Found in Glasgow by Michael Fallone.
Stevenson Bros – Brickmakers, Millcroft and Polmadie Brickfields, Rutherglen rd.; also Garscadden Brick and Tile Works, Drumchapel.
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Stevenson Bros – Brickmakers, Millcroft and Polmadie Brickfields, Rutherglen rd.; also Garscadden Brick and Tile Works, Drumchapel. Garscadden Brick and Tile Works run by Robert & William Horn of Yoker (died 1875 and 1896 respectively) and latterly run as Blairdardie Brick & Tile Works by the Stevensons at Lock 35 on the Forth and Clyde Canal closed…
07/10/1879 – Glasgow Herald – Theft of oats from the stables at Polmadie Brick Works, Govan occupied by William and Thomas Stevenson. 31/08/1883 – Dundee Advertiser – At Paisley on Wednesday Messrs Bell and Hornsby, Polmadie Brickworks, were charged with employing a girl under the age of sixteen years in their brickworks. The offence was…
Garscadden Brick and Tile Works, Canal Bank, Bowling, Glasgow. Written by Eric Flack and reproduced by kind permission. It is a fascinating read – “The manufacture of bricks was another local industry in which two of the brickworks produced terracotta type bricks from locally dug clay. These were Horne’s at Elderslie Dry Dock at the…
Chapter Five – Brick and Field drain Works – Written by Eric Flack and reproduced by kind permission. It is a fascinating read. Another local industry was the manufacture of bricks. Three of the local brickwork’s produced terracotta type bricks and field tiles or drains in updraught kilns from locally dug red clay. These were Horn’s which…
Found Firth of Clyde, Glasgow. Stevenson Bros – Brickmakers, Millcroft and Polmadie Brickfields, Rutherglen rd.; also Garscadden Brick and Tile Works, Drumchapel. . . . .
Found in Glasgow. Stevenson Bros – Brickmakers, Millcroft and Polmadie Brickfields, Rutherglen rd.; also Garscadden Brick and Tile Works, Drumchapel. Note the dash and 2 dots under the ‘S’ of Bros. . . . Below – I believe this is the same stamp but with the middle line rubbed out. You can just make out the top…
