Young’s VII
— 20/01/2021Found by AOC Archaeology at the old glassworks, Bath Road, Leith, Edinburgh. Heathfield Fireclay Works, Heathfield, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Cardowan Fireclay Works, Lanarkshire. . .
Overseas stockists for Scottish bricks – export and import.
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Below – 16/10/1844 – New York Daily Tribune – Scotch firebricks for sale – Sherman Atwater & Co, 30 Broad Street, New York.
Below – 09/12/1855 – The Age Newspaper – Melbourne, Australia – Scotch – Scottish hearths – Huxley and Parkers Stone and Marble Yard, Little Collins Street East.
Below – 24/05/1864 – The Morning Chronicle, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada – Scotch Fire Brick – Merchant W.S Symonds and Co.
Below – 01/05/1869 – Saint John Evening Daily News – St John, New Brunswick, Canada. John Devoe, 34 Water Street, St John.
Below – 03/8/1870 – Lewiston Evening Journal – Lewiston, Maine, USA. Scotch – Scottish butt joints and shoulder pipes. James Edmond & Co, Wharf 388 – 412 Federal Street, Boston.
Below – 03/08/1871 – Montreal Daily and Commercial Newspaper – Garnkirk Patent – Thomas Robertson, Channeville Street.
Below – 08/05/1874 – National Republican – Washington – Details prices for Scotch sewer pipes and installation – New York and Boston.
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Below – 05/10/1875 – Daily Alta ( page 3 column 10) – Heatheryknowe brick. Heathery Knowe (2 words) bricks bring imported into California.
Below – 1876 – An advert within a book entitled ” 1776 – 1876 – Important events of the century ( USA).
James Edmond & Co, Boston, importers and manufacturers of fire brick including Scotch brands – Garnkirk, Govan and Cardowan.
Below – 03/05/1883 – The Daily Bulletin – Honolulu Hawaii.
23/03/1891 – The Seattle Post – Intelligencier – Washington … “The Embleton discharged a part of her cargo at Schwabacher’s Wharf Saturday, unloading 170 tons of Scotch fire brick”…
Below – 10/04/1891 – Essex County Herald – Pennsylvania and 06/04/1891 The Sun, New York – The Haupt family, Shenandoah PA discover potters clay on their land of such quality as to rival the ‘famous Kilmarnock factories in Scotland”
Below – 06/05/1891 – Rock Island Daily Argus – Illinois – Scottish enamelled bricks used to build the Congressional Library, New York.
Below – 1894 – S.L.Merchant Co, New York, USA.
Below – 01/11/1895 – The Seattle Post – Intelligencier – Washington. Scotch firebricks for sale – Morrison & Eshelman, Yesler Building.
Below – 26/07/1897 – The Scotsman – Interesting article of the new tariffs imposed on imports into America, as passed by the Senate and signed off by President McKinley.
Below – 1902 – Advert – Seymour R Church, San Francisco, California, USA.
Brown Paisley, Glenboig, Heathfield, Calder – “It is a well known fact that English, Scotch and Silica fire bricks will last longer and stand more heat than any others”
Below – 26/11/1906 – Montreal Gazette – Francis Hyde & Co, 31 Wellington Street, Montreal – Scottish firebricks, fire clay, wet and dry ganister.
Below – 07/01/1914 – Boultbee Johnson & Company Limited, Vancouver, Canada stock Gartcraig and Etna bricks.
Below – 1911 – The yearbook of the Boston Architectural Club – Waldo Brothers, Boston.
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Harley Marshall a former Export Manager (1980 – 1991) at the Manuel Works, Whitecross, Scotland states that all Steins wooden packing crates had to be treated to prevent Sirex Wasp infestation before the firebricks could be exported to Australia
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