Blairdardie Brickworks is situated on the banks of the Forth and Clyde Canal about 1 1/2 miles West of Canniesburn Toll. (Note – SBH – So is this on the same site as the works later called the Garscadden Brick and Tile Works or the Blairdardie Brickworks that were erected just East of Garscadden Brickworks…
Read moreThe following bricks are in the collection of Allan Hackett, Sydney, Australia. The bricks were all found in Australia. Below – ‘Glenboig’ and ‘Starworks Glenboig’ bricks – Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Glenboig Star Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Glenboig Fireclay Works, (Old Works) Glenboig, Lanarkshire Below – Shawsrigg Fire Clay &…
Read moreFound by Meredith Gedge-Hawkins in the Ottawa River off Jacques Cartier Park in Gatineau, Quebec Canada. . . . . Below – Gartcraig Scotland No 1 – Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, by Millerston, Glasgow. . Below – Gartcraig – Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, by Millerston, Glasgow. Below – Glenboig – Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig,…
Read moreThis brick was found by Jeremy Lee in Newfoundland Canada. The bricks formed a rough plinth covering a void of some description … well, cistern, septic tank? Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. Below – Gartliston Fire Brick Works. The brick would…
Read moreFound by Ian Suddaby at Morningside Colliery near Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. 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. Dourie is a trademark of P and M Hurll, Gartliston Brickworks, Glenboig.
Read moreFound by Ian Suddaby at Morningside Colliery near Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. 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. Dourie is a trademark of P and M Hurll, Gartliston Brickworks, Glenboig.
Read moreFound by Ian Suddaby at Morningside Colliery near Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. 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. Dourie is a trademark of P and M Hurll, Gartliston Brickworks, Glenboig.
Read moreMany 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…
Read more1881 – A & J Faill, contractors, causewayers and quarrymen. Office, Craigpark, Glasgow. Macadamised roads, drains, sewers, excavations, gratings, street crossings, courtyards, stables, public works, pavements etc. Extra hard metal, common metal, dressed squares, flatts, borders, nidged, kerb, rubble, tram blocks etc 1893 – 2 x invoices – A & J Faill, contractors, causewayers and…
Read moreThese bricks were found by Paul McCullum and his son, Sam, on the banks of the East River, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada. . . . . Below – Gartcraig – Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . Below – Boghead, Glasgow – Boghead Fireclay Works, Bathgate, West Lothian. Below – Hurll 4 – Garnqueen Fireclay…
Read moreFound by Ian Suddaby at Winchburgh. Ian states – I’ve never found this shape before and I can’t see it illustrated in any of the catalogues I’ve got. I’d call it an End or Side Circle brick and I’d guess it was intended to form curved structures where the skin only needed to be one brick…
Read moreFound by Ian Suddaby at Winchburgh, West Lothian. I am not in possession of this example. Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. Dourie is a trademark of P and M Hurll, Gartliston Brickworks, Glenboig.
Read moreMany thanks to Alun Hughers for sending this photo of Scottish bricks he saw in Hunte’s Garden, Barbados. Thistle brick – Stein, Castlecary Fireclay Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire. Stein, Manuel Firebrick and Refractory Works, Whitecross, Stirlingshire. Stein & Co, Anchor Brickworks, Denny, Stirlingshire. Milnquarter Fireclay & Gannister Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. Calder brick – Bonnybridge Silica &…
Read moreThis brick was found by Richard Shaw in Belize, Central America. It is stamped ‘Klinit R’. (It has been recently cut with a stone grinder). Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Klinit is a trade name for P & M Hurll.
Read more(Note – SBH – On the Scottish OS maps, there are 2 brickworks detailed – Garscube Brick and Tile Works and Garscube Brickworks. Both are depicted on the bottom of the 1896 map. The Garscube Brickworks which is the further east of the two is close to Dawsholm. I believe this was also known as…
Read moreFound in 2012 by Ian Suddaby at Prestonpans in East Lothian, they might have come from Fowlers Brewery or Preston Links Colliery, both of which were nearby. I am not in possession of this example. Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. Dourie…
Read moreFound in 2012 by Ian Suddaby at Prestonpans in East Lothian, they might have come from Fowlers Brewery or Preston Links Colliery, both of which were nearby. I am not in possession of this example. The ‘B’ is reversed to the main stamp. Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig,…
Read moreFound at the site of the old Atlas and Etna Brickworks. These bricks appear to have been part of a kiln like structure which has long since been demolished. Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. Dourie is a trademark of P and…
Read moreFound by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. Dourie is a trademark of P and M Hurll, Gartliston Brickworks, Glenboig
Read moreThis example is not in my possession. The Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey published a report in 1985 entitled ” A survey of Scottish brickmarks. During the compilation of this report in which the survey officers visited working and derelict brickworks sites, many items of interest were donated or found. Many of these items were thereafter…
Read moreFound by Ian Suddaby at Kirkcudbright, Galloway. This mark is stamped on an animal feed trough and there may also be an additional ‘Y’ stamped to the right of the main mark. The stamp is possibly R & Coy (Company). I have only ever found R & C bricks at the Hurll Gartliston or Garnqueen…
Read moreHaghill Brick Company, Duke Street, Glasgow. (Note – SBH – The telegram address is ‘Hurll Glasgow’. This company was likely run by P and M Hurll). 1899 – 1900 – Haghill Brick Company, plastic clay brick manufacturer. Office, 144 West Regent Street. Works, 895 Duke Street. Telegrams, Hurll Glasgow. 1900 – 1901 – Haghill Brick…
Read moreFound at Gartliston Works, Glenboig. Believed to be manufactured either by Eglinton Silica Brick Company or Peter and Mark Hurll, Gartliston and Garnqueen Fire Clay Works, Glenboig. (Note – SBH – This is a link to some theories regarding the origins of the ‘Martin’ stamp – click me). .
Read moreFound at Gartliston Works, Glenboig. Believed to be manufactured either by Eglinton Silica Brick Company or Peter and Mark Hurll, Gartliston and Garnqueen Fire Clay Works, Glenboig. (Note – SBH – This is a link to some theories regarding the origins of the ‘Martin’ stamp – click me). .
Read moreFound in 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 by Hock Keong in Singapore. Hock found the bricks in a pile of rubble at a former Kallang Gasworks in Singapore (operated 1862-1998). Below – ‘9 Dougall’ and ‘Dougall’ and ‘Diamond’. James Dougall & Sons Ltd, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. Alternative brickworks include: Bonnyside Brickworks, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . Below – Hurll D brick. Garnqueen Fireclay…
Read moreThis was found on the old site of the Atlas and Etna Brickworks, West Lothian. Its is complete and measures 9″ x 9″ x 4 1/2″. It has the appearance of being salt-glazed too. There were a few of these and they looked to have been used on-site and may have formed a floor through…
Read moreFound at the Avonbridge Brickworks, Avonbridge. 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.
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