Found Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. Dourie is a trade mark of P and M Hurll, Gartliston Brickworks, Glenboig.
Read moreFound Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. Dourie is a trade mark of P and M Hurll, Gartliston Brickworks, Glenboig.
Read moreThis example is not in my possession but picture reproduced by kind permission of FMA. Rectangular refractory brick with a rebated rectangular hole through the centre, filled by a plug. “KLINIT” stamped on the side Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. Klinit…
Read moreFound in Fife by TS Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Klinit is a trade name for P & M Hurll . .
Read moreFound Gartliston Works, Glenboig Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Klinit is a trade name for P & M Hurll .
Read moreThe following Scottish bricks were found by Robert Runyard in a landfill area around the old freezer plant in Puerto Bories in southern Chile. Puerto Bories is located about 3 km to the northwest of Puerto Natales, in the Ultima Esperanza province of Chile’s XII region, not far from the Straits of Magellan. It was…
Read moreFound Newmains, Morningside, North Lanarkshire Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. Dourie is a trade mark of P and M Hurll, Gartliston Brickworks, Glenboig.
Read moreFound at the Gartliston Works. I have only ever found R & C bricks at the Hurll Gartliston or Garnqueen works in Glenboig and as such I am, until proven otherwise, happy to identify Hurll as the maker. I do believe this is yet another example of a Scottish brick manufacturer making bricks for a…
Read moreCanmore – Tarrasfoot Tile Works, Dumfries & Galloway – The Duke of Buccleuch started Tarrasfoot Tile Works in the early 19th century. The works produced drain tiles that were mainly used on the Buccleuch estate. The works closed in 1969 and by 1975 the buildings were used for storage. There were four fireboxes in the…
Read moreFound New Cumnock. Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. Dourie is a trade mark of P and M Hurll, Gartliston Brickworks, Glenboig. Below – Virtually the same stamp, just slightly smaller. Found in the Glasgow area by Eddie McLean.
Read moreThis should be read in conjunction with other relevant pages including pages on the Manuel, the Milnquarter, the Anchor and the Castlecary Works. Please click on the tags at the bottom of the page to assist site navigation. A huge empire in its day, making a myriad of different bricks which were shipped all over…
Read moreFound at Firth of Forth Bo’ness Partial – may be more numbers than just 54 most likely 45 – 54 Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. Klinit is a trade name for M & P Hurll.
Read moreBy Kenneth W Sanderson A must-read if you are at all interested in the subject of the Scottish brick industry and in particular the refractory side of the business. It refers in detail to the 3 ‘stalwarts’ of the Scottish refractory industry namely James Dunnachie 1835 – 1921 William Douglas 1855 – 1937 John G Stein…
Read more17/06/1820 – Caledonian Mercury – The brick s making business is now extremely flat. There are thirty-five brick manufactories within about two miles of Glasgow, of these only 10 are working and twenty-four are totally idle. Every field is supposed to produce 500,000 bricks yearly, consequently, there has been a falling off of 12,000,000 in…
Read moreThe Glenboig Star Fire Brick Works and the Glenboig Fireclay Works joined to form the Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig which by the end of the 19th century was reputed to be the largest fireclay company in the world. ****************************************************** Fire-clay brick manufacture began in the Scottish central belt near Glenboig in the 1830s. The manufacture…
Read moreFound in Russia. Note the P at extreme left of brickmark. This example is not in my possession . There would have been an H at the other end – PH – Peter Hurll Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. …
Read moreFound in Fife area – JC There were two brickworks which used the title Garscube, namely the Garscube Brick and Tile Works, Netherton, Glasgow which was operated by Mark Hurll and the Garscube Brickworks, Dawsholm, Glasgow operated by the Garscube Brick Company. It is not certain which works stamped their bricks Garscube ( It is…
Read moreFound on Bo’ness Firth of Forth. Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. Dourie is a trade mark of P and M Hurll, Gartliston Brickworks, Glenboig. Below – The same stamp on a brick where the ‘D’ is missing. Found at the Avonbridge Brickworks,…
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