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  • Scottish bricks found in Canada
    — 03/05/2024

    Many thanks to Robert Clark for the following photographs and information regarding Scottish bricks found

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  • Cardowan brick found in New Zealand
    — 16/01/2024

    Found by Harley Plowman an old 1800s hotel site in New Zealand. Cardowan Fire Clay Works, Stepps, Glasgow.

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  • Cardowan brick found in Australia
    — 09/08/2023

    Found by Julian Phillips near Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is possibly debris from the old

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  • Scottish bricks found in Victoria, Australia
    — 11/11/2021

    The following bricks are in the possession of Brian Latter. Brian started collecting bricks in the 1960s.

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  • Scottish bricks found in Victoria, Australia
    — 01/11/2021

    The following partial Scottish bricks were found by Caroline Small on the shores at the Port of Geelong,

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  • Scottish bricks found in Australia
    — 15/09/2021

    The following bricks are in the collection of Allan Hackett, Sydney, Australia. The bricks were all found

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  • Stepps
    — 13/09/2021

    Found by Denis Foulem along the Bathurst harbour seashore, located in the province of New Brunswick in

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  • Cardowan Patent bricks found in Queensland, Australia
    — 02/08/2021

    These bricks were found by Myschel Tindale in Maryborough, Queensland by the side of the Mary River.

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  • H Young
    — 02/04/2021

    Found by Ian Suddaby at the site of the old Heathfield Fireclay Works. I am not in possession of this

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  • O Youngs
    — 31/03/2021

    Found at Oakvale, Livingston. Heathfield Fireclay Works, Heathfield, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks

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  • Young’s VII
    — 20/01/2021

    Found by AOC Archaeology at the old glassworks, Bath Road, Leith, Edinburgh. This oversized brick has

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  • Scottish bricks found in Victoria, Australia
    — 05/01/2021

    The following Scottish bricks were found by Denis O’Keefe on the south-west coast of Victoria,

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  • Scottish bricks found in Western Australia
    — 28/10/2020

    The following bricks were found by Mark Lloyd at Jarrahdale, Western Australia. The bricks were located

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  • Young’s Glenboig
    — 11/07/2020

    Found at Heathfield Fire Clay Works. Note the thumbprint to the top right which has slightly deformed

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  • Cardowan Patent
    — 13/06/2020

    Found at Heathfield Fire Clay Works. This is stamped to both sides. Cardowan Fire Clay Works, Stepps,

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  • Young’s Patent
    — 09/06/2020

    Found at the Heathfield Fireclay Works, Muirhouse. Heathfield Fireclay Works, Heathfield, Lanarkshire.

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  • Cardowan Patent brick found in Massachusetts, USA
    — 30/05/2020

    This Cardowan Patent brick was found by Alexander Prescott Hernandez – Williams, (9 years), by

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  • Cardowan Patent and Gartcraig bricks found in Victoria, Australia
    — 21/01/2020

    These bricks were found by Garry Bell in NE Victoria, Australia. Cardowan Fire Clay Works, Stepps, Glasgow.

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  • GEC & S Cardowan brick found in New South Wales, Australia.
    — 19/09/2019

    The photograph is depicted in a book entitled “And so we graft from six to six” by Warwick

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  • GEC & S Cardowan
    — 15/02/2018

    The photograph is depicted in a book entitled “And so we graft from six to six” by Warwick

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  • Scottish bricks found in New South Wales, Australia
    — 13/02/2018

    The following bricks are depicted in a book written by Warwick Gemmell and entitled – “And

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  • Cardowan
    — 27/11/2017

    Found at the Heathfield Fireclay Works. Cardowan Fire Clay Works, Stepps, Glasgow. This brick has been

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  • Cardowan
    — 27/11/2017

    Found at the Heathfield Fireclay Works. Cardowan Fire Clay Works, Stepps, Glasgow. Note the difference

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  • Scottish bricks found Santa Fe, Argentina
    — 06/09/2017

    Once again, many thanks to Chris Pasquali and her colleagues for letting me know about these latest Scottish

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  • Young’s Glenboig brick found at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, Canada
    — 19/10/2016

    Many thanks to Frank Korvemaker for highlighting this example to me. Its find location is unknown but

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  • John Young & Sons Heathfield Works Glasgow
    — 02/09/2016

    John Young & Sons Heathfield Works Glasgow. (Note – SBH – All 3 stamps below vary very

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  • Cardowan Fire Clay Works, Stepps, North Lanarkshire
    — 28/04/2016

    Cardowan Fire Clay Works, Stepps, Glasgow – This should be read in conjunction with the post on

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  • Cardowan Patent
    — 28/04/2016

    Found Heathfield Fire Clay Works, Muirhouse, Glenboig. Cardowan Fire Clay Works, Stepps, Glasgow. . .

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  • Cardowan
    — 28/04/2016

    Found Heathfield Fire Clay Works, Muirhouse, Glenboig Cardowan Fire Clay Works, Stepps, Glasgow. Large

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  • Young’s Glenboig
    — 28/04/2016

    Found at Heathfield Fire Clay Works. Heathfield Fireclay Works, Heathfield, Lanarkshire. Alternative

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