Found by Ian Suddaby in the Edinburgh area.
Salt Glazed paver or byre brick.
The paver appears to be double stamped.
Prestongrange Brick, Tile and Fireclay Works, Prestonpans, East Lothian.
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Found by Dr Jorg Ansorge in Stralsund (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Germany, a seaport town at the Baltic Sea coast. This stamp was on a salt-glazed water or sewage pipe. Prestongrange Brick, Tile and Fireclay Works, Prestonpans, East Lothian Usually, the brickmark is Preston Grange – split into 2 lines. In this example, Preston Grange is all on…
Brick manufacture – did not develop early in Scotland, where there were ample supplies of stone. However, tiles were worked from medieval times, especially for the decoration of religious houses. By the late 18th century, brickmaking for house building was on the rise, as was an interest in the hand manufacture of earthenware tiles and…
Brick manufacture – did not develop early in Scotland, where there were ample supplies of stone. However, tiles were worked from medieval times, especially for the decoration of religious houses. By the late 18th century, brickmaking for house building was on the rise, as was an interest in the hand manufacture of earthenware tiles and pipes…
Found at Preston Pans, East Lothian. Prestongrange Brick, Tile and Fireclay Works, Prestonpans, East Lothian. A much narrower frog than my other examples. . . .
Found by Tucker Kennedy in the Ayrshire. This is a paver or byre block and it is salt glazed. Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. . . . .
Found in the Edinburgh area. Prestongrange Brick, Tile and Fireclay Works, Prestonpans, East Lothian. . . . .
This brick was found in on the shore at Gdansk, Poland by Wojtek Kulik. Prestongrange Brick, Tile and Fireclay Works, Prestonpans, East Lothian . . . .
Found in Portobello. Salt Glazed paver or byre brick. This is half of a paver – seen below for the complete article. Prestongrange Brick, Tile and Fireclay Works, Prestonpans, East Lothian. . . . Below – This was found near Cockenzie and is in the possession of Ian Suddaby. .
Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Sanquhar Brick and Tile Works, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire.. The brick has the same stamp to both sides. . . . . Below – The same stamp on a salt glazed paver or byre brick. Found in Ayrshire by John (Ian) Jones, Ayrshire. .
Below – 25/05/1886 – The Scotsman – The International Exhibition Edinburgh – Granolithic is a form of high-grade concrete ‘invented’ by Stuart and Co, Edinburgh. Note the reference to Prestongrange Coal and Fire Brick Company, Glenboig Fire Clay Company, Garterrie (Gartverrie) Fireclay Company, James Dougall & Sons Bonnybridge, James Brown Glasgow, Robert Brown & Son…
