) is the world’s leading supplier of refractory…
This brick was found by Jan -Olof Bergman in Sweden. J-O states “Last summer I made a very interesting find. I found a brick with the inscription “Bourtreehill Kilmarnock”. It was found at a dumpsite for ballast in the little harbour of Furuögrund (approx. 500 miles north of Stockholm), where there was a big sawmill…
Found by Drew Mitchell in the Dalgetty Bay area of Fife. Unidentified manufacturer. Find location would suggest Scottish origins but … This fire brick is most likely to have American origins as per the Monarch Fire Clay Co, Portland, Oregon. Jean Bear states “Sometimes it is quite hard to determine where US firebricks were made,…
Found by Magnus Eriksson in Amotfors, Sweden ” It may have been a building at the place long ago or maybe it’s just a place where they dumped construction material. This factory is from 1896 and been rebuilt many times, maybe there was another factory here before that. The paper mill is located in a…
Found on the old site previously occupied by the Etna Brick Works, Bathville. Unidentified maker. Find location would suggest Scottish origins but … There is however a distinct possibility that this fire brick is of American origins. Trojan is a brand name for bricks produced by Gladding, McBean and Co, Southgate, Los Angeles County, California….
These large open-ended fire clay liners appear to be designed to stack up and form a continuous column and are possibly some sort of chimney liner. They measure approx. 662mm high x 558mm square and are lying in a Salvage Yard in Glasgow, Scotland. The reference to 485 / 485 is possibly associated with the…
Found by Michael Fallon in the Glasgow area. Tuileries de Beauvais 6 Made in France Terracotta roof tile. . . . .
Found on the Firth of Clyde, Glasgow. This appears to be a firebrick and there are possible missing letters prior to the ‘savage’. There was a company called Savage and Williams in Birmingham making bricks but I believe these were building bricks. This brick is possibly from further afield and possibly a product of the…
Found by Michael Fallon in the Glasgow area. Sterreberg SS Courtrai. Terracotta roof tile. . . . .
