Found Newcastle upon Tyne
Produced at the Adams-Pict Firebrick Works at Swalwell, (the site of the earlier Ramsay works on the River Derwent, a tributary of the Tyne and some three miles west of Gateshead), these (INSO) insulating bricks were produced from a mixture of clay, sawdust and diatomite, (a soft, siliceous, sedimentary rock, easily crumbled to form a fine powder), and intended to form a secondary, heat retaining layer behind the actual firebrick.
I have added the Scottish tag here as although the bricks themselves were manufactured in Northumbria, the clay was mined in Scotland
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(Note – SBH – I have added the Scottish tag here as although the bricks themselves were manufactured in Northumbria, the clay was mined in Scotland.) During the First World War, (c1916) Adamsez Ltd, sanitary ware manufacturers, of Scotswood, Newcastle, diversified into the manufacture of firebricks under the name, Scotswood Furnace Company. It was operated…
****I have added the Scottish tag here as although the bricks themselves were manufactured in Northumbria, the clay was mined in Scotland**** Found Inverkeithing, Firth of Forth (left in situ) – Pict IOX18 ? During the First World War, (c.1916) Adamsez Ltd, sanitary ware manufacturers, of Scotswood, Newcastle, diversified into the manufacture of firebricks under the name,…
Found Newcastle upon Tyne (Note – SBH – I have added the Scottish tag here as although the bricks themselves were manufactured in Northumbria, the clay was mined in Scotland*) Adams Pict fireclay company, Scotswood, Newcastle. . . .
