Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Found by Bob Banks in the Bo’ness area. Barbauchlaw Brick Works, Armadale, West Lothian. . . . .    

Found at Armadale. Barbauchlaw Brickworks, West Lothian. . . . .

Found by Ian Suddaby in the Edinburgh area. Barbauchlaw Brickworks, West Lothian. . . . Below – Stamped 10 to the rear. This would denote the degree of curve on this circle brick. .

Found by Ian Suddaby in the Edinburgh area. Barbauchlaw Brickworks, West Lothian. . . . Below – Stamped 8 to the rear. This would denote the degree of curve on this circle brick. .

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

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

28/05/1898 – West Lothian Courier – With the transfer of the Southrigg Colliery to the firm of John Nimmo & Sons, Limited, which took place on the Whitsunday term day (16th inst.), an important step has been taken in the development of the extensive coalfield which extends from West Craigs southwards through the eastmost part…

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

Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. Gartshore Brickworks, 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…