Bourtreehill Kilmarnock brick found in Canada
— 28/12/2020It was found by Pauline Godbout Santerre on a beach in, Canada. . . . . Below – Bourtreehill Kilmarnock – Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire.
Found at West Wemyss.
Lochhead Dunfermline to front.
Bourtreehill Kilmarnock to rear.
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It was found by Pauline Godbout Santerre on a beach in, Canada. . . . . Below – Bourtreehill Kilmarnock – Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire.
Photographed by Ian Suddaby at a salvage yard in the Ayrshire area. Ian states – It says Bourtreehill the right way up and Dreghorn upside down. This must have been applied using separate stamps. This example is not in my possession. Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. . . .
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 Dr Jorg Ansorge in Stralsund (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Germany, a seaport town at the Baltic Sea coast. This stamp was on a salt-glazed water or sewage pipe. Lochhead Fireclay Works, Dunfermline, Fife. . . .
Found by Dr Jorg Ansorge in Stralsund (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Germany, a seaport town at the Baltic Sea coast. This stamp was on a salt-glazed water or sewage pipe. Lochhead Fireclay Works, Dunfermline, Fife. . . .
Photographed by Martin Sneddon in the Ayrshire area. I am not in possession of this example. There may also be another word stamped above Warrix but it is unclear. Warrix Fire Clay Works, Irvine, North Ayrshire. . . .
Found by Tucker Kennedy in the Ayrshire. This is a paver or byre block and it is salt glazed. Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. . . . .
Found by Ian Suddaby in Banff. Lochhead Fireclay Works, Dunfermline, Fife. . . . . Below – A very similar stamp on a salt-glazed water or sewage pipe. Found by Dr Jorg Ansorge in Stralsund (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Germany, a seaport town at the Baltic Sea coast.
17/08/1894 – Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald – … A new coal-pit is being sunk at Warrix, near Irvine, by the Bourtreehill Coal and Fire Clay Coy., and the sinkers have reached the coal. Miners were employed to take it out from the bottom of the shank. This was done, and it is said the coal…
Found Glasgow. Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire . . . .