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Found at Oakvale, Livingston. Morningside Fireclay Works, Newmains, North Lanarkshire. This was inadvertently left at the find site. . . .

Found at Oakvale, Livingston. Morningside Fireclay Works, Newmains, North Lanarkshire. . . . .

Found by Ian Suddaby in the West Lothian area. I am not in possession of this example. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire. The mark above Morningside is unclear. It may be an underscored 1 or an inverted ‘T’ or it could be a random ‘blemish’. . . Below – A similar mark found on a…

Many thanks to Shayne Campbell, President & Executive Director Settlers, Rials & Trails – Argyle Museum, for permission to use the photographs of their Scottish bricks. The following bricks are in the possession of the Argyle Museum, Winnipeg, Canada. The bricks were obtained from a junkyard in Winnipeg and are believed to have been salvaged…

Found by Matt Elsworth. . . . . Below – Morningside – Morningside Fireclay Works, Newmains, North Lanarkshire. Below – Gartcraig – Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. Found on the shore at Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada.

Found at Oakvale, Livingston. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire. . . . .

The following Scottish bricks were found by Consuelo Bravo Antúnez in the heart of the Atacama Desert, Chile. The Atacama Desert was a huge source of sodium nitrate (saltpetre) which was mined on a large scale until the early 1940s. The UK imported many many shiploads of the saltpetre and it appears they supplied many…

Found at Oakvale, Livingston. Morningside Fireclay Works, Newmains, North Lanarkshire. . . . .

The following Scottish bricks are in the possession of Jean Bear, USA and were found in California, USA. . . . . Below – Morningside O – Morningside Fireclay Works, Newmains, North Lanarkshire. (This may have actually been found in Reno, Nevada?) Below – Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. Below – Heatheryknowe Patent Glasgow….

Hyndshaw Fireclay Mine, Morningside, Newmains, North Lanarkshire. 1896 – Morningside Mine – Morningside Coal Co, Newmains. Coal and Fire Clay mined. John Gray Manager. (Note – SBH – This is believed to be the Hyndshaw Mine) 1920 – Special report on the mineral resources of Great Britain – Chapel Coal Company Limited. Morningside Brickworks, Newmains….