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Home / Brick machine makers
  • John Young and Robert Boyle, Brick machine makers, Ayrshire.
    — 09/07/2020

    1845 – John Young from Newton on Ayr, in collaboration with Robert Boyle produced a machine called

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  • James Mitchell & Son, Brick machine manufacturers, Cambuslang, Glasgow
    — 03/04/2018

    Canmore Below – 22/02/1936 – The Scotsman – Fire at Rosebank Ironworks, Cambuslang

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  • John Robson, Millwright, Kelso, Roxburghshire
    — 29/11/2017

    Below – 02/02/1855 – Kelso Chronicle – To brick and tile makers – For sale –

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  • Dunaskin Brickworks, Dalmellington, East Ayrshire
    — 10/08/2017

    Dunaskin Brick Works, Dalmellington aka Waterside Works. Info Canmore – Original brickworks built

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  • G.T.P Arthur inventor of a brick making machine
    — 24/02/2017

    I have added this post for interest’s sake. I do not know if Mr Arthur was Scottish but he invented

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  • Mark Sprot and Robert Denholm clay pipe making machine inventors
    — 17/10/2016

    09/07/1853 – Patents for inventions. Abridgements of specifications. No 1642 – Mark Sprot

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  • John Ainslie, Redheugh, Nr Dalkeith, Midlothian.
    — 17/10/2016

    John Ainslie was a farmer from Redheugh, Nr Dalkeith Scotland.  in the 1840’s he invented and

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  • Henry Clayton & Co, Atlas Works, Dorset Square, London
    — 16/08/2016

    Henry Clayton & Co, – Atlas Works, near Dorset Square, London, N. W. Patent brick, tile, and

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  • Campbellfield Brick Tile and Pottery Works, Campbellfield, Glasgow
    — 09/08/2016

    Many thanks to Graeme Cruickshank who gave me details of the 1869 – 1870 entry below which tied

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  • The brick and tile making history of Carluke, South Lanarkshire
    — 04/02/2016

    The article that follows was compiled by a member of the Carluke Parish Historical Society. Introduction

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  • 1861 – Scottish brickmakers and adverts
    — 13/12/2015

    1861 – Slaters Directory for Scotland James Waldie. William Brodie, Seafield, Dunbar. Robert Bridges,

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  • William Ralston & Sons, Sandyfaulds Engine and Machine Works, Commercial Road, Glasgow
    — 09/06/2015

    William Ralston & Sons, Sandyfaulds Engine and Machine Works, Commercial Road, Glasgow. Ralston

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  • Hugh Martin, Engineer and Millwright, Maker of Brick and Tile Machinery, Kirkton Street, Carluke, South Lanarkshire
    — 04/06/2015

    Hugh Martin, engineer and millwright, maker of brick and tile machinery, Kirkton Street, Carluke This

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  • Thomas B Brown, Engineers and Millwrights, Tiel, Kirkcaldy
    — 04/06/2015

    Thomas B Brown was an Engineer and Millwright working from the Tiel Engine Works, Kirkcaldy. Amongst

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  • Blackadder Brothers, Engineers & Millwrights, Garrison Foundry, Falkirk
    — 04/06/2015

    The Blackadder Brothers owned the Garrison Foundry and Engine Works, Falkirk. TA – Blackadder Falkirk.

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  • Fergushill Tileworks, Eglinton, North Ayrshire
    — 22/05/2015

    This article is reproduced by kind permission of Chris Hawksworth. Ayrshire Notes 32, Autumn 2006 Fergushill

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  • Marquis of Tweeddale
    — 02/05/2015

    19/10/ 1836 – List of patents referred to in Newton’s London Journal of Arts and Science

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  • Garnkirk Fireclay Works, Garnkirk, North Lanarkshire – History
    — 03/02/2015

    Garnkirk Fireclay Works, Garnkirk, Lanarkshire. Canmore Info In 1831 the Garnkirk Colliery and Brickfield

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  • 1878 – Brickmaking machine adverts
    — 30/10/2014

    1878  –  Slaters Directory – Adverts. Julius Whitehead’s sanitary pipe making machine,

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  • References to brick and tile machine makers.
    — 18/07/2014

    1830s – By the 1830’s several skilled engineers in the Calton district of Glasgow commenced

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