Many thanks to Shayne Campbell, President & Executive Director Settlers, Rials & Trails – Argyle Museum, for permission to use the photographs of their Scottish bricks.
The following bricks are in the possession of the Argyle Museum, Winnipeg, Canada.
The bricks were obtained from a junkyard in Winnipeg and are believed to have been salvaged from an old building in Winnipeg.
Manitoba brick collection.
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Below – ‘J & R Howie Ltd, Kilmarnock’ – Hurlford Fireclay Works, Galston Road, Hurlford, Ayrshire. This brick is enamelled white, to one face.
Below – ‘Morningside’ – Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire.
Found by Russell & Blake Violette in Vancouver, BC, near the historic North Pacific Lumber Co mill built in 1889 by James MacLaren. Russell states – this is an arch fire brick. Tapered depth, 4 1/2 inches height and 9 inches length. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . .
John Maclure from Wigtonshire, Scotland travelled to British Columbia in 1858 with fellow Royal Engineers. He travelled across the Atlantic Ocean by steam boat, through Panama by rail, up the coast of North America by sea and arrived at the Esquimalt Harbour on Vancouver Island. While working to install a telegraph cable through to Alaska,…
Many thanks to Gerik Kik for making me aware of the following information. Preston Grange brick found in the wreck of the SS Vorpostenboot Prangenhof, stranded in 1916 at Zeebrugge, discovered by divers in 2001. Link Prestongrange Brick, Tile and Fireclay Works, Prestonpans, East Lothian. . . .
Found by Gerik Mik at Eastermar, Friesland, The Netherlands. Prestongrange Brick, Tile and Fireclay Works, Prestonpans, East Lothian. . . . .
Found by Ben Akey in the USA. Ben states – Thank you for your wonderful website! I have had the occasion to use it several times on various archaeological projects, mostly in western North America. I wanted to share a few examples of brick from Robert Brown’s operations from Paisley that I’ve found. Interestingly, the two…
Found by Fred Kaesmacher on St Kitts. Fred states – I was rummaging through a recycling yard that stands on the site of an old sugar factory (S.S.M.C., Saint Kitts Sugar Manufacturing Corporation) in St.Kitts (Saint Christopher and Nevis) and came across this brick on the ground. I know that the site had a large…
Many thanks to Katelyn Lindberg. Katelyn states – I recently visited Fort Point, San Francisco, USA and saw some “Garnkirk” bricks in the fireplaces. Garnkirk Fireclay Works, Garnkirk, Lanarkshire. . . . .
Found by Harry Van Royen and others. Harry states – We found during an excavation of a former tide mill on the border between Niel and Boom, this Dougall brick. It was found near the place of the former steam engine. These bricks could have been imported on behalf of the ICGA, a London based…
Found by Barry Campbell on the south shore of English Bay near Kitslano, Vancouver, Canada. Boghead Fireclay Works, Bathgate, West Lothian. . . . .
Found by Vladimir Smirnov in St Petersburg, Russia. Prestongrange Brick, Tile and Fireclay Works, Prestonpans, East Lothian. . . . Below – P G = Preston Grange
