Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

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

Found by Ian Suddaby at Carberry, East Lothian. This example is not in my possession. LB – Likely to stand for Lochgelly Brickworks as SBC took them over in 1969. The ‘B’ looks like an 8 in the photo but it is definitely a ‘B’. SBC – Scottish Brick Corporation or Company. . .  

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, Kilsyth. . . . .

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…

Canmore Info from Andrew Wood – The META coal mine, brick work & briquetting plant was named after Meta Mary Graham Mitchell. She was the mother of the Managing Director of the Alloa Coal Company, Sir Harold Paton Mitchell. After the mine was nationalised in 1947, the bricks were marked SBC. Alloa Coal Co Ltd –…

Canmore Info Below – 17/09/1846 – Fife Herald – Lochgelly brick and tile works to let. Henry Watson owner. Below – 02/11/1848 – Fife Herald – Lochgelly – 400,000 bricks for sale and 25 horses etc. Below – 1854 – Lochgelly Brick Works. 1867 – Lochgelly Iron Co – Brick and Tile Makers, Andrew Landale,…

Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Barbauchlaw Brick Works, Armadale, West Lothian . . . .

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