Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Found by Ian Suddaby in East Lothian. MB Sherriff, West Bank Brick and Tile Works, Portobello. . . . .  

Kindly donated by Gina Williams and delivered by Jackie Sangster. The brick was recovered from an internal (and probably original wall) from a house in Station Road Dunbar. The house appears to have been built prior to 1898. Seafield Brick And Tile Works, Edinburgh Road, Dunbar. . . . Below – The same stamp on…

West Bank Old brick and Tile Works, Portobello, Edinburgh and Esperston, Midlothian. 1765 – Cassell’s Old and New Edinburgh – In 1765, Mr William Jamieson, the feuar under Baron Muir, discovered near the Figgate Burn a valuable bed of clay, and on the banks of the stream he erected first a brick and tile works, and…

Canmore Seafield Brick and Tile Works, Dunbar, East Lothian aka Belhaven Brickworks. Noted on the OS maps and working throughout the period 1841-61. It was begun in the early 19th century by Bailie David France, continued and developed by William Brodie and passed to his daughter Marion Brodie Sherriff before closing in the 1890s. At…

Annals of Duddingston and Portobello – 1898 – The trade of Portobello has for the past hundred years been of a varied character. As we have already indicated in these pages, its principal and earliest products were derived from the excellent bed of clay found in the estuary of the Figgate Burn. Bricks and tiles, and…