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 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. . . . .

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…

Found by Eddie McLean in Glasgow. This was well spotted in that the ‘slash’  is backwards rather than forward. Blantyreferme Brickworks, near Uddingston. . . .

Found in East End of Glasgow by Eddie McLean. Niddrie Brickworks, Niddrie, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . . .  

Found Bonnyrigg, Edinburgh. Note the small ‘C’ in NCB. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . .  

Found by Tom Slaven in Fife Annbank Brickworks, Annbank, Ayrshire. . . . .