This magnificent example is the the possession of the National Museum Scotland Collection Centre, Edinburgh.
Thomas Gilmour, Kilchattan Tile and Brickworks, Kingarth, Isle of Bute.
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Cowdenhill Brickworks, Cowdenhill, Glasgow … That extensive brickfield known as the Cowdenhill Brickfield is situated on the North Bank of the Forth and Clyde Canal about 4 miles West of Glasgow … (See below). Below – 1859 – A map showing the relationship between Cowdenhill on the right and the Blairdardie/Garscadden Brickworks on the left….
13/11/1849 – Greenock Advertiser – Marriages – At Braeside Cottage, Rothesay on the 6th, by the Rev Thomas Neilson, Mr Thomas Todd of Kilchattan Tileworks to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr Robert Wright, Merchant, Rothesay. 21/05/1853 – London Evening Standard – Scottish sequestration – Adam Brown Todd, Kilchattan, Buteshire, brick and tile manufacturer. May 28th…
Wellhill Brick and Tile Works, New Cumnock. Canmore Wellhill Brick and Tileworks – Wellhill and neighbouring Benston were two of the many properties in the parish on New Cumnock owned by the Marquis of Bute. While limestone was quarried at Benston, to improve the quality of the soil, a furnace was set up at Welhill in…
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…
Found Firth of Clyde, Glasgow. Stevenson Bros – Brickmakers, Millcroft and Polmadie Brickfields, Rutherglen rd.; also Garscadden Brick and Tile Works, Drumchapel. . . . .
Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works, Kingarth, Isle of Bute – sometimes Kilcattan. Kilchattan Brick and Tile Works – By T. Gilmour – (published 1949) – Source My only experience as a practical tilemaker is being taken over to the works as a child of 5 by my grandfather to see the last kiln being burned….
