Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. It would appear to have been manufactured at an unknown National Coal Board Brickworks. The letters are raised on the stamp. R – Right. See also NCB – L (left). .

Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. It would appear to have been manufactured at an unknown National Coal Board Brickworks. The letters are raised on the stamp. L – Left See also NCB – R (right). . .

Found in Bathville, West Lothian. Barbauchlaw Brick Works, Armadale, West Lothian. . . . .

Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Gateside Brickworks, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire . . . . .

Found in the Ayrshire area by John (Ian) Jones, Ayrshire. Skares Brick Works, Skares, East Ayrshire. . . . .

Canmore 1934 – The 1985 publication ‘A survey of Scottish brickmarks’ suggests the brickworks were erected around this time. 01/10/1936 – Littlemill Colliery and Brickworks purchased by Bairds and Dalmellington. 16/03/1937 – The Scotsman – Bairds and Dalmellington Limited. More favourable results of year’s trading. Trade resumption with Italian customers – The fifth ordinary general…

Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. Gartshore Brickworks, Twechar, Kilsyth. . . . . Below – The same stamp on a slightly smaller brick found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area.

Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. NCB stands for National Coal Board  which ran many brick works in Scotland between 1947 and 1969. Usually the NCB is stamped alongside the brick works name eg NCB Whitehill or NCB Gartshore but here we just have NCB – so which brick works does this belong…

Many thanks to Dr Jimmy Begg for providing some of his research on the Bank Brickworks. Bank Brickworks, New Cumnock, East Ayrshire. 1890‘s – Probably when Bank Brickworks was built “for many years prior to 1926, brickmaking had been a subsidiary branch activity at Bank” (Carvel – History of the New Cumnock Coalfield). 1899 – The…

Linoleum Works, Well Brae, Falkland AKA St Johns Works. Canmore – St Johns Linoleum Works, Falkland.  The older part was built in brick between 1892 and 1912: a range of buildings with a serrated row of roofs over arched windows at each drying chamber, the whole fringed by balconies for access. At first, making floorcloth, it…