Found 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 more(Note – SBH – I am uncertain from which site the Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Company Ltd operated from). Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Company Ltd – The Parliamentary papers of 1883 record the Doura mine being worked by John Barr, with Thomas Rigg as his manager. Slater’s Directory of 1889 notes Robert Armour as the proprietor of the…
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 moreSource – The Geology of the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh 1910. P230 … At Prestongrange the principal coal seams in descending order are as follows: Great Seam, Diver, Clay Seam, Five-foot, Smithy, Jewel, Beggar, and Diamond No. 1. The seams most wrought are the Great Seam and the Jewel, both of which are mined for a considerable…
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 moreCruden Bay is a small village located in Scotland, on the north coast of the Bay of Cruden in Aberdeenshire, 26 miles north of Aberdeen. There are 2 records of brickworks located around the village. Both are referred to on Canmore – see links below Canmore – This brick and tile works operated from 1882 to c….
Read moreFound Firth of Forth, Glasgow. Note the reversed ‘S’. Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. . Below – A similar stamp with a slightly different shaped frog. Found in the Glasgow area.
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 more1886 John & James Baird, Blackwood, Lesmahagow. Brown & McMillan, Chapel knowe, Motherwell. John Gilmour & co, Bonnyton, Kilmarnock. Inverkeithing Fire & Brick Co. Robert Fleming & Co, Atlas Fire Brick Works, Bathville, Bathgate. Garnkirk Fire Clay Co, Glasgow. Richard Street & Sons, Townhill, Dunfermline. John Jackson, Whynnyrigg, Carluke. James Allan, Carluke. John McDonald, Braidwood,…
Read moreFound Glenboig. William Steven, brickmaker, builder, and contractor; Office, 481 London Road; House, 483 do.; Brickworks, Porter Street and Society Street, G. Eastern Road; Mauldslie, London Road; Crosshill, Cathcart Road, south side. . . .
Read moreFound Bo’ness Firth of Forth. Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. . Following on from the research related to this link which supplies highly probably evidence that Scottish brick manufacturing companies were manufacturing bricks for the South American railways, then I believe…
Read moreFound at Helensburgh. Mark Hurll (of Peter & Mark Hurll, Ltd.) Gartliston and Garnqueen Works, Glenboig. Also building Bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel and Knightswood Brickworks, Glasgow. . . . . Below – The same brickmark but found on a slightly smaller sized brick. Found Glasgow. Below – Virtually the same stamp but the word…
Read moreFound by Ian Suddaby in the Bo’ness area. This example is not in my possession. Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel.
Read moreFound Garnqueen Works, Glenboig – flytipping. Bartonshill Brick Company, Bargeddie, Glasgow. . . . .
Read moreFound in Paisley Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. This same stamp was found during the renovation of a house in the Glasgow area. The house was built in 1934 and thus gives an idea as to when this mark was being…
Read moreFound Firth of Forth, Inverkeithing NA1 is probably a combination brick mark established after General Refractories bought over J G Stein and Glenboig. ‘N’ = Nettle from Stein and the A1 from the Glenboig A1 brick. Stein, Castlecary Fireclay Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire. Stein, Manuel Firebrick and Refractory Works, Whitecross, Stirlingshire. Stein & Co, Anchor Brickworks,…
Read moreFound Firth of Forth, Bo’ness Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. . Below – the same stamp on a special brick designed for interlocking with similar bricks. The photos below show the stamp on the edge. Both sides of the brick are…
Read moreFound Jedburgh, Scottish Borders Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Newmains Fireclay Works, Morningside, Lanarkshire, Stepends Brickworks, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. . Below – Very similar stamp on a bullnose brick found by George Kennedy in the Carluke area. Note the upside down ‘T’ and the reversed ‘E’. Below – Similar stamp on a brick found…
Read moreFound Seafield, Edinburgh. Castlecary Fireclay & Lime Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire or the Glenboig Union Fireclay Company which took over the Castlecary company and works in 1936 (Via General Refractories, Sheffield) and continued the ‘GEM’ and ‘Castlecary’ brand names. . . .
Read moreFound Inverkeithing, Firth of Forth Dykehead Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. GR’s Dykehead – probably stands for General Refractories. GR-Stein Refractories Ltd – Formed by merger in 1970 of John G Stein & Co and General Refractories of Sheffield. GR- Stein became a subsidiary of Hepworth Ceramic Holdings Ltd. General Refractories was formed in 1929. It acquired, amongst…
Read moreFound Gartliston Works, Glenboig Souterhouse Brickworks, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. . . . .
Read moreFound at The Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig. Hugh Symington, Brick and Tile Maker, Sweethills and Kipps, Coatbridge Kipps Quarry & Brickworks, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Bothwell Park or Faskine Brickworks, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. . .
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