Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Found by Eddie Mclean in Glasgow. Unidentified maker but almost certainly Scottish but which one of the following Glasgow ‘McIntyre’ brick manufacturers is it … John McIntyre Andrew McIntyre or Hugh McIntyre or someone else!

Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Mclntyre & Co., brickmakers, Toryglen, near Mallsmire, Glasgow. . . . .

Found in Glasgow. John McIntyre, Brick and tile maker, Lilybank Road, Glasgow. . . . .   Below – The same stamp on a bullnose brick. Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area.

Andrew Mclntyre & Son, brick makers and builders, 1 Titwood place, Strathbungo; Works, Moss Side Brickworks, Crossmyloof and Archibald Mclntyre. (of Andrew. Mclntyre & Son), Ho. 24 Titwood place, Strathbungo. 19/08/1874 – Glasgow Herald – James Howat, carter, 217 Eglinton Street, Glasgow, was sent 15 days to prison for the theft of about a hundredweight…

Blackfalls Brickworks, Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire. (Note – SBH – Blackfalls could actually be Blackfaulds. Either way, I cannot find the works referred to on a map). 1595 – … On the South-Side, there were the Shawfield claypits which at one time belonged to Sheriff Allison. These with Polmadie claypits are of a very ancient origin….

20/04/1877 – North British Daily Mail – Suburban burghs. Crosshill – new works in the vicinity. Several works have just been begun in the near neighbourhood of the burgh, which will add nothing to its salubrity. At the eastern extremity of the road leading directly from Queen Mary’s Avenue, in the low grounds below Mount…

Lilybank Brick and Tile Works, Pollokshields, Glasgow AKA Glasgow Brick and Tile Works (See entry dated 06/06/1862). Bell, Hornsbybay & Co. were a building and contracting firm, and one of many brick manufacturers in the Glasgow area. From the 1860s to the 1890s, local brick was widely used for factories, and for the internal and…

Info – Bygonebungo – … The land to the south-west of the village was cut off from Maxwell’s farmland of Titwood with the coming of the railway in the 1840s but remained agricultural apart from A & T Hamilton’s Titwood Brick and Tile Works, which sat approximately halfway down the Queen Square/Marywood Square back lane….

Many thanks to Graeme Cruickshank who gave me details of the 1869 – 1870 entry below which tied in and confirmed that William Wilson & Son was the same William Wilson who operated out of the Campbellfield Brickworks and pottery. (See also Barlinnie Fireclay Works and Muirhouses Brickworks and Strathbungo Brickworks). (Note – SBH –…

Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Mclntyre, Andrew, & Son, brick makers and builders, 1 Titwood place, Strathbungo; works, Moss Side Brickworks, Crossmyloof and Archibald Mclntyre. (of Andrew. Mclntyre & Son), ho. 24 Titwood place, Strathbungo. . . . .