Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Found by Geoff Hancock in the Strathaven area. Sanquhar and Kirkconnel Collieries Ltd. Fauldhead Colliery Brickworks, Kirkconnel. . . .

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

(Note – SBH – This page should be read in conjunction with the pages dedicated to the Sanquhar Brick and Tile Works and the Buccleuch Terracotta Works) Coal has been mined in the Sanquhar and Kirkconnel area since earliest times.  In the late 1700s the Duke of Queensberry began to develop the coalfields on his…

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. . . . .

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…

Canmore The Niddrie Brickworks, near Edinburgh, was a large common brickworks built in 1924 to supply bricks for house building by the Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co. It had three large Hoffman continuous kilns, and latterly, a modern shuttle kiln. The works closed in 1991 and were demolished. 04/04/1878 – Falkirk Herald – On Saturday…

Barbauchlaw Brickworks, East Main Street, Armadale, West Lothian. (Note – SBH – The 1896 entries below refer to a new brickworks in East Main Street, Armadale. I suspect but I am not certain that these were built on the site of the old brickworks or if the pre-1896 brickworks were not on the same site…