Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Southhook Fireclay Works, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. This example is stamped to both sides. . . . .

Found in the Glasgow area by Eddie McLean. Electric cable cover. Southhook Fireclay Works, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Alternative brickworks include: Southhook Potteries, Bonnyton, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Southhook Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire.

Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. This double bullnose brick is stamped to both sides. The stamps on each side are upsidedown to one another. Southhook Fireclay Works, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Alternative brickworks include: Southhook Potteries, Bonnyton, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Southhook Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. .

Found in Selkirk and kindly donated by Vicky Wood. Hurlford Fireclay Works, Hurlford, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. . . . .  

Found. by Bob Banks in the Dunfermline area. Southhook and Shawsrigg Fire clay Co Ltd, Bonnyton Works, Kilmarnock. This brick is stamped ‘Southhook and Shawsrigg’ to one side and ‘Kilmarnock Scotland NB’ to the other. . . . .  

Found by Ian Suddaby at Limekilns, Charlestown, Fife. Electric cable cover. Southhook Fireclay Works, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Alternative brickworks include: Southhook Potteries, Bonnyton, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Southhook Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. Below – A whole example. Also found by Ian Suddaby at Limekilns, Charlestown, Fife.

Found by Eddie McLean in Glasgow. Southhook Fireclay Works, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. This brick is enamelled to one side. . . .

There are countless references to brick and tile prices within individual pages on my website but the articles recorded here are more generic in nature. 26/07/1892 – Clyde Bill of Entry and Shipping List – Glasgow fire brick prices. Glenboig Union Fireclay Co Ltd:- ‘Star’ Glenboig bricks per 1000 – 55s Glenboig bricks per 1000…

Found by Ian Suddaby in Knockentiber, Kilmarnock. Messrs John Gilmour & Co., Manufacturers of Bricks and Tiles, Bonnyton, Kilmarnock. . . . . Below  – The same stamp on a later style brick found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. Note the letters are raised on this example. . Below – One side of…

Found by Tucker Kennedy in the Ayrshire area. Stamped S S to one side and the other side is blank, however I have a similar S S brick which is stamped Southhook to the front  – click me – and I am quite certain this is therefore a Southhook brick. Southhook Fireclay Works, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire….