Found by Robert Stewart in High Blantyre.
Omoa Fire Clay Works, Cleland, Motherwell.
This example has a chamfer to one corner.
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Below – Note the similar shaped kiss mark on underside brick where similar bricks were stacked during firing in the kiln.
The Barracks, Stirling aka Armament Depot aka Railway Company Stores. Canmore Rectangular stone built two storey building, slated roof. End and central bays advanced, central bay with topped with ball finials. Loading doors in upper storey. Referred to locally as the French Barracks. Forthside estate was sold to the British Army in 1864, upon the…
10/05/1892 – The Glasgow Herald – As everybody knows, bricks are largely used in most buildings, but in Scotland only in partitioning and dividing apartments. Up to a recent period few people in Scotland would have thought of using brick instead of stone in facing their houses: and in such a city as Glasgow it…
Found in Carluke by George Kennedy Omoa Fire Clay Works, Cleland, Motherwell . . . .
Found by George Kennedy in Carluke Omoa Fire Clay Works, Cleland, Motherwell. . . . .
Found by George Kennedy in the Carluke , Lanarkshire area. This example is not in my possession. Omoa Fire Clay Works, Cleland, Motherwell. . . .
Found at the Scottish Terracotta Brickworks, Carluke The 2 sections are from different bricks. Note the very deep frog. Omoa Fire Clay Works, Cleland, Motherwell . . .
Omoa Fire Clay Works, Cleland. 18/07/1814 – Caledonian Mercury – Omoa Iron Works for sale – The lease of the mines and minerals is current for 40 years from 15/02/1789 and the lands thereby let contain inexhaustible fields of coal, level free with with extensive beds of ironstone and plenty of fire clay of the best…
Found in Carluke. Omoa Fire Clay Works, Cleland, Motherwell. . . . . Below – a red fired version of the same brickmark found by Jeannie Cooper in Broughty Ferry, Dundee
Found in the Carluke area. Omoa Fire Clay Works, Cleland, Motherwell. . . . .
Found by George Kennedy in the Carluke area. Omoa Fire Clay Works, Cleland, Motherwell. This example is a blue clay product. . . . Below – The same stamp on a red clay example found at The Barracks, Stirling.
