Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. Kelvinside Quarries, Brick & Fireclay Works, Maryhill Road, Glasgow. . . . .

Source WIKI – Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet who founded the eponymous company was born in 1847 in the Scottish village of Newarthill near Motherwell. From the age of seven, he worked in the nearby coal mines, leaving at 16 to become an apprentice bricklayer. Later, working for an engineer, he progressed to being foreman…

Kelvinside brickworks was situated in the Maryhill district of Glasgow and operated from about 1873 to 1930 AKA Dawsholm Brickworks. Kelvinside Brick Company, Dawsholm Brickworks, Maryhill, Glasgow The 1985 publication ‘A survey of Scottish brickmarks’ suggests that M Yates and Co were the owners between 1873 and 1877 and that John Murray was the owner between…

Found by Ian Suddaby at the site of the Gartsherrie Colliery, Coatbridge. Kelvinside Quarries, Brick & Fireclay Works, Maryhill Road, Glasgow. . . . . Below  – A very similar sized stamp on a brick found in Kilchattan Bay, Isle of Bute by David Galloway. Note the lovely segmented roundell design.

Found Firth of Clyde. Glasgow Kelvinside Quarries, Brick & Fireclay Works, Maryhill Road, Glasgow. . . . . Below – Similar mark, with a reversed ‘NS’ on a brick found in Glasgow by Eddie McLean. Below – a similar stamp on a curved circle brick found by Eddie McLean in the River Kelvin, Glasgow.