Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Found by Jeannie Cooper in the Dundee area. Stepends Brickworks, Plains, Airdrie, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Newmains Fireclay Works, Morningside, Lanarkshire, Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke, Lanarkshire .

Below – 03/09/1964 – Aberdeen Press and Journal. Coltness Industries Limited – 1837 to 1964 including the Coltness Brickworks Limited. Below – 12/12/1966 – Coventry Evening Telegraph – Coltness Brickworks losses. Below – 03/04/1970 – Newcastle Evening Chronicle – Advert for a general manager. Below – 25/06/1970 – The Glasgow Herald – Coltness Brickworks –…

Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke, South Lanarkshire. Info 14/12/1934 – Carluke and Lanark Gazette – Suggestion put forward to manufacture bricks at Mayfield, Carluke and utilising the unused tors there. 21/12/1945 – Carluke and Lanark Gazette – New brickwork for Carluke – There is a likelihood of a new brickwork being started in Carluke. The Coltness Iron Co.,…

Stepends Brickworks, Plains, Airdrie, Lanarkshire Canmore Stepends Brickwork was situated in the village of Plains 2 miles East of Airdrie on the Bathgate road. It used waste from the Ardenrigg Colliery. Ardenrigg Mine lay up in the hills above the Lily Loch toward Salsburgh, the output of 77,000 tons per annum of Anthracite Coal was…

Found Dalmellington Note – no frog – or at least it appears that way. Stepends Brickworks, Plains, Airdrie, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Newmains Fireclay Works, Morningside, Lanarkshire, Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke, Lanarkshire .  

Coltness Iron Co Limited, Newmains, Lanarkshire. 1839 – Coltness Iron Company founded. There were some very old brick kilns to the north of the ironworks which are believed to date from around that time. The Newmains Fireclay Works were their main brick producing site. Bricks manufactured at the Newmains Fireclay Works were lower grade and…

Found Firth of Clyde, Glasgow – note the rounded frog Stepends Brickworks, Plains, Airdrie, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Newmains Fireclay Works, Morningside, Lanarkshire, Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke, Lanarkshire . .      

Found at Dundee Stepends Brickworks, Plains, Airdrie, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Newmains Fireclay Works, Morningside, Lanarkshire, Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke, Lanarkshire . .      

Found at Bo’ness, Firth of Forth Stepends Brickworks, Plains, Airdrie, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Newmains Fireclay Works, Morningside, Lanarkshire, Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke, Lanarkshire. . .    

Found at Bo’ness, Firth of Forth Mayfield Brickworks, Carluke, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Newmains Fireclay Works, Morningside, Lanarkshire, Stepends Brickworks, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. .