A brochure of unknown date details Scottish brick production viz:-
Scottish Brick Corporation Limited viz:-
Kelty Brickworks, Braehead, Lassodie, Kelty, Fife
Meta Brickworks, Fish Cross, Alloa
Niddrie Brickworks, Portobello, Edinburgh
Northfield Brickworks, Shotts, Lanarkshire
Mayfield Brickworks, Wilton Road, Carluke
Newmains Brickworks, Morningside Road, Newmains.
Hamilton Brickworks, Mary Street, Hamilton
Gartshore Brickworks, Twechat, Kilsyth, Glasgow
Centurion Factory, Balmuildy Road, Glasgow
Cadder Brickworks, Balmuildy Road, Glasgow
Broadlie Brickworks, Dalry, Ayrshire
Pitcon Brickworks, Dalry, Ayrshire
Annandale Brickworks, Irvine Road, Kilmarnock
Skares Brickworks, Cumnock, Ayrshire
Wemyss Brick Co Ltd, Wemyss Brickworks, Denbeath, Methil, Fife
Wellwood Brick Co Ltd, Wellwood, Dunfermline, Fife
United Fireclay Products Ltd viz:-
Bathville Works, Armadale, West Lothian
Brownhill Works, Cleland
Glasgow Iron & Steel Co Ltd, Boghall Road, Carluke
Motherwell Brick Co Ltd, Grange Road, Motherwell
Birkenshaw Brick Co Ltd, Birkenshaw Works, Larkhall, Lanarkshire
Raeburn Brickworks Ltd, Whistleberry Road, Hamilton
Cannerton Brick Co Ltd, Banknock, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire
The Minto Brick Co Ltd, 98 High Street, Tillicoultry
Cruden Bay Brick and Tile Co Ltd, Cruden Bay, Peterhead
The Callendar Brick and Fireclay Co Ltd, Glen Works, Falkirk
Below – 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 donated to the National Museum Scotland. The item below is one of these items. An iron stamping plate marked ‘SBC’. Note the chamfered corned to the bottom left of the photo. This would be the code denoting the particular SBC works this stamp related to.
Found on the site of the old Manuel Brickworks, Whitecross. 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 This solid metal stamping plate is about 1 inch thick. It has two threaded screw holes to…
Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Scottish Brick Corporation. Note the 2 linear lugs below the ‘B’. Following the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) inherited a number of brickworks. Around 1969, saw the NCB selling off its brickworks with the Scottish Brick Corporation (SBC) taking over…
Any ideas? The origins of this diamond-shaped iron ‘Wilson’ stamp are unknown. Note the elongated and distinctive ‘L’. The item is held in a collection owned by the Falkirk Community Trust and is described Description – Iron frog stamp in the form of a lozenge containing the word “WILSON” in mirror image. Used by the…
Found by Paul Goodwin in the Castle Douglas area. I am not in possession of this example. Scottish Brick Corporation. Following the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) inherited a number of brickworks. Around 1969, saw the NCB selling off its brickworks with the Scottish Brick Corporation (SBC) taking…
Found by Matt Wilson near Kirkintilloch. I am not in possession of this example. Scottish Brick Corporation. Following the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) inherited a number of brickworks. Around 1969, saw the NCB selling off its brickworks with the Scottish Brick Corporation (SBC) taking over most of…
Ian Suddaby states – Carrick Academy in Maybole, Ayrshire is soon to replaced with a modern community hub, school and leisure centre. The existing school was built from red brick and red sandstone in 1925 and extra accommodation was added in the 1970s. Digging work in the grounds suggests that the 1925 building was made…
This example is in the possession of the National Museum, Scotland. Note the small lug above the ‘C’. The rear has an unusual square-ended frog with a middle bar. Scottish Brick Corporation. Following nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) inherited a number of brickworks. Around 1969, saw the NCB…
Found by Bob Banks in the Bo’ness area. Barbauchlaw Brick Works, Armadale, West Lothian. . . . .
Found by Ian Suddaby in Aberdeenshire. Centurion Brickworks, Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire owned by the Scottish Brick Company. . . . . . .
Cadder Brickworks, Kirkintilloch Road, Cadder, East Dumbartonshire aka Cadder Moss Brickworks. These Brickworks were initially operated as the Cadder Brickworks and run by a Company that changed its title to the Cadder Brick Company and then they were sold to Keir and Cawder who continued to run it as their Cadder Brickworks. 02/05/1928 – Kirkintilloch…
