Found by Tom Slaven in the Kirkcaldy, Fife area.
David Methven & Son, Brick and Tile Maker, The Links, Kirkcaldy.
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Many thanks to Mike Allan for the following information and photographs. Mike states – These two octagonal chimney ‘cans’ were salvaged by me from our family house at Osborne Place, Dundee (built 1869). Methven, Kirkcaldy, was in the business of both homewares and utilities. Garnkirk, Lanark, made utilitarian wares. Ours was one of 4 houses,…
1714 – Courier (23/01/1996) … A brick and tile works were founded in Link Street, Kirkcaldy in 1714. 1714 – 1776 – The 1985 publication ‘A survey of Scottish brickmarks’ suggests that the works may have been operated during this time by William Adam, William Robertson and Andrew Ramsay. 28/06/1753 – Caledonian Mercury – To…
Important Railway Trial. 28/01/1847 – The Fife Herald and Kinross, Strathearn and Clackmannan Advertiser. This very comprehensive article covering some 2 pages in the newspaper relates to the case in which Mr George Methven, brick and tile manufacturer, Kirkcaldy, claimed compensation for portions of his clay-field in the barony of Abbotshall taken by the Edinburgh…
Seen on a farm in Fife by Ian Suddaby. David Methven & Son, Brick and Tile Maker, The Links, Kirkcaldy . . . . . Below – The same stamp on a chimney pot. Many thanks to Jo McVey, Fife for sending the photos. .
