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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This brick was found by Gustavo Agustin Coronel. It was found at a lime kiln, Hornos Fabrica No 4 in Malagueño, Córdoba, Argentina. Below – Etna Great Britain fire brick. Etna Brickworks, Armadale, West Lothian. Alternative brickworks include: West Works, Armadale, West Lothian. . . . .
Found in the Paisley area. Robert Brown & Son, Ferguslie Fireclay Works, Paisley, Renfrewshire. This example has raised lettering on one side and indented letters on the other. . . . .
Terrence Honore of the Palmiste Historical Society states – It was found at the former Palmiste sugarcane estate at Palmiste San Fernando Trinidad. Site of an old brick bridge for use by trains transporting sugarcane circa the 1800s. Allan & Mann, Port Eglinton, Glasgow Alternative brickworks include: Rutherglen Pottery, Glasgow. Mallsmire Works, Myrtle Park, Crosshill,…
Many thanks to Daphne Lim for the following information and photographs. Rawyards Glasgow and Hurll bricks found in Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo. Daphne states – My name is Daphne Lim & I live in Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo. My (maternal) great, great grandfather Mr Chan Kho was one of the founding fathers of this small town of…
Found by Craig Penstone by the river in downtown Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, by Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
Found by Ian Suddaby at the site of the old Heathfield Fireclay Works. I am not in possession of this example. Heathfield Fireclay Works, Heathfield, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Cardowan Fireclay Works, Lanarkshire. .
Found at Oakvale, Livingston. Heathfield Fireclay Works, Heathfield, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Cardowan Fireclay Works, Lanarkshire. . . Below – A similar stamp on a brick found at the same location by Ian Suddaby. Note the lazy ‘O’ which is lying on its side. Note the thumbprint to the bottom left.
Many thanks to Shayne Campbell, President & Executive Director Settlers, Rials & Trails – Argyle Museum, for permission to use the photographs of their Scottish bricks. The following bricks are in the possession of the Argyle Museum, Winnipeg, Canada. The bricks were obtained from a junkyard in Winnipeg and are believed to have been salvaged…
Found by Eddie McLean in the Glenboig area. The ‘E’ of the additional stamp is not clear. It could be various letters such as ‘D’ or ‘F’ etc Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Glenboig Star Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Glenboig Fireclay Works, (Old Works) Glenboig, Lanarkshire .
This brick is in the possession of Leslie White and was found in the Hawkesbury (NSW) region during a demolition job. Douglas Fireclay Works, Dalry, Ayrshire. Note the unusual stencilling. It possibly reads ‘I R S26 3″. So was this added at the Douglas Fireclay Works as perhaps an order number, code for the customer…
