Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Found by Jeannie Davis at an old tannery in Nova Scotia, Canada. Garnkirk Fireclay Works, Garnkirk, Lanarkshire. . . . . .  

Found by Reza Hossein at “the old British camp in the foothills of Dehloran City, Iran which is related to the first concession and exploration of oil in Iran”. Reza states – The Darcy concession, the first oil contract in the history of Iran, was signed more than 110 years ago between the Iranian government…

Found by Gustavo Fernetti on the banks of the River Parana, Rosario, Argentina. Ignis – J & R Howie Ltd, Hurlford, Kilmarnock. . . . .

Photographed by Andrew Pettitt on South Georgia Island (Just North of Antarctica). Boghead Fireclay Works, Bathgate, West Lothian. . . . .

Found by Juanita Rogers in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Juanite states – I found this brick in the garden wall at Arnos Vale House, Casson Hill, St George, Kingstown. My family have owned the house for 130 years but it was built in the late 1700s. Robert Brown & Son, Ferguslie Fireclay Works and Caledonian Brick and…

Found by Eddy Pellerin at the Chemin de la Réserve Faunique de Matane, St-René-de-Matane, Québec,  Canada. Eddy believes the structure in which the brick was found was a ruined building of some sort. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . . . .

Found by Miguel Roman Vega. Miguel states – I’m from Chile, specifically from the city of Ovalle, in the Coquimbo Region. About 20 kilometres away, there’s an old copper mine called Tamaya. There are six, 19th-century copper smelters there, and I’ve found some bricks that were reused in the 1970s for bakery ovens in Ovalle….

The following bricks were found by Heather Harris. Heather states – I am located in Prince Edward Island, Canada, and there is a beach site in our capital, Charlottetown, that is covered in bricks and other building debris. The location formerly housed a hospital, called Falconwood, which was built in the 1870s as an asylum. Sadly,…

Found by Manfred Soto Diaz in Chile. Manfred states – I found some bricks here in Tierra del Fuego, specifically at Estancia Vicuña. Rawyards, Glasgow – Rawyards Brickworks, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. . . .

Found by Germán Stoessel in Estancia Solano next to Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut, Argentina. Germán states – Eighty-five years ago, that place had a kiln for making cement. It also had a railroad and a nascent oil industry. Stein, Castlecary Fireclay Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire. Stein, Manuel Firebrick and Refractory Works, Whitecross, Stirlingshire. Stein & Co, Anchor…